With mobile web surfing increasingly taking off, FindLaw, the most popular consumer legal information website, has launched Mobile FindLaw at m.findlaw.com.
It’s optimized for iPhone and Android smartphones, and is compatible with many popular mobile devices. Unlike other mobile websites which simply shrink their formats to fit a smaller screen, Mobile FindLaw is built to optimize the mobile user experience.
Mobile users can quickly and easily access the FindLaw Lawyer Directory, the largest online lawyer directory, and find a lawyer in their area by name, location or practice area. The Learn About the Law section features hundreds of informative articles on major areas of the law.
Mobile FindLaw provides law firms that advertise in the FindLaw Lawyer Directory the opportunity to be among the first to reach consumers who are actively looking for legal counsel and present helpful information about their legal expertise. You can read the news release for more information.
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Lawyers are mired in the enormity of eDiscovery materials.
Enter into the quagmire social media, which in part, encompasses Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn creating a massive flood of discoverable data.
At Virtual LegalTech on Sept. 23, Michael E. Lackey, Jr., partner at Mayer Brown; Jack Halprin, vice president of eDiscovery and Compliance at Autonomy; and the Hon. David J. Waxse of the U.S. District Court District of Kansas, dove into various topics surrounding social media and eDiscovery.
Some of the issues they explored included; if social media is discoverable, how to handle it, and the challenges of social media. (more…)
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Today, technology has become more and more synonymous with productivity. Lawyers are turning to technology to not only get things done quicker, but also make their professional lives easier.
An article (registration is required) written by Lee Ann Enquist, vice president of Professional Development at West LegalEdcenter, addresses the emerging relationship between lawyers and the iPhone.
In Lawyers Enjoy New Level of Productivity with iPhone Technology, several attorneys shared their views on how the iPhone impact their professional lives. All believed that the iPhone allowed them to keep up-to-date with important information when they were on the go, but they also felt the CLE Mobile app was one of the most valuable assets of having their phones. (more…)
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The virtual practice of the law certainly got a lot of attention this week at the 2010 ILTA Conference. Technology is obviously at the heart of the matter.
A session at the conference yesterday titled “Technologies to Support the Virtual Practice” was led by Sally Gonzalez, a senior director at Hildebrandt Baker Robbins.
It set out to define the parameters of virtual practice and examine what technologies and management strategies best support the virtual practice and whether different collaboration and security strategies in such a setting are necessary.
“You’re now going to have project teams consisting of internal and external resources that are highly dynamic that need to exchange and work on information collaboratively across those boundaries and its going to require a completely different technology infrastructure in order to support that,” said Gonzalez.
Legal Current did a video interview with Gonzalez before her session, in which she explains what she wanted to get across to the attendees:
You can get the slides from the presentation here.
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Joe Raczynski, an applications integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal, also is a technology evangelist who specializes in social media and portal technology. In addition, he has been a consultant in Web and wireless development.
Enterprise 2.0, collaborative-based applications, solve inefficiencies caused by the inability to locate accurate information. This session at ILTA discussed why intranets do not suffice, single silo search is dying, and what is necessary to advance the firm’s productivity.
Across the board, law firms are realizing that an increase in transparency nets far greater productivity, and in-turn, profit. This knowledge sharing facilitates collaboration and reduces the time that attorneys spend searching for content. Enterprise 2.0 is at the very center of this movement.
Enterprise 2.0 tools: (more…)
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Joe Raczynski, an applications integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal, also is a technology evangelist who specializes in social media and portal technology. In addition, he has been a consultant in Web and wireless development.
Recently some select firms have forgone the necessity to prove return on investment (ROI), for KM, portal and Enterprise 2.0. However for the vast majority, ROI justification remains a constant. In this session at the 2010 ILTA Conference, the panel examined the basics of metrics, how to measure productivity rather than busyness, how to measure engagement and concrete ways to measure portal and Enterprise 2.0 applications.
As a baseline understanding for this discussion, metrics are numbers to gauge progress, i.e. a quantifiable means to measure if there is a move from one point to another. Firms engage in this activity to evaluate success and decide what to fund.
Simply stated they create these objectives to see if they are materially advancing the goals of the organization. (more…)
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Andrew McLennan-Murray is an applications integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal.
