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10 Tips to Make Legal Technology Work Better for You
1. Learn how to use a scanned signature for all your documents. Many people forget that they can use a signature on all the documents that they e-mail,…
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Innovative Discount System Created With DirectInvoice
Our legal department at Atlantic Bank of New York was looking for an electronic invoicing system to make our outside counsel billing process more manageable. What we found was new technology and software that enabled us not only to improve the overall efficiency of our system but also to implement an invoice discounting policy that saves us money and gets our outside counsel paid quickly. The discounting policy lets us reduce payments to outside counsel by a set percentage if we pay their bills within 20 days and reduces the fees further in the event of late invoice submission.
Internet Fraud Complaints Soar in 2003
According to a report issued by the Internet Fraud Compliant Center, an organization led by the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center, fraudulent activity on the Internet surged dramatically last year.
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Internet Firms Back New Anti-Spam Bill in Senate
Internet companies welcomed a new Senate bill aimed at protecting consumers from the miasma of spam, or unwanted junk e-mail.
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Planning A Web Site With Some Punch
Law firm Web sites have largely converged toward a "standard model" that presents a few implicitly agreed-upon subjects. Consider the analogy to newspapers: Consensus has been achieved that the logical way to organize them is national news, opinion, local news, business, sports, lifestyle, etc. Within this consensus, tremendous variety in paper stock, layout, color, writing style and so forth can all thrive, but the "bone structure" is agreed upon.
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Getting Wired Is Part Of Research
Just a few years ago, attorneys and their staff did a lot of waiting - waiting for papers to be served, or rulings to come in the mail, and for librarians to research and find relevant case information. The time lag created questions and the questions resulted in more client inquiries and multiple trips to the courthouse. Then technology came to the practice of law, and, as most attorneys who are "in the know" now recognize, there are plenty of options beyond PACER in the world of online case research technology. To get off the waiting line, technology-conscious partners should make it a point to stay abreast of the latest trends in the world of online case and docket research.
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Going Wireless On The Web: WiFi Is Liberating, But Beware The Security Risks
By now many lawyers have probably heard about it from friends, seen it at the coffee shop or watched someone doing it at the airport: surfing the Internet on Wireless Fidelity, better known as WiFi.
Where Pundits Gather These Lawyers' Sites Touch On The Law ... And More
When Trent Lott resigned as Senate Republican leader, several political observers attributed his downfall to the criticism leveled at him through a hitherto little-noticed medium: Web logs, or, as they are more commonly called, blogs.
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New Punitives Ruling Means New Battles
The Supreme Court's April 7 ruling on punitive damages, greeted with relief and enthusiasm by corporate defendants, opens new battlegrounds in litigation seeking those awards. The ruling significantly expanded the High Court's prior attempts to guide lower courts and lawyers on when punitive damages awards may run afoul of the Constitution. <i>State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Campbell</i>, No. 01-1289.
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