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INTERNET
FOR LAWYERS
Two Sessions!
Las Vegas, NV
Wednesday, December 3 – Bally's
9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
or 1:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
$129/one session or $229/both
(Fax or Mail)
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Winter Lights Festival
The Festival runs 5 to 9 p.m. Friday through Sunday from Nov. 28 to Dec. 21, 5 to 9 p.m. daily from Dec. 22 to 24 and Dec. 26 to 30 (the Preserve is closed on Christmas). Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for children ages 5 to 17 and free for Annual Pass members and children 4 and under. Entry includes admission to all museums and galleries.
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Martini Madness daily
happy hour at the El Cortez
Check out revitalized downtown Las Vegas and visit the El Cortez for a piece of Vegas history and Martini Madness daily happy hour Downtown from 5 to 7 p.m. featuring $7 martinis at every bar on property.
Where: El Cortez, 600 Fremont St,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101 MAP |
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The Lawyer's Guide to Adobe Acrobat, Third Edition
By: David L. Masters
Published by the American Bar Association
March 2008
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18 holes of pure productivity! |
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Demonstrative Evidence
Bridges Communication Style
by Dale Howe
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Attorneys and juries have different communication styles. A study comparing the learning and communication styles of practicing attorneys and of the general public indicates that attorneys prefer to talk about the evidence, while jurors prefer to see the evidence. (Kenneth Lopez, “The Animators at Law Attorney Communication Style Study,” 2007.)
The study compares visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles, which have been popular among educators for decades.
• Visual learners remember information more accurately when they see it.
• Auditory learners remember information more accurately when they hear it.
• Kinesthetic learners remember information more accurately when they touch it.
In practical terms, seven out of twelve jurors (61%) will prefer visual learning, three will prefer kinesthetic learning (20.5%), and two will prefer auditory learning (18.5%), Attorneys who rely on auditory communication alone will be under-communicating with ten of the twelve members of the jury (81.5%). Id.
Some behaviors may give the attorney clues about the learning styles of individual jurors. Visual people generally have an upright posture and sit forward in their chair. Auditory people move their eyes from side to side as they listen. Kinesthetic people often move extremely slowly and their stomach moves in and out when they breathe. (“Neurolinguistic Programming,” Student BMJ, 2006)
READ FULL ARTICLE
Used by Permission. © Dale C. Howe, Visual Persuasion
www.campbellchadwick.com
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Although e-government continues to be a rising trend, the public sector remains reliant on paper. Document imaging systems, which, at its most basic, creates electronic copies of papers, remains a highly popular technology for integrating hard copies into the digital enterprise.
 Two large government areas that have great use for imaging systems are functions that use "turnaround documents" -- forms that people complete and return -- and records management, which includes vital records, tax processing and child welfare, to name a few key areas of use.
Here's what's hot in terms of document imaging trends:
• OCR/ICR
Optical character recognition (OCR) or intelligent character recognition (ICR) allows users to capture data from scanned documents. While hardly new (OCR has been around since the early 1990s), the accuracy and performance of OCR has improved considerably. Key government user: The U.S. Census Bureau is currently using OCR to automatically retrieve data from various forms. In many newer imaging systems, the ability to find specific data can allow users to redact information, or even annotate documents.
• Distributed Data Capture: MFP
The multifunction peripheral (MFP) is a single unit that houses a printer, fax machine, photocopier and scanner. This technology lets front offices scan their own papers rather than relying on a central scanner.
• Content Management System: SharePoint Server
Content management, an umbrella term for all types of "content" including paper, has never really taken hold within government, primarily because of the absence of a killer app. Now the public sector has one: Microsoft's SharePoint Server software is a content management system, which encompasses not only document imaging, but also spreadsheets, photographs, videos and other digital materials. Since its introduction, SharePoint has helped galvanize document imaging has a highly accessible tool for many government offices.
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As World Gets More Visual,
Attorneys Turn to Multimedia
by Shelly Garcia |
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Time was attorneys relied almost exclusively on their verbal skills to sway juries.
But as computers, television and video games have seeped into every aspect of everyday life, lawyers are finding that a visual message can be more effective than even the most masterful of silver-tongued arguments.
More and more visual tools, ranging from power point presentations to animated videos are entering the courtroom under the theory that a picture is worth a thousand words.
"I think the visual presentation is very important from a judge's perspective," said Stephen Petersen, a judge in the Van Nuys court. "The judge wants to give the jury the clearest view of the case, so that the jury can understand the evidence, and since visual presentation aids that in large measure, I think almost all judges are in favor of visual presentation.
Civil cases involving such things as product liability can require juries to absorb complex technical information, and visual presentations can aid in understanding.
But even simpler cases can benefit from a strong visual aid.
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