Tip of the Week Blog
January 2007, Week 1 Make 2007 Your Best Year Ever!For Staff... It's a New Year and time for resolutions! I don't know about you, but I always make one resolution -- not to make any resolutions. But this year, let's try something different. Not resolutions, but business goals. What do I mean? Some suggestions:
I'm sure you can think of a few of your own. Give one a try and work on improving yourself and your firm in 2007!
Not Enough Time to Do All the Reading?
For Administrators... I purchased a program recently that is going to help me keep up on my reading (which is always behind). It's a software from Natural Readers and is a text-to-speech software. It reads text aloud from email, webpages, Word, pdf, and e-books. Best of all, it will convert to mp3 files to download on an MP3 Player. And the voices don't sound computer generated. By the way, I don't receive anything from the company for this tip. I just think it's a valuable time-saving method for anyone that might need it. Texas Supreme Court Tips (Continued)
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December 2006, Week 1 Making the Most out of OutlookFor Staff... Would you like to save time while typing out routine emails? For phrases or sentences that are used frequently, use a shortcut: 1. Open a new email. This tip can also be used in Word and WordPerfect. This is ideal for short sentences; anything longer than that will need a macro. And I'll send out a tip on that next week! End of Year Clean-Up For most of us, December is a slower time of the year (thank goodness, right?). Take advantage of the extra time and clean up a few things. A few suggestions: 1. Go through the attorney's CLE files and ensure that all classes were reported to the State Bar of Texas. 2. Make files for 2007 (don't wait until you need them and then rush to do it). 3. Clean out old administrative files and send to storage (2005 & previous billing/timekeeping, payables/receivables, etc.) 4. Review the year's cases and close out any files you can. Catch up on all the filing, cull through the file and get rid of all those extra copies and unneeded drafts, ensure that all bills were paid and there are no outstanding expenses. Prepare the file for the attorney's review (and after review is complete), and archiving. Resource for Texas Supreme Court Opinions If you're looking for an excellent summarization of the latest Texas Supreme Court opinions, go to The Weber Report, a compilation written by Andrew Weber. He served as Clerk of the Supreme Court from 2002-06. I met him when he was presenting CLE based on his experience in his various capacities at the Court. Not only was he informative, but he was also entertaining. In the following weeks (and with his permission), I'll share some of the tips he graciously gave to the group.
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