Florida
March 2008
In this Issue
Legal Humor
Coming Updates
ProDoc Customer Support: Creating Form Sets
Trial Tip: Educating the Public about Jury Duty
Practice Tip: The Top 5 Things Paralegals Want to Tell Their Attorneys
Tech Tip: Networking Made Easy
Tech Tip: Manage Your eMail - File 'em Just Like Your Paper Filing System
View Past Issues of this eZine
Come by and Meet Us
Vent - Tell Us What's on Your Mind
 

Legal Humor

The following classified ad appeared in a 1989 issue of the Texas Bar Journal:

"Small, highly disorganized... law firm, having characteristically waited past the last minute, frantically seeks associate with two to four years experience in general business representation and business litigation. Successful applicant must to be able to function with little or no guidance in extremely chaotic environment, and be able to stand long periods of indecision punctuated by short bursts of frantic activity... Toleration of tobacco smoke required. Affinity for hard liquor is recommended... Free parking ... Only the stouthearted need apply."

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Coming Updates

We’re already planning our next update for release in June. It will contain all forms changed due to legislation that is effective July 1, 2008.

Additionally, we’ll update three volumes:

We updated those forms last year for 2007 legislative changes. Now, we're updating them to match the revisions in The Florida Bar Legal Forms and Worksheets.

Finally, we’ll add the new DR-313 form to the Probate volume.

And, or course, we’ll update any other agency forms that change during the interim.

Aren’t you glad you are a ProDoc subscriber and can leave all these changes up to us?

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ProDoc Customer Support: Creating Form Sets

Forms sets enable you to select an entire grouping of commonly used documents with only a mouse-click, instead of requiring you to select each document individually to generate in a ProDoc document assembly session.

For instance, for family law matters, you can create a form set you name Dissolution, with Children containing the following forms:

  Petition for Dissolution, Motion for Ne Exeat, and
  Summons, Motion for Temporary Injunction to Prevent Removal of Child.
  Motion for Temporary Relief,  

Or, for your probate matters, you might create a form set you name Opening Docs-Intestate that contains these forms:

  Notice of Administration (Intestate), Notice to Creditors,
  Oath of PR, Designation of Resident Agent & Acceptance, and
  Petition for Administration (Intestate) - FL Resident-Mult Pet & PRs, Letters of Administration (Multiple Personal Representation).

You can create as many different form sets as you wish in any volume. If you are not now using form sets in ProDoc, you are wasting some of its incredible productivity capability for your firm.

See how easy it is to set up and use Form Sets in ProDoc >>

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Trial Tip: Educating the Public about Jury Duty

Believe it or not, there is a website devoted to educating the public about jury duty. It features video interviews by "experts" on various topics such as: Jury Summons, Reporting for Jury Duty, Jury Service Tips, Jury Trial Tips, etc.

Visit Video Jug - Jury Duty >>

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Practice Tip: The Top 5 Things Paralegals Want to Tell Their Attorneys

David Swanner posted a blog item on this topic. The information for the posting came as request posted by Shirley Hughes on the ATLA listserv. We think you will find it interesting.

Read the Top 5 Things Paralegals Want to Tell Their Attorneys >>

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Tech Tip: Networking Made Easy

If there is more than one person in your firm, networking can make it more efficient - there is no question about that. This is especially true for ProDoc and SOS® users. Networking enables everyone in your firm to share ProDoc case data and documents, SOS calendars, billing information, client information, etc.

But, until now, setting up and maintaining a network was beyond the capabilities of most attorneys. However, Network Magic™ Pro may have just changed that. This is an intuitive program that handles all network connections and monitoring for you. And, at $49 for up to 8 computers, it's a bargain even when compared to hiring your neighbor's teen son to set up and maintain your network.

Learn more about Network Magic Pro >>

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Tech Tip: Manage Your eMail - File 'em Just Like Your Paper Filing System

QuickFile™ 4Outlook - Lawyers Edition provides a great tool that enables you to file your email in Outlook just like your paper filing system. You don't have to change anything about your present system.

Their claim is that: "... it’s the ONLY email management solution for lawyers that solves all the problems, yet does not require you to change the way you file client/case records. You simply plug it in and two new buttons are added to your Outlook screen."

Learn more about QuickFile 4Outlook - Lawyers Edition >>

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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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1 The forms in this volume are derived from forms prepared by the Forms Committee of the Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law Section of The Florida Bar and contained in the Florida Lawyers Support Services, Inc. (FLSSI) Manual. These forms are created and maintained by leading experts in their field and recognized as the standard in probate courts throughout Florida.