TechnoLawyer: Business Productivity/Word Processing

Coming January 12, 2007 to Fat Friday: Gregory Miller provides a sneak peek into the Congressional Internet Caucus' agenda for the "State of the Net" conference in January, Lewis Kinard discusses the lessons learned from 9/11 and Katrina, Harry Steinmetz shares his experience with age discrimination and how it shaped his law career, Brent Blanchard reveals what winning the lottery would mean for his practice, and Celia Elwell adds her two cents to the continuing Word v. WordPerfect debate. Don't miss this issue.

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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online repository with Google-like search speed, PDF creation software for thrifty law firms, and a plug-and-play Microsoft Exchange appliance that promises 99.99% uptime for your firm's e-mail. Don't miss the next issue.

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

Finding Needles in E-Discovery Haystacks Very Quickly
By Dennis Kennedy
As electronic discovery becomes a fixture in complex litigation, both law firms and clients seek better ways to handle large volumes of documents. Increasingly, they seem to choose online repositories. Security, features, and other factors play important roles in the selection process. However, speed may be the biggest consideration. Do you really want to enter a complex search through millions of documents and wait minutes rather than milliseconds for your results?

Catalyst Secure's Catalyst CR 6.0 (Grid Edition) attacks the issue of speed directly. The first grid-based document review and litigation support platform, CR 6.0 delivers sub-second response times for complex searches. In audited benchmark testing, CR brought back search results in less than a second in the vast majority of queries even for queries with 750 search terms and 15 million documents.

CR 6.0 uses an innovative grid-based computing system that efficiently uses a large number of servers to generate fast results. The grid runs the well-known FAST search engine, optimized for the types of searches used in electronic discovery.

You can locate the documents you want swiftly using keyword, full-text, date-range, proximity, concept and even bates-number searches. CR 6.0 supports native review of Office documents, e-mail, and hundreds of other file formats, and has been optimized for PDF files. CR 6.0 uses a simple interface for searching designed to give you both flexibility and power. You can save searches, tag results, and manage workflow.

Once you locate documents, you and your team can review, redact, and prepare them for production, especially under tight deadlines. Every party in a case can securely use the CR 6.0 repository.

CR 6.0 provides a secure platform that can scale as your repository grows, but the speed will likely impress you and your team the most.

Contact Catalyst Secure for information about pricing, which depends on the size of the repository.  Learn more about Catalyst CR 6.0.

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Coming December 14, 2006 to Answers to Questions: Gerald Pinzino suggests six simple tips for keeping your wireless office network secure and weighs in on the WiFi analogy debate, Craig Humphrey discusses new integrated desktop and enterprise search tools, Norton Townsley offers up a solution to keep formatting and fonts in a PDF file, Katrina Curfiss reviews PracticeMaster for civil case management, and Craig Bayer reviews PCLaw for time-billing. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming December 1, 2006 to Fat Friday: Ed Detlie reviews Dymo Stamps online postage service, Thomas Daly explains why automating documents doesn't work for his complex practice, Steven Finell discusses the importance of dates in file names (and the best way to display them), Don Winston sings the praises of a recent TechnoFeature about document management software, and David Caracappa reviews CrypInfo for password management on your desktop and handheld device. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 09, 2006 to Answers to Questions: Jon Calhoun puts the Word v. WordPerfect debate to rest, Michael Penny suggests several ways to keep client files secure while in the hands of a computer repair technician, and William Lloyd reviews his experience using a HP LaserJet 4345 multi-function printer in his solo practice. Don't miss this issue.

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Coming November 2, 2006 to Answers to Questions: Christel Burris discusses how she resolved her own Word v. WordPerfect debate and has since helped 200 others see the light, William Walker offers up solutions for sticky printer rollers, Janice Wood reviews the Fujitsu ScanSnap S500, and Carol Bratt reviews DataPrompter, a document assembly add-on for Word. Don't miss this issue.

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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers an online form creation tool, an online event planner, and a new approach to collaborating on Word files. Don't miss the next issue.

