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19 May 2013, 9:18 am
The Cardiff University Centre for Language and Communication has made available FuzzyLaw, an online collection of “lay-people’s explanations of legal terms.”
Here is the description from the project’s Website:
FuzzyLaw has gathered explanations of legal terms from members of the public in order to get a sense of what the ‘person on the street’ has in mind when they think of a legal term. By making lay-people’s explanations of legal terms available to… [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 6:20 pm
Spread the Word to End the Word is an ongoing effort by Special Olympics & Best Buddies to raise the consciousness of society about the dehumanizing and hurtful effects of the R-word (“retard(ed)” and encourage people to pledge to stop using the R-word.
Respectful and inclusive language is essential to the movement for the dignity and humanity of people with intellectual disabilities. However, much of society does not recognize the hurtful, dehumanizing and exclusive effects of the… [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 12:00 pm
Later this year, lawyers with Lexis subscriptions and Microsoft Office will be able to use Lexis within the comfy confines of Microsoft Word and other applications. The integration should allow attorneys to stay within one program when drafting briefs, rather than clicking back and forth.
If you use Word and Lexis, the integration will make life easier. Clicking back and forth between various programs can be a pain. Be able to click on a case in a brief and have the full version pull up, or having… [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 7:34 pm
This post is not about candy bars or thoughts about whether the cross-section of a candy bar may function as a trademark, for that, see here.
This brief post is about a 100 Grand Super Size thank you to all of our readers, those who submit comments, those who offer suggestions, those who follow us on Twitter, our guest bloggers, and especially, all of you who spread the word about DuetsBlog in so many ways.
Our inaugural post on DuetsBlog was a short nine months ago, on March 5, 2009, when we… [read post]
31 Dec 2012, 1:48 pm
Karen Suhaka of LegiNation has posted How long is too long? Not long enough? Just right?, at BillTrack50 Political Eye Candy.
The post shows mean, median, and maximum word counts for legislative bills in the 50 U.S. states, with maps.
Ms. Sukaha describes her method for producing the word-count statistics and maps as follows:
I use a commercial mapping package. The counts are just done in SQL, since I’ve parsed all the bills into XML.
HT @BillTrack50 (here and here) and @Smoodle
Filed under:… [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 12:00 pm
By Jessica Orquina
It’s been three weeks since we launched Six Words for the Planet with SMITH Magazine and I’ve been delighted how many people shared their stories. I’ve enjoyed reading the thoughtful and creative six-word essays you’ve shared. Here are two of my favorites so far:
Perform a random act of sustainability.
George Sosa
Sweetest tweets still come from birds.
Melesha Owen
Earth Day may have gone by, but our collaboration with SMITH Magazine continues. I encourage each one of you… [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 11:30 pm
Shahram Rahimi, Fred Petry & Elham S. Khorasani, CALL FOR PAPERS (2011) for Special issue on Computing with Words, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies:
The “computing with words (CW)” was first introduced in 1996 by Zadeh as: A computational
system in which the objects of computations are words and propositions drawn from natural language. It is inspired by the human remarkable capability to perform a wide variety of physical and mental
tasks without… [read post]
18 Jan 2013, 12:58 am
If to err is human, then writing a blog is a most human endeavor. Tight deadlines and late-night drafting sessions ensure that mistakes infiltrate even carefully composed posts. It is a painful exercise for me to review old posts and see the errors that managed to make it onto my site.
In my best efforts to try to avoid mistakes, I try to read my draft posts very carefully (or as carefully as I am able at the late hours at which I am usually composing my posts). Over time, I have developed… [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:13 am
Under the guise of protecting our children's sensibilities, free speech takes a beating by the F.C.C. and the U.S. Supreme Court. [read post]
24 Mar 2009, 3:19 pm
Oh stop...no...oh go on...Ok, Ok, enough about me...seriously, lets talk about something useful - like Track Changes. For some reason, that even my twelve years of legal technology training can...
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28 May 2009, 6:08 am
A lot of tough love going on at I ? Tech this week so sit up and take it like a lawyer! For today's digital lashing, I'm going to piggy-back on someone else's program. I stumbled across this great...
