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

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers a wide range of legal services including legal transcription, legal coding, legal research, litigation support, law firm web design and legal animation to its clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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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.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based web design and development company that offers high quality affordable services in logo design, web design, search engine optimization, corporate web design, law firm web design, small business web design and real estate web design to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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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.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based web design and development company that offers a wide range of web design services like e-commerce web design, real estate web design, small business web design, law firm web design, SEO and logo designing to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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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

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing service provider and offers a wide range of services including, legal research, legal transcription, litigation support, document preparation, document review, legal coding, legal animation, law firm web design and more to its clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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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.

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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.

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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

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers a wide range of legal outsourcing services and legal transcriptions like, court proceedings transcription, trial transcription, verbatim transcription, legal letter transcription, general correspondence transcription and wire tap transcription for clients in all states of the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

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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

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data processing and data mining company that offers a wide range of services like data entry, data cleaning, web extraction, knowledge discovery, online data entry and key data entry services to its clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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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.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is US based legal services provider offering outsourced professional services in online legal arbitration, legal documentation, legal consultation, legal transcription, legal research and litigation support to clients in the UK, USA, Canada and Australia.

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Legal communities and specifically the professional litigation support professionals have been facing a challenging situation in E-discovery and document review for some time now. Ever since the recent changes were made to FRCP it is obvious that in no litigation can avoid technology to face the ever expanding universe of electronic evidence. The olden ways of working with huge boxes of files at the law firms are over. According to Forrester research the spending in E-discovery alone is going to increase five fold in the next five years. However there has been a constant struggle to make the process of document review as quick and user friendly as possible considering the huge quantity of data made available and the drain in terms of time and money.

The new technology in E-discovery is basically a data analysis concept that brings back a tinge of the traditional methodology of searching through groups of relevant document. This new enhancement in e-discovery technology is referred to by different terms in legal circles including, conceptual review, topic review, and data clustering. Instead of searching through millions of documents each time using keywords, the new method groups the data/document according to topic/theme even before the document review process begins, so that one will know beforehand what can be expected in a set of data. Now it has become easier to search for your needle in the haystack. Benefits include better workflow and work organization according to skill.

More details on the technology and how it compares with the earlier technologies can be got at http://www.ontrackinview.com/whitepaper/topic2006.pdf . Litigation support professionals will love to see the latest issue of the litigation support magazine for more information on this new concept review technology at http://www.litigationsupporttoday.com/LST%20AUG07-FULL.pdf#page=8

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company and legal services provider that offers professional yet affordable outsourced nationwide litigation support, document review, legal documentation, legal transcription, legal web design and legal research services to clients in the US, the UK,Canada and Australia.

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Knowledge discovery refers to discovering intelligent data from a huge set of digital database. The quantity of information and data is so much that one could get lost in it. How do we sort about and move such huge quantities of data? Well today there are specialized techniques that are used to move around data, analyze them and also identify useful patterns within them. This is the process called knowledge discovery in data base and data mining is an application of knowledge discovery.

Knowledge discovery is actually from the field of computer science and the term software mining is related to data mining where knowledge discovery is made from existing software systems.

The following are the input data for knowledge discovery.

• Gene/protein sequences
• Databases
• Data warehouses
• TextGraph mining (molecules)

Once knowledge discovery has been made it has to be used and applied in different areas. Hence the output of discovered data is very important. Some of the knowledge discovery data output formats include,

• KDM (knowledge discovery meta model)
• Metadata
• Knowledge representation in Artificial intelligence
• Business rule/ logicSoftware metric
• BPMN (business process modeling notations)

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers a wide range of solutions in data management and data mining and offers its clients in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, affordable services like data mining, knowledge discovery, data entry, data processing, data cleaning, data capture and data extraction from the web.

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Companies and business houses are constantly facing the challenge of managing documents and data that is essential for its day to day successful operations. Specialized databases are maintained by companies with the need for accessing it continuously and efficiently. Further data has to be kept up to date to be really useful. Therefore handling of all such information in big companies is done by data entry professionals that include, data entry operators, electronic data processing personnel and key punchers etc.

