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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Law firms are using extranets to enable them to collaborate electronically with their legal teams, clients, and inside or outside counsel to simplify legal proceedings and realize time and cost savings.
Law firms, legal departments of major corporations, and state and federal governments are employing paralegals by the thousands to reduce costs and increase efficiency.
Law firms and corporate and governmental legal departments are now constantly challenged to provide the highest level of service at the lowest possible cost.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Should law firms serving as counsel to a corporation be required to disclose to the shareholders of that corporation their assessment of the potential legal and liability risks that could arise as a result of the corporation's accounting or other financial practices?
Increasingly, law firms are turning to technological tools to more efficiently research and retain conflict management information such as corporate linkage relationships and key principal names.
Many law firms are satisfying client demands for predictable costs by replacing the billable hour with fixed fees, capped fees or blended hourly rates.
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Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer
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Law firms are more likely to provide quality legal services to clients who pay their bills on time – normally within 30 to 45 days of receipt.
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Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur
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Law firms are starting ancillary businesses that create Web products for clients, automate litigation services, offer translation services and online training, and consult in all manner of areas.
Both enable law firms to search simultaneously their internal work product and LexisNexis or Westlaw using the full power of the search engines on LexisNexis and Westlaw.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Many firms are recognizing that future success will depend on new models for law practice and paradigm shifts from the old approaches.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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Law firms in Australia were creating software compliant with a particular law or regulation and installing it into a company's hard drive or systems so the company had that information.
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