TechnoLawyer Blog: Ad Watch: TechnoReleases

Congratulations to ABBYY USA — its TechnoRelease on July 25, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period July 21-August 3, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

FREE WHITE PAPER: TOP FIVE PAPERLESS OFFICE CHALLENGES FOR LAW FIRMS
By ABBYY USA

Just as America has an addiction to oil, law firms have an addiction to paper. It's the nature of the beast. Paper continues to play a critical role in modern law practice.

While there's no quick fix for our oil addiction, you can overcome the challenges that paper poses by tweaking your workflow in simple but not necessarily intuitive ways.

TAKE THE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS A PAPERLESS OFFICE TODAY ...

The author Mark Caine wrote: "The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

In this quote Caine perfectly sums up why we encourage you to download and read a free copy of Top Five Paperless Office Challenges for Law Firms.

This new white paper contains five simple tips that will have you saying, "Why didn't I think of that!"

Specifically, you'll learn how to address these challenges:

• How to capture paper digitally when you're out of the office and there's no scanner around. Our tip will even work on an airplane mid-flight.

• How to improve the scanning of incoming mail and other paper documents so that it takes less time and you can easily find a document in seconds when needed.

• How to quickly use a model document such as a pleading without retyping or reformatting.

• How to make discovery documents in JPEG, PDF, or TIFF format more useful and secure.

• How to streamline your brief drafting, especially when responding to opposing counsel's brief or pleadings.

Please download your free copy of this white paper now.

AND TRY ABBYY FINEREADER 9.0 TOO ...

ABBYY FineReader 9.0 has helped many law offices eliminate paper thanks to its combination of award-winning OCR technology and legal-specific features. It can help you implement all the tips in the above white paper, which explains why TechnoLawyer awarded it a TechnoScore rating of 4.5 in its recent review. Please download a free trial of ABBYY FineReader 9.0 now.

GOING TO ILTA 2008? WE WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU ...

Why do we attend trade shows? Because meeting with people like you makes what we do worth doing. So please stop by Booth 814 during the ILTA 2008 conference (August 25-28). Watch a demonstration of ABBYY FineReader or tell us what you think of it if you already use it at your firm.

Sincerely,

ABBYY USA

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

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 CT Summation — its TechnoRelease on July 11, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period July 7-20, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

FREE WHITE PAPER: MISSING CHILDREN IN THE DIGITAL MALL: MAINTAINING EMAIL MESSAGES AND THEIR ATTACHMENTS
By Michele Chan, Marketing Communications Specialist, CT Summation

How many email messages do you send every year? How about your firm as a whole?

A recent federal case in the Southern District of New York ended up before a magistrate because of 3,000 email messages produced during discovery. That doesn't sound like a lot since many of us send more than that number per year. And certainly your firm as a whole sends far more than 3,000 per year.

But that relatively small number of messages caused a great deal of trouble in this case, including a testy magistrate.

Every litigator knows that what you don't know can hurt you. In this case, plaintiff's counsel didn't understand the parent-child nature of email — that is, email attachments.

PARENTS, CHILDREN, AND THE TIES THAT BIND ...

Our new white paper, Missing Children in the Digital Mall: Maintaining Email Messages and their Attachments, addresses this important case and its aftermath.

Here's what you'll find (plus it's a quick read):

• A complete synopsis of this case, including the magistrate's decision.

• A technical analysis of what went wrong during the production and where the blame really lies — the vendor hired by plaintiff's counsel to produce the messages.

• A discussion of software tools that would have prevented this fiasco from occurring by properly producing the email messages and their corresponding attachments.

If you handle email during discovery or think you might someday soon, please download this free white paper now.

Sincerely,

Michele Chan
Marketing Communications Specialist
CT Summation

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

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 American Bar Association Book Publishing — its TechnoRelease on July 4, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period June 23-July 6, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

MICROSOFT® INSIDER PROVIDES TIPS AND TRICKS FOR LAWYER'S ON USING THE LATEST VERSION OF OUTLOOK IN NEW BOOK
By Yasmin Waring, Director of Book Marketing & Planning, American Bar Association Book Publishing

THE ONLY BOOK OF ITS KIND

The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft® Outlook is the only book of its kind that shows lawyers how to get the most leverage from the latest version of Outlook.

Do you know how to use "AutoArchive" to best manage your deleted items folder? Do you know how "recycling" can improve your resource usage? Do you inadvertently hide messages that you really mean to view? Do you know how your assistant can review your email without compromising your pass phrase? The answers to these questions will help make your more efficient and maximize your online time.

