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