Re: Digest Number 458
Laurie Selwyn <lselwyn2000-/[email protected]>
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May I be so bold as to suggest checking out their local county law library? Some county law libraries maintain subscriptions to one or more CALR services such as WESTLAW or LEXIS-NEXIS, CD-ROM and traditional print subscriptions as well as a variety of publications which include legal forms. Best wishes on your presentation. Laurie Selwyn, M.S.L. Grayson County Law Library, Sherman, TX [email protected] wrote: There are 5 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Assistance Needed From: "Stuart Levine" 2. RE: Assistance Needed From: "Glenn K. Garnes" 3. RE: Assistance Needed From: "Stuart Levine" 4. RE: Assistance Needed From: "George Socha" 5. RE: Assistance Needed From: "Nick DiPrima" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:25:29 -0400 From: "Stuart Levine" Subject: Assistance Needed In late June, I will be doing a presentation at a program designed to assist lawyers going out on their own. Not surprisingly, I will be addressing various tech-type issues. The tenative title for the presentation is: "Ten or Twenty Ways to Spend Your Money on Things You Didn't Think You Really Need, but Really Do" Any suggestions from this group would be greatly appreciated. I think one of the important pieces of equipment any new practitioner needs is a good scanner with a paper feed. Any specific suggestions as to the type of scanner that might fill this bill would be particularly appreciated. ******************************************** Stuart Levine Fisher & Winner, LLP 315 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Telephone: 410.385.2000 Telecopier: 443.927.7075 Cellphone: 410.802.5817 Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com [email protected] ********************************************* ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:38:33 -0400 From: "Glenn K. Garnes" Subject: RE: Assistance Needed Stewart, For the money, I don't think you can get a better scanner than the Visioneer 9750. It comes bundled with the most recent edition of Paperport which converts everything to PDF as it scans, and I think it's just awesome! I demoed it for Visioneer last year, and have referred them about 15 - 20 other customers who are all very pleased. It's a 20 PPM scanner that does legal and letter size, with a 50 page document feeder. It's just under $1,000, and I have really put this thing through it's paces, without failure. As an aside, I recently came across another great program that might interest you if you regularly do Powerpoint presentations. It's called Articulate Presenter, and it's featured on www.internetaudioguy.com. Mike Stewart, the operator of that site, is an expert in Internet audio, and presentation software. Articulate Presenter allows you to take a Powerpoint presentation, and seamlessly convert it to flash with narration. You can then stream it from the Web, or burn it down to a CD. It's absolutely incredible! Mike used to do the flash conversions manually, and he says they would take all day to do what Articulate Presenter will do in minutes. He's got some demos on his site to show you how it works, and how the finished product looks, so be sure to check it out. If I can help in any other way, please let me know. Warmest regards, Glenn K. Garnes (301) 776-1490 Phone (202) 318-0341 Fax http://www.virtualgolfonline.com http://www.virtualteeoff.com -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NetLawyers] Assistance Needed In late June, I will be doing a presentation at a program designed to assist lawyers going out on their own. Not surprisingly, I will be addressing various tech-type issues. The tenative title for the presentation is: "Ten or Twenty Ways to Spend Your Money on Things You Didn't Think You Really Need, but Really Do" Any suggestions from this group would be greatly appreciated. I think one of the important pieces of equipment any new practitioner needs is a good scanner with a paper feed. Any specific suggestions as to the type of scanner that might fill this bill would be particularly appreciated. ******************************************** Stuart Levine Fisher & Winner, LLP 315 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Telephone: 410.385.2000 Telecopier: 443.927.7075 Cellphone: 410.802.5817 Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com [email protected] ********************************************* -/-/-/-/-/ There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications: http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks -/-/-/-/-/ Yahoo! Groups Links ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:57:43 -0400 From: "Stuart Levine" Subject: RE: Assistance Needed I'm going to take a look at both products. I have the Visoneer 9450 and am somewhat underwhelmed. However, I think that my reason ties to the rationale of the program: I often tend to underspend and to underspend in ways that are penny-wise and pound foolish. On 25 May 2004 at 12:38, Glenn