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New Capabilities Allow More TAR Use In e-Discovery Tasks

Mark Noel

Recent advances in technology assisted review (what I call "TAR 2.0") include the ability to deal with low richness, rolling collections, and flexible inputs in addition to vast improvements in speed. These improvements now allow TAR to be used effectively in many more discovery workflows than its traditional "TAR 1.0" use in classifying large numbers of documents for production.

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Adopting Information Governance in Small and Midsized Firms

Johan T. Widjaja

The law firm records management industry has been evolving to an information governance framework. The records function within the firm has traditionally been more of a back-end function, with the idea that everything was created in paper, made into an official record, indexed and hopefully regulated by retention schedules.

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Alternative Secretarial Approaches to Legal Support

J. Mark Santiago

Most law firms above 100 to 150 attorneys outsource many of their basic services. Mail, messenger, records and photocopy staff are now commonly supplied by a group of national and regional vendors. However, one key service that is not supplied by any vendor ' and in most of our individual business case analysis proved to be one of the most inefficient services that law firms supplied ' was that of secretarial support.

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Quick Tips for Rankings Success

Sherry Karabin

Being singled out by one of the research-based legal rankings or directories can be a big client booster, whether it's a practice area or individual lawyers that are recognized. Here are some tips for making the cut.

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Planning a Merger?

Steven A. Davis & Marc Feigelson

A successful merger should improve the firm's competitive position and add value for your clients ' due diligence is key to that success.

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Establishing A Web Presence After A Merger

Gina Carriuolo & Jennifer O'Leary Cathell

Merger activities typically disrupt "business as usual" and result in more questions than answers. This was particularly true when the law firms of Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP and Wildman Harrold Allen & Dixon LLP merged in 2011. Edwards Wildman's marketing efforts, specifically our online and digital Web presence, were quickly devoted to achieving a cohesive "one voice, one brand, one solution" approach, as we set out to redesign our website and digital persona.

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Redaction: What You Need to Know

Sue Hughes

While the term <i>redaction</i> is well known in the legal community and government agencies, the term itself is new to those not in the fields mentioned above. Because of improper redaction making its way into the headlines, more and more people are seeing the term.

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Protecting Law Firms from Increasing Cyberattacks

Peter F. Vaira

Cyberattacks are increasing at a startling rate in the business community, not only by hackers for personal intellectual skullduggery, but cyberattacks aimed at obtaining sensitive information. Law firms have become major targets of these illegal attacks, which are aimed at discovering and pilfering the entire subject matter of a commercial operation.

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Planning a Merger? Avoid Pitfalls through Proper Due Diligence

Steven A. Davis & Marc Feigelson

After reaching an all-time high in 2013, the pace of U.S. law firm mergers and acquisitions is showing no signs of slowing down. With all of these deals in the news of late, you may be considering whether a merger or acquisition might be an appropriate growth strategy for your firm.

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Lawyers, Law Firms and Innovation

Terri Mottershead

The important thing to note here is that decline need not mean extinction ' provided the industry changes. And changing it is.

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