Where is my “Add/Remove/Rename” button?
May 30, 2007
In TurboLaw 2.60, the old Add Remove Rename Button was itself renamed to Open this Folder. Instead of opening a TurboLaw window, the new button simply opens the folder where TurboLaw is saving your documents – right in Windows itself. (Technically, this view is a “Windows Explorer” window.)
The old Add Remove Rename Button has gone the way of the Dodo
The new Open this Folder button has replaced it
From this window, you can add, remove, or rename any file you see.
Adding files is easy – just drag & drop them into the folder, or use copy & paste, or whatever method you are comfortable using. Since you are just copying (or moving) a file from one folder to another on your computer, you do not need to remember any new special way of doing it. Adding a file to your TurboLaw case folder is no different than adding a file to any other folder on your computer.
Removing a file is also easy – and with this new window, it is also safer. Just select the file (or files) you want to remove and press the “Delete” key on your keyboard; or right-click and choose “Delete;” or click the “Delete” button on the Windows Explorer window toolbar. In other words, you can delete the file (or files) just as you would any other file on your computer. The extra safety comes from the fact that files deleted from your computer will go to your recycle bin, instead of just being deleted immediately – the same as any other file on your computer. So if you make a mistake, you can recover your work. (Assuming you haven’t emptied the recycle bin, of course!)
Renaming a file, as you can probably guess, is also very easy. You rename a file in TurboLaw the same way you rename any other file on your computer. You can right-click on the file and choose “Rename,” or use any of the other ways that Windows Explorer allows you to rename a file.
So if you were wondering what happened to the old “Add/Remove/Rename” button, now you know – it has been replaced by the new “Open this Folder” button, which allows you to do everything you did before – only now it is easier, and more in-line with the way you add, remove, or rename files elsewhere on your computer. As always, we are only seeking to help make it easier for you to get your work done!
Version 2.61 Released
May 23, 2007
Once again, we here at TurboLaw are proud to announce the release of Version 2.61, with the following improvements:
- Auto-save of child information in Divorce/Domestic Relations cases if you forget to click “Add Child”
- Improved graphics
- New TurboLaw Tutorial
- Updated Users’ Guide
We hope you enjoy these new features!
“Get a divorce” billboard gets dumped
May 10, 2007
CNN carried this story about a billboard for a law firm that generated lots of complaints:
A racy billboard proclaiming “Life’s short. Get a divorce” caused such an uproar that city workers stripped it from its downtown perch after a week.
It wasn’t so much about the partially clothed man and woman on the law firm’s ad.
It was the phrase that lawyers Corri Fetman and Kelly Garland chose that drew scores of complaints from neighbors and from other attorneys who said it reflected poorly on their profession.
You can read the whole story here.
Collaborative Practice, A new Approach
May 3, 2007
Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Dan Tremblay.
Collaborative Practice is an alternative dispute resolution method originally developed for resolving Family Law disputes, particularly Divorce, but could be applied to most civil areas of law. Those who practice collaborative law have seen the negative effects on their clients and on themselves of traditional litigation. Stu Web, an attorney who was “getting pretty sick of it,” decided there must be a better way of handling divorces. He started experimenting with a different approach where “settlement only” lawyers formed an agreement with their clients that they would not litigate and if any party decided to litigate or the process failed, the agreement required the attorneys to turn the case over to litigation lawyers. Thus Collaborative Law Practice was born.
There are no time standards except those imposed by the clients themselves. There is no need for the traditional discovery. The entire discovery is conducted voluntarily in four way meetings with the attorneys and parties; there is no need to “hide the ball” as happens in traditional divorce and civil proceedings. The meetings are considered settlement proceedings and therefore confidential. The speed of the process is dependent on the parties and therefore they manage the cost and length of time it takes them to come to agreement. The product of these meeting is an agreement. In the case of a divorce the agreement and joint petition can be presented to the court.
In addition, allied professionals are used to help facilitate the process. In divorce, coaches, neutral child and financial specialists help expedite the process by advising as necessary to help overcome obstacles and impasses in divorce cases. By adding these experts to the process, the parties address their whole situation instead of focusing on only the legal aspects of the divorce. The direct benefits are the speed of the process and therefore the savings in cost to the parties; confidentiality, especially where divorce proceedings will be available online to the public at some point in the future; and the maintenance of the relationship between the parties, important especially where children are concerned. It is recognized that not all parties will be right for this process, but most will be good prospects for this less adversarial process.
Consider joining this paradigm shift in the legal process by taking the Collaborative Law training and joining the Massachusetts Collaborative Law Council. Find out more information at www.massclc.org. If you are a divorce lawyer, your clients and their children will be glad you did and you will find a new, more rewarding way to practice law. This process has been so successful with divorce that it is now being used for other civil adversarial processes as well especially in Business, Labor and Probate Law. Reference: The Collaborative Way to Divorce, by Stuart G. Webb and Ronald D. Ousky.
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