K. Garnes wrote: > Stewart, > > For the money, I don't think you can get a better scanner than the > Visioneer 9750. It comes bundled with the most recent edition of > Paperport which converts everything to PDF as it scans, and I think > it's just awesome! > > I demoed it for Visioneer last year, and have referred them about 15 - > 20 other customers who are all very pleased. It's a 20 PPM scanner > that does legal and letter size, with a 50 page document feeder. It's > just under $1,000, and I have really put this thing through it's > paces, without failure. > > As an aside, I recently came across another great program that might > interest you if you regularly do Powerpoint presentations. It's > called Articulate Presenter, and it's featured on > www.internetaudioguy.com. Mike Stewart, the operator of that site, is > an expert in Internet audio, and presentation software. Articulate > Presenter allows you to take a Powerpoint presentation, and seamlessly > convert it to flash with narration. You can then stream it from the > Web, or burn it down to a CD. It's absolutely incredible! Mike used > to do the flash conversions manually, and he says they would take all > day to do what Articulate Presenter will do in minutes. > > He's got some demos on his site to show you how it works, and how the > finished product looks, so be sure to check it out. > > If I can help in any other way, please let me know. > > Warmest regards, > > > Glenn K. Garnes > (301) 776-1490 Phone > (202) 318-0341 Fax > http://www.virtualgolfonline.com > http://www.virtualteeoff.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [NetLawyers] Assistance Needed > > In late June, I will be doing a presentation at a program designed to > assist lawyers going out on their own. Not surprisingly, I will be > addressing various tech-type issues. The tenative title for the > presentation is: "Ten or Twenty Ways to Spend Your Money on Things > You Didn't Think You Really Need, but Really Do" > > Any suggestions from this group would be greatly appreciated. I think > one of the important pieces of equipment any new practitioner needs is > a good scanner with a paper feed. Any specific suggestions as to the > type of scanner that might fill this bill would be > > particularly appreciated. > > > ******************************************** > Stuart Levine > Fisher & Winner, LLP > 315 North Charles Street > Baltimore, Maryland 21201 > Telephone: 410.385.2000 > Telecopier: 443.927.7075 > Cellphone: 410.802.5817 > Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com > http://www.taxation-business.com > [email protected] > ********************************************* > > > > > > -/-/-/-/-/ > > There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked > there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal > applications: > > http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks > > -/-/-/-/-/ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! > Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. 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Groups Links > > > > > > ******************************************** Stuart Levine Fisher & Winner, LLP 315 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Telephone: 410.385.2000 Telecopier: 443.927.7075 Cellphone: 410.802.5817 Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com [email protected] ********************************************* ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:34:24 -0500 From: "George Socha" Subject: RE: Assistance Needed Here are a few suggestions on the hardware side: - Laptop computer (I have used ThinkPads for about 10 years and have been pleased with them) - UPS/surge protector - 20" (or larger) flat screen monitor (your monitor is your workplace so get one with as much real estate as you can afford; Dell has a very nice one with a USB hub built right into it) - wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse - adjustable keyboard tray (think ergonomics) - high quality office chair (ditto) - color printer (great for business cards) - cordless phone (5.8 GHz so it does not create problems for the wireless network) - decent headset to go with the cordless phone (no one looks cute with one shoulder permanently 4 inches higher) - convergence handheld - cell phone/PDA/email (I have been happy with my recently-acquired Treo 600 and I know other folks who use the Blackberry cell phone or the most recent Kyocera; each, of course, has its strengths and weaknesses) - car adapter (so you can plug it into a power outlet in a car and then you can plug laptop, cell phone charger, printer, etc. into it) - thumb drive (great for transferring files) George George J. Socha Jr., Esq. Socha Consulting LLC Informing digital discovery decisions 1374 Lincoln Avenue St. Paul MN 55105 Tel 651.690.1739 Cell 651.336.3940 Fax 651.846.5920 [email protected] http://www.sochaconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NetLawyers] Assistance Needed In late June, I will be doing a presentation at a program designed