ABA TECHSHOW.blogThe Latest Information About ABA TECHSHOW - The World's Premier Legal Technology ConferenceMetadata- January 27, 2006 Metadata is a hot topic in the legal field right now -- heck, it's a hot topic in a lot of fields; this article on Document Security 101 (http:blogs.washingtonpost.comsecurityfix200512document_securi.html) shows how a little bit of information left in the metadata can embarrass or cause harm. And it's usually not the technology that's causing the problem -- it's more likely to be user error. It's also something to think about from an ethical standpoint -- This month's Eye on Ethics...http://www.techshow.com/blog/012706.html Acrobat Power Tip -- The Properties Bar- January 18, 2006 When you add information to a PDF file using Adobe Acrobat you are, for present purposes, adding a Comment. A Comment being Adobe-speak for notes, free text boxes, lines, shapes, etc. (the things you find on the Drawing Markups toolbar). As you might expect, all comments have attributes that we in the Windows world have come to know as Properties (nothing like Property that you studied in the first year of law school). For example, a line has properties that define its color, thickness, how.http://www.techshow.com/blog/011806.html How Not to Commit Paperless Malpractice- January 18, 2006 At ABA TECHSHOW, we talk quite a bit about the "paperless office." Indeed, the idea of being able to free up shelf and storage space by converting your client files to digital format has great appeal to many lawyers. But as with all great ideas, there are some caveats; namely, the ethical issues you should consider before going paperless. Fortunately, the folks at ABA's Eye on Ethics discuss this question in a recent article, "Client Files: From Paper to Kilobytes."...http://www.techshow.com/blog/010506.html |