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

Use Control+F or Command+F to Find Specific Terms on a Webpage
Dan Pinnington

Slowly scrolling through a webpage to find a specific term is not the most efficient or fastest way to find the location of the information you are looking for, especially if the page is a long one. . . .

Research

List Conciousness
Shaunna Mireau

With Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation coming into force on July 1, 2014, you may have noticed an increasing number of “confirm your email” opt in messages. Though there is a transition period where consent to receive commercial electronic messages is implied, most organizations are getting their express consent ducks in a row. . . .

Practice

The Law Office Backyard Retreat
Garry J. Wise

We’re going to try something different next month – the First Annual Wise Law Office Backyard Retreat. It will be a day-long, out-of-office session to explore planning and teamwork and to ask to ourselves some fundamental questions about what it is that we do as a law office. . . .