Professional data entry personnel's work can involve,

• Word processing of reports, letters/text
• Preparing standard forms
• Prepare statistical tables
• Preparing master copies
• Compilation and rearrangement
• Editing / revising text
• Transcription
• Filing, using OCR ( optical character readers)

Some of the different types of equipment used by the data entry personnel include computers, machines that convert typed matter into tapes that later feed the computers, online terminals, OCR, scanners, data entry composing machines, printers, tape readers, disks etc.

Data entry personnel usually work for a minimum of 40 hours every week. They are used to working for long hours and usually have to put up with a lot of noise in the office environment that comes from many different machines all working simultaneously. The regular data entry worker is prone to injury including neck and eye strain. A lot of emphasis is given in offices today for designing of ergonomically oriented interior and office furniture that can prevent such injury including carpel tunnel syndrome that affects the wrists.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers a wide range of data entry services like online and offline data entry, key data entry, numeric data entry, data processing, data mining, data cleaning, KDD, OCR, ICR and data extraction services to clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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Patent infringement is very common these days and the cause for one of the most time consuming and challenging national / international litigations. Piracy is rampant and it is not always that the parent company even comes to know about the patent infringements taking place abroad. However there are insurance companies that provide patent litigation insurance (PLI) to protect the inventor or a third party from the risk of patent infringement. The legal cost of patent litigation is usually high and this can also be totally covered by the insurance company.

A regular patent litigation case in the US runs into millions of dollars and so and is not usually taken up as a business investment. Patent infringement is highest in the health and pharmaceutical sectors. The three basic types of insurance policies available today are,

• Defense and indemnity - Insurance company will pay all liabilities/damages to the insurer
• Only defense policy - reimburses only the cost of defense
• Enforcement coverage policy - pays all legal/litigation expenses to go offensive against the infringer

Patent infringement insurance is bound to be more popular in the future. It is very much essential for the smaller companies who will not be able to afford patent litigations due to the high costs involved. High tech companies that have a developed research and development wing should have a fixed budget for patent litigation and must keep in touch with the outside patent counsel and clearly communicate their objectives and expectations from a patent litigation case.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing service provider who offers very affordable but high quality legal services including, intellectual property litigation, IP research, patent litigation, patent infringement litigation, legal transcription, legal documentation, litigation support, legal animation, legal website design, and legal coding services to its clients in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

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Before beginning work on a website it is best to first evaluate an existing website and rate it between one and ten. During evaluation there are some basic questions that will need to be answered. Depending on the site's objective one can then choose the required design criteria. However there are certain essential common features that a good website must have like,

• Get a URL which itself can convey the site message
• Front screen must have some thing interesting to capture the interest of the visitor and it should be very relevant to the theme of the website.
• Graphics on the opening page should neither be too large or small but just right.
• Home page must quickly download.
• Long articles must have subheads with separate links
• Links must be prominent and easily accessible
• Web page articles should not be too long or short
• Site must provide full contact address with fax and phone details
• Visitor registration/forms only if relevant or necessary
• Colors must be effectively used
• Site should offer useful database/ applications to the visitors
• Common theme and elements must unify all the website pages
• CSS to be preferred to tables for page layouts
  Care must be taken to avoid broken links, spelling mistakes and animation/graphics that slow down the pages.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based web design and development company that offers a wide range of affordable outsourced services like, corporate web design, small business web design, real estate web design, law firm web design, e-commerce web design, search engine optimization, logo designing, to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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Lawyers have to be good litigators and good litigators should be able to carry forward and retain the interest of the audience and jury effectively. Hence most of the litigating lawyers are good at story telling and have the expertise in teaching and also to a certain extent are able to entertain the audience. During litigation it is often a challenge to bring out the truth. The whole plot is seen by the lawyer and his job is to present the different characters systematically and most effectively. Hence it becomes necessary to dramatize certain aspects and evidences that will other wise remain hidden from the outer world. This is possible through legal animation.

