It is a response to today’s economic situation and is intended to be a collection of cost-effective tips for technology in a law office. This thread will concentrate on how to do more with less. This post inaugurates a new thread for this blog – the technology-oriented “Cheap is Good but Free is Better!” thread. Words and Music by Tom Lavin, recorded by the Powder Blues Band. To Sir John, tonight I will be raising a glass of “Chateau Thames Embankment” and toasting his memory…and saying a quiet word of thanks for many many hours of enjoyment spent with my friend Horace Rumpole. John Mortimer QC was quoted by the NYT as being in the “schizoid business of being a writer who had barristering as a day job.” Budding writers would do well to follow his example and ‘live your life with your arms wide open, for your book is still unwritten’. Rumpole set the standard for the trodden, but not beaten, barrister – who continues to hold his head high notwithstanding all the vicissitudes of life. Horace Rumpole, the consumate British barrister who was never destined to be awarded a well-deserved “ QC – Queen’s Counsel” designation, lived large in the pages of the books written by Mortimer, forever quoting his lifelong mantra: “Never plead guilty!” Rumpole lived for the law, he never compromised his ethics and he sought justice when lesser lawyers would have taken an easier path.įollowing his days fighting Judge Bullingham in the Old Bailey, smoking his small cigars, he would return to his mansion flat at 25B Froxbury Court to be greeted by: “She Who Must be Obeyed” namely his wife Hilda, herself the daughter of a prominent QC and the former Head of Chambers where Horace practices. I was greatly saddened today to read in the New York Times of the passing of John Mortimer QC, the creator of Rumpole of the Bailey. Words and music by Natasha Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, Wayne Rodriguez, recorded by Natasha Bedingfield. I would certainly welcome you to NeoOffice and the whole OpenDocument movement with arms wide open! For anyone setting up a law office today, I would certainly recommend that they try NeoOffice or OpenOffice before they shell out $$ for a proprietary word processing office suite. But from my venturing into the Text editor – it has styles (that seem easier to use than Word’s), it has a mail merge feature, autotext and all the other bells and whistles that I look for in a full featured word processor.Īccordingly, I am placing NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for PC) in the “Cheap is Good but Free is Better!” category (since it is unbelieveably all free, being open source) as well as the “Make it Work!” category. I haven’t ventured to use the Spreadsheet or Database or Presentation components so far. It seemed clean and simple to use and certainly less annoying than Word and Word’s tendancies to constantly reformat my document, thinking that it knows what I want to do better than I. I am now wondering if NeoOffice (and OpenOffice for the PC world) is now a viable alternative to acquiring Microsoft’s Office suite.Ĭertainly I was impressed when using the NeoOffice word processor. Furthermore, NeoOffice is the Mac version of Sun’s OpenOffice initiative. The OpenDocument format is one way of getting around the pesky problem of incompatible word processing formats and is to be appaluded. It will offer the option to make ODF 1.1, as well as PDF, the default format, both in the installer and via options settings, while support for their own pending ISO 29500, based on the Office 2007 format, won’t be implemented until Office 14.” Wikipedia states: “On Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will add native support for the OpenDocument Format. But WordPerfect will open and save to OpenDocument format so perhaps the future is to adopt OpenDocument as a new standard. You can save documents in Word, OpenDocument Text, Rich Text, StarWriter and others – but alas, not native WordPerfect. NeoOffice is “a full-featured set of office applications (including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing, and database programs) for Mac OS X.” The good news is that it can open WordPerfect documents (and Word, OpenDocument Text, Rich Text, StarWriter and others.) with ease. What to do? Mark Robertson, a fellow Mac lawyer in Oklahoma (and co-author of “Winning Alternatives to the Billable Hour” published by the ABA) who happened to be on my left-elbow at the time, said: “Try NeoOffice”. ![]() Furthermore, there is no current version of WordPerfect available for a Mac. As you all know, Microsoft Word does not open WordPerfect documents, even on the Mac. Recently I was given a book written in WordPerfect to review. Words and Music by: Scott Stapp/ Mark Tremonti, recorded by Creed.
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