Arthur Goldberg once said, “If Columbus had an advisory committee, he would still be at the dock.” But at practicelaw, we have not set out to discover the New World; we recognize the benefits of committee input. A premier example of that effort is the Minnesota Advisory Task Force on Uniform Conveyancing Forms. The Minnesota …
Kicking This Word Addiction Ain't Easy
Sam Glover, who operates the Lawyerist blog, recently posted an item exhorting lawyers to give up on Microsoft Word and move to OpenOffice or other free or web-based word processing systems (“Microsoft Word is a habit you can kick,” 1/21/09). I agreed with the gist of the post and added the following comment. The reality …
At Last Count, 40 New Probate Forms Coming
We seem to stay constantly busy at practicelaw developing new forms, which currently include new forms in the probate, practice management, civil litigation and family law areas. The first set of new forms to be released this Spring will likely be in probate, where at last count we had 40 new forms under development. This …
Using practicelaw's Upgraded PDF Forms
We’ve received a number of questions over the last several weeks as we made the upgrade from Adobe Acrobat 8 to Adobe Acrobat 9. The upgrade allowed us to enable an important feature: saving client data in the forms that you download to your computer. Previously, licensing issues with Adobe prevented us from enabling this …
The Subject Was in the Premises
One of the major things we do at practicelaw is draft forms. When we draft new forms, we have three primary objectives: 1) getting the form legally complete and correct; 2) formatting the form so that it actually functions properly; and 3) ensuring that the language in the form is plain and easily understood, typically …
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