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Bridgeway Software, Inc. has added two new e-invoicing services to enhance its eCounsel product. These new Bridgeway services offer the choice of using either secure Web transport or flexible and simple e-mail to receive invoices. Both eCounsel Cost Management services enable corporate legal departments to receive invoices electronically from law firms directly into eCounsel, reducing processing time and eliminating manual data entry. Bridgeway's Web e-invoicing solution occurs as the result of a strategic partnership between Bridgeway and Tripoint Systems Development Corporation. Bridgeway will offer DirectInvoice, tightly integrated with eCounsel, as its premier Web e-invoicing service to enhance its cost management solution. This option not only provides a secure and comprehensive system to track and manage legal invoices, but also enhances eCounsel's capabilities in workflow approval, invoice auditing, data analysis and AP integration. For more information, please visit http://www.bridge-way.com/.
Client Profiles has announced the release of a completely redesigned scanning interface for its Case and Financial Management systems, available for current subscribers as a patch to Version 6. The new imaging system allows users to scan and profile documents for multiple matters, collaborate on scanned documents using the new 'scanned document review workflow process,' and export multiple individual scanned pages into a single multi-page .TIF document.
In a separate announcement, Client Profiles has also released Client Profiles LITE for small or specialty 'boutique' practices, utilizing Microsoft Developer Edition (MSDE) technology as their database server. Client Profiles LITE comes ready to use on a CD configured with pre-designed legal practice areas and Client Profiles' Financial System ' all of the features and functionality of the MS SQL 2000 database system without the added hardware and server requirements or costs. The product is suitable for law firms that do not require more than 10 simultaneous users of its case and financial management system. For more information, please visit http://www.clientprofiles.com/.
Compulit has announced that it has become a Preferred Solutions Provider with Verdict Systems, LLC. This partnership will integrate Compulit's litigation support services, electronic discovery, imaging, coding and online Compulit.Net document repository with Verdict Systems' Sanction. Sanction is a totally integrated, Windows-style document management and digital trial presentation system. For further information, please visit http://www.compulit.com/ or http://www.verdictsystems.com/.
Martindale-Hubbell has acquired eAttorney, a recruiting relationship management company that connects law students, attorneys, law schools and law firms. The acquisition of eAttorney will allow Martindale-Hubbell, a part of the LexisNexis Group, to extend its business into legal recruiting. For more information, please visit http://www.martindale.com/.
RealLegal, LLC has announced the release of RealLegal Binder 6.0, its transcript and exhibit management software. Enhancements include Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ' enabling users to word search scanned documents, exhibits and images ' and the Document Annotator tool. These two features in RealLegal Binder
6.0 make transcripts and documents equally manageable from a single interface. The OCR engine available with RealLegal Binder 6.0 is powered by the integration of ABBYY Optical Character Recognition technology. The Document Annotator tool enables attorneys and paralegals to apply a color-coded issue and note directly to a scanned document in evidence. As with transcript annotations, the document annotation appears in reports, digests and case summaries. For more information please visit http://www.reallegal.com/ or http://www.abbbyyusa.com/.
West has announced a new version of West kmT, the company's knowledge management service. According to the company, West km 2.0 is the first knowledge management system in any industry to fully automate the analyzing and indexing of documents to a universally accepted classification system, substantially improving the accuracy of research retrieval. West km 2.0 uses West's proprietary CaRE (Categorization and Routing Engine) technology to classify law firm documents, such as briefs, memoranda and depositions, to the 10,000 legal topics of the KeySearch hierarchy. The ability to categorize to an existing and proven taxonomy means that law firm documents can be indexed consistently to the same system that has been used to organize the universe of legal information resources for more than 125 years. To help technologists, legal professionals and the public better understand the underlying technologies underlying CaRE, West has released West km 2.0, Classifying Document Collections with CaRE, a white paper written by Daniel Dabney, Peter Jackson and Kingsley Martin. Also available is A Brief Practical Introduction to Taxonomies. These white papers can be found at http://west.thomson.com/westkm.
