Sacramento Lawyer welcomes your article and report submissions, subject to selection and editing for space and clarity. The editors have no typing assistant, so please submit anything two sentences or longer by e-mail or disk. Your patience with our editing and publishing constraints is appreciated.

When To Submit
The deadline for each issue is approximately six weeks in advance of publication. The deadline for the October 2001 issue is August 15, 2001.

Where To Submit
Feature articles go directly to the editor at stonej@saccourt.com, with copies to stonej48@yahoo.com and christopher.krueger@doj.ca.gov. Courthouse Steps announcements, event calendar items, section reports, affiliate reports, and section officer biographies and photos for the annual section directory go to Ellen Harbawi-Ochsner, Harbawe@saccourt.com.

Display ads go to Ellen Harbawi-Ochsner. Member classified ads go to Niesha Fort, nfort@sacbar.org. Surfing from River City items go to Shirley David, sdavid@saclaw.lib.ca.us. Or give disks, photos and camera-ready art to Niesha Fort at the SCBA office.

How To Submit - Dos and Don'ts
Do Save As a WordPerfect 5.1 document, giving a ".WP" document name extension; and make the document an attachment to the message. If you cannot Save As .WP, Save As a Rich Text Format (.RTF) document. Only as a last resort should you attach a copy in your word processor's native format.

Additionally, do Edit/Select All/Copy and Paste the document text into the body of your e-mail message. The Pasted text helps because e-mail software can delete attachments and word processing conversion attempts can fail.

Do submit documents containing text only. Bold or italic text is OK.

Do request, in words set off by triple asterisks, any special formatting you need, such as indenting a passage. Do-it-yourself formatting, like self-help in legal matters, takes extra work to undo; and the editors are not paid for this extra work.

Do begin your paragraphs with two hard returns only, and try to separate your sentences with one space only. Our graphic designer's software looks for the pair of hard returns, interprets it as a paragraph break, and adds its own indent. Your tab characters and extra spaces cause extra work.

Do attach any electronic photos, drawings or other graphics to your e-mail as graphics files with names ending in ".TIF," ".JPG," or the like. If you have a scanned image and a clean hard-copy original, send both.

Don't send a document with centering, tabs, paragraph indents, bulleted lists, paragraph styles, underlining, font changes, title styles, margin changes, columns, tabulations, tables, footnotes, text boxes, or other formatting devices. Sacramento Lawyer's graphic designer does the formatting. Your formatting codes cause extra work.

Don't embed pictures in the document. They won't get printed, and they cause extra work.

Don't send a document in MS-Works. Paste the text instead.

Don't use ALL CAPS LIKE THIS. They cause extra work.

Articles and other work submitted to Sacramento Lawyer become the copyrighted property of the Sacramento County Bar Association. Returns of tangible items such as photographs are by permission of the Executive Director only, by pickup at the SCBA office only.