ABA TECHSHOW.blogThe Latest Information About ABA TECHSHOW - The World's Premier Legal Technology ConferencePaperless 2.0- August 29, 2007 Going paperless is a new mantra among many lawyers. With litigators proving out the cost savings of going paperless with discovery document collections, more and more lawyers are taking the dive and implementing paperless systems. The obvious cost savings are touted frequently. These include: 1) Scan once versus copy many times. 2) Less rent on file room space. 3) File room staffing costs. And 4) Copiers, toner and other hard costs of copying. But getting rid of paper is only a...http://www.techshow.com/blog/082907.shtml DC Court Orders Restoration of Back-up Tapes in WMATA Disability Rights Case- August 23, 2007 In the District Court for the District of Columbia, disabled plaintiffs claimed that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) failed to provide adequate services to people with disabilities. Discovery was heavily litigated, and in an opinion dated June 1, 2007, Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola addressed several discovery issues including the production of e-mail from backup tapes. Plaintiffs sought production of backup tapes of certain electronic documents written and...http://www.techshow.com/blog/082307.shtml Outlook on Your Desktop- August 22, 2007 I've just discovered a neat little application that I've loaded on the computer. Outlook on the Desktop is exactly what it sounds like. The free program (a donation is requested if you like the application) loads your Outlook calendar as a transparent background image on your desktop of your computer so you can always see what's on your agenda even if you don't have Outlook open. You can download the software here.http://www.techshow.com/blog/082207.shtml Low Tech Deserves Attention- August 17, 2007 Carleo v. King is a case involving a claim by one lawyer against another lawyer for breach of a verbal contract. Plaintiff claimed that he represented certain clients in an employment matter, and that case was taken over by the Defendants. Plaintiff claimed that the second lawyer (King) agreed to pay fees for work performed by the first lawyer (plaintiff). Needless to say, this case was document intensive, including thousands of pages of the attorneys' respective files,...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081707.shtml Certified E-mail Gains Popularity with Internet Providers- August 15, 2007 On June 7, 2007, Goodmail Systems announced that four more Internet Service Providers will start charging banks, e-commerce sites and other large e-mail senders for guaranteed delivery. Goodmail Systems is expanding its CertifiedEmail program to Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon Communications. Yahoo and Time Warner's AOL became inaugural participants last year. Individuals, businesses and organizations will be able to continue sending messages for free,...http://www.techshow.com/blog/080907.shtml Do Police Need a Search Warrant for a Cell Phone- August 15, 2007 On May 23, 2007, a U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of California ruled that warrantless searches of three defendants’ cellular phones violated their Fourth Amendment rights. In 2004, the three defendants, Edward Park, Brian Ly, and David Lee, were arrested during the raid of a marijuana hothouse. After they were taken to the San Francisco Police Department, the defendants’ belongings were inventoried including their cell phones. However, before the phones were...http://www.techshow.com/blog/081507.shtml "Round-tripping" and Document Assembly- August 7, 2007 One of the longstanding wouldn't-it-be-greats of legal document automation has been the ability to assemble a draft from an intelligent model, hand-edit it to reflect nuances of a transaction or results of negotiation, and then re-assemble it using stored answers to reflect an intervening change of basic deal terms (like parties or financial details) ... without losing those hand edits. Sounds reasonable; turns out to be very tricky. As mentioned in a paper on current frontiers of document..http://www.techshow.com/blog/080707.shtml The New ABAJournal.com - Legal News Now- August 2, 2007 The ABA Journal, which is read by more than half the nation's 1.1 million lawyers every month, has radically revamped its website. It aggregates and filters breaking news from the nation's best legal journalists and daily analysis from lawyers who are experts in their fields. It's a place where the legal community can comment about today's developments, and learn from each other. The revamped site has three major components: Law News Now: The home page features the latest legal news...http://www.techshow.com/blog/080207.shtml |