Comments on the Latest Developments in Mississippi Civil Litigation
The announcement in the Bar’s weekly email that it will provide Fastcase Legal Research Service for members is great news. I’ve been using Fastcase for a while and discussed it in this post.
Here is info. on the Bar’s website.
Fastcase has been a good alternative to the expensive and predatory billing and…
Don’t be the person who takes pictures of documents with your phone. Install a scanner app on your phone and scan documents.
It will make it look like a document–not a picture of a document. It also allows you to easily ‘crop’ (adjust) the image size. It combines multiple pages into one document and automatically…
Rookie 5th Circuit Judge Don Willett’s first opinion is out. It’s a sad criminal tale involving 143 of 144 hand-grenades being duds. Don’t worry, he went there:
Maturino’s plan for live grenades fell short, but close counts in horseshoes and hand-grenade cases.
My Take:
I’d hate to be the dude who sold 143 defective grenades…
A lot of tech resources save both time and money. Going paperless is an example. Eliminate most paper from your office and you eliminate most office supply costs.
And office supplies are expensive. I had sticker shock on office supplies when I opened my office. Everything cost at least five times more than I would…
This Jeff Kerr post on Evolve the Law struck a cord. It opens:
All litigation, both civil and criminal, hinges on disputes about law and facts. We’ve seen massive interest in technology designed to facilitate legal research, but technology for dealing with facts (investigating them, proving them) doesn’t get as much attention.
He explains that…
I use and am a fan of Clio case management software. I have a diverse practice: a lot of plaintiff, some defense, a lot of non-personal injury and some personal injury. Clio is a great tool for my practice.
But is there better case management software for plaintiff lawyers who specialize in personal injury? Maybe.…
A few weeks ago an attorney complained about how time consuming it was to find specific deposition testimony in a huge transcript. He still does it by hand with the transcript and word index.
There are two easy software solutions to this problem. One is optional for attorneys. One is a must that many attorneys…
Podcasts have changed the way people consume audio. There are more great podcasts available than anyone has time to listen to. If you don’t already listen to podcasts when you are driving or working out, then you are in for a real treat. Podcasts are to audio what DVRs are to video.
Take the podcast…
A developing area that helps litigators are companies that provide cloud based forwarding of federal court ECF notices. At their most basic level, the services download and email ECF filings for your participating cases.
The key benefit of this feature is that it removes the one free look restriction with ECF notices. I hate getting…
I don’t know the best solution for computer legal research. I’ll tell you what I use and have learned over the years. Please post a comment if you have a better solution.
Since last summer I’ve used Fastcase. I pay $95 per month for state and federal law. I don’t have a contract. If…