When the law professional has to do legal research he can refer to different resources that are available. They are either offline printed materials like journals, treatises, periodicals, as well as online resources for both State and Federal law.

Find below a few online and offline employment law resources that are commonly used,

Online Resources

• http://www.ada.gov/
• http://www.eeoc.gov/
• http://www.disabilityinfo.gov/
• www.findlaw.com/01topics/27labor/index.html
• www.abanet.org/labor/home.html

Offline Resources

• Labor and Employment Law (MatthewBender 2004)
• National Employment Lawyers Association,Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading andPractice (Matthew Bender, 1991)
• BNA's Americans with Disabilities ActManual (BNA 1992)
• John J. Coleman III, Disability Discriminationin Employment (Clark Boardman Callaghan1991)
• David G. Evans, Federal and State Guideto Employee Medical Leave, Benefits, and DisabilitiesLaws (West 1999)
• Fair Labor Standards Act (Ellen C. Kearns,ed., ABA 1999)
• James O. Castagnera et al., TerminationOf Employment (West 1984)
• Hofstra Labor & Employment Law JournalJournal of Employment and Labor Law(University of Pennsylvania Law School)

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The 14th Annual Marketing to U.S. Hispanics & Latin America Conference brought by the Strategic Research Institute will be held from January 27-29, 2008 at the The Westin Colonnade, Coral Gables - Coral Gables, Florida.

This ALM conference will definitely be a great opportunity for anyone who is interested to learn about the latest and best ways to market any product or services to the ever growing online US Hispanic population.

Registrations can be done at, https://www.almevents.com/CustomerFiles_sri/form/basic_reg_form.cfm?iteration_id=771&fi_id=1133&dialog=YES

Detailed agenda for all the 3 days is available at, http://www.almevents.com/conf_page.cfm?pt=/CustomerFiles_sri/agenda/detailed_agenda.cfm&web_page_id=8734&web_id=1066&instance_id=29&pid=675&iteration_id=771


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Labels: online marketing, outsourcing, Spanish translation, Spanish websites, US hispanic marketing

Adobe's Photoshop is definitely one of the best photos editing software available today. The images can be manipulated with different types of Photoshop tools. A list of the photo editing tools that are available in Photoshop include,

• Elliptical Marquee
• Rectangular Marquee
• Lasso
• Polygonal Lasso
• Magnetic Lasso
• Slice
• Healing Brush
• Clone Stamp
• Pen
• Brush
• Pattern
• Sharpen
• Bucket
• Art
• History
• Airbrush
• Background Eraser
• Ellipse
• Magic Eraser
• Color
• Sampler
• Smudge
• Patch
• Color Selecting box
• Freeform Pen
• Burn

To know about the purpose of each of these tools and more along with its icons and keys go to http://simplephotoshop.com/photoshop_tools/indexf.htm

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Time is very important for lawyers and with tons of data it is very important to get to the required document as quickly as possible. Legal coding is the process of summarizing or making of a keyword data from a document. Used in the legal profession it is very useful during any litigation to create a fast-search index or database of documents.

Basically there are two types of legal coding, objective and subjective. During objective coding an index of all the documents/ data is made based upon different bibliographic objectives like,

• Title
• Source
• Author
• Date of the doc
• Recipient
• Document format
• Box number

Lawyers and attorneys spend time preparing for litigation and this involves collection of different documents relevant to the case. Thus they have to search and retrieve documents from database. In the earlier days a brief of the documents used to be prepared via dictation by the paralegal staff or secretary using a word processor application.

Subjective coding is the indexing of documents around subjective data. Objective coding options available today involves indexing based on

• Inventory of hot files
• Detailed indexing
• Bibliography

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Web content development is the process of researching, writing, gathering, organizing, and editing information for publication on web site and can consist of prose, graphics, pictures, recordings, movies and other media assets. In today's digital world any web content after its development has to be well managed and so the term web content management encompasses a larger context and is a collaborative process.

• Content creation
• Content updating
• Publishing
• Translation
• Archiving of content
• Retirement of the content

Who are the different people involved in content management? They include the content writer, the editor, content managers, translator, publisher, administrator and other staff besides the consumer.

A content management system (CMS) is software that is used for content management and may include a document management system. While publishing for the web content management systems are used so that many people can easily interact with the content. Other areas of content management is in the inter office use of digital computer files, image media, audio files and electronic documents.

