Friday, 18th May 2012
Plain English Lexicon (link is in the last line) is a free download (I could only get the download to work in Internet Explorer). It is a guide as to whether or not your words will be understood and suggests alternative plain English words.
An excellent book on improving writing skills for everyone in a legal office is English Essentials - "The wouldn't-be-without-it guide to writing well". It is written by Mem Fox and Lyn Wilkinson and published by Macmillan.
Netiquette. "Netiquette" is network etiquette, the do's and don'ts of online communication.
Netiquette covers both common courtesy online and the informal "rules of the road" of cyberspace.
See also 50 ways to write an email and Email Signatures: Valuable Real Estate.
Good for a read and coming across things like # 2 of "5 Ways to Unclutter Your Desk"; Start with the filing cabinet, not the desk because if you don't have an orderly system for filing papers - and room in your filing cabinet to put those files - you'll never get your desk cleaned.
Some news feed headlines:
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Open Office is the free alternative to Microsoft's software for use in the office.
Open Office can open Word documents and save its own documents in Word format.
Open Office has a toolbar like the older versions of Word, rather than the ribbon used in Word 2007. It has a more user friendly method of automatic numbering of paragraphs. If you have a document with complex numbering and Word is the standard software in your office, then consider preparing the document in Open Office then saving it as a Word document.
There is also a lot of other free open source software available. See the Open Source Software Primer for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer.
Paralegals SA is a Committee of the Law Society of South Australia for South Australian Paralegals.
Its primary focus is to standardise industry practices, consolidate and raise the profile of the paralegal profession within South Australia, realise the importance and full potential paralegals bring to the South Australian legal industry and to provide paralegals with the same networking, support and other opportunities that are available to legal practitioners.
Paralegals SA Contact details and information are available from the Law Society Web site.
Paralegal Today Magazine (incorporating Legal Assistant Today)
Their List of Articles by Subject that may be helpful:
Address: 201 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8228 0000
Fax: (08) 8228 0022
Email: clerk@anthonymasonchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 421
Web: http://www.barchambers.com.au
Address: 34 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8205 2966
Fax: (08) 8212 6590
Email: barristers@barchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 107
Address: 24 Market Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8212 0603
Fax: (08) 8212 0699
Email: clerk@brianmartinchambers.com.au
Address: 360 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8110 4900
Fax: (08) 8231 9352
Email: admin@campbellchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 424
Address: 48 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8212 4511
Fax: (08) 8231 6080
Email: admin@carringtonchambers.com.au
Address: 61 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Web: http://www.legoechambers.com.au
Address: Level 1, 96 Gouger Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8113 3400
Fax: (08) 8113 3499
Email: clerk@legoechambers.com.au
Address: 39 Mackay Street, Port Augusta SA 5710
Phone: (08) 8127 9701
Fax: (08) 8121 7639
Address: 133 Archer Street, North Adelaide SA 5006
Phone: (08) 8360 8320
Fax: (08) 8239 2282
Address: 90 Sturt Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8211 8113
Fax: (08) 8211 8223
Web: http://www.edmundbartonchambers.com.au
Address: 72 Wright Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8213 6400
Fax: (08) 8231 5295
Email: clerk@edmundbartonchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 398
Address: Level 1, 51 Angas Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 2244
Fax: (08) 8231 5611
Email: elizabethevatt@ihug.com.au
Address: 22 Divett Place, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8223 7900
Fax: (08) 8232 7001
Email: fcbrohier@bigpond.com
Web: http://www.ejchambers.com.au
Address: 356A King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8410 3672
Fax: (08) 8231 9270
Email: info@ejchambers.com.au
Address: 429A Gilles Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8232 3146
Fax: (08) 8232 3145
Address: 56 Carrington Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8212 6022
Fax: (08) 8231 3640
Email: admin@hansonchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 403
Address: 11th Floor, SGIC Building, 211 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8211 7677
Fax: (08) 8212 9700
Email: clerk@hzc.com.au
Address: Level 3, 366 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8410 3233
Fax: (08) 8410 2673
Email: clerk@hughburtonchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 58200
Web: http://www.jeffcottchambers.com.au
Address: 7 Gouger Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 2344
Fax: (08) 8212 3232
Email: admin@jeffcottchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 158
Address: 142 Wright Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 1855
Fax: (08) 8231 1909
Email: barristers@johnbraychambers.com.au
Courier: DX 396
Address: 47 Wright Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 6033
Fax: (08) 8231 7607
Email: clerk@kingstonchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 109
Address: 3rd Floor, 195 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8231 2282
Fax: (08) 8221 5460
Email: clerk@mkirbych.com.au
Web: http://www.mitchellchambers.com.au
Address: 27 Surflen Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8212 7583
Fax: (08) 8231 2621
Email: info@mitchellchambers.com.au
Courier: DX 219
Address: 12 Coglin Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8110 9100
Fax: (08) 8231 5439
Email: info@murraychambers.com.au
Courier: DX 425
Address:13 Gibson Street, Port Augusta SA 5700
Phone: (08) 8641 3329 or 0439 950 001
Fax: (08) 641 3330
Email: sallybur@bigpond.net.au
Address: 195 Victoria Square, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8212 1102
Fax: (08) 8231 9573
Address: 78 Angas Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8232 1900
Fax: (08) 8232 0845
Email: admin@torrenschambers.com.au
Courier: DX 365
Address: Level 30 Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide SA 5000
Phone: (08) 8113 5720
Address: Level 2, 366 King William Street, Adelaide 5000
Phone: (08) 8213 7000
Fax: (08) 8213 7001
Email: wsch@senet.com.au
