What are the most popular document management systems in large legal departments? Head over to Rees Morrison’s LawDepartmentManagementBlog for the answer.

[via: Most-cited document management systems (DMSs) in large legal departments at the Law Department Management Blog]

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Looking for cost containment tips? Every legal department should be – here are some tips to leverage legal research technology to contain costs. Lydia Flocchini of Thomson Reuters (home of WestLawNext) has some related tips in an article at the Association of Corporate Counsel:

In this ever-changing and leaner economic environment, corporate legal departments expect outside counsel to deliver more effective and efficient legal services at a lower cost. Simultaneously, in-house counsel are investigating expense management initiatives as well as solutions for increasing efficiency and productivity. One way both are achieving these goals is by leveraging cutting-edge legal research technology.

[via Top Ten Tips for Leveraging Cutting-Edge Legal Research Technology to Control Legal Costs and Drive Client Value - Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC)]

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Did somebody say free? That is a welcome word to strapped law departments everywhere – tip of the hat to Rees Morrison of the Law Department Management Blog for finding this site that is offering free global legal information for inhouse lawyers:

According to this London-based company’s website and ads, GTDTonline provides in-house counsel with summaries of laws and regulations in 43 practice areas and more than 120 jurisdictions. The summaries explain “the most important legal and regulatory matters that arise in…

[via: Getting the Deal Through (GTDT) and its offerings of global legal information, free for in-house lawyers at the Law Department Management Blog]

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Bloomberg plans to bolster its legal, tax and regulatory content with a deal to buy BNA for about $990 million. BNA would become a stand-alone subsidiary of Bloomberg after the deal closes, probably sometime in 2011, according to a press release.

[via: Bloomberg to Bolster Legal Offerings with Deal to Buy BNA for $990M at the ABA Journal]

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Google has indirectly entered the legal services fray when its venture capital arm gave Rocket Lawyer $18.5 million.

[via Law Librarian Blog: Does Google Want To Be Our Lawyer?.]

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Kevin O’Keefe’s take on Google Plus – a positive impression – stay tuned for more coverage.

Google Plus for lawyers : First impressions : Real Lawyers Have Blogs.

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If you are email tone deaf, or know someone who is, ToneCheck may be the tool you’ve been looking for (hat tip to LegalBlogWatch):

Did you ever receive an email from opposing counsel and think, “Who does this S.O.B. think he is, talking to me this way? Call off the settlement, it’s ON now, sucker!” Meanwhile, the person you now believe to be an S.O.B. of the highest order thought he was just quickly wrapping things up.

[via Check your Email Tone with ToneCheck at LegalBlogWatch]

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Thomson Reuters Legal CEO Peter Warwick introduced a new international pro bono legal service during a session with former United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohamed ElBaradei at LegalTech New York on Monday. From the outset of the discussion, Warwick, a trustee of the nonprofit Thomson Reuters Foundation, challenged the roughly 200 lawyers and legal services professionals in the audience to take on new pro bono projects to help extend the rule of law around the globe.

[via Law.com - Thomson Reuters Introduces International Pro Bono Project Connecting NGOs to Lawyers.]

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An entire industry has grown up around interpreting legal research needs and finding information for lawyers and their clients. Researchers have to remember where information resides and extract relevant documents in a compressed amount of time using Boolean syntax and other search strategies. LexisNexis’ Lexis for Microsoft and Thomson Reuters’ WestlawNext aim to make online research easy, and effective, through very different strategies that will make for an interesting show at LegalTech New York, Feb. 1-3.

[via Law.com - Westlaw, LexisNexis Debut Revamped Research Tools at LegalTech New York.]

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Microsoft Outlook isn’t perfect, but there is more to its e-mail and calendar functions than meets the eye. By combining some of Outlook’s best undiscovered features with a little ingenuity, lawyers can reduce their stress levels and perhaps add a bit of leisure time to their schedules.

[via Law.com - Mastering Outlook to Increase Productivity.]

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So you have a BlackBerry, iPhone or other PDA and can’t live without it. Whether it is checking emails or making a quick call to the office, your smartphone keeps you up to date on what is going on back at the office, the latest sports scores or helps you find a restaurant in a pinch. But what about legal productivity “apps”? Are you using your smartphone to help you get your job done more efficiently? Fortunately, the ABA Journal has posted a recent article that details 70 apps that might help.

[via 70 Sizzling Apps | ABA Journal - Law News Now.]

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Legal tech guru Dennis Kennedy shares his thoughts on legal tech trends for 2008 – read and share with your law department and MIS department.

Eight Legal Technology Trends for 2008 – Good Times, Bad Times or Hard Times in Legal Tech? | LLRX.com

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Did you miss LegalTech? Read about what consultant Jeffrey Beard saw on his recent trip to the popular convention over at InsideCounsel.   From e-discovery to automated document review, there is plenty of information that will help you embrace your inner nerd.

2008 Corporate Legal Technology Trends – InsideCounsel

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