<b>Product Review:</b> Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition v4.63
At a firm the size of Becker & Poliakoff, with more than 110 attorneys dispersed among 15 different offices throughout Florida, plus international and affiliate offices in Europe, the Middle East and China, the willingness to embrace technology and technological innovations has been a proven key to our ability to provide cost effective, high quality legal services to our clients. That's why we were very pleased when Equitrac introduced the latest version (v4.63) of its Equitrac Professional Enterprise Edition. Its ability to automatically synchronize Equitrac's cost-recovery solution with our time-and-billing software made integration seamless and has dramatically improved cost recovery at our firm.
Intelligent e-Discovery Search Practices
As more documentation finds its way into an electronic format, companies must take into account the cost of producing and analyzing them in the discovery process. In particular, firms must address fundamental ways they conduct their pre-trial deliberations to remain in-step with recent judicial rulings and technological advances. <br>Ballooning sets of electronic files bring escalating costs as well as new priorities for managing them.
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Methods of Effective Document Selection in Law Firms
The saying "garbage in, garbage out" is often familiar to computer users. It means that computer systems are only as good as the information provided to them. The saying is a reminder of how important proper document selection is for any document retrieval system a firm chooses to deploy.
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Implementing Matter-Centric Architectures in Document Management Systems
Several issues face those migrating from traditional document management systems to Matter-Centric Content Management Architectures. This first part of a two-part will series will review some of the key ones for IT professionals.
News Briefs
Highlights of the latest franchising news from around the country.
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No Harm to Franchisees When Franchisor Acquires Competitor
It is becoming increasingly common for franchise companies to acquire their competitors. Predictably, the franchisees of the acquired system often will feel threatened and take legal action.
7-Eleven's Development of a New Franchise Agreement: Critique of the Effort and Results ' Recommendations
The first two installments discussed how 7-Eleven, Inc. ("7-Eleven" or the "Company") planned for and developed a new franchise agreement to offer to all of its 3400 franchised stores in the United States. In this final article, we will critique the results by analyzing the final terms and discussing the principal issue that was not resolved to all parties' satisfaction. We will also discuss two important issues that must be resolved in any such undertaking and the Company's approach to them, as well as provide recommendations for future efforts of this nature.
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IP News
Highlights of the latest intellectual property news from around the country.
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