- 11Dec2013
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Go Ahead – Take Advantage of Us
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If there is one thing you can say about the legal profession, it is not boring. By the time you have gotten used to one set of procedures, a court decision or a piece of legislation comes along and throws it all out the window. While the rest of this issue is on federal rule changes,
- 11Dec2013
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Document Services
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The most usual service that we provide is connected with handling the exhibits of oral depositions. In addition to handling the usual black and white documents, we also handle the duplication of x-rays, MRI films, color photographs, blueprints, maps, audiotapes, videotapes and CD’s. In patent and copyright cases, we get to handle everything from chocolate bars to high-frequency portable communication devices.
- 11Dec2013
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Competition and Quality of Service
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Its not easy keeping ahead of the competition. As a litigator, youve probably long since lost count of the extra hours youve put in trying to keep one motion ahead of your opposing counsel. CJRA Plans and fast track systems give you less time than before to prepare your case for trial.
- 11Dec2013
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The Changing Face of the Law
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Although the law thoroughly relies on precedents going back to the Magna Carta, it is far from a static subject. New classes of causes of action are constantly retesting and redefining our interrelationships in our quest for a more civil society. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the field of employment law,
- 11Dec2013
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Cleaning Up Our Act: Change Toward Higher Standards
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There is generally plenty to complain about in the way the federal government carries out its duties. The “War on Crime”, “War on Poverty”, “War on Drugs” and “War on Illiteracy” all have shown costs and results similar to another war we fought a few decades ago in Southeast Asia. In cleaning up the environment,
- 09Jun2012
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Teamwork: Helping You Succeed
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Once a quarter the Atkinson-Baker Newsletter, Discovery Update,TM features those topics that shape the law itself and its practice. We address a broad variety of topics such as: copyright laws, unpublished opinions, discovery rules, employment law, evidence, expert witnesses, deposition practices, handling of exhibits and many, many more.
- 28Mar2012
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Learning from Experience Tried and True
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One of the best parts of attending conventions is hearing the war stories told around the dinner table by seasoned veterans. Some of these tales involve how they outwitted the opposition, but there are also those of the “I’ll never do that again” variety. It’s the combination of these experiences, both good and bad,
- 01Mar2012
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Staying Productive When You’re Unmotivated – 4 Tips
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- 01Aug2011
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Advice for lawyers looking to buy a new iPad
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- 01Jul2011
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Increase in Smartphone Use for Lawyers
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- 01Apr2011
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Something for Nothing? Not Really
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- 01Feb2011
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Risk of Rewards
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- 01Feb2011
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Using an iPad to Recreate a Scene in a Deposition
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- 01Dec2010
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Three Simple Steps to Improving Your Focus Even on the Toughest Tasks
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- 17Nov2010
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An Unprecedented Challenge: Reporter Supply vs. Demand
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While the legal profession is dealing with non-precedential opinions, we in the court reporting industry are also dealing with an unprecedented situation: that of a diminishing supply of deposition reporters. According to the National Court Reporters Association, the number of students enrolled in NCRA-approved court reporter training programs went up following years of steady decline.
- 01Jul2010
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Stenographer Makes Case for Rewards of Court Jobs
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- 23Aug2009
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The Six Billion: The Importance of Every Individual
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William Sydney Porter wasn’t an attorney. He did have some experience with criminal law, spending three years in a federal penitentiary for embezzlement. But it is not his legal experiences that made him famous, it is the short stories he wrote using the pen name “O. Henry.” One of those stories,
- 01Jun2009
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Technology Evangelist Keeps Faith in Legal Aid
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- 01May2009
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Still Organic and Customer Service Savvy After 22 Years
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- 01Dec2008
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Peter Bibler: 2008 Chicago Bar Fellowship Recipient
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- 11Aug2008
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Coping with Change
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America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.” Nearly two centuries have passed since Alexis de Tocqueville made the above comment in his treatise Democracy in America, and we still haven’t begun to slow down. While people may disagree on whether “every change seems an improvement,”
- 01Jun2008
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Musings on Meet and Confer
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- 16Feb2008
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Teamwork: Helping You Succeed
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As it is every year, having a great quarterback was essential to winning this year’s Superbowl. With his 336 yards passing and 60% completions, there was no doubt that John Elway deserved the unanimous vote to receive the trophy for most valuable player. In the next day’s papers, the commentators were debating whether he or Joe Montana was the best quarterback ever to play the game.
- 11Jan2008
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Evolution of the Legal Secretary
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- 01Jan2008
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One Long Road: Forty Years Working for The Same Attorney
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When legal secretary Lorrie Orchard and San Francisco lawyer John Browne, III, first started working together, court hours ran from 10 a.m. to noon, and 2 to 4 p.m. Three-martini lunches were the vogue. “During the days of the long lunches, Lorrie was smart enough to know that if any decisions had to be made or anything needed to be signed,
- 01Oct2007
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Managing Complex Litigation
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Managing class actions, and other types of large, complex cases is a specialty with a handful of firms dominating the landscape. Milberg, Weiss appears in half the securities class action cases filed nationwide. Baron & Budd represents hundreds of thousands of asbestos plaintiffs. Defendants similarly turn to AmLaw 100 firms to plead their case.
- 11Aug2007
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Creating Time
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- 01Sep2005
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Growing Over the Summer: Service Expansion
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With the arrival of Labor Day and the start of the school year, it is traditional to start off with a report on what you’ve been up to the last three months. It gives you a chance to fill your classmates in on what you’ve been doing and serves to emphasize that summer is truly over and it is time to buckle down and work hard until Memorial Day rolls around again and you are granted another three months of parole.
- 03Jan2002
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Keeping in Balance
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Hello, and welcome to the seventh year of Discovery Update. This year, one of the hottest news topics will be what changes, if any, should be made in the nation’s tort system. The last few months have seen the release of the Manhattan Institute’s Trial Lawyers, Inc. and Tillinghast-Towers Perrin’s U.S.
- 03Oct2000
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How My Legal Experience Changed Lives
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- 13Jul2000
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Independence: We’ve Come a Long Way
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Each July we celebrate that day when a group composed largely of attorneys met in Philadelphia to “mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” Many of them did lose their lives, their homes, their business and their children before the war was over. But they also achieved the freedoms we have enjoyed ever since.
- 11Dec1999
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The Law and Peace on Earth
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Millions of words have been published this year about the greatest advances of the past century or millennium and what the next holds in store for us. While much has been written about computers, space flight and other technological advances, I would consider the greatest advances to be those which bring us closer to making peace on earth something more than just a phrase we see on Christmas cards.
- 07Nov1998
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Keeping Your Team Informed: Complex Litigation Tools and Tips
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To effectively manage a case, or group of cases, you will need to provide for rapid, reliable exchange of information with members of your litigation team, with opposing counsel and with the courts. Electronic Filing Sites A number of courts have set up sites, either for a specific set of cases or for general use,