Another important feature of content management is the work flow which is facilitated by e-mail or automatic routing methods. The best example of a CMS is the online Wikipedia website that uses the Wiki software for collaborative content management. The system has a repository to store huge amount of content that enable effective search and retrieval.

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Legal transcription technology is fast evolving. Legal dictations are recorded and sent to the professional transcription professional who could be located either within your city limits of half way round the globe in India.. There are many dictation programs that enable recording of voice and also typing. Dictation can be done using different methods like,

• Using a dictation device
• Dictation on to a computer or laptop
• PDA dictation and recording
• Dictation by telephone
• Dictation over the Internet
• Court recordings & meetings

Some of the features of a good court reporting software include,

• Simultaneous recording possibility (up to 32 channels)
• Digital audio recording with high quality signal processing.
• Transmission using FTP /email or computer network.
• Automatic file size management/ breaking
• Overlapped file breaks at preset intervals.
• Must be user friendly
• Possible time stamping of bookmarks with notes/ recording
• Audio listening possibility in real time
• Recording in formats like to wav, mp3 or dct
• Sorting of recordings by name /date /size and search using keywords.
• Automatic error notification.
• Various types of password security.
• Free minor upgrades

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal transcription outsourcing service provider offering affordable solutions in transcription specialities like, court proceedings transcription, trial transcription, wire tap transcription, legal letter transcription, verbatim transcription and general correspondence transcription services to clients in the UK, Canada the UK and Australia.

Labels: court reporting, dictation software, legal outsourcing, legal transcription

What is class action litigation? It is a legal procedure that is used to handle a law suit when many people have been injured by a common act or a set of actions. Class actions can be brought in either federal or state courts, though a recent federal law.

In the United States Federal Courts, class actions are governed by Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Defendants can move class action lawsuits from state to federal courts by the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. A lawsuit becomes a class action when one or more plaintiffs who is called Lead Plaintiffs files a lawsuit claiming some kind of harm and then asks the court to certify the case as a class action.

What are the types of common cases in this area of litigation? They are law suits involving,

• Tobacco
• Asbestos
• Financial frauds
• Employment
• Pollution
• Breast implants
• Agent Orange (herbicide)

What makes the best class action attorneys? Previous experience in class litigation with a good track record and sufficient resources to do legal research are the main criteria that are looked into while choosing a lawyer for action class litigation.

One of the biggest advantages of class action litigation is that this type of law suit is an aggregation of a large number of individual claims. With smaller recoveries class action often makes the aggregated recovery worthy enough for the attorney's effort. Thus it increases the efficiency of litigation and also lowers the cost of litigation for the individuals involved.

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With "legalese" on its way out, understanding the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil Procedures) is all set to become easier to understand.

On December 1st 2007, the restyling of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures will come into effect. The restyled rules are shorter and easier to read. They can be seen at http://judiciary.house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/109th/31308.pdf .

What changes are done to the style? Well here is a brief list of the different types of style changes done to the Federal rules;

• More concise
• More headings/subheadings
• More vertical lists
• Graphic hierarchy
• Avoiding intensifiers
• Elimination of outdated material
• Elimination of repetitious material
• Elimination of syntactic ambiguities
• Reorganization of jumbled provisions
• Breaking up sentences that are too long
• Minimizing cross references
• Minimize of-phrases
• The word "Shall" is being banished
• Avoiding legalese

To see the restyled rules on the US court website, go to http://www.uscourts.gov/rules/supct1106/CV_CLEAN_FINAL5-30-07.pdf

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Legal research begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and communication of the results of the investigation. The purpose of doing legal research is of course to support legal decision making.

There is a lot of material online that can be used for doing legal research. Libraries have always been a great source for doing legal research. Here are the links to some of the good law libraries.

• www.aallnet.org
• http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu
• http://lalaw.lib.ca.us
• http://lib.law.washington.edu
• www.ll.georgetown.edu
• www.socialaw.com
• www.lexum.umontreal.ca/index_en.html
• www.lawlib.state.md.us
• www.lawlib.state.ma.us
• www.law.utexas.edu
• www.jenkinslaw.org
• www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
• www.librarylaw.com
• www.sll.state.tx.us
• www.lawlibrary.state.mn.us
• www.nocall.org
• www.smcll.org

Other popular legal research links are,

• http://www.catalaw.com
• http://www.law.cornell.edu
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
• http://www.findlaw.com
• http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/lr
• http://www.access.gpo.gov
• http://www.hg.org
• http://www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib
• http://www.jurist.law.pitt.edu
• http://www.law.com
• http://www.lawsource.com
• http://www.llrx.com
• http://thomas.loc.gov
• http://www.virtualchase.com

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Labels: law library links, legal outsourcing, legal research, legal research links

While designing an e-commerce website there are many types of security issues which have to be well planned and executed or implemented on the website. What are these? Let me briefly list out.

