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Large West Coast law firm Uses Biscom Delivery Server to Ensure Client Privacy and Save on Courier Costs: One of the largest law firms in the United States with more than 500 attorneys and nearly 50 offices in major metropolitan areas was primarily focused on ensuring privacy protection of confidential client information. Because the firm has so many offices across the United States, their challenge was even greater...; Tags: Law Firm, Privacy, Server, Attorney, Biscom, Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies 2008-03-28
Open+source+gains+business+credibility: Open+source+gains+business+credibilityWell...Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the guy you have issues with with a law firm? Correct me if I'm wrong, but they seem hardly more likely to need anything other than what Office/Exchange can give them in a somewhat turnkey manner.Not that there's not better solutions out there,...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Operating systems, ROI/TCO, UNIX, Microsoft Corp., open source, law firm; Discussion threads 2008-02-28
U.K. law firm Improves Client Relationships With Customer Management Tool: Leading United Kingdom law firm asb law wanted to better manage and strengthen client relationships, drive profits, and create a single source of data for its business. Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Aspective, the company chose Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 because it was easy to use, fast to adopt,...; Tags: Law Firm, U.K., Microsoft Corp., Tool, Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies 2008-02-01
Improve Mass Mailing Techniques at Your law firm: E-mail, in many respects, has replaced written correspondence as the preferred medium of communication in the legal community. Even so, mass mailings continue to offer one of the best ways for law firms to keep in touch with large numbers of clients on a regular basis. Paralegals, acting on behalf...; Tags: Technique, Industry, Law Firm, Litigation, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Marketing; White papers 2007-12-01
Blogger contends posting silly leaked law firm song is fair use: Over at Above The Law, David Lat provides irreverent coverage of the insular world of law firms and the judiciary. Today he posted a song produced by the Nixon Peabody law firm, forwarded by an unidentified tipster, that belongs in the bad business music hall of fame. ...; Tags: Song, Law Firm, YouTube Inc., DMCA, Blogger, Denise Howell; Blog posts 2007-08-25

Tech Truth - Time is Money: OCR Enhances Productivity for law firms -- Large and Small: For most law firms, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all the work done and shuffling paper eats up time like nothing else. The average legal practice is buried under an avalanche of paper. Finding the right paperwork still requires a human being to dig through...; Tags: Law Firm, Optical Character Recognition, ABBYY USA, Litigation, Business Operations; White papers 2007-06-14
law firm Management ToolKit (exe): Law Firm Management Toolkit A compilation of essential tools for solo and small firm attorneys. Includes billing/invoicing software, time management software and merchant processing for attorneys who bill for their time. A must-have for a serious law practice.; Tags: Billing, Law Firm, Lawyer, Attorney, Time Management, Litigation, Productivity, Business Operations; Software downloads 2007-03-05
Information Security in law firms: Deadline for a Law Firm to complete a task is decided by the court and it's truly a do or die situation within that stipulated time. Unlike the timeframe given by a client, there is no scope for date creeping in here. If a worm capable of destroying all PDF...; Tags: Information Security, Law Firm, MicroWorld Technologies, Litigation, Security, Business Operations; White papers 2006-11-16
HP's top lawyer leaves: HP's top lawyer leavesTitanicHP is taking on water bigtime.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/CNET News.com journalists should proofreadCNET: "Baskins, who spent much of legal career"ENGLISH: "Baskins, who spent much of HER legal career"CNET: "HP was acknowledge accessing phone records of board members and journalists ..."ENGLISH: "was to acknowledge" ? "has acknowledged" ? Beats me...; Tags: Litigation, grammer, Hewlett-Packard Co., poor form, law firm, grammar; Discussion threads 2006-09-28
Must open source businesses scale?: Here's something to think about this weekend.A decade ago, during the Internet 1.0 boom there was a saying -- get big or get out.It's a natural way for businesses to evolve. Leaders emerge, followers merge into them, and pretty soon you're either working for some giant enterprise or you're out...; Tags: open source, law firm; Blog posts 2006-05-05
Cisco Secure Network Foundation: An Open-and-Shut Case for Supporting Business Expansion at Jenkins law firm: The Jenkins Law Firm, PLLC, is located at the center of Crawford County in the heart of northwest Arkansas. Small law firm needs a technology solution to manage communications of busy attorneys and support staff. A Cisco switched LAN backbone consisting of the following products provides the firm with access...; Tags: Business Expansion, Network, Law Firm, Cisco Systems Inc., Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies 2006-04-05