to assist lawyers going out on their own. Not surprisingly, I will be addressing various tech-type issues. The tenative title for the presentation is: "Ten or Twenty Ways to Spend Your Money on Things You Didn't Think You Really Need, but Really Do" Any suggestions from this group would be greatly appreciated. I think one of the important pieces of equipment any new practitioner needs is a good scanner with a paper feed. Any specific suggestions as to the type of scanner that might fill this bill would be particularly appreciated. ******************************************** Stuart Levine Fisher & Winner, LLP 315 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Telephone: 410.385.2000 Telecopier: 443.927.7075 Cellphone: 410.802.5817 Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com [email protected] ********************************************* -/-/-/-/-/ There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications: http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks -/-/-/-/-/ Yahoo! Groups Links ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 15:06:10 -0400 From: "Nick DiPrima" Subject: RE: Assistance Needed Stuart, I hope it's not too bold of me to suggest that they purchase some brand of digital library of forms/routine legal paperwork on CD-ROM for whatever area they intend to practice in. The only thing worse than standing in the line at the clerk's office to stock up on forms is actually putting them in a typewriter to complete them. For a few hundred dollars in any given state they should be able to get all the documents they need for their practice. We sponsor the Massachusetts Bar Association's "Going out on your own" seminar every year, and get some of our best customers there. ------------------------------------------ Nick DiPrima C.E.O. Promethean Software Corporation Phone: 1-800-518-8726, Ext. 800 Fax: 1-800-518-8726 http://www.turbolaw.com ------------------------------------------ To recommend TurboLaw to a friend: http://www.prometheancorporation.com/turbolaw/recommendturbolaw.php -----Original Message----- From: George Socha [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NetLawyers] Assistance Needed Here are a few suggestions on the hardware side: - Laptop computer (I have used ThinkPads for about 10 years and have been pleased with them) - UPS/surge protector - 20" (or larger) flat screen monitor (your monitor is your workplace so get one with as much real estate as you can afford; Dell has a very nice one with a USB hub built right into it) - wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse - adjustable keyboard tray (think ergonomics) - high quality office chair (ditto) - color printer (great for business cards) - cordless phone (5.8 GHz so it does not create problems for the wireless network) - decent headset to go with the cordless phone (no one looks cute with one shoulder permanently 4 inches higher) - convergence handheld - cell phone/PDA/email (I have been happy with my recently-acquired Treo 600 and I know other folks who use the Blackberry cell phone or the most recent Kyocera; each, of course, has its strengths and weaknesses) - car adapter (so you can plug it into a power outlet in a car and then you can plug laptop, cell phone charger, printer, etc. into it) - thumb drive (great for transferring files) George George J. Socha Jr., Esq. Socha Consulting LLC Informing digital discovery decisions 1374 Lincoln Avenue St. Paul MN 55105 Tel 651.690.1739 Cell 651.336.3940 Fax 651.846.5920 [email protected] http://www.sochaconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Levine [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NetLawyers] Assistance Needed In late June, I will be doing a presentation at a program designed to assist lawyers going out on their own. Not surprisingly, I will be addressing various tech-type issues. The tenative title for the presentation is: "Ten or Twenty Ways to Spend Your Money on Things You Didn't Think You Really Need, but Really Do" Any suggestions from this group would be greatly appreciated. I think one of the important pieces of equipment any new practitioner needs is a good scanner with a paper feed. Any specific suggestions as to the type of scanner that might fill this bill would be particularly appreciated. ******************************************** Stuart Levine Fisher & Winner, LLP 315 North Charles Street Baltimore, Maryland 21201 Telephone: 410.385.2000 Telecopier: 443.927.7075 Cellphone: 410.802.5817 Weblog: http://taxbiz.blogspot.com http://www.taxation-business.com [email protected] ********************************************* -/-/-/-/-/ There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications: http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks -/-/-/-/-/ Yahoo! Groups Links -/-/-/-/-/ There is a read/write Web page with resources that will be linked there and used during the Seminar on PDFs for lawyers and legal applications: http://Network-Lawyers.org/PDFLinks -/-/-/-/-/ Yahoo! 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