• SSL (secure socket layers) encryption
• Multiple administrators login
• IP (Internet Protocol) blocking
• Access history (administrator)
• Crash proof shopping cart
• Secured database
• Access areas for "members only"
• Forms submission with "Captcha" validation

On the website one must make sure that all credit card transactions are done using 128 bit SSL encryption. One must also make sure that only the last four digits of credit card gets displayed. SSL uses public-key encryption to exchange a session key between the client and server. Different session keys should be used for different transactions which will make decrypting impossible for any one.

Another security related feature is the possibility of live updation of the website which may be done frequently on an e-commerce website. All existing data must be kept intact and nothing should be lost when upgrading the e-commerce website.

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Labels: e-commerce web designing, e-commerce website design, free SEO tools, web designing, website security

Web content development may be defined as the process of researching, writing, gathering, organizing, and editing information for publication on a web site. Thus a website's content is totally intergrated with its overall strategy. A web site's content may consist of the following,

• Graphics
• Pictures
• Photos
• Recordings
• Movies /video or other media assets

The entire website's content has to be distributed by a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server, and viewed by a web browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox. When we talk of the development of a website or use the term web development then do remember, it involves a variety of content based solutions. These solutions may include,

• Web site design and development
• Accessibility and usability issues
• Content writing/ publishing
• Web forms and scripts for data processing
• Technical writing
• Custom programming in JavaScript, PHP, ASP
• Perl Data conversion (paper to web, CD to web, static to interactive)

What is the type of web content that one must produce? This is a very important question as it will totally influence how popular and profitable our website becomes. One must create and use the right content development strategy because it is the most powerful way to achieve our website or online business goals. For example a well-written article, an informative or entertaining blog etc, can attract lot of people into the website and a good fraction can be converted into business success. Content must be such that it can capture attention and it is also important to have one's unique identity and a unique style of content.

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Labels: content creation, content writing, corporate web design, SEO, web content development

I recently asked an SEO professional and friend during a business meet if he used black hat or white hat SEO techniques and he told me that he is a grey hat guy, which means he some times does use black hat techniques. Man does not need God or a religious scripture to tell him that murder is wrong. In fact, there may be authorities that may justify a killing (like say for national defense) but anybody in his senses know it is still wrong from a human level.

Thus there are certain basic things all self respecting SEO people know is taboo as it is not ethical and bad for the future of the networked world (Web 1, Web 2, Web x...) Google or no Google, and also for his Soul. So, Do Not

Spam the search engines

Intentionally harm a client or competitor

Directly violate search engine guidelines

Falsely represent the clients content

Compromise with client's confidentiality

Be out of touch with the search engine/industry updates/changes

Be proud of using hidden links if you must

Be a part of the link farm mafia

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Labels: data entry outsourcing, search engine optimization, SEO, SEO ethics, services

The clinical data entry (CDE) technology is fast evolving. It is said that the nurses in the health sector spend almost a quarter of their working time for entering clinical data manually or otherwise and for related documentation work. Clinical data entry technologies are bound to change this as it will be beneficial to the health sector in the following ways,

• Reduced documentation time
• Will increase standardization of medical dictation
• Reduced errors

The biggest challenge for CDEs had been the fact that the one had to use the patient data directly for decision support systems, for assessment of quality, and this required well structured data entry. Today we have CDEs that combine free text and structured data entry in one single application and allows clinicians to smoothly switch between these two different types of data input. It is predicted that over the years clinical data entry will be commonplace and the patients' records will become living documents that can be quickly and directly used by clinicians to manage health care in a more continuous manner without waste of time in between.

The CDE will be a great boon to the health sector of the future as it will increasingly integrate together,

• Decision support systems
• Quality assessment systems
• Direct access to online biomedical literature
• Patient record

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By definition, Incorporation is the forming of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person, albeit a fictitious one, under the law). The corporation may be a business, a non-profit organization, sports club or even a government of a new city or town.

