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2010 Updates
We will ship the big midyear Judicial Council Forms and local forms update in June. We will also ship a similar end of year update in December. And, we will provide necessary updates for the full 2010 California legislative cycle.

Additionally, we will continue our commitment to provide you updates to ProDoc forms as agency changes and case law changes dictate. Finally, we will ship form changes we make as a result of customer suggestions as well as enhancements we make in both ProDoc and our automated forms.

May Update
We will provide you updates to the following volumes:

• Attorney-Client Matters – We're updating four attorney fee agreement forms pursuant to California Rule of Professional Conduct 3-410, allowing for the disclosure of personal liability insurance to the client.
• Business Transactions Solution - We're updating the Directors’, Officers’ and Principal Shareholders’ Questionnaire form.
• Family Law – We're adding 29 new mandatory local forms from various counties for alternative dispute resolution, mediation, and fee statements of the mediator or arbitrator. We're also updating 36 other local forms for various counties. Finally, we're updating the FL 685, Response to Governmental Notice or Motion or Order to Show Cause (Gov) form to allow it to be assembled by either petitioner or respondent.
  
• Conservatorship – We're updating two forms in this volume: minor changes in one form concerning the person signing the document and a minor change to another regarding the reference to a limited conservator.
  
• Criminal Defense – We're updating five local forms pursuant county updates. We're also adding 10 new mandatory local forms; seven for Yuba County, one for Orange County, one for Riverside County, and one for Amador County.
  
• Federal Civil Litigation – We're updating seven forms, including two Administrative Office forms with minor changes pursuant to the AO update. Three other changes are pursuant to Central District of California updates. We're removing one Southern District of California form and replacing it with a similar form.
• Federal Criminal Defense – We're revising the 10-027a form, Waiver of Rule 5 and 5.1 Hearings (AO Form 466A) pursuant to an Administrative Office update
• Guardianships – We're updating two local forms.
• Juvenile Law – We're updating one updated local form and tweaking the assembly logic in the proof of service forms.
• Landlord and Tenant – We're adding 10 new forms, including various Memorandums of Costs, a 30 day notice to quit, and two new mandatory local forms. We're also updating five local forms.
• Lipman's Will & Trusts - We're updating more than 100 forms in eight major categories of changes.
• Litigation – We're updating 10 local forms and tweaking the assembly logic in one form. We're also adding 21 new mandatory local forms.
• Probate – We're updating 59 local forms, added one new form, and we're tweaking the assembly logic in two forms.  We're also removing one retired form.
  
• Real Estate – We're updating 198 local forms. The updates are primarily to local forms regarding Change of Ownership statements and various claim forms. We're also making minor assembly logic fixes to five forms.
  
• Worker’s Compensation – We're updating one local form and deleting thirteen Vocational Rehabilitation forms that are obsolete.
• ProDoc/SOS Database Enhancement - We will also release a database enhancement to make your ProDoc more stable and reliable.

March WebUpdates
The WebUpdate we released in March was:

• Lipman’s Wills & Trusts – We added the new 60-3 form – a memorandum to send to clients regarding estate tax repeal and the impact on their plans. We also revised the transmittal letter (form 60-1) with minor grammatical changes.

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Q: I have the ProDoc Wills & Trusts package.  I want to get rid of the page break that leaves spaces between sections.  Can you help me with this?
A: We will release an update soon that contains formatting changes to the Lipman’s Wills & Trusts volume that solve this problem for you.

Q: When are we going to be able to sync SOS with a blackberry, iPhone or other Windows-based phone?
A: We had hoped to release an SOS update this summer that enables SOS to sync with Microsoft® Outlook. If your smart phone syncs with Outlook, you would then be able to sync your device with SOS using Outlook as the intermediary. Unfortunately, we're having to delay that feature until early next year.

Q: When will you have forms that are compatible with Mac and Mac software?
A: (We are asked this question every month so we repeat the question, or a variation of it, monthly.) We are working now to develop a web-based version of ProDoc that runs on any operating system. Watch for that feature to debut around mid-2011. Mac users will be able to use the web-based version while PC-based users will be able to continue with the present computer/server-based version if they wish. We have tested and verified that ProDoc runs on a Mac using Parallels™ and a Microsoft Windows® operating system.

Q: The font on the Declaration Under UCCJEA form is always small and I cannot get it to change.
A: The default font size for documents like the UCCJEA (we call them "graphic" forms since they are not word processor forms) is 10 point. You can change the default font size for this and all other graphic forms (including all JCFs and local forms) quite easily. Open ProDoc. Click on Customize ›Options › Graphic Forms. On the ensuing window you can reset your preferred font typeface and size. Be sure to click OK before leaving that window.

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ProDoc Customer Support: Printing ProDoc Forms Lists
Even experienced ProDoc users are often surprised to find out that forms they assumed were not in ProDoc are actually in there. With the hundreds, and maybe thousands, of ProDoc automated forms available to you, perhaps you too find yourself overwhelmed with the task of finding the form you need in ProDoc. We do provide a form-find feature in ProDoc but many users report that they prefer to print their own copies of the forms lists. So, we invite you to learn how to print ProDoc forms lists.

Learn the different ways to print ProDoc forms lists >>

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If your firm uses Thomson Reuters®' Elite® Calendar Manager product, a new feature enables it to integrate with your Microsoft Outlook Calendar. Elite Calendar Connect for Microsoft Outlook 5.0 enables you to view your litigation docket in Outlook and on your smart phone after syncing the data. You can also configure Calendar Connect so you receive only the events pertinent to your cases.

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