Tips Tuesday

Here are excerpts from the most recent tips on SlawTips, the site that each week offers up useful advice, short and to the point, on technology, research and practice.

Technology

Visit Factory-reset.com for Factory Reset Codes
Dan Pinnington

When electronic devices work properly, you have no worries. But when they don’t, it’s a real pain in the rear! One of the most common trouble-shooting options is a factory reset – that special and specific combination of button presses and steps that restarts the device with standard factory settings. Finding the right reset code usually requires finding the operation manual . . .

Research

Thank That Public Servant
Shaunna Mireau

The Federal Courts in Canada have a pretty good website. They also have a very nice docket search tool. Note that this search tool, although it is linked from the Federal Court website, offers a radio button for searching the Federal Court of Appeal docket as well. . . .

Practice

Work-Life Balance and Jamaica
David Bilinsky & Garry Wise

It may be a sign of our times, but one of the more complex work-life balance questions I face every year – a couple of times at least, thankfully – is the appropriate level of work-life balance to maintain while I’m on vacation. There is no actual paradox in this seeming contradiction in terms. The reality is I have no inclination to wholly disconnect . . .