[blindlaw] Formatting Captions

kelby carlson kelbycarlson at gmail.com
Fri Jan 4 00:19:48 UTC 2019


Part of the issue is that in my office captions are put at the top of each page of a motion rather than just at the beginning. (Incidentally this also makes scrolling through our documents more challenging than it would normally be.)

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> On Jan 3, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Laura Wolk via BlindLaw <blindlaw at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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>>> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 2:19 PM
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>>> 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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