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Accounting Changes Could Cost Legal Industry Billions
While law firms are increasingly modeling their business practices after their clients', one they have not been interested in mimicking is the accrual method of accounting.
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Statistical Sampling
The focus on proportionality in high-profile cases such as <i>Apple v. Samsung</i>, coupled with the recent proposed amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are driving attorneys to reevaluate the methods by which they uncover crucial electronic evidence for a case.
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Collaborating in The Cloud
One of the great advantages of working with files in a cloud drive is sharing documents with other reviewers/authors in real time. Real time is the actual time during which reviewers are making changes to the document. This can be accomplished with all reviewers working in a Web App.
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Best Practices for Comprehensive Searchability
Most law firms now proudly proclaim that they have implemented efficient and secure document management systems, systems in which they have invested significant dollars and even more in "sweat equity." The end goal of these systems is to ensure that all documents are stored securely, and perhaps more importantly, can be found quickly and easily.
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Pushing the Technology Envelope in and Out of the Courtroom
Technological advancements have dramatically improved the speed, capabilities and, in most cases, the cost-effectiveness in which deposition, discovery and pre-trial services are provided. Companies that have embraced the latest developments in jury research and selection technology ' particularly social media monitoring tools ' are best situated to thrive in the current environment.
<i>Online Extra</i> Facebook's New Friend Faces Patent Suits
Before agreeing to buy mobile messaging startup WhatsApp for an eye-popping $19 billion, Facebook Inc. likely eyed two patent cases pending in Delaware and Bay Area federal courts.
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<i>Online Extra</i>Apple Digs in for Appeal, Damages Fight in E-Books Case
After failing to remove its court-appointed antitrust monitor, Apple urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit this week to reverse the e-books price-fixing judgment that led to the monitorship in the first place. Meanwhile, things are heating up in parallel suits brought on behalf of consumers, with Apple trying to move the cases out New York federal court.
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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i> FCC To Craft New Net Neutrality Rules
Hoping the third time will be the charm, the FCC announced on Feb. 19 that it will craft new rules for net neutrality that will pass muster with the courts.
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Analysis of several key cases that affect your practice.
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