October, 2016

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Trump Deposition: Synced Version Now Available Online

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In an example of what has been the most entertaining election cycle in history, yet another tidbit has been served up for all to enjoy - the deposition video of Donald J. Trump, taken June 6, 2016. Regardless of your political preferences, once I heard this news, I knew I had a little work to do. Here is a link to the CNN article. On Friday, September 30, 2016, Washington, D.C.

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Microsoft PowerPoint - Tips and Tricks

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Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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Microsoft PowerPoint - Tips and Tricks

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Inserting Multiple Photos into PowerPoint If you have several photographs that you want to insert into PowerPoint, using a “Photo Album” is the simplest way to accomplish this.

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Practice Management Software

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Do You Need Law-Practice-Specific Software? Here is an overview look at general cloud computing services vs. law practice specific services software. The legal cloud-computing services were created with lawyers in mind and thus offer features specifically tailored to law firms and their needs.

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Visibility Into the Strategy & Supporting Documents of Major US Law Firms

Law Firm Intelligence by Trellis aggregates state trial court data across the Trellis platform enabling users to: look up a particular metric related to a specific law firm (such as, how many cases a law firm had or has against another law firm), and see the actual dockets and documents supporting the metric. Trellis data is maximized in a revolutionary and unique way to provide users an exclusive look into a law firm litigating in state trial courts.

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Practice Management Software

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Do You Need Law-Practice-Specific Software? Here is an overview look at general cloud computing services vs. law practice specific services software. The legal cloud-computing services were created with lawyers in mind and thus offer features specifically tailored to law firms and their needs.

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Essential Law Office Software

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Essential Law Office Software A modern law office needs more than furniture and smart lawyers in order to run. We use computers to write briefs, send emails, review evidence, generate invoices, and manage firm finances. In the realm of law office technology, there are good tools and bad tools, overpriced tools and underpriced tools, secure tools and insecure tools.

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Box - Tips and Tricks

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Box For Lawyers User Guide Box is an online file collaboration system where you can create, edit, and store documents, and it wants lawyers as users. Since 2013, it has courted the legal industry in response to Dropbox’s predominance. Here is what you need to know to use Box effectively.

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Box - Tips and Tricks

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Box For Lawyers User Guide Box is an online file collaboration system where you can create, edit, and store documents, and it wants lawyers as users. Since 2013, it has courted the legal industry in response to Dropbox’s predominance. Here is what you need to know to use Box effectively.

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Slack - Tips and Tricks

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The Definitive Guide to Slack for Litigators Would you like to spend less time in your inbox? How about communicating with your co-workers in realtime without needing to interrupt each other? If the answer to either question is yes, you should consider setting up a Slack account and inviting your team members to use it with you.

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Slack - Tips and Tricks

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The Definitive Guide to Slack for Litigators Would you like to spend less time in your inbox? How about communicating with your co-workers in realtime without needing to interrupt each other? If the answer to either question is yes, you should consider setting up a Slack account and inviting your team members to use it with you.

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Stay On Top of Newly Filed State & Federal Litigation: Curated Just for You!

With Daily Filings Report by Trellis you will receive an email and csv file daily with all new cases filed in the jurisdictions you're tracking. Each new case will include all case metadata like judge, parties, counsel, practice area, and even direct links to the full docket and complaint. Trellis Daily Filings Reports provide direct access to newly filed state and federal litigation curated just for you.

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Evernote - Tips and Tricks

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Evernote Archaeology Apps like Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, and other alternatives make it easy to keep all your notes in one place. But what good are all those notes if you never do anything with them? Every once in a while, you should do a little archaeology on your notes. Dig into them to refresh your recollection of the events, conversations, ideas, and anything else you saw fit to write down or save.

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Evernote - Tips and Tricks

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Evernote Archaeology Apps like Evernote, OneNote, Apple Notes, and other alternatives make it easy to keep all your notes in one place. But what good are all those notes if you never do anything with them? Every once in a while, you should do a little archaeology on your notes. Dig into them to refresh your recollection of the events, conversations, ideas, and anything else you saw fit to write down or save.

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Amicus Attorney - Tips and Tricks

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Using Time Entry Assistant in Amicus Attorney If at the end of each day or month you are scratching your head wondering where your time was spent, you should start using the Time Entry Assistant within Amicus Attorney Premium Edition. This tool will automatically track activities saved to a file that have not been billed yet. This article will show you how to track time with ease.

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Amicus Attorney - Tips and Tricks

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Using Time Entry Assistant in Amicus Attorney If at the end of each day or month you are scratching your head wondering where your time was spent, you should start using the Time Entry Assistant within Amicus Attorney Premium Edition. This tool will automatically track activities saved to a file that have not been billed yet. This article will show you how to track time with ease.

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Microsoft PowerPoint - Tips and Tricks

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Step by Step Guide for converting PDF to PowerPoint online for free Investintech’s online PDF to PowerPoint service converts your PDF documents into editable.pptx files. It is a free, web-based tool, that has no limitation on the file size or number of conversions. Here is how to easily convert your PDFs in 3 easy steps.

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MacBook - Tips and Tricks

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How to set password for documents and ZIP files on Mac Making a ZIP file on MacBook or iMac is very easy; Just put the multiple files in one folder, right-click on the folder, and click Compress. However, that ZIP file can be opened by anyone. Today we will know how to set the password to protect a ZIP file and documents on Mac OS X without any additional app.