Legal animation involves use of 2D/ 3D animated graphics and visuals, which usually imitates an event that has occurred. This is achieved using computers and professional animation experts who can recreate an entire event graphically and animate it such that it can convey the subtle features that have to be brought out for the jury and audience to understand. The main objective of the litigator is to maker the legal animation a very memorable, powerful and effective experience for the jury. Different perspectives are used in animation to give different views to the same event and this can be an eye opener to the audience.

Some examples of legal animation used during litigation include,

• Reenactment of an accident on highway
• Showing the effects of slow poison on the brain
• Explain reverse engineering of duplicating a patent product
• Forensic animation
• Technical Charts/stills
• Evidence for the timing of a gun
• Recreating the past of a city street

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS ) is a US based legal outsourcing service provider that offers highly effective, legal animation services besides other services like, legal transcription, legal research, legal documentation, litigation support and the like to its clients in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia.

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Legal transcription like any other transcription requires the transcriptionist to coordinate his ears, eyes, fingers and sometimes the foot pedal as well. A transcription error/mistake can be defined as a type of data entry error that is made by a human operator. Quite often while the transcript is being typed, the operator touches his fingers in the wrong place on the keyboard and this can result in a typographical error.

There are many other types of errors like typing the wrong syllable, omitted word, and wrong punctuation spellings, etc. What are the different causes for these errors in legal transcription? Well some of the basic reasons for errors in transcription include,

• Passive listening skills
• Difficult accents in dictations
• Problem in audio/video recordings
• Poor judgement of the case by the transcriptionist
• Skipping the editing/proofreading process
• Not well experienced in legalese / legal terms
• Misdiagnoses of errors
• Error due to wrong OCR/ICR readings
• Illegible writing
• Syntax error

It is very essential to use the latest digital technologies while doing legal transcription and all transcription work should always be done under the supervision of experienced law professionals. Transcriptionists should also be constantly trained to consistently make them to deliver accurate transcripts in less time. The philosophy to be followed in reducing errors in transcription is to "prevent defects closest to the point of creation."

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry and legal outsourcing company that offers a wide range of affordable but high quality services like legal transcription, legal research, litigation support, e-discovery, data processing, data conversion, data processing, data mining, OCR, ICR and data cleaning services to its clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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CAD refers to computer aided design software which is used by engineers and designers during the process of designing of a building or some machinery or tools. CAD conversion refers to conversion of the paper based drawings into any of the different CAD file formats like DWG, DXF or DGN. CAD conversion can also mean conversion of a PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) or an Adobe Illustrator file into CAD file.

CAD conversion services are provided by professional data conversion companies. CAD and CAD conversions are used in wide areas of applications that include,

• ArchitectureMechanical engineering
• Electronic design
• Electrical engineering
• Industrial design
• Fashion design

CAD enables the designers to work on computer screens. Thus it saves time in storing and printing. Editing of files any time in the future becomes very convenient with the possibility of saving the design in all stages of development of the design.

CAD conversion and vectorization have many advantages that include,

• No loss of details in drawings
• No jaggedness of surfaces
• Separate layers for text, body, dimensions, hidden lines
• Wire frame geometry
• Validation against specification
• Solid 3D modeling
• Updating of drawing is possible
• Easy archiving

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry and data mining company that offers a wide range of services including, data entry, data conversion, data processing, data capture, data mining, KDD, image entry, offline data entry, data cleaning, web extraction, and OCR services for its clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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Legal research involves searching for some authority so that it can be connected and used with a different set of fact or issue. The amount of authoritative documents is quite large and the legal research professional will have to develop the skill to analyze the situation after a proper understanding of the different search techniques of legal research. A legal research has to develop awareness for the primary sources of law include different opinions of the judiciary known as cases and legal enactments also known as a statute.

