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Sourcing Strategies
Last month, we identified select law firm issues that can significantly impact the cost and speed of the entire case lifecycle. In addition, we offered some viable solutions to these problems. In Part Two, we cover some of the concerns related to outsourcing versus in-house handling of certain litigation goods and services and how firms are operating.
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Another Choice of PDF Converter
Effectively managing, sharing and securing information can help corporate legal departments and individual law firms reduce administrative costs, protect case records and improve levels of customer service. Improperly managed, case information creates unnecessary risks, and is a huge drain on productivity as employees are forced to sift through an ever-increasing number of documents to (hopefully) locate the critical information they need to do their jobs.
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A Litigator's Perspective on Deposition Transcript Management
Depositions in civil litigation serve multiple purposes. If one thousand litigators were polled, one would probably hear as many different opinions on the various purposes of depositions and the relative importance of those purposes. But one thing that all litigators should agree on is that real-time transcription and deposition transcript management applications can be significant tools for accomplishing whatever goals one has in a given deposition.
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Coordinating Traditional and Internet Sales
Manufacturers and distributors use traditional stores and Internet sites to sell goods and services. But too often, when identical items are offered simultaneously through these channels, Internet price advertisements divert so much business from the traditional stores that those traditional outlets stop offering the items. MAP ('minimum advertised price') agreements, which prevent items from being advertised below some specified amount (the minimum advertised price), are often employed to maintain access to traditional and Internet sales channels.
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Office 2007: Challenges and Opportunities for The Legal Community
The highly publicized release of Microsoft Office 2007' was received with caution in the legal industry. Promises of greater compatibility with non-Office programs were offset by a drastically redesigned user interface and concern over a new file format. Productivity hits and resulting end-user frustration are anticipated.
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Let Litigation Support Take Charge
This article identifies select law firm issues that can significantly impact cost and speed throughout the entire case lifecycle, and offers viable solutions to dealing with them.
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Ninth Circuit Hands Google A Copyright Victory in Dispute Over Nude Pictures
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Legal Lessons and Ramifications That Can Be Learned From iTunes
The iTunes world discussed in this article offers a road map for technology companies looking to introduce the next big thing, and offers a potential glimpse of the future of intellectual property.
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Courts Grapple with Computer Searches
With a growing number of criminal cases depending on forensic searches of computers, the direction courts ultimately take is likely to affect a wide array of cases, ranging from hacking and piracy to murder investigations.
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Data Analytics: e-Discovery Accuracy, Defensibility and Cost Efficiency
Keyword-based automated search tools are not necessarily accurate, especially when the search terms are brainstormed by counsel in a vacuum. And new-age concept-based tools, while often quite effective at targeting documents based on subject matter or concept, are technologically hard to explain and, as a result, hard to defend. Data analytics adds testing and analysis to keyword-based search, providing litigators with more accuracy and defensibility ' often at a much lower cost.
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