This new easy-to-read guidebook will not only show you how to quickly address these common issues encountered by many lawyers, but introduce you to the eight new features in Outlook 2007 that, as a lawyer, you will love, as well as provide keyboard shortcuts that will make you much more productive. Readers have commented that, "[h]is book is not only practical, but downright funny. There aren't many legal tech books that can make you laugh out loud."

Written by Ben Schorr, an ABA member and TechnoLawyer subscriber who is a twenty-year veteran of law office technology and Microsoft® "insider," his comprehensive instructions include:

• Tips to effectively transfer information between all components of the software.

• An illustrated tour of the major product features and how  lawyers can best use them.

• What to do when you're away from the office (and more importantly, what NOT to do).

• How to get the most from your PDAs.

• What to do while compiling your case and what to do when you're done.

• Tricks to impress co-counsel, opposing counsel, and former law school classmates.

"Whether you're new to Outlook or well-acquainted, this book will help you make full use of the program — like how to use it as a basic case manager — without wasting valuable billing time."
— Ian Bezpalko, Principal, The Bezpalko Law Firm

READ TWO FREE CHAPTERS NOW ...

Read the Introduction and Chapter 11 — Mistakes Lawyers Make with Outlook online right now.

ATTEND A FREE WEBINAR ON ADOBE ACROBAT ...

Register for free July Webinar on Adobe® Acrobat® 9 and its new features tailored for lawyers.

Yasmin Waring
Director of Book Marketing & Planning
American Bar Association Book Publishing

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 Digital Publications — its TechnoRelease on June 18, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period June 9-22, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

ENABLE THE POWER IN YOUR DOCUMENT COLLECTION
By John Zoltai, President, Digital Publications, LLC

One day, an attorney received (from opposing counsel — those rascals) over 150,000 pages of locked Acrobat documents that were just images; he couldn't search through the text or even convert them so he could run OCR on them. Even if he could, OCR would take him weeks to process on his local systems. So he called Digital Publications.

We can run in excess of 100,000 pages per day of documents through OCR, Bates, custom headers & footers, unlocking, etc. Our prices are low enough (as low as one penny per page) and our systems fast enough that million page runs are now both economically and temporally feasible.

BUT HEY!

That's not all there is to it. Once you have a bunch of searchable Acrobat documents, the trick is knowing what to do with them. That's where the freebie comes in:

Click here to download Acrobat Power Searching.

There is no form to fill out. No salespeople will call. It's a free download and it gives you the knowledge you need to become a truly proficient expert in searching large Acrobat document collections.

The advantages of a full-text enabled Acrobat document collection are obvious, but getting from a scanned document to a fully enabled document requires a lot of processing power. Most firms don't have personnel and systems that can be dedicated full time to just processing documents through OCR, Bates numbering, indexing, and so forth. The result: big backlogs of scanned documents waiting to be processed "some day."

So our motive is selfish: If more people learn about the incredible power available to them when they become Acrobat search experts, there will be more incentive to process those backlogs. Who will you call? Well, we did give you this free document that started you down the path ...

John Zoltai
President
Digital Publications, 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 Rocket Matter — its TechnoRelease on May 30, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period May 26-June 8, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

INTRODUCING ROCKET MATTER — THE WEB GENERATION OF LEGAL SOFTWARE
By Larry Port, Rocket Matter, LLC

IT'S ABOUT TIME

We have seen the frustrations of small law firms and solo practitioners. We have checked out the software you're stuck with. We understand the value of your time. And we know there is a better answer for you.

Allow us to introduce Rocket Matter™, the Web generation of legal software. Rocket Matter is Web-based practice management and time and billing software, accessible from anywhere with Internet access. Use it on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or even a Linux machine. Log on and bill time from the office, home, or on the road.

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, enjoyable 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 went.

Getting started is easy. 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 only pay for the number of users you want, and that's it. Best of all, you can save the thousands of dollars you'd likely have to pay for a traditional practice management setup.

With Rocket Matter, you can sleep well, knowing you have daily backups and security managed for you automatically. And since our servers are in a redundant, premier data center, you have an instant disaster-recovery plan.

Watch our brief Rocket Matter preview video now.

Or sign up for more information and an in-depth demonstration by one of our product experts.

Subscribe to our product updates and receive free technical tips at our blog.

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 Anacomp's CaseLogistix — its TechnoRelease on May 23, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period May 12-25, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

FREE ON-DEMAND WEB PRESENTATION: THE LITIGATOR'S SECRET HANDBOOK BY BROWNING E. MAREAN III
By Anacomp's CaseLogistix

The Litigator's Secret Handbook is not as much of a secret as it was one month ago thanks to a capacity crowd at Browning Marean's April 29th Webinar. But if you missed the Webinar, now what?

