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Over 1,000 Cases Now Included in K&L Gates' E-Discovery Case Database
Electronic Discovery Law, 07/03/08
We are pleased to announce that our searchable case database now contains over 1,000 e-discovery cases from state and federal jurisdictions, with new cases being added every week. Now more than ever, our database is an excellent source of information on developing e-discovery case law around the country.

Remove Hidden Metadata from Word Documents
TechnoEsq, 07/02/08
Unfortunately, metadata has curtailed one of the courtesies attorneys in litigation formerly exhibited through providing discovery requests in an electronic format so that opposing counsel didn’t have to have his assistant re-type your requests when answering discovery.

Is E-Mail Evidence Less Persuasive?
EDD Update, 06/20/08
I suppose it says something about your status in life if you are pleased or appalled to see Wall Street titans with eight-figure incomes taken away in handcuffs and booked. It's a bit like the lawyers in Qualcomm v Broadcom: we can identify with them until the lying starts, and then we no longer see ourselves in their moccasins.

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West CiteAdvisor: Automating Citation Formatting and Table of Authorities

Thomson West

Building Tables of Authorities and revising citations for court-required format specifications can be painstaking and time-intensive. West CiteAdvisor(TM), a patent-pending new practice tool from Thomson West, a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), automates this process, reducing the tasks to minutes and ensuring court-expected accuracy.

"West CiteAdvisor is an effective tool to expedite tedious tasks, while ensuring the information is complete and accurate," said Andy Martens, senior vice president, New Product Development, Thomson West. "We created West CiteAdvisor to support this critical step in the document work stream so the focus remains on the matter at hand, and there is the utmost confidence the supporting materials are complete and accurate."

West CiteAdvisor, coupled with the West BriefTools and Black's Law Dictionary® Digital Plus, provides a complete productivity package that enables attorneys to focus on the practice of law, not the format of documents, citations or spell-checking. West CiteAdvisor suggests the correct citation format from The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, the ALWD Citation Manual, or a format style based on rules in California, Florida, Texas, New York or Illinois, as indicated by the user, and inserts the correct format directly into the document when the user accepts the suggestion. It also creates a Table of Authorities, wherever the user specifies, directly in the word-processing document. West BriefTools allows you to instantly view the status of citations in your document and link to the full-text documents on Westlaw while simultaneously applying KeyCite® flags identifying the value of the case, statute and regulation. Black's Law Dictionary Digital Plus can be installed on the practitioner's desktop, ensuring all legal terminology is spell-checked, and providing audio pronunciations for many legal terms.

"For attorneys who draft, edit or proofread legal briefs, motions, decisions, opinions and other documents, as well as for students required to apply citation style rules for coursework and law review articles, West CiteAdvisor, West BriefTools and Black's Law Dictionary Digital Plus save time and ensure far greater accuracy than the average copy edit can provide," said Martens.

For additional information on West CiteAdvisor, or other time saving tools, go to west.thomson.com.

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Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., Thomson West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. Thomson West is a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE:TOC:TSX:TOC) and was formed when West Publishing and Thomson Legal Publishing merged in June 1996. For more information, please visit the Thomson West Web site at www.west.thomson.com.

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The Thomson Corporation is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

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