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A great review manual and reference book
This book was my primary source when I was preparing for the CLA exam.Coherent, organized and thoughtful, it is a "must buy" for CLA candidates.Until my book was borrowed (and not returned) by another legalassistant, the manual served as a handy reference manual in my practice. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Certification    2. College Entrance    3. LSAT (Law School Admission Test)    4. Law    5. Law Office Administration    6. Law Office Education    7. Law examinations    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal assistants    10. Professional - General    11. Professional Education    12. Reference    13. United States    14. Business & Economics / General    15. Higher & further education    16. Industrial or vocational training    17. Legal skills & practice    18. Office & workplace   

Subjects:  1. Evidence    2. Law    3. Law Office Administration    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Law / General   

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Great learning tool
I bought this book for a legal assistant class and I enjoyed it.I learned a lot.It's hard to learn computers from a book - but not this one.The book comes with software and has tutorials and exercises that accompany the software.My class also liked the fact that there are tons of practical applications for how computers are actually used by practicing paralegals and legal secretaries in the book.Also, when it comes to litigation support -one of the most difficult legal computer applications to master - it was fantastic.It comes with three different litigation support programs, including Summation.Summation is fairly involved to learn and the book, tutorials, exercises and software did a good job of teaching this to me.I am confident now in my ability to do basic litigation support.The chapter on using the Internet to do legal and factual research was also excellent.

I would definately buy this again!
This book is essential for anyone working in a law office.Computers are used in nearly every aspect of working in a law firm.The book is huge - nearly 700 pages - and it covers every main type of program used in a law office.It comes with software, and lots of exercises and I thought it was very easy to read and straight forward.It covers hard topics like litigation support and Access databases in a way that I could understand without totally going over my head.The book covers both entry level and advanced topics.For example in the word processing chapter the Word tutorial had 7 lessons that got progressively more difficult, starting with basic word processing and ending with mail merges and creating tables of authorities.

Highly Recommended
I think this is a fabulous book.It comes with demonstration versions of 5 legal software programs including three litigation support programs, a time and billing program and a case management program.There were a number of in-depth, hands-on exercises for each program, so I really got to learn about each type of program by using it.Also, although I have used Access, Word, Excel and Powerpoint before, I liked the fact that there were in-depth exercises for learning legal applications for each of these programs.This is a very practical book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Automation    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Information storage and retrie    6. Information storage and retrieval systems    7. Law    8. Law Office Administration    9. Law Office Education    10. Law Office Technology    11. Law offices    12. Legal Profession    13. Legal Reference / Law Profession    14. Legal assistants    15. Office Automation    16. Office Automation And Management    17. United States    18. Business & Economics / General    19. Industrial or vocational training    20. Legal skills & practice    21. Office & workplace    22. Office systems & equipment   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Law Office Administration    3. Law Office Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal skills & practice   

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Joyce Morton
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is interesting, and helped me a lot when it came to my studies. It is something every office worker should have.

Review of Legal Office Procedures by Dr. Joyce Morton
These are just a few of the reasons students studying to become a legal secretary or paralegal continue to rave about this book. Average Rating
This average book for the most part is good to use as a general reference.It is somewhat outdated and it uses California law for most of its examples so if you live in another state, you'll need to find out what the law is in YOUR state.The best parts of the book are the practice exercises at the end of each chapter in which you use the disk provided.This gives "hands-on" experience. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Law    3. Law Office Administration    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Profession    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal secretaries    8. United States    9. Business & Economics / Business Law    10. Business law   

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Marketing 101, 201, & 301 for Professional Services
This book should burnish the authors' already high reputations for having cogent, jargon-free, and street-smart things to say about what it's really like to try to market professional services.An unusual blend of (clear and lucidly stated) theory about marketing,and real-world insights into obstacles clients can throw up--not to mention the high barrier of internal resistance that "professionals" instinctively erect when asked to be marketers--this should be your starting point if you're facing the complexities of marketing in this environment.
Gerry Riskin (co-author Herding Cats and Beyond Knowing
August Aquila and Bruce Marcus reward readers of Client at the Core with an imaginative map for the perilous journey through the twists and turns of marketing and managing today's professional services firm. It is creative and thorough.