NOW ON DEMAND BY POPULAR DEMAND ...

To recap, DLA Piper partner, litigator, and electronic discovery expert Browning E. Marean III memorialized his discovery strategy in a checklist entitled, Discovery Project Management Template.

Browning's checklist was so well-regarded, he got a book deal. And we highly recommend his book. But there's no substitute for listening to Browning discuss his methods, especially when doing so won't cost you anything.

Because Browning continues to hone his checklist, a presentation is the best way to learn about his latest insights.

Knowing this, we recorded Browning's April 29th Webinar, The Litigator's Secret Handbook. You can now watch it anytime from the comfort of your home or office.

Here's what you'll learn:

• The steps for successfully managing the discovery of electronic documents from start to finish (i.e., Browning's famous checklist).

• How to negotiate timetables for the production of electronic documents.

• How to select outside vendors to help you with electronic discovery tasks.

• And much more.

Don't miss the opportunity to watch The Litigator's Secret Handbook now.

Sincerely,

Anacomp's CaseLogistix

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

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 Verdict Systems — its TechnoRelease on April 30, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period April 28-May 11, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

VERDICAL: OPTIMIZING WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT FOR YOUR LITIGATION PRACTICE
By Verdict Systems

"I HAVE THIS CASE ..."

That's usually how the phone call begins. "I have this case with document images in this location, with transcripts and synchronized video in this location, and opposing counsel just gave me 1,000 PDF files. Oh, yeah, I go to trial in 2 days."

Every firm faces the same challenges when it handles a litigation matter. You store, review and produce documents in various forms, you digest depositions and review the corresponding video excerpts and you present that case at some point in time. That presentation may not occur just at trial. It may occur at a mediation, arbitration, hearing or settlement conference.

Many firms have used our first litigation product, Sanction, to handle their presentation needs. In developing Sanction, we have always developed tools to solve problems and handle the complex data issues that firms encounter in advance of trial. As Sanction evolved, our clients requested more and more evidence management tools in addition to just the presentation features of the product. It's our job to have an answer when the phone rings and we hear, "I have this case ..."

INTRODUCING VERDICAL — THE ONE-PRODUCT SOLUTION FOR LITIGATORS

Wouldn't it be nice if the software you used to store, review and produce documents could handle the depositions as well?  Then, when the trial you thought would settle didn't. Instead of pushing the panic button, you push the Presentation button. All your reviews and work are now ready to present with the push of a single button.

That's Verdical. Manage your evidence and present from just one application.

FREE WHITE PAPER — INCORPORATING PDF FILES INTO YOUR WORKFLOW

With Verdical, we are also enhancing the way PDF files can be used in litigation support applications. How great would it be if you could extract OCR text from PDF files for use throughout your case? To read more about how we are saving firms time and effort, click here for the white paper.

YOU HAVE OPTIONS

For more in formation about Verdical and to see a demo, you can choose whichever option fits best for you. You can either sign up for a live Web demonstration in which one of our knowledgeable representatives is available to answer your questions, or if you prefer, you can view short 1 to 3-minute long mini video demos online at your convenience, which outline some of the basic functionality of Verdical, step by step, with animated screen shots and narration.

Sign up here for a live Web demo.

View online demo videos here — each just 1 to 3 minutes long.

Please download our new white paper, Incorporating PDF Files Into Your Workflow.

Verdict Systems

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 ABBYY USA — its TechnoRelease on April 21, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period April 14-27, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

NEW REPORT: THE SEVEN OCR HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFICIENT LAW FIRMS
By ABBYY USA

"Taming the paper tiger." How often have you heard that line in TechnoLawyer and elsewhere? It's the king of law office cliches! But it became the king for a reason — paper remains a serious productivity drain for law firms of all sizes.

Just ask Kantor & Kantor and the Merit Law Group, two law firms in California. These firms thought that the key to their respective paper problems lay in OCR software.

They were right but they were also wrong. Because they failed to sufficiently do their homework, they found themselves no better off after buying OCR software.

Fortunately, these two stories have a happy ending. Better yet, you can learn from their mistakes so you need not repeat them.

HOW TO CHOOSE OCR SOFTWARE AND USE IT EFFECTIVELY ...

Remember that book about the seven habits of highly effective people? Well, in our new report, you'll read about the seven OCR habits of highly efficient law firms — seven tips that will enable your law firm to make the most of its investment in OCR software.

In this report, you'll learn:

• How to choose OCR software that won't result in buyer's remorse or become shelfware.

• How to choose a scanner well suited to your OCR software.

• How to reduce copying costs, especially when out of the office.

• How to better process incoming faxes.

• How to streamline document review and the creation of pleadings in a typical case.