DCM Professional Edition (exe): DCM Professional Edition is a Billing, Accounting and Financial Management Software for law firms. It permits recording of unlimited number of matters and its related timekeepers. Several performance tracking reports related to each timekeeper help law firms in their evaluation of each timekeeper. The centralized Trust Accounting feature helps tracks...; Tags: Law Firm, Quantum Corp., DCM Professional Edition, Litigation, Business Operations; Software downloads 2005-05-25
The law firm of the Future: A rapidly changing global business environment has precipitated new challenges for law firms. Increased client sophistication, greater demand for information sharing, the need to protect the workplace and its assets, and a faster speed of doing business have law firms looking for new ways to stay competitive. Join this webcast...; Tags: Workplace, Law Firm, Cisco Systems Inc., Litigation, Recruitment & Selection, Business Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management; Webcasts
Managing Global Content Across Offices and Continents: A global law firm with 5,000 employees, Linklaters provides advice to some of the world's largest companies and financial institutions on all areas of commercial law. Linklaters needed a way to efficiently manage content for their business as both the amount of content and the way it is accessed change...; Tags: Microsoft Office, Scalability, Law Firm, EMC Corp., Litigation, Application Service Providers (ASPs), Storage, Business Operations, Internet, Hardware; Case studies
Baker Botts Engages in the Practice of Ongoing Improvement: Baker Botts is among the country's top 50 law firms. With its more than 600 attorneys, it serves a worldwide client base in global energy and technology. Its attorneys specialize in litigation and corporate and environmental law. In 1991, Baker Botts, like most law firms, handled all of its document...; Tags: Pitney Bowes Inc., Law Firm, Baker Botts, Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies
Growing law firm Improves Productivity With Standardized Desktop, Automated Processes: Reed Smith is an international law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers representing large businesses and institutions. Because Reed Smith represents many companies with cutting-edge technology, it needed to upgrade its infrastructure to be compatible with its clients as well as competitive with other law firms. In addition, several acquisitions...; Tags: Desktop, Reed Smith, Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies
law firm Overcomes Challenges of IT Environment, Improves Clientele Relations: From its office in Phoenix, Arizona, the law firm of Galbut & Hunter serves a domestic and international client base that ranges from individuals to multinational corporations. A large portion of the firm's casework focuses on commercial transactions, securities litigation, real estate law, and business law. Increasingly, the firm discovered...; Tags: IT Environment, Information Technology, Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Real Estate, Litigation, Business Operations; Case studies
law firm Improves Security and Clientele Service With Updated Operating System: With 26 offices in the United States - in addition to offices in Asia, Europe, and South America - Holland & Knight is among the world's 15 largest law firms. Holland & Knight thrives on a "one-firm approach," where interdisciplinary groups that are drawn from the firm's global work force...; Tags: Operating System, Law Firm, Microsoft Corp., Litigation, Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Data Centers, Security, Viruses And Worms, Business Operations, Storage, Hardware, Data Management; Case studies
A High-Performance Move to Windows XP Professional: law firm Cuts Costs, Improves Reliability and Enhances Data Security: Palmer & Dodge LLP, a full service law firm with a range of practices, was running Microsoft Windows 95 on older PCs and wanted state-of-the-art performance, reliability and security to satisfy users and reduce costs. With documents serving as the lifeblood of a law firm, Palmer & Dodge needs advanced...; Tags: Law Firm, Microsoft Windows XP Professional, High-performance, Internosis Inc., Data Security, Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations; Case studies
law firm Cuts Costs, Impresses Users and IT Staff With High-Performance Windows XP: The law firm of Palmer & Dodge LLP was running Microsoft Windows 95 on older PCs and wanted state-of-the-art performance, reliability, and security to satisfy users and reduce costs. The solution was to move to Windows XP Professional on new PCs in conjunction with a full Active Directory implementation and...; Tags: Performance, Information Technology, Operating System, Law Firm, High-performance, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Litigation, Microsoft Windows 95, Help Desk, Performance Management, Microsoft Windows 2000, Roi/Tco, Operating Systems, Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance, Managerial Accounting; Case studies