My observation is that if there is one thing you like about lawyers, it is to repeat yourself. No, not when you speak (unless you walk through the office and repeat the same war story about your last court appearance to anyone who will listen); That`s when you write. You all recycle so many old documents from memoirs and other documents that it puts Ed Begley, Jr. to shame. It was the “good old days.” Only the legal system has suffered: courts and arbitration tribunals are less overburdened and fewer lawyers and construction experts make a living from construction disputes. The industry is now so mature that multi-million dollar construction contracts and architect-engineer contracts are entered into without either party consulting a lawyer. This does not necessarily have a negative impact on the economics of the legal profession. Instead, lawyers benefit when their clients face late delays, payment paid, waiver of privilege, compensation, written termination, and other clauses in their contracts that threaten serious economic and/or legal problems. This is where the staging area comes in.
Again, do not include this text directly in your new presentation. Trust me. It would be the legal equivalent of wetting Gizmo or feeding him after midnight. Instead, paste it into your empty “intermediate” document and work it there. The construction of a legal pleading (especially the appellate variant) is not for the faint of heart. Legal research and writing is hard enough (and thankfully not my job), but you didn`t feel frustrated until you were against a deadline, check your superficial table of authorities and find that ABC Corp. vs XYZ Ltd. appears on page 9 when, damn it`s not there. If you copy and paste the previous writing into your next project (and despite my best efforts, I can`t stop any of you), at least learn how to rid the text of all those nasty little codes that will end up making you work harder. Lizzie O`Shea talks to Australia`s top lawyers.
That takes us to the courts and to the places where our law was made. Disclaimer: These construction law briefs have been prepared to provide general legal information that is intended to be accurate, but not exhaustive®. These documents are published on the understanding that they do not provide legal advice or professional services. Accordingly, readers are urged to consult their lawyers for any specific legal advice they may wish to obtain regarding the subject matter of these documents. Neil Young QC and Ron Merkel QC clashed in a case of illegal speech, the case used the Racial Discrimination Act, and they are discussing this law and freedom of expression. In previous years, when a problem arose on the construction site, someone suggested that the owner pay one-third of the repair costs, the contractor one-third and the architect the other third. All three parties agreed, shook hands and construction continued. If you`re lucky, you can use CTRL-H and go straight to Find and Replace. If during Word installation, this particular keyboard shortcut was replaced with another feature, don`t worry. If CTRL-H doesn`t give you this result: Don`t leave the options yet – we still have one thing to check. Oh, and one more thing: wait until you`ve moved large blocks of text before you start noticing quotes. But that`s the subject of another post.
Briefs (the type contained in tables of contents and authority directories) pose a particular problem for unrepentant text recyclers: hidden text. If you don`t really know what you`re doing, all those quotes in your old briefing will come straight into your shiny new document and wreak all sorts of havoc. Lawyers Julian Burnside QC and SC Fiona McLeod QC explain how contracts work and how important the Amadio case is to change the way courts intervene in contracts. If you`re a copy-paste rock star, you already know that you can bypass these settings every time you paste using the drop-down menu under the Paste button on the Home tab, instead of always using CTRL-V as a noob. Thus, Microsoft Word hides all this information in the background (unless you press Show/Hide or ALT-F9, both of which hide this information). This inserts “^d” into the “Search what” field. What you`re doing here is asking Word to find any field (including, but not limited to, TOA and TOC field codes) and not replace it with anything (technically zero). And here`s the beauty of using a staging area to do this: in this limited text snippet (as opposed to a full briefing), you probably don`t have any other field features you need to keep (page numbers, cross-references, etc.), so you can replace them all and get them all at once; Otherwise, you need to click Find and then Replace repeatedly to review them on a case-by-case basis to see if Find and Replace can safely remove them. That`s why you also want the hidden text to be enabled first so you can see the codes before you delete them. Lawyer Peter Gordon reflects on the role of civil law and Australia`s first asbestos dust case.
Fiona Mcleod SC explains the corporate veil. Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Kirby, Justice Susan Kenny of the Federal Court of Australia and Justice Betty King of the Supreme Court of Victoria talk about the nature of law and justice, its fluid and changing state. You found this prose so compelling that you wrote once in an old briefing, and you want to use it again. So you pulled it up in Word, stopped for a moment to look at your genius (don`t lie, I know you did), then dragged your mouse over it to select it and pressed CTRL-C to copy it. If you want to insert large amounts of text from one or more other documents into your active document, you must first do three things: In the Find and Replace dialog box, click the More button at the bottom to expand the dialog box with more options.