Mitch Jackson has been really turning out some nice tips on his Trial Lawyer Tips blog. I don't do jury trials any more, but I wanted to pass along this nice resource to my readers and encourage Mitch and co-blogger Lisa Wilson to keep up the good work.
Trials and Presentations
Free Exhibit Stamps from Adobe Acrobat
As courts move more toward e-filing and greater use of digital documents, lawyers will want to be able to use electronic exhibit stamps instead of more cumbersome methods. Rick Borstein of Adobe Systems Incoporated has created some nice exhibits stamps for you to download and use in Adobe Acrobat. They are really easy to use.
A Tip for PowerPoint Presentations
If I am doing a CLE program, I'll generally try to submit written materials and not just print the PowerPoint slides for my materials. (There are exceptions.) But if I have submitted written materials in advance that are not the same as my PowerPoint slides, I would often be interrupted at the beginning of the presentation…
Logging onto the Internet from (Almost) Anywhere
Logging onto the Internet from (Almost) Anywhere is my most recent article in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. "I can now log onto the Internet using my laptop from almost anywhere — roadside, lakeside or poolside." It is great. I cover the details of using the highspeed Internet services provided by the mobile phone network carriers.
10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators
Ace law librarian and Internet researcher Genie Tyburski recently published her “10 Essential Web Sites for Litigators.” Since I don’t do litigation now, I tend to forget about the various court docket review sites, so you courthouse lawyers should check this out for certain.
PowerPoint Tips and Resources
For some time now I’ve wanted to do a thoughtful and impressive blog post on PowerPoint. As many of you know, I create PowerPoint presentations pretty much every time I do a presentation. I think PowerPoint can enhance any presentation. OK, I will admit the PP show with 53 slides on "Introduction to Fantasy Football"…
Spam Filter Traps Law Firm: You Can Avoid This Trap
Here’s a sad story. A law firm received a great deal of offensive and pornographic spam. They had a spam filter, but a lot was still slipping by. Some offended employees complained. Even though this is not the fault of the law firm, I’m sure the complaints struck a nerve. You don’t want your employees…
Site of the Week: Trial Lawyer Resource Center
It seems to me that one of the trends we will see in legal blogging is an emergence of group blogs. After all, really significant well thought-out blog posts can take some time to craft and a lot of really great lawyers don’t have a lot of free time on their hands. Combining efforts can…
Using PowerPoint Slides as CLE Materials
Some people don’t like the idea of PowerPoint presentations being submitted as the written materials for Continuing Legal Education programs. But we see more and more sets of PowerPoint slides submitted as the written materials for CLE programs. For some types of programs, especially techno-CLE’s like 50 Tips in 50 Minutes, 60 Websites in 60…
More Reading on Electronic Discovery
The new issue of LawPro magazine has hit the Internet and our friends from north of the border have hit another home run. The theme of this issue is electronic discovery and every lawyer should go download it now. As I keep telling groups of lawyers, general familarity with electronic discovery will be needed in…