Beyond timeslips: time & billing for the large firm
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Legal firms with multiple offices and a large employee base often find timeslips and other low-cost time and billing (T&B) applications limiting in their ability to breakdown and compute costs. Several large firms chose to build expensive proprietary applications customized to their legal practice, while others are using programs specifically designed for diversified T&B. The law office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman & Caldwell uses Barrister Information Systems' Javelan Windows-based, integrated accounting and practice management system. Dorsey Whitney law firm uses high-end PowerPC machines running Elite Information Systems' T7B Windows-based application to manage its T&B applications for 350 employees in 15 different offices. Robes & Gray law offices also use Elite's Windows-based applications to manage T&B applications throughout its multiple branch offices.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1996
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Multimedia legal CD-ROMs
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Innovative legal-specific CD-ROMs are entering the legal publishing market. These databases capitalize on CD-ROM technology's massive storage capacities to produce publications featuring text, video, pictures, sound and user-entered information. While the addition of sound, pictures and video often enhances titles, making them more beneficial than text-based publications, these additions are memory-intensive. Education is a primary application for multimedia CD-ROM productions. The Rutter Group (TRG), a subsidiary of West Information Group, produces excellent legal-specific multimedia applications using the medium's hybrid capabilities. TRG's CD-ROM version of its California continuing education seminar on legal ethics includes treatise information and primary law text that California attorneys can rely on to complete continuing education requirements.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1997
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Video: taking legal conferencing to another level
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Law offices are finding videoconferencing an increasingly important addition to their services, as this technique can save travel funds and extend a firm's reach considerably. Some firms, such as Sidley & Austin, use such systems for primary legal duties such as litigation, depositions and witness testimony, as well as for marketing and interviewing purposes. There are three basic types of videoconferencing: desktop point-to-point systems, midrange and high-end systems. High-end systems such as that used by Sidley and Austin can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, but provide the best performances. At the low end, regular desktop computers can be modified for about $4,000 each for videoconferencing, but the results can be challenging.
Publication Name: Law Office Computing
Subject: Law
ISSN: 1055-128X
Year: 1995
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