• And much more — plus learn how Kantor & Kantor and the Merit Law Group incorporated these tips and overcame their initial paperless missteps.

Please download this free report now.

Sincerely,

ABBYY USA

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

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 DirectLaw, Inc. — its TechnoRelease on April 4, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period March 31-April 13, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

FREE WHITE PAPER ON ELAWYERING FOR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE — HOW TO EARN LEGAL FEES WHILE YOU SLEEP
By Pam Andrews, Law Firm Development, DirectLaw, Inc.

Marc Lauritsen, co-chair of the eLawyering Task Force of the Law Practice Management Section of the American Bar Association,  in an article in Law Practice Magazine, succinctly defined eLawyering as:

"All the ways in which lawyers can do their work using the Web and associated technologies. These include new ways to communicate and collaborate with clients, prospective clients and other lawyers, produce documents, settle disputes and manage legal knowledge. Think of a lawyering verb — interview, investigate, counsel, draft, advocate, analyze, negotiate, manage and so forth — and there are corresponding electronic tools and techniques."

HOW TO TAKE MARC'S DEFINITION TO THE BANK ...

Written by Richard Granat, President of DirectLaw, Inc., our new white paper, eLawyering for Competitive Advantage — How to Earn Legal Fees While You Sleep, expands on Marc's definition of eLawyering and what it means for law firms.

Specifically, this free report:

• Discusses changing demographics and the importance of creating online legal services for clients who want to work with the attorneys over the Internet.

• Provides data on what consumers want from their law firms.

• Identifies online legal applications that increase law firm productivity as well as expand the law firm's reach to new kinds of clients.

• Identifies online applications that create law firm cash flow without having to bill on a time basis.

• Explains how to add eLawyering capabilities to your law practice.

Please download your free copy of this white paper now.

Pam Andrews
Law Firm Development
DirectLaw, Inc.

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 Bill4Time — its TechnoRelease on March 17, 2008 sparked the most interest among TechnoLawyer members for the period March 17-30, 2008. The copy from this TechnoRelease appears below:

BILL4TIME'S NEW FEATURES AWAIT YOUR WEB BROWSER AND WINDOWS MOBILE DEVICES
By Douglas Dweck, Bill4Time

When you think about modern media, software represents a step backwards because of its imposition on the customer.

For example, when you buy a TV, you don't have to fiddle with it to receive a new sitcom that begins airing. Instead, it just shows up on your TV. The broadcaster does all the hard work.

Software flips this model. If you need a new feature, you have to do the heavy lifting — i.e., buying, installing, and configuring the upgrade.

Web applications like Bill4Time work like your TV set — new features show up automatically in your Web browser on your Mac or PC without you lifting a finger.

SO, WHAT'S NEW IN BILL4TIME?

Bill4Time, of course, is the Web-based billing application that has won many converts from traditional billing programs since TechnoLawyer first discovered and covered us last July. We followed up on that coverage with a series of TechnoReleases that have attracted many more converts.

As our customer base grows, so do the number of feature requests we receive. While we receive a few one-off suggestions, most requests tend to be repetitive, which makes it easy for us to allocate development resources.

So, what have we done for our customers lately? How about:

• Windows Mobile: Bill4Time Mobile now supports Windows Mobile Pocket PC's in addition to BlackBerrys and Palm OS Treos. Windows Mobile Smartphone support will be released in the next few days. Bill4Time Mobile doesn't just capture your time and expenses when you're on the go, it also securely sends your entries to your Bill4Time account where you will see them upon logging in from any Mac or PC. No syncing needed.

• Flexible Billing Rates: Bill4Time users have long enjoyed the ability to set billing rates by the Timekeeper, Client, or Matter.  Just added — the ability to set the billing rate per Time Entry.

• Foreign Currency: Bill4Time has long provided the ability to use European-style dates for our international customers. Now, you can also create bills using foreign currencies such as the popular Euro.

• PDF Bills — New This Week: Bill4Time invoices have now taken a big step forward thanks to a familiar three-letter acronym — PDF. Without the need for any PDF software, you can output and email bills in PDF format from your Web browser.

Coming soon — iPhone Support — yes, you will be able to input Time and Expenses in real-time from your iPhone.

And let's not forget Bill4Time QB Connect, which integrates Bill4Time with QuickBooks, a very popular new feature we rolled out a few months ago.

TRY BILL4TIME NOW ...

Got a Mac or PC? Got a Web browser? Try Bill4Time now, including its newest features.

Sincerely,

Douglas Dweck
Bill4Time

LandingPage Interactive, an online ad agency owned by the same company that operates TechnoLawyer, created this TechnoRelease for Bill4Time.

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