TechnoLawyer Blog: Ad Watch: TechnoReleases

Congratulations to American Bar Association — its TechnoRelease on December 8, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period December 8-31, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

ABA TECHSHOW 2009! REGISTER BY FEBRUARY 28 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EARLY-BIRD DISCOUNTS!
By Svetlana Kramarova, Meetings Assistant, Law Practice Management Section, American Bar Association

In its 23rd year, ABA TECHSHOW, the world's premier legal technology conference and expo, will again be held at the Hilton Chicago. ABA TECHSHOW offers three days of legal technology education for lawyers, paralegals, administrators, and IT managers, and other legal professionals! Register and network with over 1,500 conference attendees during ABA TECHSHOW, in addition to experiencing more than 100 technology vendors displaying goods and services during the two-day expo.

Download the ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Program Brochure to view the Schedule-at-a-Glance!

CHOOSE FROM 15 EDUCATIONAL TRACKS ON THE LATEST TECHNOLOGY TRENDS!

• A Day in the (Techno) Life — NEW!
• E-Discovery Boot Camp — NEW!
• E-Discovery Update
• E-Records Management — NEW!
• Enterprise IT
• I'm a Mac
• Internet
• Large Firm/Corporate Counsel
• Paperless Practice
• Solo/Small Firm I
• Solo/Small Firm II
• Tech for Client Development — NEW!
• Tech for Financial Management — NEW!
• Trial Skills
• Virtual Practice — NEW!

For complete information on ABA TECHSHOW 2009, please visit www.techshow.com!

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The End of Lawyers?: Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services
Richard Susskind

Join us Thursday, April 2, for Richard Susskind's presentation exploring the future of legal services and legal businesses by introducing a model that shows the five stages through which legal service is evolving. He will then consider the likely impact of commoditization and of information technology (especially "disruptive legal technologies") on the legal profession. He will conclude by outlining the main challenges facing lawyers in the 21st century.

ABA TECHSHOW FAVORITES

On the first night of ABA TECHSHOW, full conference attendees are invited to attend ABA TECHSHOW After Dark for entertainment, food and drinks, and exciting door prizes! The Taste of ABA TECHSHOW provides attendees the opportunity to meet the speakers of ABA TECHSHOW and experience Chicago's restaurant scene. To assist attendees throughout ABA TECHSHOW, the Conference Concierge and Tech Help Desk will again be a feature!

SAVE $200 OFF THE STANDARD REGISTRATION RATE — JOIN THE ABA LAW PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SECTION TODAY!

Join the ABA Law Practice Management Section and save $200 off the Full Registration fees. Call 1-800-285-2221, join online at www.lawpractice.org, or join when you go online to register at www.techshow.com. As part of your Registration Fee, all attendees (other than exhibits-only attendees) will receive program materials and exhibitor information on a CD-ROM disk.

Register by February 28 for ABA TECHSHOW savings! Click Here for a complete listing of registration pricing and options.

Svetlana Kramarova
Meetings Assistant, Law Practice Management Section
American Bar Association

About TechnoRelease
TechnoRelease is a newsletter in which legal vendors tell an ongoing story about their products and services. Every two weeks, we place the most popular TechnoRelease as measured by click-throughs here in TechnoLawyer Blog at no additional charge. Learn more about TechnoReleases and our other marketing opportunities.

Congratulations to Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. — its TechnoRelease on November 24, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period November 24-December 7, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

THE NEW FUJITSU FI-6130'S "REVERSE ROLLER TECHNOLOGY" WAS DEVELOPED WITH THE NEEDS OF LAW FIRMS IN MIND
By Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

When shopping for a scanner for your law firm or legal department, comparing the specifications is helpful. But don't buy a scanner based on specifications alone.

While the specifications will tell you how many documents the automatic document feeder (ADF) can hold, how fast the scanner can process them, and whether the scanner has duplex capabilities, the specifications will not tell you how adeptly the scanner can handle your documents.

