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 practice, research, writing and technology.

Practice

Sometimes You Have to Spend Money to Make Money
Sandra Bekhor

As a lawyer, you identify with being a professional. Strongly and consistently. Perhaps, not as much with being a business person (even if you play a leadership role at your firm)? Most of the time, that’s just fine. Some of the time, it’s not. …

Research & Writing

CAPS
Neil Guthrie

Not hats: capital letters (or, in typographical parlance, upper case). Don’t shout at people. When the interweb and e-mail were new, it took (some) people a while to figure out that typing your message all in caps is the typographical equivalent of shouting. …