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<b>The Place to Network:</b> Mentors Image

<b>The Place to Network:</b> Mentors

Olivia Fox Cabane

Mentors are people who can guide you, advise you, and share their experiences and their mistakes so you won't make the same ones. By visibly endorsing you, they can give you credibility; by bringing you to events with them, you'll gain visibility; and by introducing you to their contacts, they'll give you access. Visibility, credibility, and access ' mentors are important indeed.

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Lights, Camera, Preparation!

Kristin Vogt & Cheryl Riley

Television interviews are a great media opportunity for attorneys to take part in. Before heading to the studio though, there are many points to remember to ensure successful exposure for you and your firm. Preparation is the key factor and includes ex-pressions, clothing, attitude, and presentation, all of which has a large impact on the interview. If these items are not properly thought out in advance, the interview could quickly become a small disaster. There are certain steps to take prior to an on-air appearance to prepare for an in-terview that enhances your firm's awareness and your expertise.

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The Best of MLF 2005: Looking Back at the 'Benchmark' Year

Elizabeth Anne "Betiayn" Tursi

This month we present the last of highlights of The Best of MLF 2005. In this issue we will feature selected articles from August through November 2005.

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<b>Practice Tip:</b> Taking Conceptual Search to the Next Level

Bruce Blank

Conceptual search is widely regarded as a technological Rosetta stone enabling faster, more comprehensive, and more revealing evidence review, but its use in the legal community to date has been limited primarily to a handful of outsourced electronic discovery services. At Foley &amp; Lardner LLP, we realized early on that we could take full advantage of this advanced search technology only by bringing it in-house.

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Managing a Multi-Party, Multi-Purpose Native File Review

Allan L. Crawford

Nelson Mullins Riley &amp; Scarborough is a law firm based in Columbia, SC with more than 350 attorneys in offices in nine cities, including Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA. Active pursuit of new technology is one of the foundations of our paper discovery and ediscovery document management successes. The attorneys here are very adept at handling huge volumes of information that come from a variety of sources. They know how to use the latest and greatest technology to be able to quickly locate documents critical to a case. And they have the knowledge and experience to avoid any sort of procedural error unique to the online world that costs their clients time and money. <br>Back in December 2003, we were put to the test in using our technology and how that knowledge benefited our clients. This is the story behind that native review project.

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Scanning's a Snap With the Fujitsu ScanSnap

Alan Pearlman

The days of talking about the paperless office have been here and gone ' but one thing remains and that's the fact that you need to have a good, reliable scanner to do the job for you. I've looked at a lot of scanners in my day and as each one comes along the pros and cons are more and more becoming evident in them, however, I have found a good scanner at a reasonable price that is both reliable and easy to work with.

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Deadlines On Demand Simplifies Calendaring Juggling Act

Ross Veta

Practicing law has never been a problem for me or for the other attorneys at my firm; we're very confident of our skills as lawyers and our ability to properly serve clients. But keeping up with the administrative details of creating a solid, reliable calendaring system had become particularly labor intensive in our rapidly growing practice.

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Redefining Case Management Technology Within the Legal Market

M.W. "Whit" McIsaac

Today, the legal industry, including the landscape of law firms, corporate law departments, and government legal agencies, is in the midst of establishing a common definition for legal case management technology. While this is still a far cry from the existence of a case management "standard," it does signify a progression that is rapidly advancing the way we utilize technology in the practice of law.

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France on Track to Legalize Peer-to-Peer Downloading

Sam Fineman

France's lower house of parliament recently has voted to legalize peer-to-peer file-sharing of films and music on the Internet, unleashing a wave of protest from the country's film, audiovisual and music industry organizations.

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Internet Mom Strikes Back

Steven Salkin

Patricia Santangelo, a 43-year old divorced mother of five says she has never downloaded a single song on her computer, but the recording industry didn't see it that way. Santangelo, from Wappingers Falls, NY, was surprised to find out that she was the Defendant in a suit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) ' one of those now about 16,000 that we keep noting as the RIAA sues a new batch of alleged file sharers each month.

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