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Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting’s Fun Legal Fact of the Week is here to help you get through the work week by sharing a random fact.  It can be about a state law, regulation, and more!

Legal Fact of the Week: The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act

The 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act was came about since it was piece of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. The sole purpose of the Nursing Home Reform Act was to make certainty that residents of of Nursing Homes got good care.

This goal also made it clear that Nursing Residents’s physical, mental, and psycho-social conditions would be maintain as best as possible. Additionally, this Reform Act required Nursing Home Services to be govern.

Here at Elizabeth Gallo, we love to explore apps to help create balance for our clients and colleagues working in the Legal Industry. Thus, we understand while maintaining our personal agendas, work can throw us some curve balls as part of the process. These surprises can catch us off guard, for example, having a client who does not speak the same language as you. Today, we explore an app to help any Legal Professional with these last minute issues.

This week’s Legal app is Speak and Translate

Speak and Translate is a voice and voice to text translator. This app is quite particularly useful since it can be use offline. However, it only translate up 10 languages offline. Otherwise, this app can translate up to 117 languages in text and 54 for voice.

Additionally, the app saves all of your translation if needed for reference. Speak and Translate also features Apple Speech Recognition, which is how it can save all your history and synchronizes across all of your Apple devices.

Speak and Translate is available to download for all iOs products for $19.99.

Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting’s Fun Legal Fact of the Week is here to help you get through the work week by sharing a random fact.  It can be about a state law, regulation, and more!

Legal Fact of the Week: Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed on October 12, 1998 by U.S Senate. Then Act was officially signed into law by President Clinton on October 28th, 1998. The purpose of this act was to create tough standards on Copyright issues.

For example, if an item is passed around without approval, it is seen as a crime. This law also increases the punishment for Copyright violations made on the internet.

At Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting, we will create a series on offering great Pro-Tips. These suggestions will overlook a variety of popular programs in the Legal field. To be more specific, EGCR will go over ways to efficiently use programs like Adobe Acrobat.

Today’s Elizabeth Gallo Court Reporting Tip is:

How to Easily Insert a Signature onto a PDF Document

Step One: Open Adobe Reader

Step Two: Once the program is open, go to the upper right corner. Click on Fill & Sign. 

Step Three: A screen will pop-up, make sure to click on Type My Signature.

Step Four: Type your name in the box provided, which is labeled Enter Your Name. Click Accept

Step Five: Place Your Signature where it needs to be in the PDF document.

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