Winning Strategies for Word Wrestling, Part 3: Managing Styles and Stylists

The third part of a three part series on using Styles in Microsoft Word focuses on the team effort required for successful planning, design and deployment.

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Winning Strategies for Word Wrestling – Part 2: Getting Styles Right (with The Laws of Styles, updated)

Part Two of a three part series on Styles in Microsoft Word adds detailed illustrations showing how Styles can be applied to format the formal documents of law practice. The blog post also updates the Seven Laws of Styles.

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Winning Strategies for Word Wrestling

The first of a three part series on mastering styles when writing and editing legal documents with Microsoft Word, now published on the Microsystems Blog. Winning Strategies for Word Wrestling explores and illustrates the benefits of documents that make thorough and consistent use of styles. These blog posts will make contemporary the analysis and advice I began in Woody’s Office Watch in 1999 with The Seven Laws of Styles.

No Ordinary Email?

The American Bar Association’s Formal Opinion 477R intensifies lawyers’ Professional Responsibility for securing communication of protected client information. Read part 1 of two blog posts published on the Microsystems blog by clicking here. Read part 2 by clicking here.

Technology Competency: Lessons across the Ages

I suggest there are four kinds of technology users. I borrow from one of the central instruction manuals in my life, the Haggadah, used each spring on Passover to teach the story of the Exodus from Egypt. Read my essay, published on the Microsystems blog, by clicking here.

What Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Really Mean

Two of the hottest terms in the technology of law today are “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.” …

Read my blog post on this topic on the Microsystems blog, published May 11, 2017.

Contract Companion (formerly Eagle Eye) at Work – A Lawyer’s Perspective – A White Paper published in 10 Serial Episodes

Microsystems is publishing my white paper on its Contract Companion (formerly EagleEye) product in 10 serial episodes. The white paper explores in depth the needs for empowered agreement drafting and checking with Contract Companion’s capabilities. Episodes appear every Thursday on Microsystems social media pages:

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Blacksberg Associates offers strategies and tactics for the technology of law. Blacksberg Associates is now  engaged to assist law firms in the selection and transformation of their technology, as well as providing CLE training. Blacksberg Associates also works with leading vendors of legal technology to assist in the identification, explanation and implementation of significant new technologies.

What Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Really Mean

Two of the hottest terms in the technology of law today are “artificial intelligence” and “machine learning.” … Read my blog post on this topic on the Microsystems blog, published May 11, 2017.

Practicing Law Securely – a blog series at the CollaboristaBlog

Enjoy Bob Blacksberg’s posts on the CollaboristaBlog, hosted by Intralinks. The first post, “Practicing Law Securely – Be Aware” begins a series devoted to data security and the practice of law. The posts balance understanding risks, professionalism and practical guidance. To say that data security is a hot issue may be the understatement of 2015.

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