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

Put the Sun Behind You for Better Outdoor Pics With Your Mobile Phone
Dan Pinnington

Unfortunately, the camera on your mobile phone – and even your more expensive DSLR camera – just don’t see things well quite as well as your eyes do. So, what can you do to get better outdoor pictures? Getting more light on your subject by making sure the sun is behind you will greatly improve the quality of outdoor picture . . .

Research

Use Your Camera
Shaunna Mireau

Ah innovation. For those of you with a smart phone in your pocket, remember that you have a camera on your device. Why do I remind you of this? Your phone (or tablet) camera can be used to: · snap a picture of footnote citations . . .

Practice

Counsel, Your Crystal Ball Is Busted…
David Bilinsky & Garry Wise

So you met with a new litigation client. Your first take on her proposed lawsuit was that liability was a virtual slam-dunk and that her damages would be assessed in the area of $25,000, maybe $30,000 if you “hit a home run.” Conservatively, you advised your client of your opinion that her claims appeared to have a great deal of merit and that a court’s assessment would likely be in the $20,000 to $25,000 range. So imagine your client’s shock – and yours – when a pre-trial judge ultimately opined that this claim wasn’t very strong at all . . . .