The best part of a laptop is that you can easily move it around to use wherever you like, without worrying about an electrical outlet power source. The worst part of a laptop is that the bloody batteries stop taking a charge after a year or less of constant charging / recharging. Replacement batteries from [...]
I didn’t use teleflip very often, but on the occasions that I want to send an SMS to someone’s cell phone and didn’t have mine handy, it was extremely convenient. Just send an email to <domest cell phone number>@teleflip.com, and teleflip would deliver it to the cell phone almost instantly. (Apparently there was also a [...]
Announcing the Launch of earlyCASE ~ A FREE Early Case
Assessment Software Now Available for Legal Professionals
earlyCASE software sets new standard for early analysis and culling of
documents, data and metadata for eDiscovery
Ah! Electronic Discovery Analysis: let’s read more:
ATLANTA, GA (August 11, 2008) [...]
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When touring the Westlaw facilities many years ago, we were taken to a large room full of “Reference Attorneys” — those folks, lawyers all, who would offer suggestions of how to best use Westlaw, and even formulate a query when you were having difficulties finding the correct answer for your research question.In the midst of [...]
My firstborn went to Beijing for a couple of weeks — something was broken and had to be fixed, I guess — and he suggested Skype as an appropriate communications system. I’ll be writing more about this in the column, but on a preliminary basis, Skype was easy to install and seems to work pretty [...]
I received a few hundred (paper) pages of discovery, and wanted to send it off to the client for comment. (My discovery went to the other attorneys in the case as a PDF, with auto-Bates stamping and so forth. This was just a mass of stuff, difficult to control and even to prove [...]
The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are claimed, by the popular literature, to place new burdens on American business. But wait! Rule 26(b)(2)(B) provides
(B) A party need not provide discovery of electronically stored information from sources that the party identifies as not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or cost. [...]
I’m sitting in chancery court, this morning, waiting for my case to be called, and vaguely listening to the court call. An attorney wants to change his name — to make it shorter, he says — and as Judge Bronstein goes through his questions, he notes that the Petitioner recently finished the Marathon, apparently with [...]
I’m not a Patent Lawyer, and have no idea as to how to conduct a patent search, but I’m certain that there are a lot of people in my category who will turn to Google to do a little looking through the new Google Patent site at www.google.com/patents. You can find more information at [...]
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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