From The Posse List:
”Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Time: 1:00 PM (EST)/10:00 AM (PST)
Hon. John Facciola (U.S. Magistrate Judge in the District of Columbia) and Jonathan Redgrave (partner at Nixon Peabody LLP) will discuss their recently published law review article addressing the process for claiming and adjudicating privileges in the era of electronic discovery.
They recently appeared at the Georgetown [...]

From Legal Ease Blog:
”…On the JD Hacker blog, Will Geer posted “Do You Really Need Practice Management Software?” His answer was no, but I’m not so sure – I think his post missed some of the big reasons to have practice management software.
Geer opines that most lawyers purchase practice management software for document management, but that [...]

From Lifehacker:
”Tired of fiddling with scanned pages to remove borders, correct alignment, and otherwise prettify them before storing or emailing them? Then Scan Tailor could be right up your alley.

This free app splits two-page scans into single documents, converts text to black and white without disturbing images, and cleans stray specks off pages.  Scan Tailor [...]

From Law.com:
”Like a bad Hollywood thriller, law firm technology has a villain that’s all too easy to spot. The economic downturn has — to no one’s surprise — taken a toll on the coffers of law firm IT departments: Fully one-third of the 110 Am Law 200 firms participating in our fourteenth annual survey of [...]

From ARS Technica:
”The indexing service that powers Windows search can now perform OCR of TIFF images. Though not enabled by default (due to resource usage constraints), installing it gives full-text searching of TIFFs. Scanned documents and faxes are the main target for this capability.”

See the Microsoft TechNet page for installation info.
ARS Technica – Hasta la [...]