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The Benefits of Video Mediation

originally published in Lawyers Weekly Magazine Face-to-face mediations won’t go away, but for cost reasons, they sometimes give way to videoconferencing. Some professional mediators are banking on this trend. “It’s a great time to do online mediation,” Petra Maxwell says. The founder and CEO of New York-based

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Switching between open applications and documents

My friend Mara emailed me last week asking how to switch between documents on her computer using the keyboard.

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Getting to know your computer

OK, I admit it – the video is actually called Getting to Know Your Mac. but most of this applies to just about any computer made today. I’ve been looking for an explanation like this for some time. My question: does it make sense to you? Does it

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Which Word styles should you use?

Styles, while being huge timesavers in Microsoft Word (and other word processors) can take a little while to learn. So I’ve devoted this blog post to explaining the styles you’re most likely to find useful. In other words, as a beginning style user, you can safely ignore

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Quick Word tips for busy lawyers

originally published in Lawyers Weekly. (Special thanks to art editor Tammy Leung for her fun take on the published article.) It’s one of those tools every modern lawyer gets to know well. But do you know Microsoft Word well enough to consider it a “productivity tool” or

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Introduction to styles

No, this isn’t a post about the latest fashion trends… Do you regularly write reports, computer manuals, brochures and other long (or even short) works that require some graphic elegance? When you write a document, you actually do two things: write content format content Many writers develop

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Legal translation turns a page

originally published in CBA PracticeLink In the translation of law documents, technology has found a niche, but don’t expect computers to replace translators any time soon. Imagine what it’s like to translate large volumes of other people’s writing from English to French or from French to English.

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Passwords… sigh

Asking people to create and use decent passwords can be like pulling teeth. Yeah, they know somebody could steal their banking information, get credit cards in their name and rack up bills, perhaps even perform truly nefarious deeds in the name of somebody whose password proved easy

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Media request: tablet usage in Canadian law firms

Hello, To those of you who answered last week’s tweet, thanks. If you didn’t answer the tweet, somebody recommended you for this article. Michael Rappaport, managing editor at National Magazine, commissioned an article on tablet usage in law firms. To that end, I’d like to know if

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Choosing a USB memory key

Chances are you have or have seen one: those little sticks that plug into a computer’s USB port. Computers treat them as removable hard drives, and they have taken over from things like floppy disks, Zip disks and the like for several reasons: they’re cheap they don’t

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