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In the legal profession, planning for an appeal often begins as early as drafting the first complaint or answer in the initial suit ' and sometimes even before that. Because time is always of the essence in the judicial system, the ability to quickly move case information into a digital workflow is critical to maximizing the analysis time for each matter. Surprisingly, in this predominantly electronic business age, a majority of attorneys and judges are still behind the information technology curve. These legal professionals are drowning in a sea of tedious, costly and error-prone manual processes for creating, collecting and organizing case data.
Over the last decade, legal organizations have begun to reap the benefits of using computerized practice management systems. The only remaining drawback is document creation manually via hand typing. This process is painful (literally) and costly for highly paid legal professionals. Most people type at about 40 words per minute, but speak three or four times as fast. As a result, typing speed is usually a productivity bottleneck for anyone other than professional typists. Outsourcing this task to a transcriptionist may seem like the perfect solution. However, a traditional transcription workflow presents its own problems, including lengthy information turnaround time and added overhead expense. Last year, legal organizations spent over $5 billion for manual transcription services. On average, a single attorney or judge spends upwards of $20,000 per year to digitize case information. In times like these, reducing costs, unnecessary errors and providing better service to clients can be the key to your organization's success and profitability.
Cutting Transcription Costs
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Stranger to the Deed Rule
In 1987, a unanimous Court of Appeals reaffirmed the vitality of the "stranger to the deed" rule, which holds that if a grantor executes a deed to a grantee purporting to create an easement in a third party, the easement is invalid. Daniello v. Wagner, decided by the Second Department on November 29th, makes it clear that not all grantors (or their lawyers) have received the Court of Appeals' message, suggesting that the rule needs re-examination.