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What sets it apart is that Patterns uses the results of concept analysis to organize a set of documents into a structured visual snapshot of the documents and how they relate to one another.

The increasingly familiar category of "Matter Management" is a niche area in the world of legal technology that has attracted more interest from in-house legal departments and their outside law firms in recent years. It's a category with humble beginnings and dynamic changes ' both in terms of the companies that develop the software and in terms of the features enjoyed by the users.
This article takes a brief look at the origins and evolution of matter management technology, and then offer a provocative assessment of what the future holds. Ultimately, it challenges members of the legal technology community to think about what will become more important: fancy technology or software that's easy to use?

What is the common denominator connecting you, your firm, clients, and most of us on the planet today? e-Mail. Today, your practice depends on this technology…

As increasing numbers of law firms realize the benefits of electronic filing. And as more and more courts encourage ' and in many cases mandate ' its use ' law firms are moving quickly to adopt practices in order to prepare for ' and take full advantage of ' the e-filing revolution.

Delaware, with over 500,000 domestic corporations, LLCs and other entities ' including more than 50% of the country's publicly traded corporations and 58% of the Fortune 500 ' is without question the leading formation state in the country. According to the "Delaware's Business Entity Laws" seminar currently running as part of CT Corporation's 2004 seminar series, there are numerous reasons why business owners, managers and lawyers choose Delaware.

On June 14, 2004, the United States Supreme Court decided a sexual harassment case that has consequences for nearly every employer, regardless of industry.
What the Supreme Court did in Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders, however, was to unequivocally establish that Title VII applies when employees are forced to quit for unlawful reasons (constructive discharges) and that the degree of a supervisor's involvement in a hostile environment may be all that stands between strict liability and a trial over whether the employer had effective policies and procedures to address harassment.

Concerns about domestic security post-9/11, fear that immigrants are moving here to take jobs away from "real" Americans, worries that foreign workers trained here will then "offshore" their positions ... all of these factors have nudged the federal government to more strictly scrutinize U.S. corporations' use of foreign-born talent.
The cornerstone of this scrutiny is the Worksite Enforcement Program, administered by the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This program is often referred to as the "spot visit program."

The publicity and Congressional reaction surrounding the United States Department of Labor (DOL)'s proposed changes to the overtime pay regulations suggests that those modifications would result in a radical departure from the existing state of the law. An objective review of the changes, however, as initially proposed and as finally implemented reveals that the DOL actually did little to alter the legal landscape.