Picking a PC amid plunging prices. (includes 12th annual legal software and technology directory)

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Computers and components have become much cheaper and more readily available, which has also meant a change in consumers buying habits, with more concern about bargains than about the latest software technology. Both large-firm attorneys wanting to put in extra hours at home and sole practitioners anxious to set up a home practice can benefit from this buyer's market. An introductory course in how computers run and on what equipment the novice will need is offered, as is the 12th annual legal software and technology directory.

Microcomputers, Equipment and supplies, Technology application, Law offices, Directory, Home offices

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Buying the best; corporations, firms with shortage of experienced lawyers up the ante to sign on top candidates

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Money and incentives are the most appealing benefits a corporation or law firm trying to recruit candidates can offer, and intellectual property, commercial real estate law involved with large transactions, and international law among the legal specialties where this is especially true. People skills are important to businesses hiring corporate counsel, and these tend to reject the purely scholarly type. Law firms' legal staff was depleted when the recession of the early 1990s stopped hiring.

Methods, Attorneys, Lawyers, Employee recruitment, Employment

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Spin your own web; there's no standing in line to get your services online

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Setting up your own Web site has never been easier, as the vast increases in numbers of such sites shows. 'Creating Web Pages for Dummies' is a helpful book to read, and www.whatis.com and www.builder.com are Web sites offering tutorials. Claris HomePage and Microsoft's FrontPage and FrontPage Express are retail software on the subject. Starting with a personal Web site and planning before constructing are useful commonsense rules.

Design and construction, Web sites, Web site design

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