Competitive intelligence software helps manage clients, targets new opportunities, guards against raids from competing firms, headhunts for lateral hires and even wins trials. Author Larry Bodine sorts out the wide array of CI tools available to law firms.
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Cybersettle, an Internet-based service used to negotiate settlements, has signed a new contract with New York City, adding medical malpractice and subrogation claims to the types of cases that can be settled on the Web.
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Professor Daniel Solove has his annual report on the state of law professor blogging in this post at Concurring Opinions. In 2007, there are 365 law professor bloggers (one for each day of the year!), with a change of 58…
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Larry Bodine posts here about a new marketing initiative cooked up by Barnes Thornburg. The firm published a 318-page cookbook entitled Great Tastes of the Law, composed of recipes from firm lawyers. All proceeds from the $16 book go to…
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Perhaps if you work at a U.K. firm, you best not take my earlier suggestion about using Facebook as a marketing tool. As Wired GC posts here, 70 percent of London firms surveyed are restricting employee access to social-networking Web…
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LONDON - The English Commercial Court, Queen’s Bench Division, on July 16 rejected an Indian state electricity board’s application seeking to stop an international arbitration on the ground that the matters submitted to arbitration aren’t covered by the agreement between the board and the investors backing a local power plant project (Tamil Nadu Electricity Board […]
BROOKLYN, NY - A federal judge granted summary judgment to Proctor & Gamble on July 16, ruling that a woman failed to say which of the company’s hair dye ingredients caused her alleged injuries (Mary Viscusi v. Proctor & Gamble, No. 05-1528, E.D. N.Y.; 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51307).
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Two Food and Drug Administration advisory committees on July 30 found that Avandia increases cardiac ischemic risk in diabetics but said it should continue to be marketed with additional warnings, restrictions and further studies.
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Cisco Systems Inc. announced a $150 million investment in VMWare, EMC Corp.’s virtualization technology unit. Virtualization allows computer servers to run multiple operating systems — instead of giving each OS its own dedicated server — saving firms money, space and power costs.
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Lawyers in the online virtual world Second Life act like lawyers, but they practice law through an alter ego, a digital character called an avatar, with virtual clients that have real legal problems like landlord-tenant, contract and intellectual property issues.
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