May 22, 2013
Kim BrandIn my last column, I confessed I was addicted to interruptions: email, voice mail, texts, phone calls, Twitter feeds, etc.
Studies have shown multitasking lowers IQ.
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May 22, 2013
In this on-demand era of instant gratification, we expect that information should always be at our fingertips. Our time is
precious and we all want others to respect that fact; in return doesn’t that mean we should all be respectful of the
time that others give to us?
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May 8, 2013
Dave StaffordWhat happens on Facebook stays on Facebook – forever – and attorneys conceivably run into risk if they fail to
investigate pertinent posts, a judge suggested during a presentation about social media evidence.
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April 24, 2013
Dave StaffordWhen advising small firm and solo lawyers recently at the American Bar Association Tech Show in Chicago, Indianapolis attorney
Marc Matheny said he ran out of time before he ran out of tips.
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March 28, 2013
Dave StaffordA modest increase requested over the next two budget cycles won’t include technical upgrades to allow webcasts of traveling
Court of Appeals oral arguments, Chief Judge Margret Robb told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday.
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January 16, 2013
Mobile payments are becoming popular, but consumers must proactively protect against fraud.
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December 19, 2012
Marilyn OdendahlThe process of turning a bill into a law requires thousands of pages of paper. Even the bills that do not become laws consume
stacks and stacks – literally tons – of paper each year. But the tide may be turning. A pilot project in the Indiana
General Assembly is being expanded with the goal of eventually replacing all that paper with electronic copies.
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December 19, 2012
Kim BrandMake this the year you get out of the poor-productivity ditch.
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November 21, 2012
Dave StaffordTwo companies will be hired to transcribe court records on an expedited schedule in a pilot program in selected courts, according
to a Supreme Court order.
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November 21, 2012
Dave StaffordWill your Facebook account, online presence and virtual world live on after you? The rise of social media and proliferation
of online accounts are posing such real-life questions for lawyers who concentrate in estate planning. But it remains an evolving
question how wills, trusts and power of attorney grants will address these and other staples of the Internet age.
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November 7, 2012
Deanna Finney explains how readers can use tools in their Outlook email program to make emails easier to manage.
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October 25, 2012
Dave StaffordTelevision stations and media organizations on Wednesday tested a new high-definition video system that could become the norm
for coverage of oral arguments before the Indiana Supreme Court.
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October 24, 2012
Dave StaffordAnnual gathering presentations also explore alternative fees and interacting with the media.
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October 24, 2012
Kim BrandThe modern fax machine was introduced in 1964 by Xerox. Fast forward to today. Unless you use a typewriter, there are no other
machines in your office that have remained essentially unchanged in form and function for almost 50 years. Fax is ubiquitous,
reliable, simple and cheap. Why would you want to mess that up?
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October 10, 2012
Dave StaffordIf your firm hasn’t bought you a new smartphone, provided better remote access options, or replaced an aging monitor
lately, you might nudge the purchasing department.
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July 26, 2012
Jennifer NelsonThe LaPorte County courts and clerk’s offices are the latest to join the case management system implemented by the Division
of State Court Administration’s Judicial Technology and Automation Committee.
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July 4, 2012
Dave StaffordThree Indiana courts are weeks away from beginning an unprecedented experiment: recording proceedings with digital video that
will form the official trial court record.
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July 4, 2012
Dave StaffordThe conversion of three Indiana courts to video transcripts is one of three pilot projects that will start in selected courts
in the next several weeks, all of them intended to find ways to make the appeals process thriftier and more efficient.
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May 31, 2012
IL StaffJackson County is the latest county to go online with the case management system, Odyssey, which is implemented by the Indiana
Supreme Court’s Division of State Court Administration’s Judicial Technology and Automation Committee.
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May 23, 2012
IL StaffWith the additions of Henry and Jackson counties to the Odyssey case management system, 41 counties and 122 courts are now
hooked into the system.
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May 9, 2012
Jennifer NelsonAn attorney's inquiry on a listserv led to the Indiana State Bar Association ethics opinion.
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March 28, 2012
Jenny MontgomeryFirms invest more resources in web design.
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December 7, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryThe state bar's survey shows attorneys are becoming at ease with using Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media.
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November 17, 2011
IL StaffThe Terre Haute City Court and clerk will demonstrate for the public the new Odyssey case management system at 2:30 p.m. Nov.
21 in Terre Haute City Court, City Hall, 17 Harding Ave. Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr. will join local
court officials to answer questions about the system and show the public how it works.
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November 9, 2011
Jenny MontgomeryYoung lawyers adapt to the profession by understanding tradition.
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Never heard of remand to another state. How often does that happen?
I highly recommend Deanna and her team of professionals that serve the legal community. Great information and many thanks for sharing.
they are pushing these cases against lawyers too far. thought-crime.
vagueness cannot challenged, so let's write all laws vaguely and throw the constitution out the window.Even if the court is operating under a particular law, if they don't it they will change it to their liking. What a joke!!!
Two convictions becomes one conviction with exactly the same sentence, only it is not clear wheter or not that sentence will be 18 months, 120 months or 138 months. Actually if the guns were in a home, whether or not they were his, he is protected under the 2nd amendment. Jurors need to learn the law and the constitution before judging others. The cour5ts need to do this as well.