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program has a unique interface, but the endgame is that all of your documents, including drafts, pleadings, discovery, bills, medical records and correspondence will be automatically sortable (by date and category) and searchable by name. Futhermore, by taking the extra step of performing optical character recognition (OCR) of PDF documents, you can search the text of the documents. Tere are a number of good case management products
out there. Our firm uses Time Matters (by MAJ sponsor LexisNexis), other good products include Needles (by MAJ sponsor Needles Case Management Software) and Prolaw and West Case Notebook (by MAJ sponsor West, a Tomson Reuters Business). Adobe Acrobat: Most people are familiar with the
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How have your past clients fared with their cash settlements??
Our annuity settlements have NOT lost value or benefit and have NOT been affected by the current financial crisis.
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with thousands of pages of medical records, and for legal malpractice cases with thousands of pages of pleadings, depositions and correspondence. Instead of searching through the files by hand, you can pull up documents with the click of a few buttons. Miscellaneous: Tere are a number of options once you
software used to view scanned documents—the most popular is Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free. Tis may be sufficient for some employees who only need to view documents; however, at least some of your lawyers and paralegals should get Acrobat 9 Pro, which offers expanded functionality including: reordering pages in scanned documents, bates-stamping, redacting and OCR. Optical character recognition (OCR) gives you the ability to instantly search through PDF documents for typed words. Tis has been invaluable to me in medical malpractice cases
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delve into the world of the paperless office. You should make sure to have some means of connecting remotely to your office network from other internet-accessible computers. Several MAJ sponsors can assist you with this process, or you can use on-line services such as
www.gotomypc.com. Furthermore, there are advanced products out there than can help to you to professionally convert PDF documents to Word, WordPerfect or Excel documents. My favorite is Nuance PDF Converter. Tis is an invaluable resource for converting discovery questions by opposing counsel into a word processing program, preventing the need to retype the questions when you draft your answers.
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Back-up systems Te full scope of backup systems are outside of the scope
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of this article. Suffice to say that it is imperative that you have at least one off-site back-up (in case your office is not there in the morning).
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