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Pricing It Right: Restructuring Billing

Tam Harbert

As pressure on pricing continues, Big Law firms are buying (or building) analytics technology and hiring pricing specialists ' people who use market data, internal firm data and economics/pricing experience to ensure that firms are smart about bidding on work. The mission: Educate clients about the value the firm brings, while making sure to charge enough to make a profit.

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Laying a Foundation for Integrated e-Discovery Systems

Josh Alpern, James FitzGerald & Jim Mittenthal

Typically, the production of data in litigation involves a series of disconnected actions involving several corporate or cloud-based systems. These disassociated e-discovery activities ' identify, preserve, collect, and track (IPCT) ' are then feed into a downstream set of processing, review, and production (PRP) steps often hosted outside the corporate firewall. Fortunately, technology advances are helping counsel and client alike to integrate systems and streamline processes both inside and across the firewall.

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Word 2013: Better by Design

Jeffrey Roach

The good work we did to set up the default look and feel of the Microsoft Word environment can have a huge impact on the usability of the product. Another way that we can improve the overall experience is to tweak the variety of settings that lurk behind the scenes. That's right, it is time to talk about Word Options.

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Can Computers Practice Law?

Nina Cunningham

Can computers practice law? Many are inclined to say yes when using them affects us in so many ways. When scanning the pages of LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter , we learn a good deal about the use of computers in the practice of law, but what I am really asking here is how far can ' or will ' we go to automate dispute resolution?

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Levenfeld Pearlstein Makes a Winning Move with Client Extranet Technology

Angela Hickey

Ask any law firm leader to list their key business strategies and delivering client value will undoubtedly top the list. Talking about innovation is fine and well, but is not worth much unless your firm is willing to make strategic changes, some of which might hurt in the short term, in order to open the door to new ideas and a client-centric approach.

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Twitter Must Reveal User's Information To Audio Company

Stan Soocher

A magistrate for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted an audio equipment manufacturer's motion to enforce a subpoena requiring case non-party Twitter to reveal the names of account users who allegedly defamed the manufacturer. In <i>Music Group Macao Commercial Offshore Ltd. v. John Does I-IX</i>, Twitter had asked the court to consider whether the First Amendment right of account users to anonymous protected speech was being properly considered.

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Unpaid Royalty Suits Rain Down on Music Streaming Services

Ross Todd

Sirius XM Radio's recent clubbing in litigation over the rights to pre-1972 sound recordings has unleashed a series of suits against Google, Apple, Sony and music streaming service Rdio.

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Movers & Shakers

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

A Collection of Moves in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Practice Areas

<i>Online Extra</i>The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Extends Tax Breaks and Provides Tax Benefits for Disabled Individuals Image

<i>Online Extra</i>The Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Extends Tax Breaks and Provides Tax Benefits for Disabled Individuals

Richard H. Stieglitz & Nichol Chiarella

On Dec. 19, 2014, the President signed into law the long-awaited year-end tax package, the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 ('TIPA'). This law extended to the end of 2014 many but not all of the individual, business, and energy provisions that expired at the end of 2013.

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Med Mal News

ALM Staff & Law Journal Newsletters

News about medical bills, and wrongful birth suits.

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