Barry on January 21st, 2007

Over the years, I’ve looked at several secure Web spaces designed to be shared by opposing parties or co-counsel for sharing of electronic documents for discovery or collaboration. Different sites provide different tool sets, but they all provided, at a minimum, for upload and viewing of documents by authorized users, and they all came with [...]

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Barry on January 4th, 2007

We’re just gearing up for MCLE (for MINIMUM rather than MANDATORY CLE ) although it is, clearly mandatory if you want to maintain your Illinois law license. So it is good news that an organization such as the Practising Law Institute has become an approved MCLE provider. In addition to many decades of traditional [...]

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For years I’ve asked large vendors for some sort of table of organization, so I can figure
out who does what or, sometimes, what gets done where. Lexis may have done
something like that for me.

DAYTON, OH, January 3, 2007 – LexisNexis has launched a new Web site,
law.lexisnexis.com, that showcases its Total Practice Solutions for the
full spectrum [...]

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Barry on January 3rd, 2007

I don’t own a Palm OS Smart Phone but if you do, you might consider Iambic’s YourCall.  The program claims to pop up after you terminate a call, permitting you to  make notes, send an SMS, add to contacts, set up a calendar event or whatever, at the point where you know and remember more [...]

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Microsoft has issued Security Advisory of a new vulnerability in Word 2000 to 2004, Mac verionsm and even Microsoft Works.
Microsoft is investigating a new report of limited “zero-day” attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, and Microsoft Word [...]

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Wolters Kluwer continues to combine content from various parts of its reorganized US publications empire to produce, in this case an online database that is
a one-stop electronic resource for all of their research and practice needs with the Investment Management Integrated Library from Aspen Publishers and CCH, part of the Wolters Kluwer Law & Business [...]

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Barry on January 24th, 2006

It has been a couple of years since the last WordPerfect upgrade and here it is, again, just in time for showing off at NY Legal Tech. The product, dubbed X3 — a hopefully lucky form of 13, I’m told — can now read .PDF files for instant editing, and can save in [...]

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Barry on May 24th, 2005

I’ve liked dtSearch since I’ve first used it a decade or more ago. It is fast, accurate, and inexpensive (although the original under $100 price is now just less than $200.) The previous data limit was apparently 4 to 8 Gigabytes of data; the system’s capability is now claimed to be in the [...]

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Barry on May 10th, 2005

Every law office requires some way to create PDF files, these days, particularly if you are filing things electronically in federal court. ScanSoft, publisher of scanning software, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software, Voice Recognition Software (specifically, Naturally Speaking, formerly of Dragon Systems and the L&H mess) has been integrating with PDF creation software, [...]

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Barry on May 9th, 2005

I don’t know whether it is a result of NAFTA, but Mexican Trademarks are getting the Thomson & Thomson treatment:

Coming Soon: TRADEMARKSCAN®—Mexico!

Get ready for the best online Mexican trademark information, with TRADEMARKSCAN®—Mexico, coming soon on SAEGIS

Only TRADEMARKSCAN—Mexico delivers:
Up-to-date data: We update with the publication of every [...]

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