The Legal Intelligencer
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The Deal
The Securities and Exchange Commission unveiled a demo of an interactive filing system the agency expects investors will use to examine public companies. Using Extensible Business Reporting Language, the system will search for interactive data tags corporations place in financial reports.
Law.com
Legal MacPac 10 promises template and macro functionality for Microsoft Word. Legal Technology editor Sean Doherty looks at how well it helps lawyers create and manage users, practice groups and firmwide content with conditional formatting like a document assembly application.
Legal Tech Newsletter
Consultant Brett Burney sees Web-based word processor Buzzword as a rich collaboration platform for the legal crowd. Lawyers can create a draft of a document in Buzzword and immediately share it online, instead of creating it in Word and sending it as an attachment via e-mail.
Legal Tech Newsletter
Virtualization is a 20-year-old technology with roots in mainframe computer systems that has moved to PCs. Attorney, computer consultant and blogger Alan Pearlman discusses how compartmentalized servers sharing the same physical hardware can benefit small, medium and large law firms.
LawFirmInc.
Goodwin Procter's iStaff, an IT department-written Web application, has software vendors clamoring to license it from them. The package lets the firm's practice groups quickly match partner requirements with associate skills and interests, saving the firm at least $20,000 a week.
Special to Law.com
The workflow capabilities of Microsoft SharePoint 2007 can be applied to a wide range of business processes in the law firm setting. Mark Gerow, head of the application development team at Fenwick & West, shows how SharePoint's workflow implementation can boost law firm efficiency.
Law Technology News
Presentations should be sensual, engaging, exciting, varied, beautiful and kinetic, says computer forensics/EDD special master Craig Ball. Ball describes how to deliver them with Microsoft PowerPoint and shares some simple secrets and sins to avoid "Death by PowerPoint."
