Thursday, February 20, 2003All in a Day's Work
Time: 9:35 a.m.
Event: Deposition of adverse party's expert witness, with about 9 parties represented.
Assignment: Review expert's files, produced at the deposition, consisting of approximately 1,000 pages and copy relevant material. Return the originals and the copies to the deposition as soon as possible, to be used for examination of the witness.
How I did it:
- Reviewed and copied from one file at a time, inserting blue pages between documents (for scanning purposes).
- Bates-numbered copied documents (using WordPerfect Bates number macro and address labels). Since I ended up with 524 pages of documents, I knew there wouldn't be time to convert all of the scanned images to PDF and then merge them into one document so that I could use StampPDF to Bates-number them. And, besides, because of time limitations, I really needed to use separator sheets to denote the beginning and end of each document, which wouldn't work with StampPDF (although it probably could, but not in a time crunch).
- Scanned the documents into PaperPort with our Xerox copier/scanner/printer (I could only scan 35 pages at a time, which resulted in about 15 separate scanned images).
- Used the "stack" feature in PaperPort to combine the 15 separate scanned images into one document.
- Printed 2 copies on the Xerox copier/scanner/printer.
Why I Did it This Way: First, I took advantage of the opportunity to get Bates numbers on the documents, which will greatly simplify my life, not to mention literally getting everyone on the same page. It might seem like an extra step to have scanned the documents and printed them, rather than making straight copies, but now I have the documents on my PC, available at a couple of clicks of the mouse. And, in a case with 9 parties, I sit in breathless anticipation of the calls I'm going to get for copies of these documents.
Mission Accomplished: 2:05 p.m. (4-1/2 hours). The originals and 2 sets of documents delivered. The deposition had just reconvened after lunch, and things were moving slow (who woulda thought?). It had taken all morning just to get through the expert's CV. (Time for lunch!)
Boss Satisfaction Meter: Full throttle.
6:14:54 AM
Your Blog Neighborhood. I didn't know how to describe this, from The FuzzyBlog!, so here it is, in its entirety (I had to download a Java plug-in before I could try this):
Into Blogging? If so this is Wicked Cool -- Your Blog Neighborhood.
Into Blogging? If so this is Wicked Cool -- Your Blog Neighborhood
Heck ... Its wicked cool even if you aren't. Recommended. [_Go_]
Note: What this is showing you are blogs that you'd probably enjoy reading if you aren't i.e. they are "neighbors" of yours that you might not have been introduced to yet.
Congrats to Veer and the rest of the team on this one. Good job guys.
This is pretty amazing. (I love The FuzzyBlog!)
5:17:54 AM
From [tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]:
Just noticed that Ernie just went over 100,000 page views at his blog. I believe this settles it: Ernie is the best Swedish/Panamanian lawyer blogger on the planet.
31.
Ernie the Attorney 100,093 Seriously, congratulations Ernie! You continue to impress!
Kudos, Ernie! And thanks to Rick Klau for pointing this out.
5:13:05 AM
"Write on Your Pictures (Without Ink Smudges). PhoTags, a new picture organization program from a company of the same name, allows digital photographers to quickly insert labels and messages within JPEG picture files. By J.d. Biersdorfer." [New York Times: Technology] You can add captions, borders, dates and greetings to digital photos, and then send them by e-mail. The e-mailed photos open like normal JPEG files, with the text displayed on the pictures (and the recipient doesn't have to have the PhoTags software). This seems like a great way to organize digital photos. And it's on sale now for $9.95 (regularly $30). Download a free trial/buy it here.
4:36:56 AM
"Federal Court Forms in PDF format online - probably a lot of federal courts have their forms online in PDF format, but here's one that has them for sure. You can choose to print out the form (to be filled out on a typewritter), or use the "interactive" form (which you can save to your local hard drive). If you have the full version of Acrobat, or even with the $40 Approval program, you can save the form with the caption already filled in (if you have a case where you want to reuse the form again and not have to reenter the data). Approval will also let you spell check your entries, which the simple Reader program will not do." [Ernest Svenson: PDF for Lawyers] This is a great time-saver. Where there's a will, there's a way not to ever use a typewriter again in an office setting again.
4:24:46 AM
