Saturday, 4th September 2010
Plain English Lexicon is a free download (I could only get the download to work in Internet Explorer). It is a guide as to whether or not your words will be understood and suggests alternative plain English words.
An excellent book on improving writing skills for everyone in a legal office is English Essentials - "The wouldn't-be-without-it guide to writing well". It is written by Mem Fox and Lyn Wilkinson and published by Macmillan.
Netiquette. "Netiquette" is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of online communication.
Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.
Good for a read and coming across things like # 2 of "5 Ways to Unclutter Your Desk"; Start with the filing cabinet, not the desk because if you don't have an orderly system for filing papers - and room in your filing cabinet to put those files - you'll never get your desk cleaned.
Some news feed headlines:
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Open Office is the free alternative to Microsoft's software for use in the office.
Open Office can open Word documents and save its own documents in Word format.
Open Office has a toolbar like the older versions of Word, rather than the ribbon used in Word 2007. It has a more user friendly method of automatic numbering of paragraphs. If you have a document with complex numbering and Word is the standard software in your office, then consider preparing the document in Open Office then saving it as a Word document.
There is also a lot of other free open source software available. See the Open Source Software Primer for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer.
Paralegals SA is a Committee of the Law Society of South Australia for South Australian Paralegals.
Its primary focus is to standardise industry practices, consolidate and raise the profile of the paralegal profession within South Australia, realise the importance and full potential paralegals bring to the South Australian legal industry and to provide paralegals with the same networking, support and other opportunities that are available to legal practitioners.
Paralegals SA Contact details and information are available from the Law Society Web site.
Legal Assistant Today Magazine
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