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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Lawyers and technologists spend lots of mental energy dealing with choices. We ponder these choices, pose them to others, and participate as advisers and advocates. While often quickly resolved, choices permeate our business and personal lives. By many accounts they are becoming more frequent and complex. Periodically, some choices become the focus of prolonged deliberation and debate. Unfortunately, many law firms and corporate legal departments don't use technology creatively or aggressively to support an activity as ubiquitous as decision making. In this TechnoFeature article, consultant Marc Lauritsen who builds expert systems and helps law firms implement sound decision-making processes explores techniques and software tools designed to help you make better choices. If you've never heard of "choice management" before, Marc will help get you started in this important new discipline.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Litigators have long relied on manual review and Boolean searching for finding relevant discovery documents. As data volumes grow, however, research has demonstrated that these methods have become unreliable and too cumbersome and expensive. In this article, litigator and eDiscovery expert W. Lawrence Wescott II draws from his work with the Sedona Conference and the TREC project to discuss several new technologies that leverage advances in linguistics and computing to address the discovery document review problem.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: A crisis communication plan is like having roadside insurance — rarely used but a potential lifesaver. Not convinced? Ask Tiger Woods, Akio Toyada, and countless others who paid a high price for their failure to react decisively and quickly to a crisis. In this TechnoFeature, public relations expert Paramjit Mahli explains how to create a crisis communication plan, and why lawyers should play a central role in this process.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Many reasons exist for creating a "green" law office even if you could care less about global warming, climate change, nuclear power, wind, coal, CAFE auto mileage standards, wind farms, blah, blah, blah. In this article, Edward Zohn explains why a "green" law office presents special challenges yet offers significant financial advantages. Edward offers strategies for using no more of the Earth's resources than you must — and saving money in the process.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Serious computer users usually have their own list of software and Web site "greatest hits" that they use constantly. Lawyer Joshua Stein, one of our earliest subscribers, started using computers for all his written work in 1982. Who better to ask to share his list of greatest hits. Joshua covers just about every topic, including email, document management, VoIP, fax-to-email, backup software, desktop publishing, online printing, conference calls, legal research, social bookmarking, and more.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: And now for something "completely different" in law firm practice management — HoudiniESQ, a new practice management system developed from LOGICBit. You can host HoudiniESQ on a Windows, Mac, or Linux server, and use it in any Web browser. Sounds good, but how well does it work? In this TechnoFeature, practice management and document assembly specialist Seth Rowland, Esq. takes HoudiniESQ for a spin and presents his findings — in considerable detail as always.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: To import documents or electronically stored information in native format into litigation support programs or trial presentation programs, you need to create a "load file." Law firms often outsource this task to service bureaus. What can you do, however, if you don't have a local service bureau, or your budget requires that you process the information yourself? In this TechnoFeature, trial technology and computer forensics consultant Bruce Olson reviews Breeze eDiscovery Suite, a do-it-yourself eDiscovery program for document processing and production. Bruce evaluates Breeze from top to bottom, including its pricing, basic and advanced features, and technical support.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Apple's iPhone is cool, but could it compete with the BlackBerry as a business tool at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, one of the world's largest law firms? In this TechnoFeature article, Sonnenschein's Manager of Software Services Christopher Lewis explains why Sonnenschein decided to deploy the iPhone to its lawyers, how it handled the deployment, the functions it supports and doesn't support, and the results thus far. If the lawyers at your firm are clamoring for iPhone support, look no further than Christopher's invaluable advice.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Harvesting electronically stored information (ESI) can prove cumbersome and expensive. Many clients balk at the expense, and some wonder why they can't handle the collection process in-house. They have a point. Not every case requires full forensic imaging or the use of outside service bureaus. PinPoint Labs' One Click Collect enables you to automate the collection of ESI on your own. But how well does it work? In this review of One Click Collect, trial technology and computer forensics consultant Bruce Olson evaluates One Click Collect answers this question in considerable detail.

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Coming today to TechnoFeature: Most managing partners agree that technology can help them better run their law firms. But which technology? In this TechnoFeature article, do-it-yourself advocate and lawyer Edward Zohn explains how his firm decided to use off-the-shelf business productivity software to create a practice management system rather than buy a specialized practice management system designed for law firms. Zohn doesn't only discuss his unorthodox approach in the abstract. He also lists and discusses the products that comprise his firm's practice management system.

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