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This post was written by Laura Bergus: "Spindle Law is an innovation in legal research and writing, aimed at helping legal professionals and students collect and share nuggets of legal wisdom, from the general to the excruciatingly specific..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 13 July 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "Thanks to Ed Walters at Fastcase for letting us actually install their new iPad application while it is awaiting final authority from Steve Jobs to be released through the Apps Store. I've been playing with it for the past hour or so and have taken a lot of screenshots from the iPad, and so far, it has been pretty easy to use and takes advantage of the iPad's larger screen format. Most of all, this is another marketing coup for Fastcase (just do a Google search for Fastcase and iPad and see the number of blogs, press releases and news articles from yesterday and today announcing the launch!!)

When Fastcase released the iPhone app, I gave it a luke-warm reception because the iPhone app seemed to be more of a novelty than something that someone would actually use. The iPad app, however, is something that people would use to conduct legal research, as it has a bigger screen, and is much easier to use than the smaller iPhone format. You still can't print (not a Fastcase app issue, but rather an iPad issue), but you can save documents, and if you know what you're doing, you can email documents to yourself and print them out at your PC or Mac.

Here are some 'real' screenshots that I took (not those canned ones you've been seeing on all the other blogs!!) along with some comments I have on the usability of the app..."

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Source: 3 Geeks & a Blog, 7 July 2010. Reproduced with permission of the authors.

This post was written by Evan Schaeffer: "Trial Fusion claims to bring "the speed and accuracy of barcode technology to your trial."

In a review at the Trial Presentation Blog, Charles Perez calls Trial Fusion "a simple, yet affordable, method to simplify an otherwise daunting task."

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Source: Trial Practice Tips Weblog, 24 June 2010,  reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Randall Ryder: "Legal documents fly between parties electronically through e-mail and fax machines. Federal Courts have moved to e-filing and tax returns can be signed electronically. Now Adobe has rolled out a program that allows parties to electronically sign documents..."

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Source: Lawyerist.com, 26 May 2010. © 2007-2010 Lawyerist Media, LLC. Reproduced with permission of the site editor, Sam Glover.

In the news: "Lawyers can now use videos, computer-generated images, and simulations to convey large amounts of information to jurors. But it is essential for litigators to understand the evidentiary hurdles to overcome before technology-based evidence is admitted into evidence at trial."

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Source: Law.Com's Daily Legal Newswire. 13 May 2010. Copyright 2009.  ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. Subscribe  <http://store.law.com/registration/register.asp?subscribeto=nw>.

This post was written by Bonnie Shucha: "Fastcase recently released an app for the iPhone. And not only is the app free, but so access to the case law and statutes that it contains -- even if you don't practice in a state like Wisconsin where the desktop computer version of Fastcase is free through the State Bar.

So far the reviews have been very good, including this one from iPhone JD:..."

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Source: WisBlawg, 10 February 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Richard Georges: "Clio: Online Legal Practice Management Software | SaaS for Lawyers, Attorneys, Law Firms.  There is another competent cloud based practice management system, as the comments to my blog post about RocketMatter indicate..."

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Source: FutureLawyer, 3 February 2010. © 1996-2010, Richard M. Georges, reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Greg Lambert: "As I mentioned yesterday, a group of bloggers traveled to ThomsonReuters (TR) in Eagan, Minnesota earlier this week to get a first-hand look at WestlawNext (WLN) and talk with the Project Cobalt team, meet briefly with TR's CEO of Legal, Peter Warwick, and discuss the functionality of WLN with Westlaw's Reference Attorney staff. There are a number of articles that are out from other bloggers that a range of issues from Lisa Solomon's discussion of Product & Pricing; Jason Eiseman's video interview of myself, Tom Boone and Jason Wilson; Robert Ambrogi's discussion of West Search functionality; Betsy McKenzie's view of WLN from an academic perspective; Ken Adam's survey on CALR value in contract drafting; David Bilinsky's Top 10 list about WLN, and; Simon Chester's discussion of WLR from a Canadian perspective. I wanted to take a different approach and talk about the back-end structure of the new West Search Engine and how they have used Knowledge Management theories to create an algorithm that looks to be much better than the current Westlaw.com search results..."

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Source: 3 Geeks and a Blog, 28 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of the author.

This post was written by Simon Chester: "Yesterday, two members of Slaw were given an in-depth look at the most profound re-engineering of a legal research system since the migration to the Web. In Thomson Reuters' impressive Eagan facility we had a briefing on the new Westlaw - to be launched at New York LegalTech next Monday under the name WestlawNext.

WestlawNext is the culmination of five years of research and development and a massive amount of customer research into how legal research is actually carried out..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 27 January 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

This post was written by John Heckman: "Amicus comes in two flavors:  Small Firm and Premium. By and large the feature set is very similar. Gavel & Gown has gone over to yearly releases, so you can expect each release to be minor and incremental. Over several years, however, the "increments" can add up to significant changes..."

Also read his review of Amicus Premium Edition 2010 

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Source: Does It Compute?, 11 and 13 January 2010