What are the sources available for doing legal research? Well because of the great explosion in the IT sector legal research is no more like before. Earlier there were only limited sources that were looked into to by the legal research professional and lawyers but today there are huge volumes of document available and it becomes necessary for the law professionals to search them all. As the data available is quite large it is for the person to decide for himself how much time has to be spent on doing legal research.

Premium electronic primary sources are offered by the Lexis and also by the Westlaw systems. The Internet is also a good source for limitless materials that can not be found any where else. However many online site's authoritativeness has to be questioned. More over the cost of searching huge quantity of documents has almost become prohibitive for many clients. Searching from print sources is also still a possibility. It would be ideal to do legal research using a combination of both paper print and electronic sources.

Secondary research sources will help speed up the process of locating, and understanding the primary source materials. Some of the secondary sources for legal research include,

• Law reviews
• Legal encyclopedia
• Bar journals
• Legal news papers
• Treatises
• A.L.R (American Law Reports)

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers affordable solutions in legal outsourcing. Services include, legal research, litigation support, legal transcription, legal web design, legal documentation, legal animation, legal coding, legal consultancy and legal due diligence.

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It is very essential to spend good time and well plan before design work on any website. There are many web design mistakes which can gradually hinder the success of a web site if not immediately but over a period of time in the future. There are many types of sites with different purposes and many have debated over this issue as the web designers have an artistic bend of mind while the businessman thinks differently. However many features have been evaluated and there is consensus on some of the common mistakes which is known to inhibit the web experience. So it would be nice to stick to certain basic norms while designing a website. A check list of some web site design mistakes which can best be avoided includes,

• Slow loading web pages
• Color schemes very bright/sensational
• Continuous text without breaks
• Too many ads on page
• Horizontal scrolling on page
• Disorganized filing structure
• Not incorporating design for the disabled
• Not using the same style of linking in all pages
• Images without alt attribute
• Not clear titles (not descriptive)
• Less contrast between text and background
• Web pages without links
• Spelling /grammar errors
• Music that cant be turned off
• Not providing skip animation link
• Website opening only in few browsers
• Web pages too many clicks away from the home page
• Clumsy images not well edited on page
• Content not updated

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based web design and development company that offers a wide range of web design services including logo design, law firm web design, corporate web design, small business website design and real estate web site designing, to clients in the UK, the US, Canada and Australia.

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Legal Outsourcing is here to stay. Here are a few points to assert it.

• Ethics opinion supporting legal outsourcing have been issued by bar associations
• Forrester Research predicts 4 billion dollar industry by 2015
• Global certification programs for LPO have started

One of the basic necessities in outsourcing especially in legal process outsourcing is the need to be collaborative, something that has probably not been much in the line of the lawyers work until now. The lawyers are different from the IT and business people who have always been used to working in collaboration. Conventionally the law communities dig deep into any contract before signing it. But now it will have to be different. They will have to see the long term benefits and see issues with a larger perspective with the major focus on the economic advantages of LPO deals.

Some of the challenges faced and the work to be done by the outsourcing lawyers include,

• Ask all types of questions like who why and what about the contract
• Vendor due diligence is a must
• As time is critical every aspect of deal/project should have a definite time frame.
• Communicate first with the service provider/ supplier and help formulate a method of collaboration between the outsourcing law firm and the offshore firm that is going to do the work.
• Avoid pushing hard and using less tactics while negotiating
• Should be able to identify potential risks of deal beforehand if any
• Involve less people and try to close deals discussing the essentials

Like in all industries, innovations and process changes also happen in the legal services sector. Quick recent changes in the legal arena have been the need for e-discovery and outsourcing. These were expected as it is a direct result of growing technology and globalization. Over the years the legal industry will adapt itself and accept legal outsourcing / offshoring not as a necessary evil but as a welcome change for the better future.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing service provider for clients in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia offering services like, legal transcription, legal document preparation, litigation support, legal research, IP litigation support, due diligence, legal coding, legal animation and legal webs site design. Outsourcing is done both domestically as well as to offshore locations in India and the Philippines

