Email Tips

Came across a couple good posts on email today. This one by Raymond Ward on The New Legal Writer (an excellent legal writing blog, by the way), led me to Lynn Gaetner-Johnson's Business Writer blog, and this summary of email do's and don'ts .

Autocorrect

Here's a good post on creative ways to use autocorrect in MS Word. To summarize the list:

• judgement=judgment
• dd=Δ
• pp=Π
• ss=§
• court=your mom (Alright, this last one is only as a practical joke to put on someone else's computer (and to make sure you're paying attention).)
  

Personally, I prefer hotkeys for the section and paragraph symbols (Ctrl+s and ctrl+p, respectively), and use autocorrect not only for spelling mistakes, but also for phrases (e.g., vty = very truly yours; mdc = Miami-Dade County, etc.) What does autocorrect do for you?

Good Technology Intro

Larry Cohan of the Legal Intellingencer has a good article entitled, "Using Technology at Trial, or Not." Particularly useful to me is his focus on medical malpractice litigation.

Colorado Joins Metadata Ethics Ruling Parade

The Colorado Bar Association has ruled that a lawyer may ethically review a document for metadata. Legal Blog Watch has a summary of how the Colorado opinion fits in with the other ethics opinions on the subject to date.

Another Good Article on Qualcom

This article by Leonard Deutchman in Pennsylvania Law Weekly is a good take on how the lawyers got to be in the Qualcom mess, and how to keep your firm out

Shading alternate lines in Excel

Just added a link to a long overdue article explaining how to shade every other line in Excel. I can't count the number of times I've tried to do it manually, only to have to add or delete a line and then start over. Thank you, Office Watch!

Qualcomm Reverberations

The e-Discovery Team has a very nice summary and critique of a recent article on e-discovery by the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association.