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"Helping lawyers solve the technology puzzle." New or useful Web sites for of interest to attorneys and other legal professionals, and legal technology news and highlights.
Author: Catherine Sanders Reach, Tonya Johnson, Joshua Poje and Stephen Stine are staffers at the ABA's Legal Technology Resource Center.
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Recent Posts from ABA Site-tation
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Introducing Firefox 3
The finalized new third version of the web browser Firefox was released on June 17, 2008, with more than 8 million downloads in 24 hours. Firefox is currently the second-most popular web browser, with around…
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Model Rule 5.3 and Your Technical/Computer Staff
Rule 5.3 of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides that an attorney with managerial or direct supervisory authority over a nonlawyer has a duty to take reasonable steps to assure that the “person’s conduct…
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Access Granted – Biometric Security
Once the stuff of spy movies and secret agents, systems accessed by iris, voice and handprint recognition are now mainstream and affordable. Biometrics use an individual’s body or physical attributes to confirm identify and grant…
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Lawyers and Twitter
“What are you doing?” Lawyers are answering that question amongst themselves and the world at large with a free technology tool called Twitter. Twitter is a micro blogging service that allows users to make posts…
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What’s in a Web Browser
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, which brought the Internet into the hands of ordinary people. The web browser launches when you double-click a…
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It Could Happen to You: Disaster Preparedness
The ABA Journal brings news of two law firms that have been temporarily forced to relocate their offices as a result of the devastating floods throughout Iowa. According to the Journal, the Cedar Rapids office…
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Search Engine Roundup: Beyond Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
Web search is currently dominated by Google, which recently captured around 68% of the U.S. search engine market share. Beyond Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, there are several other search engine companies that are attempting to…
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New Metadata Ethics Opinion: Colorado
Andrew Perlman of the Legal Ethics Forum brings news of yet another ethics opinion addressing metadata, this time from Colorado. According to his post, the Colorado opinion “…concludes that a lawyer should generally be allowed…
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LTRC Monthly FYI Poll: Online Backup Security
The LTRC is proud to announce the newest feature on the LTRC website: monthly “FYI” polls. While the LTRC has spent more than decade producing detailed survey reports on technology issues related to the legal…
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Newly Released: Volumes 3 and 4 of the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report
The next two volumes of the 2008 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report, Litigation and Courtroom Technology (Vol. 3) and Web and Communication Technology (Vol. 4), are now available for purchase.In 2008 the findings of the…