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Photo manipulation is best and easily done digitally nowadays on a desktop computer. Almost any thing can be done with images and often one does not know what to believe and what not to believe. Such is the technology of today that by just a small adjustment using Photoshop software functions, magical changes can be done on photographs. When photography was invented years ago it was appreciated because it could capture reality perfectly when compared to the paintings and portrait works of those days. But then photo manipulation and the media like cinema and the television soon made it obvious that all what we see need not be real. Most of the time photography is for human entertainment. So where do we draw the line? What is the ethics of photo manipulation? And how is aesthetics involved in it?

The dictionary defines ethics as "a set of moral principles or values". Anything is ethical only when it is conforming to accepted professional standards of conduct. When compared to ethics, aesthetics is about beauty, art and taste and how we handle it. If a photograph is enhanced for the purpose of creating more beauty and appeal it is to be considered ethical. Only when photo manipulation is done with the intention to deceive the viewer does it become unethical. This is a very subtle yet a clear idea though many may debate over it.

It is obvious that if photo manipulation is done to deceive a jury and is shown as false evidence in court it is unethical. But in contrast here is a popular case. We all know that the dinosaurs that have become extinct eons back and when it is created realistically in the famous Hollywood movie "Jurassic Park" there is nothing at all unethical about it. It is accepted world over to be a great work of art by director Steven Spielberg. This is because the viewers expect the maker to deceive them by giving the best possible realistic effect. Thus every situation is unique and the ethics/aesthetics will depends on the people involved and the source of motivation.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based digital photo editing company that offers highly creative and professional online services like portrait touchup service, old photo restoration service, photo manipulation, photo colorization service, photo object deletion service, photo enhancement, digital photo editing, and background replacement services. Besides being very competitively priced we can offer services with a low turnaround time.

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Companies usually use many types of software to enter data into a database, like MS Access, MS Word and Excel. These are good enough when the quantity of data to be entered is limited. But when the data entry volume is huge it becomes essential and very effective to use professional data entry software. One of the most used application area is during the processing of various types of online forms that are continuously being filled with answers / data that may a part of research/survey or from any other questionnaires. Data entered can include only text, only images or a mix of both text as well as images. Other types of data entry include numeric data entry, address data entry, and key data entry.

Professional data entry software can speed up the data entry substantially. While on an average a data entry operator using the regular software like MS Access for example makes about 2000 key strokes every hour, the professional data entry operator using the data entry software can achieve many times more speed and reach over 11,500 key strokes per hour.

Here are some features a data entry software may include,

• Easy collection of data
• Verification of the keys
• Clinical data entry
• Uninterrupted operation
• Optical character recognition (OCR)
• Data can be reformatted
• Automatic invoicing
• Barcode data entry
• Inventory control entry
• Data output can be customized
• Standardized industry hardware/software
• Easy to organize multiple works
• Insurance claim data entry
• Survey/ research data entry
• Images can be zoomed / defined
• High speed image entry
• Accounts/ banking data entry
• Multi display screen
• Automated data conversion

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry company that offers professional yet highly affordable services including, online data entry, data processing, data capture, data mining, image entry, OCR, ICR, data cleaning, KDD, document management, key data entry, survey data entry, and numerical data entry.

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Any major litigation involves a lot of e-discovery / document review work. Gone are the days when lawyers sat in huge rooms amidst tons of paper documents and preparing before litigation. Today legal documents are reviewed sitting in front of a computer using workflow and document management/review software. Often thousands of documents may have to be reviewed within a fixed period of time for the litigation to be successful and effective. And if not well organized, document review could be a very time consuming and expensive process. It is known to comprise 50 to 90% of the cost in litigation. Document review projects have been known to extend from just a few days / weeks, to months and even years.