Nothing will slow you down faster than misfeeds.

FUJITSU fi-6130 CAN HANDLE ALL YOUR SCANNING NEEDS ...

Recognizing that law firms in particular scan a wide array of documents in varying sizes, weights, and condition, our engineers developed "reverse roller technology" and incorporated it into the new Fujitsu fi-6130 workgroup scanner.

Translation — this advanced paper separation technology enables you to reliably scan a wider variety of documents. So go ahead and give the Fujitsu fi-6130 your toughest client files or discovery documents.

The Fujitsu fi-6130 also provides the following benefits:

• Compact: Scanners should be used, not seen. The Fujitsu fi-6130 has a footprint only slightly larger than a letter-sized piece of paper.

• Intelligent MultiFeed Function: Some double feeds such as a taped receipt are intentional. Others such as a staple you forgot to remove are not. The Fujitsu fi-6130 knows the difference.

• Speed + Duplex: The Fujitsu fi-6130 can process 80 images per minute in monochrome or grayscale or 60 per minute in color — all at a razor sharp 300 dpi. And yes, it has duplex capabilities.

• Capacity: The ADF handles 50 sheets.

Software: PDF has just about become a standard for scanned documents. The Fujitsu fi-6130 comes bundled with Adobe® Acrobat Standard as well as Kofax VRS® Professional (which improves the quality of your scans) and ScandAll Pro (which offers batch processing and job management).

SEE THE FUJITSU fi-6130 IN ACTION ...

Please take a moment to take a look at the FUJITSU fi-6130 in action.

Sincerely,

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

LandingPage Interactive, an online ad agency owned by the same company that operates TechnoLawyer, created this TechnoRelease for Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

About TechnoRelease
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Congratulations to Rocket Matter — its TechnoRelease on November 10, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period November 10-23, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

BILL AS YOU WORK™ WITH ROCKET MATTER. SAVE TIME AND MONEY! ELIMINATE I.T. HEADACHES! SIGN UP NOW TO LOCK IN SAVINGS.
By Larry Port, Rocket Matter, LLC

Rocket Matter is a new web-based practice management and time and billing solution, accessible from anywhere with Internet access, whether you use a Mac, PC, or iPhone.

Here's what one customer had to say:

"Rocket Matter is smart, intuitive and easy-to-use. It has changed the way I practice law and made it easier to keep track of my billing. It has made billing and case management more manageable, and definitely helped make me more profitable."
— Ronald Scott Kaniuk, Esq.

Recently, Rocket Matter rolled out some new features that really boost productivity and margins for your law firm. Read on to find out about Reports and Messages.

HURRY NOW TO LOCK IN SAVINGS!

On January 1, 2009, we will officially release our 1.0 product. Firms that sign up before the end of 2008 can lock in a discounted rate! After January 1st, we will be rolling out our new 1.0 pricing scheme.

SAVE TIME AND MONEY

Rocket Matter is designed to be as simple to use as possible. Your calendar, contact manager, matter manager, and time and billing software is rolled into one integrated product. Generate invoices for all of your billable matters with a single click of the mouse.

Our "Bill as you Work"™ technology captures your billable time as you go about your day. There's no need to total up hours at the end of the billing cycle or to figure out where your time has gone.

Imagine gaining back all of that billable time. How much more money would your firm earn per year?

Other cost savings: You don't have to buy servers. You don't have to pay someone to install Rocket Matter. You don't even have to buy licenses. You never have to upgrade.

You only pay for the number of users you want, and that's it. Pay month to month, and forget the thousands of dollars of upfront costs for a server-based system.

MIGRATE AND CONSOLIDATE YOUR DATA

Online legal software is a wonderful convenience. The good news is that you're not locked in to your existing solution. We'll get you out!

Rocket Matter will help you migrate your Outlook, Address Book, PC Law, Amicus, and Time Matters data over to the next generation of legal product.

