Avoid Attorneys Fees

It's very common to find court filings which use the term, "attorneys fees". Both "attorney's fees'" and "attorneys' fees" are acceptable, and there is some debate about which is preferred. See this post by Bryan Garner, in which he recommends "attorney's fees" as the better alternative.

For whatever reason, lawyers will commonly drop the apostrophe in this phrase, even though it would be hard to imagine failing to select the possessive form in most other phrases. See these examples:

NYSCEF Doc. No. 40, Defendant’s Memorandum Of Law In Opposition To Plaintiff’s Motion For Summary Judgment And In Support Of Defendant’s Cross Motion To Dismiss The Complaint, at 19, MEPT 757 Third Avenue LLC v. Hayim Grant, Index No. 653267/2020 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Feb. 5, 2021), available at: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=savtrt5UiETqLKmyJlsLQw==&system=prod

NYSCEF Doc. No. 25, Defendants’ Memorandum Of Law In Opposition To Plaintiff’s Motion For Summary Judgment, at 2, Atlantic Specialty Insurance Co. v. Party City Corp.., Index No. 652075/2020 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Oct. 7, 2020), available at: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/DocumentDisplayServlet?documentId=R10dYX1Lp1fF3dIuCab_PLUS_Qw==&system=prod

Correcting a mistake like this in a brief will undoubtedly win you credit with lawyers for whom attorney's fees are what it's all about.

Easily check out Bluetooth devices in your area

Don't miss another great free utility from Nirsoft: BlueToothView available here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/bluetooth_viewer.html will generate a list of bluetooth devices within range of your PC, and indicate which type of device they are - cellular phone and so on.

Script to download all images from a webpage

Note that the below PowerShell script works very well to download all of the images posted to a single web page.

Invoke-WebRequest https://help.relativity.com/RelativityOne/Content/Relativity_Legal_Hold/Legal_Hold_Settings.htm |

select -expand images |

select -expand src |

foreach { start-bitstransfer $("https://help.relativity.com/RelativityOne/Content/Relativity_Legal_Hold/{0}" -f $_) C:\foofolder}

List the url on the first line after 'Invoke-WebRequest', and then put just the path before the final htm file on the last line before {0} . End the script with the path to a folder on your own network.

As always, tried and tested tonight on my PC. Thanks to Chad Miller for posting this here.