During a litigation support assignment E-discovery work and document review become an integrated process and have to go together. Outsourcing of document review assignments to offshore or domestic contract attorneys under the constant guidance and supervision of the legal counsel is a very attractive strategy that is being adopted by law firms and companies to save up on precious time and money. India is fast becoming the most popular offshore destination for document review outsourcing.

The most common areas of document review are done during a legal due diligence process or during litigation involving regulatory matters or bankruptcy. Document review work usually starts after the request for documents has been received. What are the different functions during a document review process? Work primarily it involves collaborating with other attorneys and colleagues to review loads of documents. Lawyers/attorneys doing legal document review work have to be paid by the hour. What are the different functions during a document review process?

• Identification of the responsive
• Legal analysis
• Communication between relevant work groups
• Sharing/ editing documents
• Identify financial problems in documents
• Assessment of legal rights /liabilities
• Offering appropriate legal advise
• Reviewing contracts

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers highly professional services like legal transcription, legal consulting, litigation support, legal coding, legal document preparation, legal web designing and legal animation services to clients in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

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Every home is sure to have old photographs of ancestors, and memorable old photos that have slowly disintegrated over time and are either faded or damaged. Also some of the photographs taken recently may be precious but may not have turned up to our exact expectations in terms of light or color or due to other interferences that might have occurred during clicking. Can we do anything to rectify such defects? Yes indeed, today converting/enhancing any recent photographs into perfect digital color photographs without any defects has become quite easy. One can convert any old black and white photograph into color. Also, any old photograph can be given a new lease of life by making it look new and fresh. Photograph retouching services are offered online, making it a very attractive option. Scanned digital photo files are uploaded online and sent for retouching work to professional digital studios from other global locations. Affordable photo retouching services are offered with turnaround times as less as within 24hrs.

What are the different types of retouching and restoration work that are usually done at these online photo studios by the digital artists who usually have the expertise in the use of digital editing software and tools like Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Some of the retouching works done include,

• Removing scratches / stains / dirt
• Enhancing with brightness/contrast
• Remove red eye
• Enhancement of eyes
• Change complexion
• Color balancing
• Remove wrinkles on skin
• Restore missing parts of photo
• Removing/adding people
• Whiten teeth
• Changing background
• Removing tattoos, scars and defects on skin
• Convert color photo to 'black and white' and vice versa.
• Add text to the photographs
• Open eyes/change lip to smiling
• Make the body to look "slimmer"

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based photo editing and BPO service provider company that offers a wide range of photo editing services like, photo restoration, photo manipulation, photo colorization, digital photo editing, portrait glamorization and many such services to global online clients mainly from the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

What is the purpose of using web extraction tools? If one is a businessman looking for some industry news or is seeking some information about a competitor/ products/services the best place to search is indeed the Internet. Yes this is usually true unless off course you plan to directly spy at the premises of your competitor.

Pricing/financial details are hidden deep in the web probably as PDF documents. Unless we fill web forms give up manual searching and implement automated down loading it is difficult to extract data from the deep web. Blogs and forums online are also very useful in tracking special knowledge or data specific to any industry. However a web extraction tool can have the advantages and features like,

• Simultaneous board crawling
• Scheduling tasks
• Specific content extraction
• Customized formatted outputs
• Web crawling
• Synergizing external data with internal data
• Reduced time in searching , reading and copy / pastes
• Integration with PHP
• Data or link extraction
• Address, phone, email fax etc can be extracted
• High speed extraction
• Multithreaded extraction
• Automatic saving of extracted data to disk.
• Can monitor changing information
• Proxy support
• Savings in time and money
• Collection of data from different sites and forming a structured data

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry and BPO service provider offering a wide range of services like data entry, data processing, data conversion, data mining, data extraction, legal data entry, data cleansing, image data entry and KDD services to its clients in the US, the UK ,Canada and Australia.