INTRODUCING MESSAGES

Pink message pads are history! Now, with Messages, you can take phone messages and review them from any computer with Internet access. Take a look at this video to see Messages in action.

A breeze to use, Messages can revolutionize the way your firm handles its inter-office communication. This brand-new, extra functionality is available at no additional charge to our Pilot users. Legal SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) just got a lot more powerful!

INTRODUCING REPORTS

As you use Rocket Matter and bill time across matters and clients, you gather valuable information about the effectiveness of your efforts. Now, with Reports, you can easily get a quick view of the financial status and performance of your firm. This feature is also free of charge to our Pilot users.

We offer web-based reports to view aged accounts receivables, activity across all users and matters, status reports for all matters, and more!

And if you prefer to work with data in Excel, that's fine too, because each of our reports exports to CSV.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Watch our Free Preview Video — No Signup Required!

Follow the latest news about Rocket Matter, Legal Technology, and productivity tips on our blog.

Track our updates on Twitter.

Sign up for more information and an in-depth demonstration by one of our Product Specialists.

ABOUT ROCKET MATTER, LLC

Rocket Matter, LLC provides a web-based legal practice management and time and billing solution for small to mid-sized law firms. Rocket MatterTM is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application, providing increased security, business continuity, decreased technology infrastructure and maintenance, and improved return on investment for information technology expenses. Launched in February 2008, Rocket Matter's corporate headquarters is in Boca Raton, FL.

Larry Port
Rocket Matter, LLC

About TechnoRelease
TechnoRelease is a newsletter in which legal vendors tell an ongoing story about their products and services. Every two weeks, we place the most popular TechnoRelease as measured by click-throughs here in TechnoLawyer Blog at no additional charge. Learn more about TechnoReleases and our other marketing opportunities.

Congratulations to Software Technology, Inc. — its TechnoRelease on October 31, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period October 27-November 9, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

WHITE PAPER EXPLORES OUTLOOK'S SHORTCOMINGS — PLUS PRACTICEMASTER VERSION 15 BRINGS INSTANT MESSAGING TO LAW FIRMS
By Dan Berlin, President, Software Technology, Inc.

"Practicing law with Outlook is better than nothing, when it comes to the case management process," said legal technology legend Ross Kodner (24+ years legal technology consulting with MicroLaw and a 5-time TechnoLawyer award recipient) recently.

Hardly a ringing endorsement.

"Outlook organizes and calendars solely by person," observes Kodner. "Legal case managers, such as PracticeMaster, also organize by person — the same as does Outlook. But legal case managers also organize by case or matter. So if a partner, associate and paralegal are all posting docket entries to their Outlook calendars, and there is the need to see a case calendar, good luck. But in a legal case manager, one merely picks the case and sees a case-specific calendar, with all entries for all people involved, with all the other non-case related entries stripped away. This is an enormous functional, practical, and conceptual difference."

Our free white paper, How Practice Management Software Is Different from Outlook, explores this important topic further. Please download your copy now (no registration required).

PUT KODNER'S ADVICE TO THE TEST ...

Released this month, PracticeMaster Version 15 includes a number of enhancements that make this award winning practice management application better than ever.

For example, the new eNote feature in the Client Server Version of PracticeMaster Premier provides your firm with secure instant messaging. Unlike standalone IM applications, eNote enables you to link to records in PracticeMaster.

Also new is Tabs3 Version 15, the accounting and billing counterpart to PracticeMaster. The two applications integrate tightly with each other, eliminating duplication of effort and errors. Plus both PracticeMaster and Tabs3 now sport autofill technology to make data entry even faster.

Learn more about PracticeMaster.

Learn more about Tabs3.

Try PracticeMaster and/or Tabs3. Get a free trial now.

MORE THAN JUST SOFTWARE ...

Unfortunately, many software companies stop paying attention to you after you purchase their product. The TechnoLawyer Archive is replete with complaints in this regard.

When you purchase PracticeMaster and/or Tabs3, we won't take you for granted. We believe that providing first-rate customer service and technical support is part of the product experience.

