Lawyers’ Holiday Antics in and Around Denver

December 24, 2009

While going through my online reading this morning, I came across two great holiday pieces from our very own legal community here in Colorado.
First up is a must-read (it even includes a Dr. Seuss-inspired poem by a judge outlining a judicial decision on Christmas) from attorney Jim Thomas, who discusses Christmas in his ongoing series [...]

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Tuesday Tip: MILO for Mac User Group

December 22, 2009

If you are using Mac computers in your law firm and haven’t found MILO keep reading. MILO is the Mac In Law Offices group on Google Groups, an online “place for attorneys and other professionals to learn and share information to more effectively use Macs in law offices. We encourage open discussions, [...]

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Bar Association’s Bankruptcy Class Highlighted on 9News

December 15, 2009

9News stopped in at a recent CBA/DBA bankruptcy clinic to talk with the attorney volunteers, including Jim Aab, and students who have come to learn how to file for bankruptcy.

According to 9News:
Court workers estimate Colorado could reach 29,000 bankruptcy filings in 2009. In 2008, just fewer than 21,000 Coloradans filed for bankruptcy.
The Clinic is held [...]

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CBA President Seeking Your Input on Bench-Bar Relations in Colorado

December 14, 2009

CBA President Dave Johnson has a must-read article in this month’s Colorado Lawyer about the current state of the relationship between the bench and the bar. He discusses the sometimes-isolated world of judges, the judicial commitment to neutrality and objectivity, the Judicial Performance Commissions, and a two-way street for feedback and constructive criticism.
And he wants [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Customizing How Headers and Footers Print on Webpages

December 8, 2009

You may have noticed that the printout of your Web pages is missing the date it was printed, or maybe the URL has been truncated so you can’t read it.
Internet Explorer lets you decide what you want to print in the header and footer on Web pages, or you can tell it to print nothing [...]

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CBA Executive Committee Votes to Support “Protect Colorado’s Communities”

December 4, 2009

Three state budget- and tax-related measures are tentatively headed toward the state ballot in Nov. 2010: Amendments 60 and 61 and Proposition 101. If voters approve them, these measures would force more than $1 billion in additional budget cuts.
What’s the Colorado Bar Association’s take on this?
These cuts would further negatively [...]

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Predictions: How will the law firm model be different in 2015?

December 4, 2009

Yesterday, LexisNexis sponsored a debate on the the legal industry’s future: “Evolution or Revolution? The Future of the Law Firm Business Model.”
Longtime legal blogger Bob Ambrogi attended and shared some great nuggets via Twitter, including these wide-ranging answers to the same question:
In 2015, what’s different?

Law firms are smaller (Richard N. Baer, EVP, general counsel and [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Return to Where You Left off in Microsoft Word with No Scrolling

November 24, 2009

Here’s a quick tip that can come in handy when you’re working on a large Word document over the course of several days or sessions.
If you want to reopen the document and return to working where you last left off, there’s no need to scroll down through the document to find the section you last [...]

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Using Email to Strengthen Relationships

November 19, 2009

Yesterday was our Young Lawyer Conference (I’m a Lawyer… Now What?), and as I was meeting a panelist in-person for the first time (after many back-and-forth email messages), he said, “What I really like about you is that you keep emails short and to the point.”
It seems like a funny thing to notice about a [...]

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Tuesday Tip: Color-Coding Incoming Outlook Messages by Sender

November 17, 2009

Coloring incoming messages makes it much easier to see messages from important people, like your managing partner, best client or significant other! Here’s how to color-code incoming messages by sender:
Highlight any message from the important person
-        Choose Tools from the main Outlook menu bar
-        Choose Organize from the drop down menu
-        Click on Using Colors [...]

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