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Time and Billing: Be Trigger-Happy
Does your time and billing software help you manage your law firm's workflow? Does it identify key "events" that trigger paperwork? If not, it may be time to upgrade. Integration of new accounting software over the past five years has changed the way attorneys and staff work.
Telecoms Lobbyists Put Pressure on Low-Cost Wi-Fi Efforts
Philadelphia's plan -- the most ambitious yet by a major U.S. city -- to offer low-cost wireless Internet as a municipal service is meeting resistance from Verizon Communications, among others. The telecom industry -- already in turmoil as new technologies disrupt traditional revenue models -- calls the public-sector projects unfair competition, and has pressed for legislation in several states that would extract concessions from such ventures or quash municipal wireless initiatives outright.
N.Y. Bill Would Limit Recording Devices in Court
Proposed legislation would set limits on the Office of Court Administration's now unfettered authority to allow the mechanical recording of proceedings in any state courts in New York. The pending measure would prohibit the use of recording devices in some courts and cases.
Inventors and Patent Attorneys: Beware the Ides of March
IP lawyers and their clients are preparing to implement fundamental changes to U.S. patent law. Beginning March 16, the U.S. will go to a "first-inventor-to file" patent system, a major switch from the longstanding "first-to-invent" system.
Review: Nuance PDF Converter Professional 8
Nuance's PDF Converter Professional 8 software creates PDF documents and fillable forms from scratch and from Office documents. You can even talk at a PDF and it will talk back, exclaims attorney Ruth Carter.
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