Thanks to this philosophy and of course our products, 90% of our customers recommend PracticeMaster and Tabs3 to their peers, and 95% praise the post-sale support they receive.

Thanks to this strong affinity among our customers, Tabs3 won the Law Technology News(R) Award for Timekeeping and Billing System in the small and mid-sized firm category for five consecutive years — a feat unequaled by any other product.

See for yourself. Please sign up for a live demo.

Sincerely,

Dan Berlin
President
Software Technology, Inc.

LandingPage Interactive, an online ad agency owned by the same company that operates TechnoLawyer, created this TechnoRelease for Software Technology, Inc..

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Congratulations to Fujitsu Computer Products of America — its TechnoRelease on October 16, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period October 13-26, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

FUJITSU SCANSNAP S510 OFFERS HASSLE-FREE SCANNING FOR LAW FIRMS; $50 REBATE FOR TECHNOLAWYER SUBSCRIBERS
By Fujitsu Computer Products of America

Earlier this year, Robert McNeill, Esq. wrote:

"It's hard to beat Fujitsu's ScanSnap S510 ..., which includes a full version of Adobe Acrobat (not Reader) .... Go figure. You will need Acrobat to edit your PDF files anyway, and free is usually good."

Many other lawyers agree. "ScanSnap has totally changed the way I run my law office," writes Matt, a lawyer in Cascade, Idaho.

Why all the praise in TechnoLawyer and elsewhere? The Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Instant PDF Sheet-Fed Scanner eliminates all the hassles associated with scanning.

WHAT DOES HASSLE-FREE SCANNING MEAN?

The ScanSnap S510 has a number of benefits geared at paper-intensive law firms:

• Fast: The ScanSnap S510 scans both sides of a document in a single pass for speeds up to 18 pages per minute in color. The ScanSnap S510 won't waste your time or that of your staff.

• Smart: The ScanSnap S510 automatically detects paper size, straightens and aligns images and text, and skips blank pages. In other words, feed it just about anything, including a stack of mixed size documents.

• PDF: With the bundled Acrobat Professional software, you can scan directly into searchable PDF files. Perfect for your mail, discovery documents, and much more.

• Word: With the bundled ABBYY FineReader OCR software, you can scan directly into Microsoft Word and edit the document. Great for repurposing contracts, pleadings and other documents.

• Business Cards: Got a collection of business cards collecting dust? The bundled CardMinder software transforms them into data you can import into Outlook and other contact managers.

RECEIVE A $50 REBATE ON THE FUJITSU SCANSNAP S510 ...

For a limited time, TechnoLawyer subscribers like you can receive a $50 rebate when you purchase a ScanSnap S510.

Already use a ScanSnap S510? Tell us about your experience and win a $100 American Express Gift Card.

Please learn more about the ScanSnap S510 and take advantage of these offers while they last.

Sincerely,

Fujitsu Computer Products of America

LandingPage Interactive, an online ad agency owned by the same company that operates TechnoLawyer, created this TechnoRelease for Fujitsu Computer Products of America.

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Congratulations to Themis Solutions — its TechnoRelease on September 29, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period September 29-October 12, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

THEMIS RELEASES WEB-BASED CLIO — SECURE SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE (SAAS) FOR SOLOS/SMALL FIRMS USING PCS, MACS, AND IPHONES
By Themis Solutions Inc.

September 29, 2008 — Vancouver, BC — On October 1st, Themis Solutions Inc. will announce the general availability of Clio, a comprehensive web-based practice management Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering for lawyers. Clio is specifically designed for solo practitioners and small law firms using PCs and Macs; it can be accessed from any Internet connection and from iPhones.

Clio will be demonstrated at the ABA General Practice, Solo & Small Firm Division's Fall Meeting on October 2-4, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Secure and easy-to-use, Clio provides case/matter management, time tracking, billing/reporting, client contact and document management, task scheduling, trust accounting, and performance metrics for independent lawyers to benchmark their business goals.