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

Your Online Law Form
By Dennis Kennedy
Law offices run on forms. Nothing makes law firms run smoother than good form. Unfortunately, creating forms is never easy enough and often falls to the bottom of the priority list.

Infinity Box's Wufoo is an online application for helping you design and build Web and intranet forms of all kinds. Wufoo also does the heavy lifting for you. It builds the database and scripts you need to create useful forms. As a hosted application, all you need is your browser and a little imagination.

Wufoo's Web site lists a huge number of forms you can create — contacts, mailing lists, surveys, job applications, event calendars, registration forms, and even tests and quizzes. The Web site offers a large gallery of useful sample forms to get you started and inspire you.

You start with the form manager tool for publishing, analyzing, and editing forms. You create forms with a drag-and-drop form builder tool. Wufoo also offers e-mail integration and a theme builder to customize the look of your forms. Advanced users can tweak their forms using CSS and XHTML.

Once you collect data, Wufoo offers a variety of output options, including CSV and Excel. You can also generate reports and graphs, and make your form data public or private. You can have Wufoo host your forms or integrate them on your own site and intranet.

Wufoo offers a number of plans, including a free version. Monthly plans range from $9 to $199/month, based on the number of forms you use, the number of entries, storage space needed, and other factors. Learn more about Wufoo.

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Coming October 27, 2006 to Fat Friday:  Mazyar Hedayat waxes poetic about the future of law and technology, Jeff Lisson responds to criticism of his "False Economy of DIY Technology" TechnoFeature, John Mavridis reviews NetDocuments for Web-based document management, Tim Hughes comments on Denise Howell's termination from Reed Smith, and Glenn Curran reviews Copernic Desktop Search (plus he points to a helpful desktop search handbook). Don't miss this issue.

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Coming October 26, 2006 to Answers to Questions: Ann Byrne reviews the good, the bad, and the ugly of her firm's HP LaserJet 4345xs multifunction printer, Eugenie Rivers reviews Pathagoras for document assembly, and Julie Kiernan offers up a warning to those looking for the right desktop search tool. Don't miss this issue.

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In today's issue of TechnoLawyer NewsWire, lawyer and legal technology legend Dennis Kennedy covers the latest version of a popular litigation support suite, the latest version of a popular document comparison and security suite, and a free teleconferencing service. Don't miss the next issue.

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

Blazing New Trails in Litigation Support
By Dennis Kennedy
The growing importance of electronic discovery has resulted in an increasing number of choices among litigation support tools. But which of these tools will endure as the market inevitably consolidates and shakes out? No one can say for sure, but CT Summation and its Blaze LG, Blaze LG Gold, and iBlaze tools seem like a safe bet for several reasons — a long track record, a large installed base, and parent company Wolters Kluwer's financial commitment.

The CT Summation Blaze LG product family features tools that enable you to store, organize, and search scanned documents, electronic documents and e-mail, transcripts, case chronologies, and more. The product family also has robust OCR and PDF capabilities. And now, just in time for the new electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, CT Summation has released version 2.8 of Blaze LG, Blaze LG Gold, and iBlaze with new capabilities for quick review of electronically stored information.

You can allocate documents into discrete review sets for each reviewer, and then you can use the new quick review to consistently identify, classify, and organize documents with mere clicks. The classification tools include category "tags" (e.g., author, responsive, or type of document) and issue "tags," which you can apply to documents instantly. Also included are "Folders" for organizing these documents. You can define Folders however you please — your own collection, by team, for a specific deponent, etc.

Version 2.8 was designed in response to user feedback and emphasizes improved usability. For example, other new features include spell-checking in the database fields to reduce errors, autosave, the ability to correct/re-unitize images, an "Update Bates Range" tool to automatically add new Bates numbers, improved loading and export tools (including the ability to validate load files before loading documents and the ability to export data to Microsoft Excel), redesigned online help and user documentation, and much more.

Learn more about Version 2.8 of the CT Summation Blaze LG Family.

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