TechnoLawyer: Accounting/Billing/Time Capture

Coming August 17, 2007 to Fat Friday: Paul Easton provides some helpful Firefox tips and add-ons for bloggers, David Caracappa reviews CryptInfo for password management as well as the Firefox extension PasswordMaker, Michael Schwartz reviews Time Matters 8, Martin Dean provides a behind-the-scenes look at his dealings with the makers of brainstorming tool allCLEAR, and Steven Schwaber tells us how he really feels about Dell's warranty policy. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming August 9, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Jason Havens reviews the Tabs3/PracticeMaster suite and how it compares to its competitors while Paul Purdue specifically reviews PracticeMaster's email integration capabilities, John Stefaniuk reviews the Olympus DS-4000 digital recorder, Craig Bayer explains how he uses two extra 21" monitors with his Dell Latitude laptop, and Tim Donovan discusses why choosing a word processor should be the least of a new law student's worries. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming August 10, 2007 to Fat Friday: Jerry Nicholson explains the difference between e-discovery and digital forensics, Jerry Sullenberger reviews handwriting recognition software for the Treo and the Treo Bluetooth headset, Scott Bassett explains how you can access you PC from a Palm OS device, David Abell reviews Timeslips' bill reprint feature (and what happens when you miss a patch), and Diane Sherman reviews the Fujitsu ScanSnap. Don't miss this issue.

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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online legal research citation tool designed to save time, an online case management and time-billing application, and a new laser printer tailor-made for law firms. Don't miss the next issue.

Below you'll find one of the three articles from today's edition:

Better, Faster, Smarter Citations
By Dennis Kennedy

Lawyers have used "hyperlinks" before hyperlinks even existed. In our vernacular, we called them citations. When we found a good case, we would then review the citations to that case, often finding even better cases and sometimes finding reversals, statutory supersession, etc. Nowadays, of course, online research services provide real hyperlinks to related cases. But even so, the number of citations listed can be overwhelming to review.

Wolters Kluwer's Loislaw, a leading provider of online legal research, has updated its GlobalCite feature to address this and other issues based on feedback from its customers. The result is a more powerful citation research tool designed to help lawyers find relevant cases, statutes, and secondary sources more efficiently than ever before. Specifically, Loislaw has added two major features to GlobalCite, each of which saves time and takes advantage of modern Web technologies.

First, GlobalCite now offers a pop-up box within the document you are viewing that summarizes the GlobalCite results and provides links to the types of sources that you want to explore further. The pop-up box arranges the results by category. For example, you can view all sources, cases only, statutes only, treatises only, or other documents only. GlobalCite also displays the number of links within each category. You can click directly in the pop-up box to move to exactly the set of results you want, saving an extra step or two and valuable time. If no citations exist, you'll also know that at a glance without having to click further.

Second, GlobalCite enables you to search directly within your set of citations. With this feature, you can narrow your search quickly, thus eliminating the all-too-common problem of "noise" or "clutter" of unrelated documents. You can conduct full Boolean searches within this pool of citations. For example, you might search for a statutory section, case name, "reversed" or other terms, or keywords. Lawyers have become comfortable with this search within a search paradigm thanks to Web search engines.

As an added benefit, subscribers get the full text of every document they find via GlobalCite at no additional charge no matter what their subscription level. GlobalCite works across Loislaw's entire collection. GlobalCite is included with the purchase of any Loislaw package that includes primary law. Learn more about GlobalCite.

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Coming July 27, 2007 to Fat Friday: Edward Poll discusses the dangers involved with trust accounting and how to avoid them, David Herdman shares his thoughts on technology standards legislation as well as why backwards compatible software doesn't make sense, Beverly Katz explain how she handled age discrimination regarding in-house counsel jobs, Matt Baker adds an overlooked point to a recent TechnoFeature article about HDTV, and Steve Loewy comments on Dennis Kennedy's annual technology predictions. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming July 19, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Mark Deal discusses the costs involved in switching from Windows to Linux, Stephen Taylor offers a solution for GroupWise notification problems and explains why his firm continues to chose GroupWise over Outlook, Rick Borstein explains how to enable the Typewriter tool in Acrobat Reader, Kristin LaMont reviews her experience using Time Matters over the past 11 years, and Celia Elwell shares her thoughts on which word processor today's law students should use. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming June 28, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Steven J. Best explains how to prevent trust accounting gotchas, Thomas Stirewalt provides instructions for setting up multiple monitors with two PCs and a KVM switch, Matthew Hite discusses LexisNexis' Time Matters upgrade policies and his firm's plans, Bruce Avery reviews his firm's upgrade to Amicus Attorney 7, and Blair Janis offers a solution for those seeking a foreign language document assembly program. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming June 14, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Yvonne Renfrew provides several PDF and TIFF Bates stamping options, Simon Laurent reviews Amicus Accounting, Carolyn Thornlow reviews Tabs3 and PracticeMaster, Kirby Knight explains how to use dual monitors with two computers, and Hugh Tedder advises a soon-to-be law student on which word processor to use. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming May 31, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Barbara Norris explains why lawyers should not create their own trial exhibits, Jason Havens compares Tabs3/PracticeMaster, Time Matters/Billing Matters, and PCLaw plus he provides some tips for Mac users, Elizabeth Markus reviews OmniPage and PaperPort (including where to find free online training), Miriam Jacobson explains how she uses Quicken Deluxe 2000 for client trust accounts, and William Kelly reviews Getting Things Done Outlook Add-In (yes it's affiliated with the famous David Allen philosophy). Don't miss this issue.

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