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March 07, 2007 | Legaltech News

How Small Firms Can Upgrade Hardware While Keeping Costs Down

Small firms may lack larger firms' big coffers, but does that mean they must always fall short on hardware purchases and upgrades? David Whelan, director of the Cincinnati Law Library Association, offers six tips to maximize your purchasing power and avoid buying blunders.
5 minute read
January 20, 2005 | Legaltech News

Backing Up Is Hard to Do

Nobody likes copying files to protect data. But if you've ever suffered a severe computer crash, you know the value of backups. Once upon a time, a lawyer had to put everything on tape. Now, less tedious options exist. You've got optical media. You've got tiny, portable disk drives. Perhaps best of all, you've got online services, which keep your precious files in a remote location -- so they won't go up in flames along with your office (knock on wood).
9 minute read
November 07, 2005 | Law.com

Cure Prescribed for Medicare Lien Ills

In the past, Connecticut lawyers trying to disburse personal-injury settlements had to fax requests for the amount of a Medicare lien to New York or Pennsylvania officials -- and then wait. Settlement funds sometimes languished in lawyers' trust accounts for years, awaiting the necessary information. Things may have improved now, though, based on attorney John L. Bonee III's actions, which have garnered valuable information on the calculation process, and more importantly, a contact phone number.
3 minute read
November 20, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Tax Tips

Sidney Kess, a CPA-attorney, writes that every year, Social Security and Medicare rules as well as contribution and benefit limits for retirement plans are adjusted to account for inflation. The changes can mean increased retirement income or higher costs, greater retirement savings opportunities and other changes that must be factored into retirement living and retirement planning.
9 minute read
October 25, 2005 | Law.com

Snapshot: Leonard Nuara, Partner, Thacher, Proffitt & Wood

Leonard Nuara, a partner at Thacher, Proffitt & Wood in New York City, was instrumental in getting the firm back on its feet after it lost its offices in the World Trade Center attacks. He�s the chair of Thacher Profitt's technology and IP practice group and technology committee. His pick for most important tech trend this year? The use of software products to build portals and extranets that allow collaboration. Find out about all the tech that keeps him going.
3 minute read
February 06, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Feds paid billions in settlements last year

Lawyers for Uncle Sam shelled out more than $3 billion in taxpayer funds last year to resolve lawsuits against the federal government - more than twice as much as in 2010, and the most in at least five years, an analysis of government records shows.The lion's share of expenses can be attributed to the Department of Energy, which single-handedly accounted for $1.
8 minute read
December 17, 2007 | New York Law Journal

Outsourcing Care

Michele Masucci, a partner at Nixon Peabody, and Scott Simpson, an associate at the firm, write that it remains to be seen whether foreign health care can play a meaningful role in reducing the trillions of dollars spent on health care in the U.S. each year. Until that time, global health care will continue to serve as an interesting option for millions of under- and uninsured Americans.
18 minute read
October 08, 2009 | The American Lawyer

What a Hogan/Lovells Merger Would Mean

The new entity has the potential for a name out of Harry Potter--Hogells--and a chance to remake a corner of the Big Law marketplace.
4 minute read
April 01, 2009 | National Law Journal

High Court Dismisses Philip Morris Appeal of $79 Million Punitive Damages Verdict

The U.S. Supreme Court blinked Tuesday in a long-running standoff with the Oregon Supreme Court over the handling of a punitive damages suit against Philip Morris brought by the widow of a smoker who died from lung cancer in 1997. As a result, the widow, Mayola Williams, stands to receive at least a portion of the $79 million verdict, which has grown to $150 million with interest. The Court dismissed the case as "improvidently granted" in a one-sentence opinion, nearly four months after argument in the case.
4 minute read
August 04, 2008 | New York Law Journal

AIA Document A201-2007, ConsensusDOCS 200 Forms

Brian G. Lustbader, counsel to Mazur, Carp & Rubin, writes that every 10 years or so, the American Institute of Architects revises its form construction documents. Those revisions are typically substantive and extensive, and the latest revisions, the 2007 form documents, are no exception. It is therefore of critical importance, he notes, that all parties to construction projects, owners, developers, construction managers, contractors, and subcontractors, carefully analyze the new documents with their counsel and make appropriate modifications before signing them.
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