What are the legal benefits of incorporation? Well they are,

• Protection of personal assets
• Transferable ownership
• Tax benefits
• Durability
• Funds raising by selling stocks
• Retirement funds

The Articles of Incorporation (sometimes also referred to as the Certificate of Incorporation or the Corporate Charter) are the primary rules governing the management of a corporation.

By Incorporation one's personal assets can be safeguarded against the claims of creditors and lawsuits. If the business is a partnership firm or one's own proprietorship firm then we become obliged to all the liabilities of a business such as loans, accounts payable and legal judgments. In a corporation there are only stockholders, directors and officers whose liability is limited only to the amount they have invested in the business.

The Articles of Incorporation is also called as the Certificate of Incorporation or as the Corporate Charter have to be filed with the concerned state of regulatory authority. For all legal document preparation, legal transcription and legal documentation needs do contact Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) a US based LPO pioneer that offers highly affordable yet professional service.

Labels: corporate charter, legal document preparation, legal documentation, legal incorporation

This year's National Speed Championship (NSC) conducted by NVRA (The National Verbatim Reporters Association) is won by Diann Holt, CVR-CMGNSC. The official site for NVRA is http://www.nvra.org/

The competitions took place during the NVRA convention held in Philadelphia in August. By winning this year's trophy, Diann becomes the five times NSC champion. During the competition she transcribed five minutes of 350 wpm Q & A dictation with 95.9% accuracy! See her picture on page 24 of the fall issue of the NVRA magazine "Verabtim Record"at http://www.nvra.org/associations/3873/files/NVRA%20Fall%2007%20News.pdf

Merit examinations are conducted by NVRA for dictations that are literary material at 225 wpm, jury charge at 250 wpm, and two-voice question-and-answer at 300. These are the highest testing speeds for court reporters in the U.S.

NVRA defines a real-time verbatim reporter as a person certified pursuant to NVRA testing regulations, who makes a verbatim record of legal and other proceedings by means of the spoken word, symbols and abbreviations using current technology and produces the record on a computer screen in a readable form.

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Labels: affordable legal transcription, dictation transcription, NSC Champion 2007, NVRA

Some of the important points to remember while designing an e-commerce website is that the site is different from other regulars websites and hence has to be very interactive because visitors do not just come and browse in an online shop. They will want to communicate, buy, pay, comment, etc.

The four different modules that an ecommerce site must have are,

• Shopping cart
• Product database management system
• CRM- Customer Relationship Management
• Integration with a third party

The shopping cart can be used to just select a product and proceed to checkout. Or one can also design it such as to incorporate further features like, managing discounts, promotions and also management of all calculations etc. While designing the shopping do make it attractive and very easy for customers to use and they must be able to save their cart for future. An easy checkout process is also very important for the success of the site. While designing the website one has the option of either using readymade software based shopping carts, or design a customized new cart exclusively for our website.

As people buy the products management of all product is also a very important module and can be quite complex depending on the features of the website. Similarly one of the sure ways to enhance the customer experience of the customer is to have a good CRM module that enables features like, help desk, news letter, customer feedback, updating etc.

An ecommerce website can be integrated with different third parties who can be experts either
in credit checking, address checking, credit card gateway, or in providing logistics. Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based company that offers professional website design and development services in e-commerce web design, corporate web design, law firm design and real estate website designing for clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

Labels: e-commerce website design, interactive website designing, law firm web design, real estate web design

The first ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining WSDM 2008 is to be held at Stanford University, from February 11-12, 2008.

WSDM is being co-sponsored by

• SIGMOD (ACM's Special Interest Group on Management of Data)
• SIGWEB (Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computing Machinery)
• SIGKDD (Special interest group in Knowledge discovery and data mining)
• ACM SIGIR (ACM SIGIR addresses issues ranging from theory to user demands in the application of computers to the acquisition, organization, storage, retrieval, and distribution of information).

Registrations can be done at http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=155991

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Labels: 2008 conference, data entry, data mining, KDD, Stanford, web extraction, WSDM 2008

LPO or Legal Process Outsourcing of legal documents review is increasingly being preferred these days because document review has become a time consuming and expensive process, mainly triggered by data explosion, technological evolution, and the sudden increase in ESI (electronic stored information). One cannot also deny the fact that US practices lack consistent teams to perform document review work.