Required reading for my marketing leaders
August Aquila and Bruce Marcus have written a clear and comprehensive view of what every accounting or law marketer needs to know about this new, unprecedented professional services environment.Their book not only explains the new environment, but it's also a rich primer of practical "how-to" advice on all the marketing tools available to the professional services marketer.Strategy is fine, but I find that few books get down to the step-by-step implementation tactics involved in winning new business like this book does - that's one of its best points of differentiation.After reading it, I bought copies for every one of my regional, industry, service line and national marketing leaders. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Accounting (General)    2. Accounting - General    3. Accounting firms    4. Business & Economics    5. Business/Economics    6. General    7. Law (General)    8. Law Office Education    9. Law Office Marketing & Advertising    10. Law firms    11. Legal Reference / Law Profession    12. Management - General    13. Marketing    14. United States    15. Business & Economics / Accounting / General    16. Finance & Accounting   

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Do you really want to do the job?
Through this book I was able to imagine wonderful things for my clients. I have a lawyer friend that told me that chapter 8 was the key for him. Its a story told in first person by an associate who describes the wonderful digital resources he has at his disposition. Chapter 11 is fundamental too.
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Subjects:  1. General Practice    2. Knowledge management    3. Law    4. Law Office Education    5. Law Office Technology    6. Law firms    7. Law offices    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Management    10. United States    11. Business | Management | Strategic Management    12. Law / Law Office Technology    13. Legal skills & practice    14. Management decision making   

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Tells You Just What You Need to Know
More and more courts are allowing, if not requiring, that documents of all type be presented in electronic format either in addition to or in some cases instead of on paper. There are unquestionably a lot of lawyers who will assign the task of producing the electronic document to a secretary. But this is kind of like having a lawyer these days who can't use a PC - there probably are some, but they are getting fewer and fewer.
Really Great
This book really walked me through using Acrobat Professional.
Excellent book for lawyers!
I really needed this book!It focuses on the functions of Adobe Acrobat 6 that lawyers need to use.Explanations are clear, illustrations are helpful.
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Subjects:  1. Computer Programs    2. Electronic Publishing    3. Law    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Databases & data structures    7. Law / General    8. Legal skills & practice   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Law    3. Law Office Administration    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Profession    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Business & Economics / General   

Subjects:  1. General Practice    2. Law    3. Law Office Administration    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Practice Of Law    7. Reference    8. Law / Reference   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Law Office Education    3. Lawyers    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Legal Services    6. Marketing    7. Practice Of Law    8. United States    9. Law / General   

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Gift for Newly Admitted Attorneys
"The Successful Lawyer: Powerful Strategies for Transforming Your Practice" is a powerful tool to help young attorneys explore ways of growing their practice. Gerry Riskin uses short, practical examples taken from every-day practice to help attorneys focus on situations they certainly will be faced with at some point in their careers.
A practical resource: Be sure and take notes!
Legal consultant Gerald Riskin does a remarkable job of forcing practicing attorneys to look at their practice objectively, particularly from a client's point of view. He suggests early on that readers mark up the margins or keep a journal - good advice! I kept a list of pointers as I read to prioritize later. The author notes astutely that no lawyer is likely to do a full practice makeover, but anyone can read this book and come away with 3-4 things they can do immediately, at little or no expense, to improve their practice. By incorporating Riskin's suggestions, in manageable chunks of 3-4 at a time, any lawyer can expand their practice and (best of all) make their practice more satisfying. It is hard to imagine any attorney coming away from this very readable book without 20 or more ideas of things they want to change in their practice.

