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Payne Consulting of Seattle has announced the release of Metadata Assistant for Microsoft Excel, which cleans out hidden information from Excel documents. Following the positive response for Metadata Assistant for Word, this new software extends the same functionality to Excel files, which have even more hidden data than Word files. Metadata has seen an upsurge in importance as the rise of electronic discovery has put an increasing number of vital business documents into the hands of opposing parties to litigation or other business matters. With Metadata Assistant, readers can analyze hidden data that exists in a spreadsheet or word processing document and remove hidden data that could include concealed numbers that comprise confidential company formulas or text revealing incriminating motivations. The new software is offered at no additional charge to those who have licensed Word Metadata Assistant Enterprise Version. The add-in is compatible with Microsoft Excel versions 97-2002 (Office XP) as well as the current beta for Office 11. Payne Consulting also expects to release Metadata Assistant for PowerPoint in February 2003. For more information please visit www.payneconsulting.com
ProLaw Software, a division of West, has announced the release of ProLaw Ready, a version of the company's namesake practice management suite tailored specifically to the needs of small firms. Designed and priced for firms with one to 15 attorneys, ProLaw Ready specifically meets the need for a fully integrated practice management package in the small-firm market segment. The software offers small firms a full complement of features such as contact and relationship management, rules-based calendaring, document management, records management, conflicts searching, time tracking, billing, comprehensive management reporting, contingency accounting, integrated accounting and access to Virtual ProLaw University, the developer's online training program. ProLaw Ready also is fully integrated with Westlaw, and features West WorksT Practice Libraries, which offer a comprehensive collection of authoritative, practice-specific forms and document assembly tools. For more information, please visit www.prolaw.com.
Syngence LLC has announced that Synthetix, its document retrieval and analysis search engine will be integrated with Dataflight Software's next version of Concordance. Synthetix augments traditional information search methods with the ability to find 'semantically-related' materials in even the largest document collections. The integration of Synthetix with Concordance will allow users to take advantage of this search tool to gain even greater control over their discovery documents. In addition to comprehensive full-text searching, Concordance users will search their databases by relevance. Relevant or 'semantically-related' searching offers an important additional tool to help find key documents and evidence, as well as duplicate documents within a Concordance database. For more information please visit www.syngence.com.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
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.
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.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?