Legal Technology

Interwoven Goes Fishing

When Interwoven teamed up with Riverbed Steelheads, you can bet that its customers in 66 of the Am Law 100 law firms looked to cast their lines in the same direction. Steelheads are appliances set up in central and remote law offices that speed the performance of applications and file transfers between sites. With Interwoven, Steelheads can bring together geographically dispersed WorkSite libraries and improve access to critical documents served from aging file servers and over slow WAN links. Although this means another set of appliances on the network, Riverbed provides easy configuration tools and management software that make Steelheads a low maintenance investment.

No Fast-Forward from 1982

From the New Jersey Law Journal, on September 9, 1982, a new computer system was set up in Trenton, called CAMIS, to file and track cases in Superior Court. Attorneys no longer needed to file duplicate copies of pleadings. One copy of a motion or pleading could be filed, for all. In addition, a statewide docket number made it easy to identify the case.

Yes. You read the date correctly: 1982. In some ways, we have come a long way since that time. In others, like e-filing in state courts, we have a long way to go. For example, there are many courts in California and New York that still do not even accept fax filing. Shame on us when we look at Georgia. 

Dudes, software ...

If your search is always on for useful software, bookmark the Software Dudes site. It's a new Web site that offers a wide variety of hard-to-find software applications in one spot. The Dudes' collection includes freeware and shareware. And of course, it will accept most major pay cards as well as PayPal for software.

Software-Dudes.com categorizes software into 10 channels. All products are sorted for easy navigation, so you can find what you want quickly. So dudes, check it out. But if you are looking for Solaris software, forget the Software Dudes and head for the Solaris Freeware Project.

Know Your Audience

For manufacturers and service providers catering to lawyers and law firms, one of the best pieces of advice I heard at ILTA was to know your audience. And the best way to do that is to review the trade rags, so to speak, of lawyers. Find out what issues present themselves in their daily practice of law and business and help them overcome those. Toward that end, the American Bar Association accepts associate members who are interested in the law. ABA associate members can tap numerous publications like GPSOLO Magazine and see the lifeline that many legal professionals reach for when they need help. In addition, information from numerous practice sections like Law and Practice Management will come to fore as well as e-mail lists like SOLOSEZ.