In the US wiretapping or telephone tapping refers to the monitoring of the telephone or the Internet by a third party usually in a hidden way. The United States Foreign Intelligence Court of Review can authorize any federal agents to wiretap the telephone and Internet for use as evidence in court (better known as lawful interception) which is usually approved only when other ways of detecting criminal activity is not possible. The wiretapped recorded conversation on the phone is often transcribed (converted into text form) by a professional transcriptionist and the typed transcripts later becomes a legally authorized documents that can be produced in court during litigation and trial. It is believed that it was wiretapping and intercepting of phone calls to his second wife in Beirut that led to locating the hideout and arrest of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Wiretap on a computer network was first ordered in 1996 when a hacker tried to enter the Harvard University and US military websites and computers. Recently there was a controversy after the Bush administration authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to used legalized but warrant-less surveillance of suspected international Al Qaida terrorists within and outside the US. Even though wiretap as evidence has been used in the US since many years, in the UK the government has only recently started considering the introduction of wiretap as court evidence after its latest review of antiterrorism legislation.

Besides wiretap transcription there are many other types of specialized legal transcription services that are offered by professional legal transcription companies like,

• Court proceedings transcription
• Verbatim transcription
• Testimony transcription
• Trial transcription
• Legal letter transcription
• General correspondence transcription

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A good logo goes a long way in creating brand awareness and is very crucial to the success of any business or company. Anyone interested in creating and developing a brand with an online or offline presence will have to design and develop a good logo first. A company becomes proud of its beautiful logo as it gains momentum and becomes functional. What are the basic features and principles of a good web logo design? Well they can be listed as follows,

• The logo should reflect the company’s image.
• Logo must be very impressive
• Must have aesthetic appeal
• Logo should be able to attract the attention of people
• Must have an original look
• Logo should be unique
• Should be memorable
• Company logo should be identified with the products and services offered
• Logo should promote professionalism
• Logo should have high legibility

A good logo will never become outdated and should successfully face the test of time. It is essential that the basic principles of design be followed. It is better to have a simple design without any complications. As a logo will have to be printed in other media like paper or fabric etc the logo should be effective in all sizes big or small.

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The challenges faced by web designers and e-commerce sites are many. It is essential to give a good experience to the customer for the overall success of the online business and the e-commerce website. Here are some of the factors and services that will determine the success of an e-commerce web site and how user friendly it is.

• Offer attractive products at an attractive price
• User friendly purchase experience
• Making available all product and service information
• Affiliate advertising programs
• Sales incentives like discounts, coupons and special offers
• Search engine optimization
• Advise on alternative products and accessories etc should be available
• Ability to provide personal attention to customers
• Provide community experience via chat rooms/ forums, blog etc
• Prompt e-tailing/online shopping
• Protection against phishing

Considering the above factors the web designer has to plan design and execute all the e-commerce website’s web pages and content and also incorporate the web site’s design with the necessary interactive features like on line shopping, forum / blog email interaction, credit card ordering, order tracking, inventory control etc. It is also necessary to protect the e-commerce website from hackers and Dos attacks (denial of service attacks) using high levels of computer security.

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On October 2nd, 2007 a legal outsourcing forum is being hosted at the Marines Memorial Club and Hotel, San Francisco, California by ALM (American Lawyer Medium). The conference is meant for counsels, law firm executives, corporate legal professionals, and IT department managers who want to know more and are interested in outsourcing of legal work and support services. Details of information and registration for the conference can be got at, http://www.almevents.com/conf_page.cfm?instance_id=24&web_id=1025&pid=633

Some of the clear benefits of attending this full day conference are,

• Can learn how legal outsourcing can increase productivity and profits
• Learn how to reach the right new market
• Understanding security issues in outsourcing
• Where to outsource / offshore?
• Learn as to who will be able to help in successfully outsourcing?
• Learn how to protect oneself from the legal security risks of outsourcing
• Insights into the future of legal outsourcing

Those registering for the conference before September 4th 2007 can avail an early bird discount offer. The ALM legal outsourcing conference held earlier at New York in May this year was a great success. The major topics that are to be talked upon at the forum are,

• The Legal World is Flat: Deconstructing Legal Process Outsourcing
• Examining the Security and Privacy Risks in Legal Outsourcing
• What to Look for in Choosing an LPO
• Intellectual Property Protection and Data Control Issues in IT Outsourcing
• Avoiding the Ethical and Liability Risks in Outsourcing Legal Services
• Shaping the Future of Legal Outsourcing: What every Law Firm and Corporate Legal Department Needs to Know

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The record in any database has to be coded and indexed so that data can be retrieved when ever required. There are two basic types of legal coding, objective and subjective. During the objective coding process trained expert document specialists review every law document and prepare a computerized index of basic objective data about each documents that will include,

• Date of document
• Title of document
• Author’s name
• Recipient Box number
• Type of Document
• Document source

While indexing of the legal documents and objective coding there are different options are made available. They are,

• Indexing according to inventory
• Legal transcription
• Detailed indexing that includes, detailed outlines of important issues, priority ratings, plain summary
• Bibliographic indexing

Subjective coding includes relevant data coding from the document text and relevant keywords. Legal coding is always done after a detailed coding standard is agreed upon. Nowadays the coding process has become quite organized and standard coding software is used for coding purposes. Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS ) is a US based legal outsourcing and legal services provider who offers a wide range of services like legal transcription, litigation support, legal coding, legal research, legal animation, law firm web designing and legal document management.

