Texas
February 2008
In this Issue
Legal Wit
Save Even More Time With ProDoc
Trial Tip: Lessons Learned the Hard Way
Practice Tip: LawyerBillingTips.com
Tech Tip: Setting Up Dual Monitors on Your PC
Tech Tip: Shopping for a New Printer
View Past Issues of this eZine
Come by and Meet Us
Vent - Tell Us What's on Your Mind
 

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."
 

Matthew A. Hodel
American Lawyer

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Save Even More Time with ProDoc

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Richmond , TX

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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

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