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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.

Practice

The Long Tail…
David Bilinsky

Lawyers, I surmise, believe with their long history and experience that they are the innovators of any changes in the legal/justice system. However, that theory may need further examination. In fact it may have to be turned onto its head.

Technology

Easy Instant Lines in Microsoft Word*
Dan Pinnington

In Microsoft Word (including Mac versions) you can easily create a variety of horizontal lines by typing the following characters three times followed by Return or Enter: Minus (-) produces a thin line; Underscore (_) produces a thicker line; Equal sign (=) produces a double line; Asterisk (*) produces a thick dotted line; …

Research

Legal News for the Super Busy*
Shaunna Mireau

Are you the most busy lawyer in Canada? Do you still need to know what is going on in the legal industry in our country? The US Legal Market offers busy lawyers a 5 minute daily visit of the RSS feed for the legal gossip blog Above the Law to keep up to date on what is happening inside the legal industry. Associate bonuses, policies from big law firms, law firm mergers, layoffs and closures….

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*Editor’s pick

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