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Saturday, 04 February 2012 13:34 |
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Salamander Davoudi (@sdavoudi) of the Financial Times reports that publishing giant, Reed Elsevier, denies reports that LexisNexis is for sale. Management intends to pursue only small-scale merger and acquisition activity within its five divisions over the next 12 months, according to two people familiar with the company’s plans, and has no plans to sell its Lexis-Nexis Legal & Professional business despite calls for its divestiture. Read more at The LexBlog Network...
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 10:49 |
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SearchWorks is delighted to announce the release of 8 new search types which were released on the 1st of February 2012.
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 08:34 |
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Merise Thomas has been appointed LAW’s new Relationship Manager for parts of the Johannesburg and Limpopo regions.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 06:24 |
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The purchase price of a PBX is seldom an indication of its cost.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:00 |
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This quick key sequence will open the font menu so that you can change the appearance of the selected area.
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Google under fire from all sides |
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:50 |
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Google faces accusations of underhand tactics from start-up Mocality, an online business directory based in Kenya, which has accused the search engine giant of malpractice and misrepresentation.
Read more at LegalBrief.....
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Monday, 16 January 2012 08:57 |
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Domain names are the identifier of all websites on the Internet. If you want to be found on the Internet – you need a domain name. So if you are called Johnny Walker Attorneys, you need a domain name like www.johnywalker.co.za or www.jwalkerattorneys.co.za or something similar. This is great for all traditional websites – and for creating websites that people are going to view on PC's or laptops. But what happens when someone tries to look at your website on a mobile phone?
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Sunday, 15 January 2012 20:06 |
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Sue Winter has been appointed as the new trainer for the Northern Cape region. Sue has been a Trainer at the LAW Academy in our Cape Town office for almost two years. Prior to this, she worked for one of the major financial institutions as a regional registrations manager and gained extensive knowledge of the conveyancing industry during her 25 year tenure.
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Consternation in the Pietermaritzburg Deeds Office |
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Saturday, 14 January 2012 09:42 |
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The heading sounds a bit like the over-dramatic headlines used in newspapers. But let me explain. Yesterday a notice was sent out to conveyancers by the Assistant Registrar of Deeds, Pietermaritzburg to the effect that some clerks were taking out examiner’s notes at prep and further that such conduct was inappropriate and should be discontinued. Then another notice was sent out by the same person to advise that some conveyancing firms were sending “clerks” [i.e. not qualified conveyancers] to “execute deeds on behalf of their principals” and that this “is highly inappropriate and illegal”. The notice went further to state that as from Monday 16th January 2012 only conveyancers would be allowed in the execution room during execution times. The responses from various conveyancers were swift in coming in. Here are some of them:
Read more in the Tech4law Conveyancing4all forum....
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Do attorneys want to separate personal from professional on social networks |
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Monday, 09 January 2012 10:11 |
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The New York Times' Randall Stross has a story this morning about 'Sifting the Professional From the Personal' when it comes to social networks. Attorneys and other professionals have gravitated towards LinkedIn because it is 'professional.'
Read more at Real Lawyers Have Blogs
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 15:39 |
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A long road to testing the new Windows Phone 7 operating system, but at the end of our road together, I’m a little sad to see it go.
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 11:12 |
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Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud.
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 08:43 |
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Often we want to make the text in our documents slightly bigger or smaller, instead of using the font drop down menu, you can use this quick key to increase or decrease the font by one size with each key sequence.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 06:32 |
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The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) allows sending unsolicited direct marketing communications (which is commonly seen as spam by many consumers) under certain conditions. However, if one looks more closely, it turns out that it is simply not possible to comply with these conditions with SMS communications.
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Tuesday, 31 January 2012 06:05 |
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Yesterday I returned from a trip to Europe where I was in telephone contact via Skype and obviously stayed connected with Internet access throughout the trip – all done rather economically.
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:20 |
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Paddocks Club is an exclusive online learning community for people involved in sectional title and community schemes. Building on its growth in 2011, the Club is launching a private one-on-one legal consulting service in early 2012. Prof Graham Paddock, a leading authority on community scheme law in South Africa, heads Paddocks Club and is now offering interested parties the opportunity to get affordable, confidential and tailored legal advice online.
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LinkedIn is the most popular social media platform in law firms |
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:50 |
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LexisNexis, a leading provider of content and technology solutions, announced results from its latest study on law firm engagement in social media methods. The report, 'Global Social Media Check-up: A global audit of law firm engagement in social media methods', reveals that whilst social media has changed the way that millions of people communicate in their personal lives and that many international B2B law firms have registered their presence on the networks, the legal profession overall has a reticent approach to social media engagement. Read more at Market Watch....
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Tuesday, 24 January 2012 10:50 |
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Use this quick key to indent the current text.
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Friday, 13 January 2012 00:00 |
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Apply a hanging indent to the current text, or the selected area.
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5 Predictions for time capture in 2012 |
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Friday, 13 January 2012 19:08 |
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Once again, we’ve come to the time of year where we all start looking forward. We’re going to harness our curiosity about the year ahead and make some predictions relevant to timekeeping. Keep reading to find out why Todd Gerstein, CEO & Founder of Smart WebParts, thinks 2012 will be the Year of Time Capture.
Read more at the LegalITProfessionals web site...
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 21:31 |
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Justify the text so that the text is aligned with the left and right margins.
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Wednesday, 04 January 2012 08:16 |
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With South Africans starting to return to work at the end of the holiday season, there’s nothing more likely to destroy the warm afterglow of a great trip overseas than coming home to an astronomical cellphone bill after being caught in the roaming trap.
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