Document review in the context of litigation is done in two levels. The first level of document review is the discovery phase and first part in any litigation. This process is performed after receiving the legal "Request for production of documents". During this process the objective is to reduce the document set into a workable and responsive data set. Even though the e-discovery best practices have reduced a data set by almost 70% there still may remain millions of documents to be reviewed. This is because the total quantity of documents has multiplied several times over the years. In the second level these workable documents are reviewed more seriously by seniors.

As legal document review forms the major part of litigation expenses today law firms are trying out all methods to reduce the cost of litigation and outsourcing of e-discovery is a viable solution. During the document review process quite often millions of documents have to be searched and identified for

• Case relevance
• Confidentiality
• Privileged /protection
• "Key/hot" status

Besides in litigation, document review is also performed in matters of regulatory compliance and corporate due diligence.

The India based LPO services are a great boon in this regard because, attorneys in India doing the work come from the best law schools with a good understanding of the US legal system. They also use the best e-discovery technology, tools and processes and implement the highest level of security.

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Labels: e-discovery, electronic legal research, legal document review, legal process outsourcing, litigation, LPO

Data is everywhere in business and marketing and learning from one's own company data is the ideal way to learn, change and grow. But then how clean is your data? To get information or knowledge out of your data it should primarily be pure and not polluted. Data is bound to be filled with duplicates and irrelevant data thus needs to be cleaned.

There are special data cleansing software available in the market that can be used to perfectly clean and maintain databases,

• List of contacts
• Mailing list
• Marketing database
• Customer list

Once we have a good error free list it will help to enhance the company image and also help save money from wasting it on precious time and postage. A data cleansing software usually comes with advance data filtering techniques and with different types of cleansing modules that can be fully or partially activated in a customized way. The modules are,

• Email cleaner
• Statistics module
• Duplicate removal
• Text cleaner
• Database correction
• Case converter
• Column cleaner
• Table matching

Some of the features like changing text from upper to lower case in the data cleaning software can be programmed and filtered for certain values. Duplicate records are searched and can be removed manually or automatically. The email cleaner does a thorough analysis of all details of the email and suggests wrong addresses and mails. The column cleaner can identify incomplete data and can be corrected.

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Labels: data cleaning, data cleansing, data deduplication, data entry services, email cleaning, text cleaner

Photo blending refers to the blending of two or more different photographs to form one image. Photographers and designers often blend photographs. Most of the modern and the olden day science fiction movies have been using the blending technique. With this technique it becomes possible for the characters to be transported to a totally different location /environment or background by just blending of the images. The technology of blending has perfected over the years.

Thus one can take a photograph of a person and blend it with a photo of the Himalayas so realistically that the person would look like he was actually there. Actually anyone with a passion for creativity they can easily blend photographs in exciting ways and also convert any photo into a work of art. One does not need to have great photo editing skills. Any layman with a little computer and Photoshop experience can create great photos with simple blending.

However for the photo editing professional blending is a very specialized subject and involves many different types of photo blending modes. A layer's blending mode determines how its pixels blend with underlying pixels in the image thereby allowing for the creation of different special effects using blending modes. Here is a list of the different blending modes available in Adobe Photoshop CS.

• Normal
• Dissolve
• Darken
• Multiply
• Color burn
• Linear burn
• Lighten
• Screen
• Color dodge
• Linear dodge
• Overlay
• Soft light
• Hard light
• Vivid light
• Linear light
• Pin light
• Difference
• Exclusion
• Hue
• Saturation
• Color
• Luminosity

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers highly professional photo editing services like, digital photo restoration, photo restoration and retouching, photo enhancement services, object removal service, photo background modification and portrait glamorization service for clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia

Labels: Blend modes, photo blending, photo editing, Photo Shop CS

Color trial graphics can be of great help during a trial in court. It is a great litigation support and tool that can be provided by professional legal outsourcing firms as part of trial preparation, evidence search and trial notebook preparation. When it comes to creating an impact and making an impression on the jury and others in court there is no substitute for big and clear colorful graphics to convey the right message strongly.

The colorful graphics are made using the latest 2D / 3D technologies and can be presented using digital presentations. It can also be used in combination with other graphic presentations like boards, flip charts, overlays, photographs, prints etc to make it less expensive. Some of the commonly used trial graphics in use today include,

• Graphic animations
• Illustration boards
• Photo enlargements
• Time lines
• Flow charts
• Graphs

The main objective in preparing trial graphics is that the jurors should be able to easily understand the facts of the case that is presented to them in court by the lawyer. Using a flow chart makes it very easy on the jury to understand even very complex situations of the case. A timeline is also a very subtle way of visually representing events in time.

