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$12,000/Year and Not a Penny More; Password Generator Review; No Paperless Office For Me; Word Up; IV League Lawyers

By Sara Skiff | Friday, July 27, 2007

Coming August 3, 2007 to Fat Friday: Miriam Jacobson tells us what public interest lawyers really earn and what she sees as the problem, Charles T. Lester, Jr. reviews an online password generator service, Douglas Shachtman explains why one lawyer's paperless workflow won't work for his litigation practice, Celia Elwell clarifies a previous Post she penned about Word v. WordPerfect, and Meg Spencer Dixon pokes fun at Seth Rowland's defense of his now infamous "recovered attorney" quip. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Fat Friday | Law Office Management | Online/Cloud | Privacy/Security

Two Desktop Search Programs; Dual Monitors Step by Step; Roboform Review; Amicus Attorney; lexisONE Review

By Sara Skiff | Friday, July 27, 2007

Coming August 2, 2007 to Answers to Questions: Richard Schmitt reviews two search tools — Examine32 and exalead, Norman Van Treeck provides step by step instructions for setting up dual monitors, Richard Schafer reviews Roboform, John Harding discusses Amicus Attorney 7's integration capabilities, and Charles T. Lester Jr. reviews lexisONE as a free legal research alternative. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Legal Research | Monitors | Practice Management/Calendars | Privacy/Security | TL Answers | Utilities

Nastygram Tips; Integration; Paperless Costs Less; Amicus Attorney 7; Word Secrets

By Sara Skiff | Friday, July 6, 2007

Coming July 13, 2007 to Fat Friday: David Canton offers up a nine step process lawyers should follow before sending a demand letter (especially in the age of blogs), Thomas Daly responds to a thread he started about legal software integration, Merwyn J. Miller explains how his law firm's paperless transition decreased labor costs, Gregory Harper reviews Amicus Attorney 7 and his experience with tech support, and John Sens shares his thoughts on Microsoft Word after reading a recent TechnoFeature on hidden features of WordPerfect. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Fat Friday | Law Office Management | Practice Management/Calendars | Technology Industry/Legal Profession

To Date or Not to Date; 7 HDTV Tips; To Train or Not to Train; Vindigo Review; Seth Rowland

By Sara Skiff | Friday, June 22, 2007

Coming June 29, 2007 to Fat Friday: Dean Birch explains the advantages of his firm's file naming convention, Jay Solomon offers seven tips for those thinking about buying a high-definition TV, Miriam Jacobson responds to a recent TechnoFeature about software training and shares her preferred method, Carolyn Thornlow reviews Vindigo for the Palm Treo, and Jere Wilson praises "recovered attorney" Seth Rowland. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: CLE/News/References | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Entertainment/Hobbies/Recreation | Fat Friday | Gadgets/Shredders/Office Gear | Laptops/Smartphones/Tablets | Utilities

Decisiv Email: Read Our Exclusive Report

By Sara Skiff | Wednesday, June 20, 2007

In today's special eDiscovery issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers a new email archiving and search solution, an eDiscovery software suite, and an online litigation document repository. Don't miss the next issue.

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

Take Decisive Action
By Dennis Kennedy

Trying to reduce your or your client's litigation risk and eDiscovery costs? Looking for a way to easily and securely search and share email across your organization?

Recommind, best known in the legal community for its conceptual search and categorization software, recently launched Decisiv Email, which automatically categorizes "massive amounts" of unstructured email data. Decisiv Email employs advanced categorization and conceptual search technology to automatically tag, organize, and file email messages and associated attachments with virtually no user involvement.

Additionally, you can use Decisiv Email as an email archiving tool. Recommind claims that using Decisiv Email to store business records delivers up to 500% in storage savings over traditional email archiving systems while substantially reducing litigation risk and eDiscovery costs.

Fully integrated with Microsoft Outlook, Decisiv Email facilitates collaboration within an organization by accurately correlating email-based information with related information in email archives, content management systems, document management systems, records management systems and countless other information repositories. By automatically organizing and filing information as it enters and leaves the email system, Decisiv Email significantly reduces time spent sorting through email correspondence in search of specific data and allows for near real-time knowledge transfer.

Other notable features of Decisiv Email include automated tagging and filing of incoming and outgoing messages, semi- or fully automatic modes of operation, a virtually invisible filing system that can prompt the sender to file email messages, support for Microsoft Office documents, scanned documents, voicemails, and other popular formats, and integrated project management functions such as roles, project templating, and activity reporting.

Decisiv Email sells for $300 per user for perpetual licenses. Learn more about Decisiv Email.