E discovery based legal research is indeed getting to be very unaffordable for the common man. Recently on 20th March 2007, a US Supreme Court judge (Justice Breyer) for the first time had to speak out on e-discovery during a panel discussion with law professors, industry leaders and other attorneys on the impact of e-discovery held in Georgetown University Law Center. The jurists even warned that if the trend continued only the rich will be able to afford the legal system and others may have to seek alternative avenues like arbitration or simple pleadings. He was worried about the escalating cost of e-discovery. In the judge's own words,

"If it really costs millions to do that (e-discovery), then you're going to drive out of the litigation system a lot of people who ought to be there. They'll go to arbitration . . . They will go somewhere where they will write their own discovery rules, and I think that is unfortunate in many ways."

For more details go to http://technology.findlaw.com/articles/01192/010917.html

The recommendation made at the end of the discussions clearly stated that as per the new FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedure) regulations and amendments, documents retention, email management, data archiving, data retrieval and document management policies were to be consistently implemented and followed by law firms and companies so that legal research and e discovery costs can be curbed over time.

It is true that technology has created a problem by making available access to massive amount of data. However it is also a fact that the courts cannot recommend neglect of the ever-growing vast body of evidence available via electronic information and e-discovery as this would hinder the justice system. The problem has to be skillfully solved with the help of technology and the combined wisdom of IT specialists, and the law and business communities.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a legal outsourcing company that offers affordable services in legal transcription, legal coding, legal research, litigation support, legal document review, legal document preparation, legal animation and the like from its domestic as well as Indian offshore facilities to its clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Relevant data is a source for information / business intelligence and it must be organized, made available, accessible and manageable. One of the first processes while accumulating a database is data entry work. Different forms of data has to be accumulated, entered and converted into a proper database to make it useful. Professional data entry services are provided today that can handle the entire business of entering and managing data specifically for clients. Corporate and companies are realizing the importance of extracting and mining data from the ever increasing and vast resource available on the Internet.

What are the different types of online professional data entry services available today? Well, here are some of the online and offline outsourced data entry services that can be availed.

• Document Conversion
• Data Quality Assessment
• Data Entry
• Offline Data Entry
• Image Entry/scan
• Insurance Claim Entry
• Image Management
• Data Processing Services
• Electronic Document Management
• Web data extraction
• Data mining
• Data cleaning
• Proofreading, Writing and Translation of data
• Bar Code data Services
• Business Card Indexing
• Data extraction
• Handwriting Services
• Telecommuting Data Entry
• Forms Processing
• Check Processing
• OCR Cleanup
• Survey Processing
• Data formats conversion
• XML / SGML / HTML Conversion
• CAD Conversion

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry service provider and data mining company that offers professional yet affordable online services from its facilities within the US and also in India and the Philippines for clients in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia

Data cleaning is an essential process for maintenance of the data quality in a data warehouse. Whenever data from outside sources has to be incorporated with an existing database, it has to be first cleaned and made fit enough to be added to the old data as only an updated data can become reliable. ETL (Extract, Transform, Load ) tools are used to do data cleaning.

Data cleaning/cleansing is done using ETL tools that basically have to extract data from archival/ operational systems and clean and validate the data according to the specific business requirements followed by loading it into an existing database/ data warehouse. Some of the common ETL tools available in the market today include,

• Oracle Warehouse builder - http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/index.html
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/Aa336312.aspx
• IBM Websphere DataStage - http://ibm.ascential.com/products/datastage.html
• Cognos Decisionstream - http://www.cognos.com/products/tour/decisionstream
• Informatica PowerCenter - http://www.informatica.com/products/powercenter/default.htm

What are the functions of an ETL tool? An ETL tool has to have either an advanced extraction capacity or a transformational function. A good tool will have good strength in both these functions. Also the data source varies from one company to another. While choosing of ETL tools care should be taken to ensure that the tool directly connects to the source of the data. An ETL tool must also have a good scheme of metadata.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based data entry and data mining company that offers a wide range of services including, data entry, data processing, data conversion, data cleansing, online data entry, KDD, image management, web extraction, data analysis, legal data entry, ICR services, OCR services and data mining.