Articles on Legal Technology

Do a domain By James Bumgarner Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, September 2004 In the Standing Committee on Legal Technology newsletter, June 2004, Vol. 11. No.4, the article "How to Design a Simple Education-Based Web Site for an Individual Attorney" explains what a good law office Web page and its links should contain.
What’s all the fuss about VoIP? Money! A CoLT primer By Peter Mierzwa Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, September 2004 VoIP or Voice Over Internet Protocol is the technology that allows you to make telephone calls using a broadband Internet connection instead of a regular, analog phone line.
Using PowerPoint to prove your point at trial By Patrick T. Barone Tort Law, June 2004 Used correctly, PowerPoint can be an awesome tool of persuasion.
Dealing with e-mail overload By Nerino J. Petro Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, August 2003 As the pace of technology increases, so do the challenges that keeping up with these changes make on your time.
TechnoLawyer.com: How to stay in touch when out of reach By Carol L. Schlein Young Lawyers Division, August 2003 Getting away from work has become nearly impossible. While you can use a Palm or similar handheld device to look up client appointments or telephone numbers and a cell phone to keep in touch with clients, the latest round of toys--er, tools--make it harder to disconnect from the office.
Worthy of note By James Bumgarner Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, April 2003 Volunteer your PC: Would you like to help the effort to analyze anthrax and cancer cells? To identify chemical molecules that could block the smallpox virus?
Illinois Integrated Justice Panel finishes work! By David Clark Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2002 The governing board authorized by Gov. George Ryan last December is putting the final touches on the Strategic Plan to be submitted to both the governor and the state Legislature.
Scanner clean-up techniques for WordPerfect and Word By Marilyn Monrose Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2002 Cleaning up scanned documents in WordPerfect is fairly easy once you know what to look for. Even though OCR technology has improved a lot over the years, there are still some things it can't do and being that WordPerfect is a code-driven program, some unexpected problems are always likely to turn up.
TechnoLawyer.com: Equipping the small law office for less than $10,000 By Jeffrey S. Lisson Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2002 This is Part Two of a three-part series that discusses what you need and don't need, when to cut corners, and when to go all out when equipping a solo or small law office for under $10,000. In Part 1, Jeffrey outlined the hardware required for this endeavor.
The best way to copy styles between documents in Word when using a document management program By Marilyn Monrose Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, October 2002 Firms with document management applications such as DOCS Open® and iManage® sometimes have a difficult time copying styles between documents in Word.
Internet Explorer security flaws update By David Clark Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, October 2002 In the March 2002 Legal Tech newsletter, the following article appeared. At the time it was not revealed as to the extent of the damage in the breach of security discovered in Internet Explorer.
TechnoLawyer.com: Equipping the small law office for less than $10,000 By Jeffrey S. Lisson Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, October 2002 Technology is an amazing thing. It's also confusing and expensive. It takes time to figure out what you need, and to earn the money to buy it.
Electronic filing By Karen Evie Kalnins Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, May 2002 For some attorneys, filing court documents electronically brings to mind visions of complex technology that is hard to use and time-consuming to learn.
Helpful hints—security flaws in Internet Explorer By David Clark Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, May 2002 Using a computer, without security from unauthorized entry or from viral and other infections, is a gamble most are unwilling to undertake.
Scanning irreplaceable documents in case of disaster By Marilyn Monrose Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, May 2002 Many things have changed since September 11, especially the way we do business. Law firms that resided in the World Trade Center lost untold thousands of documents.
Trailing Cybercrime By James Bumgarner Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, May 2002 Hastened by the September 11th attack on the United States, we now have in place a procedure for global cooperation in the search for crimes being planned, having been committed, and in commission.
Do it yourself: computer maintenance tips By David Clark Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, April 2002 "Stick out your tongue and say 'Aaah!'" This phrase is unmistakably linked to a doctor's checkup.
Governor Ryan issues order for integrated justice By David Clark Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, April 2002 On December 6, 2001, Illinois Governor George Ryan issued an executive order that may begin the process for an integrated criminal justice system.
Use the Styles By Todd H. Flaming Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, April 2002 What's so great about a modern word processor? WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS was a great program, and there was little reason to change it.
Xperience Windows XP By Nerino J. Petro, Jr. Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, April 2002 The Windows latest operating system (OS) release is called Windows XP (Win XP) and comes in two versions: home and professional.
An Apple a day: Macintosh becoming computer of choice for many law firms By T.L. Headley Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2001 According to a survey by the American Bar Association, Apple computers are increasingly the choice of law firms
Area code 809 telephone scam By Sandi Van Handel Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2001 Major scam: Don't respond to e-mails, phone calls, or Web pages which tell you to call an "809" phone number.
I’ve got your peripatetic right here By Jay Giusti Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2001 Investing in computer technology sometimes seems to require a call to Miss Cleo: How can we predict, with some assurance of accuracy, which emergent products are most likely to be around for awhile?
Note from the chair By Pamela Perrone Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2001 The world has changed dramatically since the last issue of the COLT newsletter.
Search better By James Bumgarner Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, December 2001 Long ago, for searching the Internet, there was Gopher (http://www.infospace.com/info.gopher/), and Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/).
Help for judges and attorneys is here when calculating child support, alimony, the impact of taxes in dissolution cases By Frank Gembala Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, June 2001 At a recent continuing Judicial Education program presented by the Illinois Judicial Conference, 62 judges from throughout Illinois who preside over domestic relations dissolution of marriage cases gathered to fine tune and share their collective knowledge on how best to resolve financial issues.
How to create fractions in Word and WordPerfect without using the math feature By Marilyn Monrose Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, June 2001 You don't need to use the Math features in Word and WordPerfect to create fractions.
LEXISONE Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, June 2001 After settling its litigation with Jurisline, Lexis created a new Web site called LexisOne.
My recommendations By Jay Giusti Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, June 2001 You may have heard about a new top-level domain becoming available for Internet Web addresses, and the March 2001 issue of ABA Law Practice Management has a good description of new ones particularly including .pro that is intended for professionals such as attorneys.
Calling all government attorneys Legal Technology, Standing Committee on, January 2001 The ISBA's Standing Committee on Government Lawyers wants to include you in its constituency.

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