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

Canadian Weather Radar Will Answer the Question: Will It Rain Today?
Dan Pinnington

Predicting the weather is both an art and a science, and getting it right in the longer term can involve some luck. But in the shorter-term, knowing for sure whether some rain is coming your way can be very helpful. Should I head to the golf course? Is my kid’s baseball game going to get cancelled? …

Research

Watch Your Spelling
Shaunna Mireau

Today’s tip is a quick reminder to think about the British/Canadian and US spellings and how that might affect your search string. offence = offense. Offense in CanLII finds 227 Alberta Appeal court decisions. Offence in CanLII finds 4433 Alberta Appeal court decisions….

Practice

Knowledge Management – Tips for Small Law Firms
Garry Wise

I had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat on Monday about knowledge management with Canada’s reigning Information Diva, Connie Crosby. The video of our discussion is embedded below. The focus of our conversation was how Canada’s smaller law firms can utilize current knowledge management approaches to better identify, organize and access their own, valuable…