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This post was written by Jim Heckman: "When a firm first adopts a document management system such as Worldox, it has to contend with the fact that many secretaries and power users have constructed their own workarounds to compensate for the innate inefficiency of not having a DNS...

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways around this.  One "quick and dirty" solution that I frequently suggest is to have the user move those files into Worldox but to add there initials or a unique code such as your initials (personally I use "yyy") to the description. Then, you can do a search for "yyy" and all your documents appear...

An added benefit is that the "standard" documents can then be organized to benefit the entire firm to the extent that they are useful to more than one person.

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Source: Does It Compute? 3 March 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Simon Fodden: "There's an interesting little post on Tim Bray's blog, Ongoing, entitled "The Listening Engine." Bray, one of the bloggers I've been following for years now, is the Canadian software developer and entrepreneur who co-founded Open Text Corporation and who is now the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems. He's thoughtful, sensible.

In The Listening Engine he puzzles over how it is that RSS and Twitter are resources that some people simply don't make use of...

He muses that we may be seeing a simple stratification in society into two layers: those who are well-informed because of their "intensity of listening," to use his phrase, and those who are not...

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Source: Slaw.ca, 10 February 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Deep Web Research 2010: Marcus P. Zillman is a an internet search expert whose extensive knowledge of how to leverage the "invisible" or "deep" web is exemplified in this guide. The Deep Web covers somewhere in the vicinity of 1 trillion pages of information located through the world wide web in various files and formats. Current search engines are able to locate around 200 billion pages. Marcus identifies sources to mitigate the odds on behalf of serious searchers."

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 14 December 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.

In the news: "A controversy has been brewing in law firms as more documents find their way into Microsoft SharePoint's SQL Server: Is SharePoint a viable replacement for a DMS? Mark Gerow, of Fenwick & West, discusses the case for moving documents out of SQL Server using an "External Blob Store."

Topics discussed include:

AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

·        Arguments for moving documents out of SQL Server:

·        Argument for leaving documents in SQL Server

MICROSOFT'S SOLUTION VERSION 1.0

WHAT EXACTLY IS AN EBS PROVIDER?

EBS vs. RBS

ROLLING YOUR OWN EBS PROVIDER

BLUE THREAD TECHNOLOGIES' STORAGEPOINT EBS PROVIDER

BUILD VS. BUY?

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 20 November 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe

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Bridging the DiGital Divide: A New Vendor in Town? Google Scholar Now Includes Case Law

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Bridging the DiGital Divide: A New Vendor in Town? Google Scholar Now Includes Case Law - The November 17, 2009 Google launch of free caselaw searching via Google Scholar is the focus of John J. DiGilio's timely content and resource review."

Source beSpacific, 17 November 2009

Support for the Research Process - An Academic Library Manifesto

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Support for the Research Process - An Academic Library Manifesto: This document by Chris Bourg, Ross Coleman, and Ricky Erway can serve as a pathfinder for those professionals seeking to focuses on roles that academic, law and special librarians could undertake in order to better support the research process

Source beSpacific, 17 November 2009

Free Tools and Applications for More Efficient Online Interaction

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Free Tools and Applications For More Efficient Online Interaction: Many lawyers understand the importance of networking, but running a law practice takes time and no one ever seems to have enough of it. This factor is one of the main reasons lawyers offer as an excuse to avoid online networking, but Nicole Black proposes how choosing even a few efficient applications from the range of free tools available can streamline and accelerate this marketing process.

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 17 November 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>. 

In the news: "The No. 1 challenge to lawyers' and law firm administrators' efficiency is in dealing with the ever-increasing barrage of information -- online and off -- that bombards them day and night, writes tax attorney Sheldon I. Banoff. He discusses 12 signs that someone might be suffering from information overload, the effects it can have on your efficiency, and some things lawyers and administrators can do to better deal with -- if not control -- the information overflow."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 16 November 2009. Copyright 2008.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe  <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

New Report Provides a History of the Child Pornography Guidelines

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "The U.S. Sentencing Commission has issued a report, The History of Child Pornography Guidelines, as a first step in its review of the punishment prescribed for the sexual exploitation of children...The Commission has sought to implement congressional intent in the area of child pornography offenses in a manner consistent with the SRA and subsequent legislation. As discussed in this paper, in amending the child pornography guidelines over the years, the Commission has reviewed sentencing data, considered public comment on proposed amendments, conducted public hearings on proposed amendments, studied relevant literature, and considered pertinent legislative history."

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Source: beSpacific, 8 November 2009

2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study 'was designed to assess current trends in the use of social media in North American businesses. Based on 2,948 valid responses to our online Business Social Media Benchmarking Survey during August and early September, 2009, the results provide a very useful benchmark for where businesses, and business people, are finding value in social media across different activities and sites. The study was focused on social media utilization - how people and companies are using social media in a work context today - and not on adoption. All study participants currently used social media in their day-to-day jobs as a resource for business-relevant information and/or worked for a company currently managing, developing or planning social media initiatives.'"

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Source: beSpacific, 8 November 2009

Tort Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005

Posted by Sabrina I. Pacifici: "Tort Bench and Jury Trials in State Courts, 2005: 'Discusses tort cases concluded by a bench or jury trial in a national sample of jurisdictions in 2005. Topics include the types of tort cases that proceed to trial, the differences between tort cases adjudicated by judges and juries, and the types of plaintiffs and defendants represented in tort trials. The report also covers plaintiff win rates, punitive damages, and the final award amounts generated in tort trial litigation. Lastly, trends are examined in tort trial litigation in the nation's 75 most populous counties, based on comparable data in 1996, 2001, and 2005.'"

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 8 November 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.

New on LLRX: Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised

Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: "Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised October 2009: Sabrina I. Pacifici's completely revised and updated pathfinder focuses on leveraging selected reliable, focused, free and low cost sites and sources to effectively profile and monitor companies, markets, countries, people, and issues. This guide is a "best of list" of web, database and email alert products, services and tools, as well as links to content specific sources produced by government, academic, NGOs, the media and various publishers. 

New on LLRX: Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part Two (Privacy and the Cloud)

Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: "Legal Implications of Cloud Computing - Part Two (Privacy and the Cloud): As a follow-up to last month's article that provided an overview of cloud computing in the context of significant legal issues, this article by Tanya Forsheit reviews the issues of privacy and cross-border data transfers. 

New on LLRX: Using Technology To Estimate, Control And Manage Litigation Document Review Budgets

Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: "Using Technology To Estimate, Control And Manage Litigation Document Review Budgets: Conrad J. Jacoby details approaches and exercises that contribute to a successful process for calculating - and staying within - a realistic budget for a litigation or regulatory document review." 

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 18 October 2009 Copyright ©2002-2009. BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.

From the e-newsletter: "Law firms big and small face similar challenges with the vast and increasingly important field of legal technology."

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Source: FindLaw's The Practice Paper: For Solo & Small Firm Lawyers. 7October 2009 Copyright © 2008 FindLaw, a Thomson Business. Subscribe <http://newsletters.findlaw.com/>.

Posted by Sabrina Pacifici: "Peek: Mobile E-Mail On A Budget - Conrad J. Jacoby discusses his experiences using the Peek mobile e-mail device (Time Magazine's 2008 Gadget of the Year), which he believes is genuinely useful and an excellent value for its cost.

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Source: beSpacific - Accurate, focused law and technology news by Sabrina I. Pacifici. 24 September 2009. Copyright ©2002-2008 BeSpacific LLC. All Rights Reserved. Subscribe <http://www.bespacific.com/mt/subscribe.html>.