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Who’s Courtney? And Is She Helpful?
On 10 September 2024, the first ever audio-visual legal library – demonstrating the key hearings and processes in English financial family law – arrived. Twenty years after YouTube landed, it is now possible to view the practical activity within an FDR, for example. Unlike the well-known digital libraries supplied by the international publishing giants, this library is available to all, not just those within/studying the law.
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!27/09/2024 08:00
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Tech Corner: Ethical AI for Family Lawyers
A conversation between Kay Firth-Butterfield and Rhys Taylor.
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!01/07/2024 07:00
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Tech Corner: Twenty Simple Excel Tips for Financial Remedy Practitioners
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program for presenting formatted numbers and for performing calculations on them. It also offers basic text-editing for labelling and for explaining any figures and calculations.
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!13/03/2024 07:00
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Tech Corner: Everybody QWERTs – A Guide to Mechanical Keyboards
Oh, I’ve got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here After several issues worth of useful content, here I am again. This time I’ve abandoned all caution and decided to focus on the last thing you might consider…
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!03/07/2023 08:00
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Tech Corner: Choosing Tech that Will Transform the Way You Work
Non-essential office tech that can transform your work. How to sort the tech needs from the tech thneeds.The Lorax, you’ll know exactly what I mean, if not: ‘A thing that is not required yet is purchased in great amounts anyways’ (www.ur…
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!27/03/2023 09:51
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Tech Corner: Thoughts from the Home Office (No, Not that One)
When we first went into lockdown in 2020, like everyone else, I was concerned by an unfamiliar world. One where you couldn’t go outside, had to cook more and work from home. Then I looked around my then kitchen dining room and thought, ‘Hang o…
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!17/10/2022 10:47
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Tech Corner: iPad Pro (2021) Review, Or, as a Solicitor, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love a Tablet
For as long as I can remember, an in-person attendance with family finance practitioners at the Bar has always been the first place for me to see the latest Apple releases in the wild. With apologies to younger readers who may not get the reference, I sti…
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!06/07/2022 07:14
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Tech Corner: The Remarkable 2, for Family Lawyers?
We date ourselves with our I.T. My generation grew up on the ZX Spectrum, 48K. The noise of Jet Set Willy loading on a cassette tape is an iconic sound of my childhood. I graduated without ever having owned a PC. Hershman & McFarlane was famously birthed on a pair of Amstrad word processors. Mostyn, then a junior barrister, imagined the Form E into existence with an IBM PS/2 (720KB).
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!01/04/2022 05:54