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Law Firm Profits From Custom App, Eyes New Business
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based LaVan & Neidenberg specializes in social security disability, veterans' disability compensation, and long-term disability cases. A year after it opened in 2004, it had three employees and 600 clients. Today it has 120 employees, including a dozen full-time attorneys plus some offsite help, and 20,000 clients, said the firm's founding partner and president, Ken LaVan, at an IBM event in New York Tuesday showcasing small business partners. Speaking with LaVan at the event, it seems likely that an entrepreneurial spirit ... [MORE]
Vendor Perspectives on This Year's E-Discovery Buzzword
As LegalTech New York looms larger on the horizon, a very clear picture of e-discovery emerges for 2012 -- depending upon which vendor has your ear. To get a better idea of what e-discovery trends will hold sway as the year progresses, I recently asked members of LTN's Editorial Advisory Board, "What's this year's e-discovery buzzword?" To see how well prediction meshes with product development, I asked a representative sampling of industry experts in e-discovery if the words that set everyone buzzing will fall into any of the areas of e-discovery our experts picked ... [MORE]
Beware the Unauthorized Practice of Law in Cyberspace
The Internet allows people to access information on the law and their legal rights from Web sites created by both lawyers and non-lawyers. With that convenience comes an increased risk of violating rules on the unauthorized practice of law.
Law Firms' Top Online Marketing Mistakes
Coroners, garbage collectors and soldiers have seen things they don't want to talk about, and, likewise, much law firm Web site development yields a long list of things nobody should ever see, says marketing consultant Larry Bodine. Consult his rundown of the 12 worst practices in Web marketing. Learn from these serious -- and common -- mistakes.
How Well Does Software Work as a Service?
You might be tired of the phrase "think outside the box," but that's what Software as a Service does -- the "box" being your computer. Though many are leery of having their critical software served up over the Internet, Web 2.0 advances are making SaaS more practical, and desirable.
9th Circuit Judge Weighs Unsealing Prop 8 Trial Video
Retired Judge Vaughn Walker's decision to video record the Proposition 8 trial creates a difficult question for his 9th Circuit successor. Chief Judge James Ware, who inherited the case on a proposed ban on gay marriage, is struggling with whether to make public the recordings of the 2010 trial, which were sealed for in-chambers use.
Solos, Small Firms Face Their Own Challenges After Hurricane Sandy
As they tried to get back to business last week, solos and small firms were confronted with problems such as inaccessible case files, the inability to make it to court and impatient clients and adversaries.
Lessons Learned From 'Creative Pipe'
In Creative Pipe, Judge Grimm warned lawyers of the deficiencies in keyword searching and to employ the "utmost care" in selecting an information retrieval methodology to identify and withhold information protected by the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine.
3rd Circuit Slashes $360,000 in Recovered EDD Costs in 'Race Tires'
Ruling that organizing electronic files is not part of copying expenses, a three-judge panel slashed $360,000 in e-discovery costs to be recovered by defendants by 90 percent.
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