August 17, 2010
EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT CLOUD COMPUTING
Previously:
The Sad State Of Law Office Software
Law Office Case Management In The Cloud
Advologix Practice Management
Postscript On Cloud Computing
Larry Port, founding partner of Rocket Matter, dropped by the news page yesterday and gently suggested that Rocket Matter is actually a fine name for a law office practice management program. (He might be right. It does have the advantage of using words in the English language, which seems hard to come by for new products these days.)
It drew my attention to a short collection of articles that can be […] continued
August 9, 2010
ADVOLOGIX PRACTICE MANAGEMENT
Previously:
The Sad State Of Law Office Software
Law Office Case Management In The Cloud
I called Deepa Patel of Halak Consulting looking for a LexisNexis Certified Independent Consultant in the Bay Area who could help whip a client’s Time Matters installation into shape. The conversation quickly turned to the new product that she is also trained to handle, the one to which she has committed her own office and is clearly excited about.
Within a week I was looking at a demo of AdvologixPM and feeling my own sense of excitement about […] continued
August 5, 2010
LAW OFFICE CASE MANAGEMENT IN THE CLOUD
Previously:
The Sad State Of Law Office Software
I’m going to work up to specific products, but let’s start with the concept of storing valuable, confidential data in the cloud, on servers run by some big company.
As a lawyer in a small firm, think of the scariest example you can imagine – say, your highly sensitive letter to a client outlining the risks in your litigation strategy, or notes on the phone conversation with a client where she confessed to killing Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick. Save the file as a Word document on […] continued
August 2, 2010
THE SAD STATE OF LAW OFFICE SOFTWARE
Almost every law office winds up using some kind of specialized line-of-business software. For most types of law, especially litigation, that means case management software designed to bring all the information about a matter into a single place – the contacts (client, opposing counsel, insurance agents, witnesses, deponent), the case calendar and deadlines, phone conversations, billing records, and if possible, links to documents and email.
In some respects those are just variations on the kinds of records that are tracked by many kinds of businesses. There is a certain comfort in having labels that are specific to your work, […] continued
April 27, 2010
REDACTION DANGER
In December the Transportation Security Administration released its airport security screening procedure guidelines with redactions that failed to remove the underlying text. (Boing Boing: “Unfortunately, the security geniuses at the DHS don’t know that drawing black blocks over the words you want to eliminate from your PDF doesn’t actually make the words go away, and can be defeated by nefarious al Qaeda operatives through a complex technique known as ctrl-a/ctrl-c/ctrl-v.”) It has happened over and over in lawsuits and releases by high profile government agencies.
So it’s hardly a surprise to see another story in the news […] continued
April 17, 2010
SEARCHING AND MARKING MULTIPLE WORDS IN A PDF
Law offices and small businesses are using Acrobat very aggressively to archive email folders and preserve business documents. Lawyers are more likely now to handle case documents onscreen with PDF files than to touch real paper.
The Acrobat For Legal Professionals blog has a tip today that could be invaluable for law professionals with a certain amount of Acrobat expertise: how to search case documents for words or phrases and mark the terms so they can be reviewed later.
It involves an unexpected use of the redaction tool. Legal professionals should take a look – it’s one […] continued
November 23, 2009
ONLINE LEGAL RESEARCH TOOLS
Lawyers will be paying subscription fees to Lexis-Nexis and West for years to come, but there are some signs that legal information also wants to be free.
Last week Google announced that Google Scholar now has a dedicated search for full-text legal opinions from federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts. The results apparently include California Supreme Court and Court of Appeals cases. The cases are presented in a consistent, easy to read format, and page numbers are included for official citations. Each case includes a separate tab with a list of cases citing the […] continued
November 9, 2009
LEXISNEXIS KILLS BILLING MATTERS
Billing Matters, the LexisNexis law office billing and accounting program, was killed last week. This was circulated Thursday and appeared in the TechnoLawyer newsletter.
"Effective September 1, Billing Matters® will be placed in maintenance mode. During maintenance mode, LexisNexis will continue to resolve known issues and provide technical support in accordance with our standard practices, but no new features or functionality will be added. Billing Matters will continue to be released in conjunction with new versions of Time Matters until Billing Matters is sunset on 12/31/2013. Existing users of Billing Matters will continue to have access to update versions
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September 13, 2009
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACROBAT VERSIONS
Everyone who uses Acrobat might be interested in the charts prepared for the blog Acrobat For Legal Professionals. The first shows the features of the various versions of Acrobat 9 – Reader, Standard, Professional, and Professional Extended – with a focus on features useful to lawyers.
The chart below is even more useful. It compares Adobe versions 8 and 9, with a note on each feature that was added or changed in each version compared to version 7. If you’re working in an office, you probably need the full version of Acrobat; if you’re using version […] continued
December 24, 2008
COMPLAINT FOR XMAS DAMAGES
Plaintiffs, consisting of the class of all children who on or about Dec. 24, 2008 were hanging stockings by the chimney with care in the reasonable belief that St. Nicholas soon would be there, sue defendant and allege:
1. This is an action for an accounting, damages and injunctive relief.
2. Upon information and belief, defendant is a citizen and resident of the North Pole, where he maintains his principal place of business. The court has subject matter jurisdiction of the amount pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 1332.
Count I: Breach of Contract.
Throughout the fall of 2008, plaintiffs met […] continued