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8 May 2012, 8:37 am
Female attorneys must be on the same cycle in Illinois, because according to all of the ethics complaints that have come down the pipeline, they’ve been acting a little crazy.
Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Anthony Calabrese, Anthony J. Calabrese, Attorney Misconduct, Benchslap, Benchslaps, Cook County, Curse Words, Dirty Words, Illinois, Judge Anthony Calabrese, Judge Anthony J. Calabrese, Legal Ethics, Michael Frisch, Mike Frisch, Profanity,… [read post]
14 Mar 2012, 1:06 pm
Neil Squillante of Technolawyer fame reminded me that I had posted previously about best use of Word styles (in a Word 2007 context, but applicable to 2010 as well). The article is here and I think you’ll still find it quite useful. Our earlier post from last week about styles is here.
Thanks Neil for the heads up!
Related posts:Manic Monday: Save Your Psyche, Save Your Finances Using “Styles” in Word This question comes up constantly on various listserves I frequent:...Word’s QuickParts… [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 12:23 pm
Many of you apparently downloaded and are enjoying the MicroLaw Word 2010 QuickTask Bar I wrote about and made available earlier this month (click here for download info). Enough readers asked for our Word 2007 version so I decided to make it available as well. It is identical to the Word 2010 QuickTask Bar, but the installation process is completely different – it’s described in the README FIRST document you’ll find in the Dropbox folder which you can access here. As with the Word 2010… [read post]
31 Dec 2010, 4:00 am
One of my frustrations in Word has been how to copy just the text in a specific column in a multi-column layout in Word. I am frustrated no longer: I came across the Legal Office Guru blog and a great tip on Copying vertical columns of text in Word. Keep reading to find out how easy this is and if you’re like me, you’ll probably be slapping yourself on your forehead as this task is much too easy for having not known about it. [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 10:20 am
The Texas Supreme Court has issued an order incorporating word counts into the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. The order amends Rules 9, 38, 49, 52, 53, 55, 64, 68, 70, and 71. Some highlights of the amendments include (for computer-generated briefs in civil cases): a minimum 14-point font (12-point for footnotes); a 15,000-word limit for briefs or responses; a 7,500-word limit for reply briefs; aggregate briefing limits of 27,000 words per party in the intermediate courts of appeals; a 4,500… [read post]
15 Aug 2012, 9:20 am
The Texas Supreme Court has issued an order incorporating word counts into the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure. The order amends Rules 9, 38, 49, 52, 53, 55, 64, 68, 70, and 71. Some highlights of the amendments include (for computer-generated briefs in civil cases): a minimum 14-point font (12-point for footnotes); a 15,000-word limit for briefs or responses; a 7,500-word limit for reply briefs; aggregate briefing limits of 27,000 words per party in the intermediate courts of appeals; a 4,500… [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 11:03 pm
Welcome to another edition of AlphaWatch (the next one in our queue), where we explore the reach of single-letter trademarks, this time focusing on the letter Q and the single-letter branding cues it might suggest to consumers:
Are you able to name the un-truncated version of this single-letter mark and brand?
My daughter could. The answer is below the jump.
Now, given Quizno's federally-registered rights in the single-letter Q logo, what is the likely fate of this baby q logo, recently filed… [read post]
14 May 2012, 2:44 am
www.udrpcommentaries.comWords and phrases in common use are attractive equally to purveyors and domainers. That one has a trademark does not disqualify the other from registering an identical or confusingly similar composition as long as proof fails to demonstrate bad faith. While registration confers distinctiveness, trademarks on the lower rung acquire this virtue over time. Trademarks qualified for registration under Section 2(f) of the Lanham Act (15 U.S.C. §1052(f)) for example are concededly… [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 11:30 pm
What does Google have in common with Sasquatch? Well, perhaps one possible point of similarity is that if you mess with either, you might get yourself seriously messed up in the process.
With respect to the defensive power of Sasquatch, a local Wisconsin business success story, Jack Link's Beef Jerky, has gotten much notoriety with its series of hilarious 30-second television commercials, featuring their own character and version of the Sasquatch who firmly retaliates when he is bullied,… [read post]