Where to Begin:
You don't have to be a member to read the forum, but if you want to participate in the conversations you'll have to register. You can register here:
Court Forum - Lawyer Forum & Legal Advice Forums - Forum Rules . It's free, and only takes a moment or two. If you don't get your email confirmation, check your spambox.
When you're all registered, and ready to post:
We'd love a chance to say hello and learn a bit about you, if you're not too shy to introduce yourself. Just visit the Newbies board and start a new thread to say hello, and tell us who you are and get to know some of the other members.
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Basics of Posting:
To start a new thread, you just click the button that says "New Thread" -- it's towards the top, on the left side of your screen.
It looks like this:
To participate in a conversation that already has a thread, just go all the way to the bottom and click "Post Reply,"
It looks like this:
Or if you scroll down just a bit more, you can type directly into the "Quick Reply" box at the bottom of the thread.
If you'd like to respond to one particular post out of many, you should quote it. Just click the "Quote" button at the bottom of the post you're responding to.
It looks like this:
If you want to respond to several posts, you can use the multi-quote button, then click "Post Reply," and they'll all be automatically quoted in your reply box, when you click "Post Reply."
It looks like this:
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BASIC USER CONTROL PANEL (CP) SETTINGS: Edit Signature: Your signature, if you choose to have one, appears on every post you make.
Edit Email & Password: If you want to subscribe to a thread (to get notification of replies), get reminders for calendar events, or get an e-mail when you have new Private Messages on the board, the system needs to know where to send mail.
Edit Profile: Here's where you can put in a bio, link, photo, etc.
Edit Options: Here, you can decide to be invisible (mods can see through invisibility), turn off images if you're on dial-up and the pages load too slowly, choose whether or not to let people e-mail you, whether or not you want to get e-mail notification if someone sends you a private message, etc.
Edit Avatar: Your allowed to upload your own custom avatar.
Edit Profile Picture: You can upload a picture of yourself here. People will see it when they click your username and go to your profile.
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