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Microsoft PowerPoint - Tips and Tricks

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Step by Step Guide for converting PDF to PowerPoint online for free Investintech’s online PDF to PowerPoint service converts your PDF documents into editable.pptx files. It is a free, web-based tool, that has no limitation on the file size or number of conversions. Here is how to easily convert your PDFs in 3 easy steps.

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MacBook - Tips and Tricks

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How to set password for documents and ZIP files on Mac Making a ZIP file on MacBook or iMac is very easy; Just put the multiple files in one folder, right-click on the folder, and click Compress. However, that ZIP file can be opened by anyone. Today we will know how to set the password to protect a ZIP file and documents on Mac OS X without any additional app.

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Practice Management Software

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Practice Management Software Selection — Five Commonly Overlooked Factors Knowing that managing a law firm presents unique challenges, it’s important that when selecting practice management software you have these challenges in mind. To help your firm select the appropriate practice management software we have compiled 5 factors that are often overlooked during the selection process.

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Practice Management Software

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Practice Management Software Selection — Five Commonly Overlooked Factors Knowing that managing a law firm presents unique challenges, it’s important that when selecting practice management software you have these challenges in mind. To help your firm select the appropriate practice management software we have compiled 5 factors that are often overlooked during the selection process.

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Time Matters - Tips and Tricks

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Time Matters Matter Monitor Wouldn’t it be great to know when a contact or matter has been added, changed or deleted or accessed? Or if you were alerted when an account went into collections and no further billing entries should be added? This is possible with the the Time Matters ‘Matter Monitor.

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Time Matters - Tips and Tricks

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Time Matters Matter Monitor Wouldn’t it be great to know when a contact or matter has been added, changed or deleted or accessed? Or if you were alerted when an account went into collections and no further billing entries should be added? This is possible with the the Time Matters ‘Matter Monitor.

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Intake123 - Practice Management Software

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First Look: Intake123 While there are a lot of choices for legal practice management software, there are far fewer for client intake and customer relationship management (CRM). That’s unfortunate, because attorneys, like any other client-focused profession, need to be able to track people from the moment of initial contact to the signed retainer. Intake software should allow attorneys to systematize that process with standardized forms and other tools.

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Intake123 - Practice Management Software

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First Look: Intake123 While there are a lot of choices for legal practice management software, there are far fewer for client intake and customer relationship management (CRM). That’s unfortunate, because attorneys, like any other client-focused profession, need to be able to track people from the moment of initial contact to the signed retainer. Intake software should allow attorneys to systematize that process with standardized forms and other tools.

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OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide

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OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide OneDrive is cloud file storage similar to Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. While Dropbox and Box better known, OneDrive is starting to gain traction, mostly due to its tight integration with Microsoft Office.

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OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide

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OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide OneDrive is cloud file storage similar to Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. While Dropbox and Box better known, OneDrive is starting to gain traction, mostly due to its tight integration with Microsoft Office.

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CaseFleet Case Management Software

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A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.

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CaseFleet Case Management Software

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A Case Timeline is a Litigator's Best Friend So how does a litigator manage all of this data and then use it deposition, mediation, briefs, hearings, and trials? The trick to gaining control over burgeoning case data is locking it into a timeline or chronology, like our case timeline software.

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Clio Law Practice Management Software

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Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio has the features you would expect: contacts, matters, calendar, task manager, timekeeping, billing, and a secure client portal. You probably need to give Clio a try to see exaclty how all those features work, but in general, they work really well. Here are some highlights.

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Clio Law Practice Management Software

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Clio Law Practice Management Software Clio has the features you would expect: contacts, matters, calendar, task manager, timekeeping, billing, and a secure client portal. You probably need to give Clio a try to see exaclty how all those features work, but in general, they work really well. Here are some highlights.

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Electronic Discovery

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Metadata, Explained We're constantly hearing about metadata as it relates to eDiscovery, security, and ethics, but metadata remains a confusing topic for many, and there are many misconceptions about it. In this post, we'll provide some examples to help you better understand what metadata is all about, then clear up a few misconceptions.

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Electronic Discovery

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Metadata, Explained We're constantly hearing about metadata as it relates to eDiscovery, security, and ethics, but metadata remains a confusing topic for many, and there are many misconceptions about it. In this post, we'll provide some examples to help you better understand what metadata is all about, then clear up a few misconceptions.

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Box For Lawyers User Guide

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Box For Lawyers User Guide Box is an online file collaboration system where you can create, edit, and store documents, and it wants lawyers as users. Since 2013, it has courted the legal industry in response to Dropbox’s predominance. Here is what you need to know to use Box effectively.

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Box For Lawyers User Guide

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Box For Lawyers User Guide Box is an online file collaboration system where you can create, edit, and store documents, and it wants lawyers as users. Since 2013, it has courted the legal industry in response to Dropbox’s predominance. Here is what you need to know to use Box effectively.

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Working with PDF files - Tips and Tricks

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4 Alternatives to Adobe Acrobat Whether or not you are paperless in your office, you are probably dealing with PDFs. If you are dealing with a lot of them, you need PDF-editing software. Adobe Acrobat is the definitive PDF-editing software, by the company that created the PDF format.