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Topics: Document Management | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Online/Cloud | TL NewsWire

Jerry Maguire Esq.; Almost Paperless; How Dell Hurts Consultants; Age Discrimation; Email-to-PDF Tip

By Sara Skiff | Friday, June 15, 2007

Coming June 22, 2007 to Fat Friday: Mazyar Hedayat defends his recent Post on making the legal profession more efficient, Miriam Jacobson explains how she has gone nearly paperless for under $500 and no additional staff, Scott Bassett discusses what he sees as the real problem with Dell, Richard Wills shares his experience with age discrimination, and Kerry Hubick provides a cheap way to save email to PDF. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Fat Friday | Law Office Management | Technology Industry/Legal Profession

Dell Drives Lupo Loco; Secure Fax-to-Email; Old Dog Learns Paperless Trick; Long Live the Yellow Pages; New Dallas Law School

By Sara Skiff | Friday, June 1, 2007

Coming June 8, 2007 to Fat Friday: Kelly Lupo shares her tech support experiences as a Dell small business customer, Jeffrey Franklin explains how to securely send faxes via email, Peter Summerill explains how his firm went paperless without adding anyone to the payroll, Josh Friedman provides his take on the predicted "death" of the Yellow Pages, and Anita Evans alerts us of a new law school opening in Dallas and what she hopes it means for the legal profession. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: CLE/News/References | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Fat Friday | Law Firm Marketing/Publications/Web Sites | Law Office Management | Privacy/Security | Technology Industry/Legal Profession

Completist's Guide to Multiple Monitors; WordPerfect's 4 Advantages; Dragon Pros and Cons; Worldox Review; LG T1 Express Laptop

By Sara Skiff | Friday, June 1, 2007

Coming June 7, 2007 to Answers to Questions: E. M. Osborne provides a wealth of information for those contemplating multiple monitors (plus we point you to additional resources), Mike Bruce lays down WordPerfect's four main advantages over Word, Jeff Scott Olson reviews what he likes and doesn't like about Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9, Gerardo Balboni reviews his experience using Worldox at his small law firm, and Godfrey Leighton reviews his super-light LG T1 Express Dual laptop. Don't miss this issue.

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Topics: Business Productivity/Word Processing | Coming Attractions | Dictation/OCR/Speech Recognition | Document Management | Laptops/Smartphones/Tablets | Monitors | TL Answers

Concordance 2007: Read Our Exclusive Report

By Sara Skiff | Wednesday, May 30, 2007

In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers a lawyer-centric discovery program and two online document management solutions. Don't miss the next issue.

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

Discovery Easy Enough for Cavemen (and Simplicity-Seeking Lawyers)
By Dennis Kennedy

Those instant classic television commercials about car insurance so easy to apply for even a caveman can do it have me wondering what else cavemen might find easy enough to understand in today's world. Discovery? Probably not, but LexisNexis Concordance has taken great strides in that direction with the new version of its flagship discovery program — Concordance 2007.

Designed for lawyers, Concordance 2007 sports a "completely revised, highly intuitive interface" that produces faster data access, improved document searching, and streamlined e-discovery features. The new release also integrates online Lexis.com research and a "send to" function to share your discovery data with other litigation and e-discovery software tools, including LexisNexis's Total Litigator and CaseMap. You can use Concordance 2007 from your desktop, laptop, or the Web.

Concordance 2007 focuses on simplifying the discovery process while providing enormous data capacity. The new interface helps you better navigate and organize documents, and should result in reduced training time for busy lawyers and paralegals. The Import Wizard can quickly import email and attachments in their native format. You can import and manage up to half a terabyte of data and thirty-three million records in each database. Need flexibility? Concordance allows 250 customizable fields for each record and up to 12 MB of data (approximately four copies of War and Peace) in each field.

Concordance's Simple Search technology easily locates key phrases and documents for non-technical reviewers. More advanced users can make use of Boolean, fuzzy, wild card, relational, and concept searches. The Synonym Builder enables you to search less-than-perfect OCR documents. Once you find a term, you can highlight it, send it to Total Litigator, and perform research using your Lexis.com account. You can save and re-run searches on up to 128 databases at once. Other search tools help you search on related concepts and find duplicate documents.

Concordance 2007 also provides you with a rich set of review, analysis, and collaboration tools. You can use multi-level folders, add your own tags, and set up public and private folders to simplify document review and manage cases. New organizational management tools provide helpful statistics such as who reviewed a particular set of documents. You can also bulk send entire document sets from Concordance to CaseMap to help you analyze, manage, and strategize your cases.

Other notable features include transcript management, a wide variety of flexible reporting tools, and programmability for advanced users. Concordance also offers state of the art security. You can try Concordance 2007 for free for 30 days.  Learn more about Concordance 2007.

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Topics: Document Management | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Online/Cloud | TL NewsWire

Don't Create Your Own Trial Exhibits; Battle of the Time-Billing Titans; Review of OminiPage and PaperPort; Outlook Tip; Much More

By Sara Skiff | Friday, May 25, 2007

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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Topics: Accounting/Billing/Time Capture | CLE/News/References | Coming Attractions | Document Management | Email/Messaging/Telephony | Litigation/Discovery/Trials | Practice Management/Calendars | Presentations/Projectors | TL Answers | Utilities
 
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