CLIO FEATURES

• Matter/Case Management: Effectively organize and manage all case, matter and client information through Clio's intuitive, user-friendly online interface.

• Time Tracking: Clio tracks time by client, matter, and task, allowing lawyers to reduce lost time and eliminate paper or Excel timesheets.

• Billing and Reporting: Clio generates customized invoices and outstanding bill reminders. Lawyers can create useful reports to help with accounting.

• Document Management: Securely access documents online and save unlimited document versions.

• Trust Accounting: Many compliance issues result from poor tracking of trust accounts. Clio solves this problem. Maintain accurate trust and bank transaction records to ensure that funds are appropriately tracked.

• Client/Contact Management: Clio's contact management system stores information on clients, matters and billings.

• Task Scheduling: With Clio's complete calendaring and reminder system, appointments are easily clicked, dragged and viewed by day, week, or month. Data can be imported and exported from Google, Outlook or iCal calendars into Clio.

• Practice Performance Metrics: Track current, expected, and target billing figures daily, weekly, monthly, or annually.

SECURITY

When considering web-based solutions like Clio, lawyers are understandably concerned about ensuring the security of their client data. Therefore, Clio's developers have focused their attention on security to address these concerns, making Clio a secure and reliable solution.

• External Security and Data Backup: Clio uses password protection with bank-grade 256-bit SSL encryption. Data is backed up daily to a secure, offsite data center, and daily third-party audits are performed to ensure data security.

• Internal Security: Clio can restrict access to confidential files or client records by individual or by group via rights-managed security.

• Client Data Ownership Guarantee: Clio firmly believes lawyers should be able to retrieve their data from Clio easily and conveniently. Users of Clio can easily export from Clio at any time.

SPECIFICATIONS AND PRICING

Clio is operating system independent and can run on PC, Macintosh and Linux computers. It supports Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 and 3.0, Safari 3.0 and Google Chrome.

Clio is affordably priced by monthly subscription. Pricing is $49/month for lawyers and $25/month per support staff member. This cost includes all technical support, maintenance and upgrades.

ABOUT THEMIS SOLUTIONS

Themis Solutions Inc. is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. With cooperation from the Law Society of British Columbia, the company has developed its flagship product Clio which is a web-based SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) practice management system for solo and small firm attorneys. Visit www.goclio.com or call 1-888-858-CLIO.

Themis Solutions Inc.

About TechnoRelease
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Congratulations to LiveNote — its TechnoRelease on September 19, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period September 15-28, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

WEST CASE NOTEBOOK(TM) WITH LIVENOTE™ TECHNOLOGY: A NEW WAY TO KEEP EVERYTHING IMPORTANT TO YOUR CASE, ALL IN ONE PLACE
By Kendra Mancusi, LiveNote

As anyone involved with litigation knows, cases are rarely neat, tidy affairs that proceed in a linear fashion. A deposition may be taken months before you need the evidence. Team members shift. Paper piles up, documents grow exponentially. Yet you can't afford to miss a key document. Or to overlook a pivotal fact. Or forget about a key on-point case. Or pass over a potential witness who could have led you to new insights. Use West Case Notebook to organize, manage, and analyze your case and be confident you've missed nothing.

West Case Notebook is an electronic case file that enables you to centralize the key portions of your case file: documents, pleadings, transcripts, research, key facts, and characters. By keeping your important case materials in West Case Notebook, you will have enhanced abilities to search, annotate, copy, summarize, print, and share your case data. What's more, a robust Microsoft® SQL database provides scalable performance for your Case Notebook.

ADDITIONAL HIGHLIGHTS AND BENEFITS:

Documents, Transcripts and Pleadings

• Quickly populate your case by importing load files.

• Seamlessly create a new case from an existing similar case to expedite case set-up.

• Built-in optical character recognition enables searching across the text of imaged documents such as .pdf and .tiff files.

