Dictation is an old friend for lawyers and should not be forgotten as manufacturers move from analog to digital dictation systems. Michael Barnas, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal’s director of application services, provides helpful tips and tactics for evaluating specific vendors.
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Netscape Navigator, the world’s first commercial Web browser and the launch pad of the Internet boom, will be pulled off life support Feb. 1. Time Warner Inc.’s AOL decided to kill further development and technical support to focus on growing the company as an advertising business.
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There are about 1,000 blind lawyers in the U.S., but only a few at major law firms, despite the assistance that contemporary technology offers. Kirkland & Ellis associate William Grignon stays on top of his practice with some additional software, including a speech synthesizer that reads aloud text displayed on a computer screen.
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Lawyers working on international transactions should beware of exports that include services, software and technical data. The U.S. government is stepping up its enforcement of export laws and ratcheting up related penalties. Dilworth Paxson’s Margaret Gatti and David Laigaie offer 10 tips to fend off costly fines.
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The Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation has partnered with the Texas Access to Justice Commission and several large firms to provide a merry Christmas for 37 nonprofit legal aid groups in the state, donating $680,000 worth of technology equipment to the groups.
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HOUSTON - The silica attorney who the federal government says conspired with an insurance company’s former employees to scam millions of dollars in settlement funds earmarked for his clients asked a federal judge on Dec. 18 to disclose certain grand jury materials supporting the indictment against him, saying they are needed to avoid injustice in […]
SCRANTON, Pa. - Final approval of a $1.6 million real property value diminution and medical monitoring class action settlement was granted Dec. 14 for the owners of 147 parcels near Mountaintop, Pa., contaminated with trichloroethylene (Sarah Martin, et. al. v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp., No. 06-878, M.D. Pa.; 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 92021).
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DETROIT - Surveillance evidence showing a claimant at a bar drinking beer and out running errands is sufficient to support an Employee Retirement Income Security Act-governed disability insurer’s termination of benefits, a Michigan judge ruled Nov. 20 (Camille Kotowski v. Daimler-Chrysler Corp. Long Term Disability Plan, et al., No. 06-15278, E.D. Mich.; 2007 U.S. Dist. […]
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Minority borrowers sued Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary EMC Mortgage Corp. on Dec. 4, alleging that the defendants engaged in predatory mortgage servicing practices that exploited Hispanic and black borrowers in violation of the Fair Housing Act and civil rights laws (Scott Rodriguez, et al. v. Bear […]
LONDON - The English Court of Appeal on Dec. 5 upheld an anti-suit injunction barring an insurer from challenging a London arbitration award in a U.S. court (C v. D, No.1282, English App.; See 8/3/07, Page 4).
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