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Your personal computer skills are an important part of life-long learning and your efficient practice of law in the future.

You should possess minimal proficiencies using a personal computer and software applications. These proficiencies include:

The ability to use the Internet to find and retrieve information including: locating an Internet site given a URL; navigating between information sources; doing basic searches using a major Internet search service; and submitting information via on-line forms.
The ability to use electronic mail as a form of communication including: sending an e-mail when given an e-mail address; responding to an e-mail; sending e-mail to a group of individuals; and sending and receiving attachments as part of an e-mail.
The ability to use a word processing program to create and edit documents including: creating a new document; editing an existing document; changing the format of text; and changing margins, page orientation, and other elements of page layout.
The ability to use an operating system including: copying or moving a file to or from removable media; finding files or folders on a local hard drive; and creating a sub-directory (folder).

Take a quick basic computer skills self-assessment. The results are only for you. Nothing will be reported to the host site or me.

"Ninety-five percent of the world's information is being generated and stored in digital form and more than half of the business documents created today never become paper records. They never get printed out. They never leave the digital domain. They never find their way into the files produced to you in response to request for production." Craig Ball--vcr, p.9

The practice of law has already reached the point in this decade that a lawyer's lack of understanding about computer forensics and electronic discovery skills is ineffective practice.

Answer the questions below then click "submit"


		Yes	No

1	Are you willing to accept an answer from the respondent when he doesn't know what he is supposed to be looking for?

2	Can you effectively cross-examine a computer expert if you know little about the field?

3	Do you understand the meaning of JK9xq77o934ghJ1137..s.92 ?