[blindlaw] Formatting Captions

[Laura Wolk]

Actually, not that it matters, but I don't think that's true.  I've
spoken to a large number of sighted friends and colleagues at
comparable firms and the government, and they don't delegate this sort
of thing to assistants.  Bigger projects, yes.  But putting a caption
on a brief?  It takes more time to send it off and wait for it to come
back than to do it yourself.  Like I said, I delegate without shame,
but I do think it's good to know when we're asking for things out of
the norm.

On 1/3/19, James T. Fetter via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Legal assistants routinely handle this sort of thing for sighted
> attorneys as well, so it should not be seen as an accommodation as such.
> Generally, they handle other kinds of formatting. In my admittedly
> limited experience, firms don't want attorneys billing clients for time
> spent fiddling with formatting. I'm not sure how this works in the
> public sector.
>
> On 1/3/2019 3:36 PM, Tai Tomasi via BlindLaw wrote:
>> I delegate this to my legal assistant.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: BlindLaw <blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of kelby carlson
>> via BlindLaw
>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 2:19 PM
>> To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: kelby carlson <kelbycarlson at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [blindlaw] Formatting Captions
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>> Do any of you know ways to quickly create and properly format captions for
>> use with motions and other court filings? Do you have secretaries do it? I
>> find this takes forever and interferes with the actual work I need to do.
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