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Coming today to TechnoFeature: When lawyers perform client work, they focus like nobody's business. But when you lock them in a conference room, and ask them to choose a new document management system, practice management system, or some other technology, many lawyers will agree to just about anything to escape. However, technology decisions ultimately impact your firm's ability to perform work for its clients. Thanks to knowledge system architect Marc Lauritsen it need not be a painful or thankless process. In this TechnoFeature, Marc lays out a dozen recommended practices for making sound technology choices. You'll learn how to isolate essential features, evaluate vendors, prevent groupthink, and much more.

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Today's issue of Answers to Questions contains these articles:

Gian-Reto Schulthess, Review: MessageSave and FileCenter for Email Archiving

Miriam Jacobson, Review: FoxIt Reader for PDF Files

Doug Rice, Review: Microsoft OneNote for Litigation Support

Michael Jones, Worldox: Why You Shouldn't Go It Alone

Leslie Shear, A Different Twist on File Naming

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Today's issue of Fat Friday contains these articles:

Tom Trottier, Review: Seagate Momentus Laptop Hard Drives

Sandor Boxer, Review: Copernic Desktop Search

Michael St. George, Recession Perspectives: Is It Really Over?

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Our most serendipitous offering, Fat Friday consists of unsolicited contributions by TechnoLawyer members. You'll no doubt enjoy it because of its mix of interesting topics and genuinely useful knowledge, including brutally honest product reviews and informative how-tos. The Fat Friday newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Today's issue of Answers to Questions contains these articles:

Wallace Magathan, Scanner Reviews: Fujitsu fi-6130 Versus ScanSnap S510

Miriam Jacobson, Review: Cricket USB Wireless

Bill Baldwin, Tip: How to Batch Process TIFF Files With Acrobat Pro

Chris Gibson, Review: Ergotron Monitor Stands; UltraMon Multiple Monitor Resources

Dave Buda, How to Protect and Securely Destroy Sensitive Hard Drive Data

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Do you believe in the wisdom of crowds? In Answers to Questions, TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers. This newsletter's popularity stems from the relevance of the questions and answers to virtually everyone in the legal profession. The Answers to Questions newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to TechnoFeature: The PDF format has become the lingua franca for documents in the legal profession — and many PDF programs exist from which law firms can choose. Competition is good since it generally results in lower prices and better products — but it makes choosing a product much more difficult. In this TechnoFeature, legal technology consultant and Solo Practice University faculty member Caren Schwartz reviews Nuance's PDF Converter Enterprise 7, the latest version of its enterprise-class PDF software, which sells for about $150. From conversion to redaction to Bates stamping to OCR to Web capture to Microsoft Office integration and more, Caren thoroughly evaluates the features lawyers care about most. If you're searching for PDF software, start by reading Caren's exhaustive review.

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Our flagship newsletter never disappoints thanks to its in-depth reporting by leading legal technology and practice management experts, many of whom have become "household names" in the legal profession. It's in TechnoFeature that you'll find our oft-quoted formal product reviews and accompanying TechnoScore ratings. The TechnoFeature newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 136 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

Review: Logitech K750 Solar Powered Keyboard

New Site Provides Database of Mobile Apps for Law

Why So Many Lawyers Moonlight Nowadays

Can Snooki Save Your Law Practice?

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Today's issue of Answers to Questions contains these articles:

Anthony Campbell, Review: Worldox GX2

Sam Mattern, Review: Acrobat Professional v. CVista PdfCompressor for Batch Processing

Ken Laska, The Sad Math Behind Suing Your Non-Paying Clients

Denise Yancey, File Naming Tips Revisited

Elaine LaPointe, Review: MessageSave For Archiving Emails

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How to Receive Answers to Questions
Do you believe in the wisdom of crowds? In Answers to Questions, TechnoLawyer members answer legal technology and practice management questions submitted by their peers. This newsletter's popularity stems from the relevance of the questions and answers to virtually everyone in the legal profession. The Answers to Questions newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to TechnoFeature: As children, we all used the not-so-persuasive argument, "Because." Since the 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, many litigators have successfully used two adult variations of this argument to escape demands for electronically stored information (ESI) — "It's too expensive" and "It's impossible." But the times are changing. In this TechnoFeature, eDiscovery expert and lawyer Josh Gilliland explains why judges increasingly find such arguments unpersuasive. If you want to obtain ESI from your adversary, Josh offers essential tips on how to overcome an "unduly burdensome" claim. On the flip-side, if you want to escape an ESI request, Josh explains what you need to show beyond the above two catchphrases.

How to Receive TechnoFeature
Our flagship newsletter never disappoints thanks to its in-depth reporting by leading legal technology and practice management experts, many of whom have become "household names" in the legal profession. It's in TechnoFeature that you'll find our oft-quoted formal product reviews and accompanying TechnoScore ratings. The TechnoFeature newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.

Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 133 articles from the past week worthy of your attention, including our Post of the Week. Here's a sample:

The Most Reliable Legal Technology Study Ever

Why I Still Don't Love My iPad and Why the iPad 2 Won't Help

What America's Lawyers Earn

The Truth About Guest Blogging

This issue also contains links to every article in the February 2011 issue of Law Practice Today. Don't miss this issue or future issues.

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Today's issue of Fat Friday contains these articles:

Miriam Jacobson, Small Firms and Cutting-Edge Technology: Mutually Exclusive?

Rick Borstein, Fujitsu ScanSnap Scanners, Adobe Acrobat, and TWAIN

Ian Page-Echols, Amendment to Lee Rosen's Personal Hygiene Mistakes

Question of the Week: Whom Did You Hire and Why?

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How to Receive Fat Friday
Our most serendipitous offering, Fat Friday consists of unsolicited contributions by TechnoLawyer members. You'll no doubt enjoy it because of its mix of interesting topics and genuinely useful knowledge, including brutally honest product reviews and informative how-tos. The Fat Friday newsletter is free so don't miss the next issue. Please subscribe now.