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.

Research

Canada Day Tribute
Shaunna Mireau

Happy 148th birthday Canada. There is a nice history of Canada day outlined at this federal government website that was updated in June of 2014. It reminds us of some facts. I share those blow that relate to finding the law of Canada Day…

Practice

Inbox Zero: Unsubscribing (And the Next-Best Option)*
Garry Wise

Where do all these email alerts, newsletters, updates, sales pitches and unrequested announcements come from? Inspired by my co-Tipster David Bilinsky’s recent posts on the elusive quest for Inbox Zero, I’ve been in a mood to purge all those unwanted or redundant messages that clutter up my own, perpetual Inbox Five Hundred. …

Technology

Lawyers Should (Almost) Never Use BCC*
Dan Pinnington

Email is a primary means of communication for most lawyers. It is a fantastic tool. You can easily and almost instantly communicate across the globe with your client and other people involved in a legal matter. You can send different types of attachments. …

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* Editor’s pick