Legal Wit
| "Any culture that has had its Jeffersons, Lincolns, and Darrows must also have a healthy notion of the lawyer's role in society." |
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Matthew A. Hodel
American Lawyer
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Follow Up on Your January ProDoc Update
Last month we sent you an update for the following volumes:
FLSSI1 Guardianship volume - We updated 20 forms based upon the annual FLSSI
update. We also modified the names of 27 documents based upon the FLSSI update.
Lipman's Wills & Trusts volume - For this update, we’ve removed outdated
default answers for the amount of the spouse’s monthly maintenance needs allowance and the dollar limit a
person may earn to qualify for Medicaid based on tax number changes effective on January 1, 2008. And, based on a customer request, we removed a paragraph from Form 53-3, Letter Sent with Drafts (Individual), which
sometimes inappropriately discussed the presence and significance of powers of appointment.
FLSSI1 Probate volume - Pursuant to the FLSSI update, we modified 32 forms
and added 3 new forms to this volume. We also made a correction to the Petition for Family Allowance.
Finally, we changed “Ordered” to “Signed” in the Petition for Family Allowance based on a suggestion
from a ProDoc customer.
FLSSI1 Real Estate volume - We added 33 new FLSSI forms, including a
Commercial Contract (for purchase and sale of commercial property), a Pre-Recording Checklist, Land Trust deeds and agreements, and Commercial Lien
documents relating to broker commissions.
If the volumes in your ProDoc subscription entitled you to this update, we strongly encourage you to install today—if you have not already done so.
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Save Even More Time with ProDoc
"Our ProDoc training was great. We had already talked about canceling our ProDoc subscription when I decided to try
the training to see if there was something I was missing. The training showed us many features and ways to use the program that made it easy to work with and
adapt to my work. Now we're definitely going to keep it. I'm really glad that you pushed us so hard to take the free training because it really made a difference.
I want my legal assistant to use ProDoc for about a month, and then take a refresher training - I'm glad it's all free! By the way, your trainer was great."
Donna Thomisee
Richmond , TX
Perhaps you think you don't need to take any of our FREE training - you're busy. And besides, ProDoc is so easy you learned it all
by yourself. The trouble is... you probably haven't learned how to:
- Efficiently search for the correct form,
- Edit the master documents to include your preferred language and/or clauses,
- Edit case answers without going through a new assembly process,
- Optimize ProDoc for such things as multiple users, multiple attorneys' preferences, etc.
- Set your preferred formatting including margins, font size and type, headers and footers,
- Setting up billing options in SOS,
- And the list goes on.
Please do yourself a favor and take our free training. We will bend over backwards to try to find a time and a venue that works for you.
Click here to view all of our training options.
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Trial Tip: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Richard C. Miller, a trial lawyer in Kansas City, shares in this short article seven great tips from his long experience trying cases.
Trial Tips (Or Lessons Learned the Hard Way) >>
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Practice Tip: LawyerBillingTips.com
OK, this site's main function is to market their credit card billing services to you. However, they provide useful information about billing procedures, thereby "helping
lawyers make more money - with less headaches."
And, the site contains a couple of useful free downloads: Legal Billing Secrets - 3 Easy Ways to Eliminate Client-Billing Hassles While Boosting Your Law Firm Profits and 8
Things You Need to Know Before You Start Accepting Credit Cards.
Visit LawerBillingTips.com >>
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Tech Tip: Setting Up Dual Monitors on Your PC
Increasingly, attorneys are setting up dual monitors on their desks for numerous reasons: turning one of the monitors 90° so they can review documents in portrait
view, turning one monitor to clients for demonstrations, viewing legal research on one monitor and documents on the other, etc. Setting up this feature on your computer
is easier and less expensive than you might think.
View a Guide to Dual Monitors in Windows >>
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Tech Tip: Shopping for a New Printer
When it's time to buy a new printer for home or office there are several excellent sites on the Internet to comparison shop. After all, the initial cost is only a small
part of the overall cost of owning a printer—you should also consider the true costs including ink/toner. We've identified below three excellent sites for you:
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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 website for your review.
View past issues of the ProDoc eZine >>
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Come By and Meet Us
| May 8-10 |
AAML 30th Annual Institute |
Orlando |
| May 22-23 |
RPPTL Annual Convention |
Bonita Springs |
| Please note the schedule is subject to change. |
Come by and visit us if you'll be attending — we'd love to see you!
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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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