• E-Transcript becomes the native transcript format and allows verification and printing of E-Transcript Signatures™.

• Annotate and issue code key passages of documents, transcripts and pleadings.

Research

• Export research along with comments directly from Westlaw® into your Case Notebook Research file.

• Ensure that your research file contains good law by updating KeyCite flags from Case Notebook in two clicks.

• Hyperlinks in Westlaw research remain active in Case Notebook.

• Import saved research from other sources.

• Send excerpts from research along with the pin point citation into your word processor.

• Annotate and issue code key points in your research.

Key Facts and Characters

• Develop a listing of the key facts and individuals central to your case.

• Link characters and supporting pieces of information from sources and authorities to your key facts.

Searching and Reporting

• Streamlined search dialog allows use of popular Westlaw connectors.

• Focus full text searches in your case to particular materials or pre-defined data groups.

• Quickly locate key terms using the Word Index which is automatically generated on all documents, transcripts, and pleadings.

• Launch a Westlaw search directly from Case Notebook.

• Run summary reports across selected materials, issues, and data groups.

• Batch print selected materials.

To learn more about how West Case Notebook can help streamline your case analysis and management, please visit west.thomson.com/casenotebook or contact your West sales representative at 1-800-762-5272.

Kendra Mancusi
LiveNote

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Congratulations to LexisNexis Applied Discovery — its TechnoRelease on September 4, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period September 1-14, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

GET A HEAD START ON YOUR NEXT E-DISCOVERY TASK — DOWNLOAD SAMPLE DOCUMENTS TODAY!
By Tammi Coulter, Senior Marketing Manager, Applied Discovery, Inc.

Applied Discovery developed the first online law library featuring case summaries devoted to the topic of e-discovery in 2000. Since then we've had hundreds of thousands of visitors to our website looking for the most current and comprehensive set of e-discovery resources on the Internet.

APPLIED DISCOVERY ONLINE LAW LIBRARY FEATURED SECTION | SAMPLE DOCUMENTS

Applied Discovery recently added a section to our website featuring a variety of sample documents — in Microsoft Word and Excel formats — that legal professionals can immediately incorporate into their practice.

Download Sample Documents:

• Electronic Discovery Action Plan
• Electronic Data Client Questionnaire
• Notice of Rule 30(b)(6) Deposition
• Backup Tape Questionnaire
• Litigation Hold Letter
• Chain of Custody Log
• Preservation Letter to Opposing Counsel

Also resources available at www.AppliedDiscovery.com include:

• The Discovery Book

• Case Summaries

• Court Rules

• FRCP Watch

We hope you enjoy the updated Applied Discovery website. Visit us often!

Tammi Coulter
Senior Marketing Manager
Applied Discovery, Inc.

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Congratulations to SmartCase — its TechnoRelease on August 26, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period August 18-31, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

TRY SMARTCASE TO CREATE MEDICAL SUMMARIES AND RECEIVE A FREE WHITE PAPER AND MEDICAL GRAPHICS SOFTWARE
By SmartCase

Has anyone seen that medical file? Did you email that report to the client last week? Is this lab test relevant to the case? These are just a few of the typical questions overheard in a busy law firm handling cases that involve the review of medical records.

There has to be a better way, but the wrong technology is never the right answer because at best it will cost money without any concomitant benefit and at worst it will cost money and harm productivity. Let's explore this issue further.

TRACKING CRITICAL DATA ...

The most important step in a case involving medical records consists of identifying and compiling critical medical data into information that will assist you in successfully resolving your case.

With a manual system, you might use highlighters, post-it notes, or separate lists to track specific data critical to the case and compile it into a complete chronology report. However, if you also wanted to produce a keyword report on a topic such as "cardiovascular information," you would have to go back through the information and copy and paste the appropriate material into a new document. This method is inefficient and has the potential for information to be overlooked.

With a case management system not designed for medical records, the process gets somewhat easier, but each additional keyword report requires significant rework. Using a non-medical system, you also may not be able to customize reports based on specific clinical indicators.