Bridgeway Software, Inc. has added two new e-invoicing services to enhance its eCounsel product. These new Bridgeway services offer the choice of using either secure Web transport or flexible and simple e-mail to receive invoices. Both eCounsel Cost Management services enable corporate legal departments to receive invoices electronically from law firms directly into eCounsel, reducing processing time and eliminating manual data entry. Bridgeway's Web e-invoicing solution occurs as the result of a strategic partnership between Bridgeway and Tripoint Systems Development Corporation. Bridgeway will offer DirectInvoice, tightly integrated with eCounsel, as its premier Web e-invoicing service to enhance its cost management solution. This option not only provides a secure and comprehensive system to track and manage legal invoices, but also enhances eCounsel's capabilities in workflow approval, invoice auditing, data analysis and AP integration. For more information, please visit http://www.bridge-way.com/.
Client Profiles has announced the release of a completely redesigned scanning interface for its Case and Financial Management systems, available for current subscribers as a patch to Version 6. The new imaging system allows users to scan and profile documents for multiple matters, collaborate on scanned documents using the new 'scanned document review workflow process,' and export multiple individual scanned pages into a single multi-page .TIF document.
In a separate announcement, Client Profiles has also released Client Profiles LITE for small or specialty 'boutique' practices, utilizing
Compulit has announced that it has become a Preferred Solutions Provider with Verdict Systems, LLC. This partnership will integrate Compulit's litigation support services, electronic discovery, imaging, coding and online Compulit.Net document repository with Verdict Systems' Sanction. Sanction is a totally integrated, Windows-style document management and digital trial presentation system. For further information, please visit http://www.compulit.com/ or http://www.verdictsystems.com/.
Martindale-Hubbell has acquired eAttorney, a recruiting relationship management company that connects law students, attorneys, law schools and law firms. The acquisition of eAttorney will allow Martindale-Hubbell, a part of the
RealLegal, LLC has announced the release of RealLegal Binder 6.0, its transcript and exhibit management software. Enhancements include Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ' enabling users to word search scanned documents, exhibits and images ' and the Document Annotator tool. These two features in RealLegal Binder
6.0 make transcripts and documents equally manageable from a single interface. The OCR engine available with RealLegal Binder 6.0 is powered by the integration of ABBYY Optical Character Recognition technology. The Document Annotator tool enables attorneys and paralegals to apply a color-coded issue and note directly to a scanned document in evidence. As with transcript annotations, the document annotation appears in reports, digests and case summaries. For more information please visit http://www.reallegal.com/ or http://www.abbbyyusa.com/.
West has announced a new version of West kmT, the company's knowledge management service. According to the company, West km 2.0 is the first knowledge management system in any industry to fully automate the analyzing and indexing of documents to a universally accepted classification system, substantially improving the accuracy of research retrieval. West km 2.0 uses West's proprietary CaRE (Categorization and Routing Engine) technology to classify law firm documents, such as briefs, memoranda and depositions, to the 10,000 legal topics of the KeySearch hierarchy. The ability to categorize to an existing and proven taxonomy means that law firm documents can be indexed consistently to the same system that has been used to organize the universe of legal information resources for more than 125 years. To help technologists, legal professionals and the public better understand the underlying technologies underlying CaRE, West has released West km 2.0, Classifying Document Collections with CaRE, a white paper written by Daniel Dabney, Peter Jackson and Kingsley Martin. Also available is A Brief Practical Introduction to Taxonomies. These white papers can be found at http://west.thomson.com/westkm.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
'Huguenot LLC v. Megalith Capital Group Fund I, L.P.': A Tutorial On Contract Liability for Real Estate Purchasers
In June 2024, the First Department decided Huguenot LLC v. Megalith Capital Group Fund I, L.P., which resolved a question of liability for a group of condominium apartment buyers and in so doing, touched on a wide range of issues about how contracts can obligate purchasers of real property.
CoStar Wins Injunction for Breach-of-Contract Damages In CRE Database Access Lawsuit
Latham & Watkins helped the largest U.S. commercial real estate research company prevail in a breach-of-contract dispute in District of Columbia federal court.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.