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Bridgeway Software, Inc. has added two new e-invoicing services to enhance its eCounsel product. These new Bridgeway services offer the choice of using either secure Web transport or flexible and simple e-mail to receive invoices. Both eCounsel Cost Management services enable corporate legal departments to receive invoices electronically from law firms directly into eCounsel, reducing processing time and eliminating manual data entry. Bridgeway's Web e-invoicing solution occurs as the result of a strategic partnership between Bridgeway and Tripoint Systems Development Corporation. Bridgeway will offer DirectInvoice, tightly integrated with eCounsel, as its premier Web e-invoicing service to enhance its cost management solution. This option not only provides a secure and comprehensive system to track and manage legal invoices, but also enhances eCounsel's capabilities in workflow approval, invoice auditing, data analysis and AP integration. For more information, please visit http://www.bridge-way.com/.
Client Profiles has announced the release of a completely redesigned scanning interface for its Case and Financial Management systems, available for current subscribers as a patch to Version 6. The new imaging system allows users to scan and profile documents for multiple matters, collaborate on scanned documents using the new 'scanned document review workflow process,' and export multiple individual scanned pages into a single multi-page .TIF document.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.