With SmartCase, a Web application designed specifically for creation of medical summaries, you simply select the keywords that are critical to the case, select a checkbox as you create a chronology entry, and a report is automatically generated for each keyword. No rework required.

TRY SMARTCASE, READ MORE COMPARISONS, AND RECEIVE SMARTDRAW FOR FREE ...

If your firm works with medical records, see the SmartCase difference for yourself, as many professionals already have. All you need is a Web browser.

If you sign up now for a 30 day free trial of SmartCase, we'll also include our complimentary white paper, Choosing Medical Records Management Technology, which compares a manual system, generic case management system, and specialized medical records application vis-a-vis eight common tasks associated with medical records.

If you subscribe to SmartCase, you'll receive a free copy of SmartDraw Healthcare Edition, a $449 value. This award-winning software enables you to create professional health care illustrations. You need not be an artist thanks to many templates. Just choose the one you need and then add annotations, arrows, etc. to make your point.

Start your free trial of SmartCase now — click the "Get Smart" button and enter code TECHLAW.

Subscribe to SmartCase One or Pro now and receive your free copy of SmartDraw Healthcare Edition — click the "Get Smart" button and choose the package you want.

Either way, you'll also receive our white paper.

SmartCase

LandingPage Interactive, an online ad agency owned by the same company that operates TechnoLawyer, created this TechnoRelease for SmartCase.

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Congratulations to RealDealDocs — its TechnoRelease on August 6, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period August 4-17, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

A FREE RIDE ON BIG LAW?
By Ryan Azevedo, RealDealDocs

Ron Friedman, in his June 12, 2008, blog post on Strategic Legal Technology, discussed how lawyers at firms big and small could use RealDealDocs™ to mine big law firm agreements and other legal documents through simple search tools, pointing out the "irony that this product does better KM across firms than many firms are able to do internally."

What does this mean for an attorney revising or drafting an agreement on behalf of a client? You can:

1. Instantly access and leverage an enormous library of millions of legal agreements and clauses from top law firms and Fortune 500 companies, as well as deals from smaller companies.

2. Cut your drafting time dramatically — as much as 60%.

3. Gain unlimited access to search, view, edit, save and print documents.

4. See how lawyers at top law firms or leading practice areas construct and negotiate their deals, and keep current with recent developments and best practices in agreement construction.

Legal Times recently stated that "this level of analysis enables pinpoint searching by the type of criteria relevant to lawyers, such as document or transaction type, governing laws, jurisdiction, substantive areas or individual clauses."

And Josef Volman, Co-Chair of the Corporate Department at Burns & Levinson, said "RealDealDocs more than paid for itself the first time I used it. It's the best source I've found for online legal documents."

Here's how it works. RealDealDocs.com consists of two libraries: a document library featuring over one million documents, and a clause library featuring over ten million clauses. Both are organized in a simple, intuitive interface that makes it very easy to find what you're looking for, the way you think about it. These documents have been drafted by top law firms from across the country, so you are not only finding relevant work product, but you are gaining important competitive intelligence about how leading law firms across the country are negotiating and drafting agreements for their clients.

RealDealDocs is simple to use. For example, if you are looking for examples of entire documents, you can browse through the selections or use the 'Search Documents' feature to focus your search by:

• Searching for keywords in the title or body of the agreements.

• Choose from specific type of agreements in pick lists.

• Specify a particular state's governing law.

• Narrow your search to particular companies, law firms or industries, etc.

Alternatively, if there is a specific clause or deal provision that you are looking for from a particular type of agreement, RealDealDocs makes finding it easy by using the 'Search Clauses' option.

Try it out for free. You can search as much as you want for as long as you want at no cost. If you love the service, which I'm sure you will, you can join using a range of options, with significant discounts for longer term memberships. Click here to search millions of documents and clauses for free.

Ryan Azevedo
RealDealDocs

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