Over the last 5 years, SharePoint has taken the legal industry by storm. Today, most firms have SharePoint installed, whether they use it as their primary intranet portal or in another capacity. Microsoft’s SharePoint is mostly known as a content management system and portal. Three firms set out on an exploration of what else SharePoint can do in their ILTA 2010 presentation, “SharePoint as a DMS: From Heresy to Orthodoxy.”
Loeb & Loeb presented their hypothetical thinking around SharePoint as a document management system (DMS). The firm’s current intranet leverages SharePoint 2007, which they chose due to its ease of use, ease of administration, and ability to organize content and clearly target internal audiences.
They say after their successful implementation of SharePoint as a content management system they began to question whether or not it could be used as a DMS and if they even needed to have a traditional DMS anymore. They decided to reassess what it was they wanted to get out of a DMS in the first place. Based on their research, they came up with the following:
-A DMS should give attorneys the ability to retrieve their document data quickly and accurately.
They asked themselves if they could use SharePoint to accomplish that goal, and they came to believe the answer was yes. Loeb & Loeb will be rolling out SharePoint 2010 in the near future and plan to test it as a DMS. (more…)
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Joe Raczynski, an applications integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal, also is a technology evangelist who specializes in social media and portal technology. In addition, he has been a consultant in Web and wireless development.
Today at the typical law firm the onslaught of various mobile devices abound. The firm is now confronted with requests to support a fractious market of iPhones, the BlackBerry and Androids. Not only must they deal with devices, they also grapple with various platforms and specific applications. This hodge-podge environment of disparate devices can be a major challenge. This session at the 2010 ILTA Conference explored how firms deal with mobile devices and policy.
Firms have taken three approaches to mobile device management: (more…)
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Editor’s note: Guest blogger Andrew McLennan-Murray is an applications integrator for Thomson Reuters, Legal.
Throughout the course of the last five years law firms have been working to deploy universal and enterprise search systems. Law firms generate an enormous amount of data, so the challenge of selecting and searching the right data is often overwhelming.
At ILTA 2010, the session “Successful Universal Search Implementations” invited firms to share their best practices. Among the firms sharing their recipes were Sheppard Mullin, Gibbons P.C., Cassels Brock, Bracewell & Juliani LLP and Howrey LLP. Between them, they covered an impressive breadth of technologies including SharePoint powered by XMLAW, Recommind’s MindServer, Microsoft’s FAST ESP, Autonomy’s IUS, and West km.
Each firm commented on the complexity of the current technology landscape for universal search. They urged the audience to take a hard look at all available options before making a purchase decision. Rachelle Rennagel, CKO of Sheppard Mullin also gave the following tips on ensuring your firm is even ready to consider implementing a universal search plan: (more…)
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Time is everything to an attorney or litigation support team, especially when managing and analyzing cases.
Today, West announced West Case Notebook 2.0, the latest version of West’s case analysis and management software. The new version includes integration with WestlawNext and many other new features to help litigators organize, analyze and share essential case information.
In this video, Allison Guidette, vice president and general manager of Litigation at West, explains that Case Notebook 2.0 is part of the Westlaw Litigator set of integrated tools, services and content, which helps attorneys and staff be more productive:
We also did a short Legal Current interview edition audio podcast with Allison, in which she expands on trends in litigation, the benefits and features of Westlaw Litigator and recent and planned developments as customers’ needs evolve:
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The U.S. Constitution is one of the most powerful and impactful documents in existence. It literally touches every American’s life, and has since its creation in 1787. Recently, I had the opportunity to view the document first-hand as part of a new exhibit, “We the People: The First Official Printing of the U.S. Constitution,” sponsored [...]
Earlier this week, we released our 2011 Annual Report in an interactive format available online at thomsonreuters.com. Along with information on the company’s financial performance as well as business unit overviews, this year’s annual report contains a variety of dynamic content including interviews with our new business leaders as well as stories of how we [...]
We’ve got a great episode for you this month, kicking off with our “Chaos in the Courts” segment that, believe it or not, is yet another story about the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas. Since our March podcast, another person has fallen victim to the establishment’s trademark bypass burger.
Then in our “On the Blawgs” [...]
