Today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire covers a document assembly application that integrates with Microsoft Office (see article below), an online backup and file sharing service, and two new document scanners. Don't miss the next issue.
Recycle Your Work Product
By Peter R. Olson
If you work in higher education with its publish or perish rigors, allegations of plagiarism can bring stiff consequences. But as a practicing attorney, recycling forms, pleadings, clauses, etc. from court files, colleagues, and even other law firms can get you a pat on the back from the managing partner and your client. In fact, some practices would not exist without the ability to recycle previous work product because of price-conscious clients.
PowerReuse 1.0 by SoftPowerHouse caters to the legal document recyclers among us. A document assembly tool, PowerReuse has two core features — Project File and Content Library. You group related Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files into the Project File, and then use clauses and data fields from the Content Library to build your documents.
When you open Microsoft Office files in PowerReuse, the PowerReuse Pane pops up, enabling you to access its tools. You can share projects with your colleagues. The Content Library features drag and drop, making it easy to insert text into documents. Switch between different files by using tabs for navigation.
You can store just about anything in the Content Library, including your biography, letter salutations, engagement letters, contract clauses, etc. Instead of searching through many files and then using copy and paste, PowerReuse enables you to see your saved clauses in a tree structure for easy manipulation and insertion into new documents.
PowerReuse creates data fields for storing all commonly-used information such as client name. If you change a field, PowerReuse makes the same change in all documents in the project.
PowerReuse 1.0 works with Microsoft Office 2003 or 2007 and costs $299 for a single-user license. You can try it for free for 30 days. Learn more about PowerReuse.
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