Web content can be audio, video, text, image files or animation. The website visitor’s experience is fast evolving and developing to become more useful and interactive. Thus the web content can be either documents, letters, emails, e-services and much more. Historically real web content came into existence only after the concept of linking documents using HTML evolved. A copy of the first and original web page can be seen at http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html .

A content management system is a software that is used to manage the website’s content. There can be many different contributers for a web page. The purpose of a web content management is to make these files available within offices, and also across the web. A web content management system is an advanced form of content managenment system and is used for storing, controlling, and publishing of specific news articles, technical / non technical manuals, sales/marketing brochures.

Some of the features of a web content management system include,

• Import and creation of documents
• Assigning responsibillity to different categories of content
• Tracking/ managing multiple versions of content
• Import and creation of multimedia files
• Identifying all multiple users
• Enable search and retrieval of content

Many open source web content management software are available online. Commercial web content management software prices range from $ 5000 to over $ 15000. Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry and data management company that offers a wide range of services like, web content development, data procesing, data capture, data mining, online/offline data entry, data cleaning and data conversion to its clients in the US, canada the UK and Australia.

During the writing of any legal document, other sources or documents of authorities have to be always referred to. These are called as legal citations. Every legal citation has to come under one of the following categories of citation principles.

• Case citation
• Legislative citation
• Treaty citation
• Government document citation
• Law periodical citation

Case citations are used by the common law countries to find the location of past court cases. The citation standard varies from country to country. Following is the list of citation standards used by the respective countries.

• AGLC – Australian guide to legal Citation available at http://mulr.law.unimelb.edu.au/aglcdl.asp
• Statutory Instruments Practice – United Kingdom
• McGill Guide – Canadian
• ALWD Citation Manual / Bluebook – USA
• Leidraad – Dutch

Law professional always have to decorate their arguments with good legal citations that usually include supporting references to statutes, regulations, and prior appellate decisions besides secondary reference like treatises, restatements, and journal articles. Legal citation writing is a form of technical writing in itself that is a little difficult to master. In the USA, the ALWD Citation Manual: A Professional System of Citation (3d ed. 2006) made by the Association of Legal Writing Directors is well accepted in all law schools.

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Real time transcription refers to the transcription process done by the court reporters and transcription professionals who use the latest technology called CAT (computer aided transcription) where within a few seconds of a word being uttered in court, it gets recorded as text format and displayed on a computer screen. This technology uses software that allows those involved in the court to instantly take notes or make highlight on these recordings for later reference.

Real time transcription of trials and depositions can be done at a speed of more than 200 words per minute. Some of the advantages of real time transcription include,

• Can take and incorporate notes with transcription
• The attorney need not focus/strain on capturing of any data
• Easy marking/ annotating/ coding
• Can be sent over the Internet instantly
• Instant review of witness response is made possible
• Can include comments/suggestion
• Remote participation facilitated

Some of the disadvantages of real time transcription come from the fact that one has to increasingly depend on the skill of the court reporter and the speed with which he is able to convert audio into text without mistakes. Real time transcription is also more expensive in comparison to regular not real time transcription.

An example of real time transcription software is Livenote (A Thomson Corporation product), details are available at http://www.livenote.com

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Here are a few of the open source data mining software available on the Internet.

• Weka is a GNU General Public License software used for data mining that is written in Java. It is available at http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/
• Scriptella is an ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) and script execution tool that is useful in creating and upgrading scripts. Available at http://scriptella.javaforge.com/ (Latest version just released)
• RapidMiner (formerly called YALE) ia a GNU software in Java, for preprocessing, machine learning, visualization available at http://rapid-i.com/ (New release July 2007)
• CLUTO is a software for clustering high-dimensional datasets It is available at http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/cluto/cluto/overview
• PAFI is a software package that is useful to find recurring patterns in different types of datasets, available at http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/pafi/overview

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Arbitration is the alternative choice available to resolve disputes without going for litigation or trial. Both the parties have to agree that a third party arbitrator will act as both judge and jury. Arbitration can be binding or nonbinding. Quite often the parties may agree to follow the rules put down by the AAA (American Arbitration Association).

It is well known that litigations can be for a very long period of time and often can take years to settle. Unlike in litigation, during arbitration the rules of evidence and related procedures become quite relaxed. One can generalize and expect the following benefits during arbitration.

• Less expensive than litigation
• Faster process
• Lesser involvement with lawyers
• Binding and non binding arbitrations possible
• An arbitrator’s fee is lesser than that of a lawyer
• Helps sooner settlement in non binding arbitration
• As the arbitrator is not bound by the procedure rules he is more practical
• No appeals can be filed on a binding arbitration

Before deciding on arbitration it is essential for the client to reflect and see if arbitration should be preferred over litigation after considering all what is at stake including time and the money involved. The arbitration clause has to be well reviewed, if necessary with the help of a lawyer.

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