The advent of e-discovery has given birth to a new field of ancillary litigation -- discovery about discovery. Parties are busy looking for what's missing, in the hopes of making their opponent "the spoliator". You see, once you label the opposing party as "the spoliator" the riches can be many – including an adverse inference jury instruction and cold, hard cash in the form of sanction.
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A new report demonstrates that attorneys are increasingly making use of technology. According to the American Bar Association Legal Technology Survey Report, attorneys are increasingly using Web 2.0 and other technologies in their practice.
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Do companies have legitimate concerns that departing employees may take critical corporate information with them when they leave? You bet, according to recent survey statistics.
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Law firms big and small face a similar difficulty with legal technology--estimating its costs. At early stages of a case it often proves to be a challenge to consider the scope of discovery as a whole--especially when trying to account for the looming variable of eDiscovery costs.
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Levels of unsolicited commercial email, aka spam, have dropped by a staggering 47% in the past several months, according to statistics assembled by Symantec. This certainly is welcome news, as spam still accounts for 81% of all email traffic on the Internet.
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With the release of AbacusLaw 2011, law offices can now do even more to simplify and organize their practices. Here's a sampling of the feature enhancements...
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For those practicing law, staying connected to the Internet for communication and information access is critical. What about when you head overseas? The cost for Internet access can be outrageous, but many law firms have discovered how to avoid those costs.
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Bellefield Systems, in partnership with ProLaw, is launching its first iPad App for ProLaw at LegalTech New York, today. iDocExplorer, available for download from the iTunes App store, will give attorneys mobile access to their matters and documents securely and efficiently on their iPad tablet.
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We have already sung the praises of cloud -based backup site Dropbox. Now Rocket Matter, a cloud-based time keeping, billing and practice management application, is offering an exciting new feature: integration with Dropbox.
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A best practice implementation to capture paper into a law firm’s electronic information system provides work efficiencies, process improvement, cost reductions, security, audits, and a lowered carbon footprint.
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