Well Endorsed and well deserved!
This book was heavily hyped by Tom Peters in one of his blogs, and as most of you probably know, Tom Peters don't promote no garbage!
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Subjects:  1. Career And Vocational Guidance    2. General Practice    3. Law    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Practice Of Law    7. Law / General    8. Legal skills & practice   

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Big Firms Only
I've been devouring legal marketing books as I prepare to open a two-person practice. I skimmed through this book and found it to be distinctly unhelpful. You wouldn't know it from the book's self-description, but it is primarily aimed at marketing large law firms (100+ lawyers) with huge marketing budgets. If you are a small firm or solo practitioner, look elsewhere. Even in terms of its big-firm focus, the book is far too broad and generic to provide much useful advice and guidance.
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Subjects:  1. Advertising    2. Law    3. Law Office Education    4. Lawyers    5. Legal Reference / Law Profession    6. Marketing    7. Non-Classifiable    8. Nonfiction - General    9. Practice of law    10. Reference    11. United States    12. Law / Reference    13. Legal profession    14. Sales & marketing   

Subjects:  1. General    2. General Practice    3. Law    4. Law Office Education    5. Law Office Technology    6. Law offices    7. Legal Profession    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Office procedures    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / General   

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Works Well For This Newcomer/Latecomer to Word
The book weighs a ton and there's lots packed in it.Have not attempted to use the CD-ROM.Index helped me find specific answers to specific issues, since I don't know the program at all and had to hit the ground running.Have not been able to find answers to more esoteric matters, but the book has been invaluable for my quick-fix situations.Legal-specific and more useful on a daily basis than the "Dummies" book my boss bought.Thank you, Payne Consulting Group!!!

The Standard for MS Word in Law Firms
Any law firm that uses MS Word has been influenced by the work of Payne Consulting.Payne Consulting was in a conference that went into a committee that worked closely with MS to influence Word and to make it compatible to what law firms got used to with Word Perfect.Interestingly, Word finally has a feature that offers you the opportunity to recover documents if you had not saved it the day before.....wow.....why didn't they do that for corporations.
good for mds
real world advive for anyone interested in applications of word in a business setting ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer Bks - Word Processing    2. Computer Books And Software    3. Computers    4. Computers - Word Processing    5. Law Office Education    6. Law Office Technology    7. Word Processing - General    8. Word Processing - Word    9. Computers / Information Technology    10. Laws of Other Jurisdictions & General Law    11. Microsoft Word    12. USA   

Subjects:  1. Law    2. Law Office Administration    3. Law Office Education    4. Legal Reference / Law Profession    5. Jurisprudence & General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Accounting - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Business/Economics    4. Handbooks, manuals, etc    5. Information Management    6. Law    7. Legal Education    8. Legal Reference / Law Profession    9. Legal secretaries    10. Office Automation    11. Reference    12. Terminology    13. United States    14. Finance & Accounting    15. Law / Law Office Management   

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Great book for new scopists
This is a great book for new scopists to read.It gives you an overviewof what court reporter's do.Learning about their jobs will help us, thescopists, do our job better.It is also a good book to get if you arethinking of becoming a court reporter.It goes over stipulations,parentheticals, motions, objections, etc.The part I liked best about thisbook is it gave alot of examples on preliminaries, title pages, appearancepage, index page, transcripts.Read more

Subjects:  1. Computer-aided transcription systems    2. Court Records    3. General    4. Law    5. Law Office Education    6. Law reporting    7. Legal Reference / Law Profession    8. Legal Secretaryship    9. Reference    10. Stenotypy    11. United States    12. Industrial or vocational training    13. Legal skills & practice    14. Secretarial & office skills   

Subjects:  1. Handbooks, manuals, etc    2. Law    3. Law Office Administration    4. Law Office Education    5. Legal Profession    6. Legal Reference / Law Profession    7. Legal assistants    8. Reference    9. United States    10. Business & Economics / General    11. Organizational theory & behaviour   

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great text; use it in my classes
Practical approach to the procedures followed in a law office.Also a great guide for the new legal secretary or paralegal. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business & Economics    2. Business/Economics    3. General    4. General Practice    5. Law Office Administration    6. Law Office Education    7. Law offices    8. Legal Profession    9. Legal Reference / Law Profession    10. United States    11. Business & Economics / General    12. Legal skills & practice