Legal Commentary

Saturday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn

I'm on assignment. Actually, I'm having a lot of fun trying to create a new kind of hearing notebook for a suppression hearing this week.

There are so many cases on traffic stops that end with purported consents to search and seizure of vast quantities of drugs, that it's hard to keep them all straight. Printing them out and sticking them in a file is not going to help me find the one I need as I'm arguing. [More...]

So, I'm experimenting with Adobe Organizer/Portfolio in 9.0 and Wordperfect Lightning. I'm putting a note with a colored graphic of a thumbs up or thumbs down and a case summary at the top, followed by the actual opinion, which has my yellow highlighting on the important parts. Then it's off to Kinkos to print them on a color printer and put them in a notebook.

Since this will take me about 48 hours to complete (I started last night) I have no time to blog tonight.

What are you all finding interesting this weekend? And if you have a better way to make the notebook, please let me know.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).