Basic case management system programs use one application to accomplish several fundamental legal tasks. Virtually every legal consultant says a law firm must have a CMS to effectively manage its practice. So, if all the experts approve it, why don’t more firms have a CMS?
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The greening of America’s law firms has not reached critical mass, but the tipping point may come
soon now that several U.S. firms have adopted internal practices to reduce their carbon
footprint. As columnist Thomas Friedman put it, “Green is the new red,
white and blue.”
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A proposed rule in New Jersey to make most court records available via the Internet — the rule would make records available only after lawyers scrub them of clients’ personal data — is drawing broad opposition. Some critics say it takes transparency too far while others say it doesn’t go far enough.
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PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania state court judge on March 11 rejected as hearsay federal amicus brief “opinion” on preemption of warning claims and said federal law indicates no congressional intent to preempt state common-law claims in a Paxil suicide case (Mary Collins, et al. v. SmithKline Beecham Corporation, et al., February Term 2007, No. 0762, […]
BOSTON - A Massachusetts justice on Feb. 25 issued a preliminary injunction against Fremont Investment & Loan enjoining it from initiating or advancing certain subprime mortgage foreclosures without the state attorney general’s written consent (Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Fremont Investment & Loan, et al., No. 07-4373, Mass. Super., Suffolk Co.; 2008 Mass. Super. LEXIS 46).
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NEW ORLEANS - A co-defendant in a Louisiana silicosis case is in cahoots with the plaintiff, a respiratory equipment maker charges in a March 10 motion to realign the parties (Wardell Mullins v. Mississippi Valley Silica Co., et al., No. 02-18069, La. Dist., Orleans Parish, Div. I).
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HONOLULU - A Hawaii judge on March 17 approved a settlement between the liquidator of PrimeGuard Insurance Co. and PrimeGuard’s shareholders and its affiliated companies, First Assured Warranty Corp., Warrantee Wise Inc. and 1SourceAutoWarranty.com Inc. (J.P. Schmidt v. PrimeGuard Insurance Co., No. 05-1-0443, Hawaii Cir.).
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BANGOR, Maine - A New England supermarket chain and its parent company are liable for a security breach in which as many as 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers were allegedly stolen resulting in approximately 1,800 instances of fraud, a Maine woman claims in a March 18 complaint filed just one day after the […]
Carl Malamud and other digital activists are piling up case law in public archives, moving toward a vision of the Web in which words in a given judge’s decision are hyperlinked to other decisions, or to academic analysis, through the efforts of Internet users organized in social networking collectives.
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It can be overwhelming to sift through the growing cadre of vendors to outsource technology, legal research, transcription and document drafting. But a thoughtful approach, such as asking careful questions about security or making your own on-site visits, can make the process more manageable.
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