So you’re a Florida lawyer and you want to practice as an entity. What are your choices? Can you be a corporation under Florida Statutes Chapter 607 or a limited liability company under Florida Statutes Chapter 608? No, you need to be a professional service corporation (P.A.) or professional limited liability company (P.L.) under...
I have drafted many legal forms in my law practice and have published many of them in book form through West Publishing. Back in the days of standalone word processors and WordPerfect DOS, we could easily set the forms up to merge specific client...
Florida lawyer Jim Martin provides legal advice on a full range of legal matters involving Florida law. He is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell and is listed in Who’s Who. His undergraduate experience at Georgia Tech and Stetson University concentrated on science, mathematics and computer...
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Copyright 2006-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved My law office has been scanning documents for years, but only recently has available technology provided the ability to scan thousands of pages of valuable documents as images on a portable storage device. While the...
Copyright 2003-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Published in The Florida Bar News, Sep 15, 2003 Published in ALI-ABA CLE Review, December 26, 2003 Now that you have a fancy scanner, you can’t resist digitizing every scrap of paper that arrives or departs your...
MICROSOFT WORD TIPS AND HINTS FOR LAWYERS Copyright 2003-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Microsoft Word Hints for Lawyers Tables Forms Find & Replace File Names Paragraph Numbering How to insert tabs into a table: Ctrl-Tab (Otherwise, tabbing goes to next cell.)...
Copyright 2006-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Should I scan my closed paper files as PDF or TIFF electronic files? The federal courts have chosen PDF as the format for electronic filing. Scanner ads tout their capability of scanning directly to PDF. ...
Copyright 2006-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Published in ALI-ABA, The Practical Lawyer, American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Oct 2007 So, you scanned all the papers in those client files of yours, converting them into electronic files on your computer, and now...
Copyright 2009-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Published in ALI-ABA The Practical Lawyer, American Law Institute -American Bar Association, April 2009 I don’t know about your law office, but in mine email carries 90% of what comes in and 90% of what...
Copyright 2006-2011 by James W. Martin. All rights reserved. Published in ALI-ABA The Practical Lawyer, American Law Institute-American Bar Association, April 2007 Published in The Florida Bar News, Nov 1, 2006, as ”Converting from Paper to Electronic Files” Originally titled “How to Convert from Paper to...
