Legal Humor

Convicted con man Peter Horsford, who was accused of impersonating a lawyer, had trouble getting a trial date in New York in 1988.

The problem was that four of the judges considered for his trial were disqualified from hearing the case—because he had argued cases in their courtrooms.

"I should have suspected he wasn't a lawyer," said one of the judges. "He was always so punctual and polite."

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Please Help Shape the New ProDoc Volumes

We’re looking for California Subject Matter Experts to help us create the best possible Conservatorships, Guardianships, and Juvenile law volumes we can provide you. If you consider yourself knowledgeable and experienced in any of these areas of law, we would love to be able to call upon you for assistance.

We expect that we would contact you no more than once every couple of weeks, or so—maybe 10-15 minutes each time. The purpose would be to ask for your feedback or suggestions on form content and/or design.

If you are willing to assist us, or to request more information before you volunteer, please Bruce Nims or call him at 800-759-5418. Bruce is the attorney in charge of all of our California products.

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Coming Updates

Regular Update Shipments

December
We'll release our 2007 legislative update in December. Stay tuned for more details.

January
In January, or early February, you'll receive a second update from us containing the January 1, 2008 updated Judicial Council forms. By spring we expect to receive approval for the Judicial Council to provide us the form changes prior to the effective date. This will enable us to provide you the changed forms prior to the forms' effective date.

Additionally, we also expect to introduce a major update to the Family Law volume by adding another 114 Judicial Council Forms. The new forms will cover areas such as adoption, name change, and emancipation of minor.

2008 Planned Enhancements

New Volumes
In the first half of 2008 we intend to release six new volumes comprised of the Judicial Council Forms for these areas of law: Criminal, Conservatorships, Guardianships, Litigation, Juvenile, and Landlord/Tenant. These will join our other current volumes:

• Attorney-Client Matters,
• Family Law,
• Lipman's Wills & Trusts (Estate Planning) ,
• Probate,
• Real Estate, and
• Small Estate Wills.

Effective with this update, every Judicial Council Form will be included in ProDoc.

Thanks for being a ProDoc subscriber!

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ProDoc Customer Support: Finding the Forms You Need in ProDoc

Chances are very good that the form you need, for an area of law that your ProDoc library of volumes covers... is in there. If you thought we didn't include the form in your volume, maybe it's because you don't know how to use the ProDoc forms search feature. Or, perhaps the form you need can be found in another volume.

Learn how to use the ProDoc forms search feature to find forms you need in ProDoc >>

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Trial Tips: TrialSmith^®- The Nation's Largest On-Line Deposition Bank Exclusively for Trial Lawyers

Their sole purpose is to provide unique investigative tools and services that help plaintiff lawyers achieve successful outcomes for their clients. Formerly known as DepoConnect^®, TrialSmith is the largest on-line litigation bank on the Internet with more than 270,000 depositions.

Learn more about TrialSmith >>

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Tech Tip: Use Your Treo® for More than Just Phoning and Emailing, Part 6

If you're a mobile lawyer and you use a Treo, here are some great programs you'll want to check out:

• RoadSync - This terrific program is for syncing your email retrieval with your mail server so it probably applies only to attorneys in larger firms.
• Real World BlackJack - OK, it's not for business but how about a quick game while you're cooling your heels at the courthouse sometime? It's free and it's highly rated.
• IntelliGolf - If you're a golfer, you'll find it all in this program: scoring, statistics, sidegames, shot tracking, signature courses, sharing of rounds, & satellite GPS all-in-one.

Several of the products featured in this section are also available for other PDA operating systems. Look around the product web site for more details.

To be continued next month. If you have some favorite Treo software programs you want to let others know about, your information to Tom Schoolcraft.

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Tech Tip: Free Marketing for Your Practice

LawGuru is a site for non-attorneys to ask legal questions and wait for an attorney to respond with an answer. While you may have reservations about the service, participating attorneys say it is a good and free way to provide a service to people who probably cannot afford an attorney while providing you exposure and free marketing.

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Tech Tip: Self-Destructing Email

Have you ever wanted to control who has access to emails you send, or to have them self-destruct after being read? While they are not foolproof, there are software program available that enable you to do just this. Take a look at a few of them:

• Will Self-Destruct - This is a web-based program that enables the recipient to view the email only one time before it self-destructs.
• KickNotes - This service is similar to Will Self-Destruct..
• Selfdestructingemail.com - This program, on the other hand, works with your email client, such as Outlook. It also comes with a small monthly service fee.

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View Past Issues of this eZine

Looking for a Tech Tip from a past ProDoc eZine... but can't find that old eZine? We keep recent past issues on our web site for your review.

View past issues of the ProDoc eZine >>

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Vent—Tell Us What's on Your Mind

This is your opportunity to what's on your mind. Email us your suggestions and other feedback.

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