Meetings by video now can happen on desktop: law firms that want to use video conferencing can choose either a PC-based or a group system
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Desktop videoconferencing is finally challenging its more sophisticated rollabout sibling in the video communications market, though neither has much presence among law firms. Firms are more likely to start using videoconferencing to communicate with clients, as 90% of Fortune 500 firms use some form of it. Group systems have much higher quality and a longer history, but cost from $20,000 to $60,000, plus ancillary and monthly costs. Desktop systems run on computers, offer lower quality, and cost $1000 and up.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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When attorneys speak, their PCs now listen: a computer that not only hears but understands its user's voice is not science fiction any longer
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Voice-recognition software has come of age and is converging rapidly with a range of attorney-specific software to become cost-effective and powerful. Many attorneys have long resisted computers because of the keyboards, but these programs give them unprecedented access. More powerful computers have made the new software feasible, and competition is making it affordable, though a powerful system is required to run it. IBM, Kurzweil, Dragon Systems, Novell, and FSLI are among the leading vendors.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Prospectus delivery by e-mail: the SEC recently laid the ground rules for investors to receive prospectuses electronically
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New regulations from the SEC coinciding with the launch of three-day settlement requirements will improve electronic access and ease of filing. Ultimately electronic prospectuses and disclosures will substantially replace the current paper ones, for both investors and the agency, but the transition period remains problematic. The no-action letter requested by New York's Brown & Wood outlines various changes, including explicit recognition of electronic prospectuses as written documents.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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