High tech is going mainstream; will lawyers not using computers be sued?
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Computer use is becoming increasingly prevalent in law firms and some observers feel the day is not far away when lawyers who fail to use them may be sued for negligence. Surveys have found that 61% of large-firm lawyers have access to computer workstations and that 54% of firms with 20-100 lawyers have litigators who use computerized litigation support. Prices for both hardware and software have decreased enough that most firms can afford the approximately $10,000 necessary to set up a document storage and retrieval system.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Networks: low cost, world wide; firms find it cheaper than foreign offices
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Legal networks of small to medium domestic law firms and foreign sister firms make international competition with the large firms economically feasible. As domestic businesses become international, domestic firms scramble to offer their services and maintain their clients. Some firms resist international networking and believe that a lack of familiarity with foreign partners may breed client discontent. Some of the larger networks are: Lex Mundi, Commercial Law Affiliates, Interlaw, and Terralex.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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Flourishing in Florida's downturn; in the right place at the right time, Greenberg Traurig pulls ahead
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Greenberg, Traurig has become Miami, FL's largest law firm and ranked third in the 1992 National Law Journal poll of the nation's 250 most rapidly growing large law firms. This growth came partly due to the development of a specialty helping start-up businesses go public when the economy began coming out of the recession. The firm is also active in health care, administrative and environmental law. Greenberg has acquired two smaller Florida firms, expanded statewide and opened a New York office.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1993
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