Legal animation graphics can be used to tell the story in court and even recreate a past event with perfection. Other litigation support tools include video and x-ray scanning illustrations, video and audio etc all of which can be used to present evidence in a very compelling fashion. Bars and graphs are used to eliminate confusion and represent complicated statistics and data with ease. All trial graphics litigation support tools must be tried out during a mock trial / presentation so that it can be perfected for use in court.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based company that offers a wide range of legal outsourcing services like, litigation support, legal animation, legal research, legal documentation, legal transcription and legal coding solutions to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

Labels: 2D/3D legal animation, litigation support, outsourcing, trial graphics

It has become mandatory for companies to have a comprehensive document retention policy. The Federal rules "e-discovery" took effect from Dec. 1, 2006 and it makes production of electronic documents as important as hard copies of material in any legal case. These rules on electronic discovery have clearly stated and confirmed that having a comprehensive document retention policy is more important than ever before. So what is to be done? All firms have to create and maintain a record retention policy.

During the litigation process it becomes even more important to retain all electronic documents. Normally companies have thirty days time to answer any e-discovery request from the court. Employers cannot hide and will be penalized for not following the policy especially when there is some litigation in anticipation. The policy can be put in place by the following process,

• Applicable State/ Federal recordkeeping laws should be followed
• Be strict with employees who violate the law
• Necessary business records must be created

It is advisable to keep the map of all the emails and be able to retrieve it with ease if and when required. Having a good e-discovery tool along with a well trained staff is essential for compliance. E-discovery outsourcing is an attractive option available to law firms and corporate. Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based company offering professional outsourced solutions in litigation support services, besides legal document preparation, legal transcription, legal research and legal coding services tyo clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

Labels: document retention, e-discovery, electronic discovery, Federal rules, litigation support

The concept of Globalization along with the Internet and its technologies have together won over the barriers of distances and today business processes are being outsourced and offshored with great success by different industries especially from the medical, legal and general business and IT sectors. Most of the offshoring is done to Asian locations especially to India, China, and the Philippines. Of these the most preferred destination for legal transcription and legal outsourcing is India.

There are many reasons for outsourcing of various legal/paralegal processes including legal transcription but the foremost off course is the immediate reduction in the expenditure involved and the possibility of increased savings and profit. The total global market for offshore IT, BPO, KPO is said to be about 300 billion US dollars.

India has been a leader in the IT sector and also in the BPO sector and this includes offshoring of projects in data entry,data processing, medical transcription, call center outsourcing, etc. The different varieties of specialized legal transcription being off shored to India include,

• Dictation transcription
• Court proceedings transcription
• Trial transcription
• Verbatim transcription
• Legal letter transcription
• General correspondence transcription
• Wire tap transcription

Off late beyond just legal transcription the world is to see a boom in offshore outsourcing of many other higher legal processes like legal research, document review e-discovery etc. The focus for all such legal outsourcing and legal transcription outsourcing /offsho0ring is indeed India because of its many advantageous positions like,

• English educated population
• English common law
• Professionally qualified pool of lawyers
• Low labor /wages
• Advantageous time difference
• Use of best technologies
• High security for documents

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based company that offers affordable offshore services in legal transcription, legal coding, legal scoping, legal research, legal documentation, legal animation, legal web design and litigation support services to clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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The November 15, 2007 Press Release from the USPTO (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) shows that there is an historic improvement in the quality of patent and trademark reviews and subsequently the quality of issued patents and registered trademarks. Here is some interesting statistics. In the year 2007, the USPTO,

• Examined 362,227 applications - the highest number in history.
• Quality compliance was 96.5 percent - equaling last year's results, the best in a quarter century.
• Patent examiner decisions were upheld by the USPTO's patent appeals board 69 percent of the time, up from 51 percent in 2005.

For the second year in a row, the USPTO has exceeded all of its trademark-related performance goals. The USPTO's trademark examining attorneys examined a record 323,527 applications and the quality was 97.4 percent and exceeded the fiscal year 2007 target.

To see the entire Press Release go to http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/com/speeches/07-46.htm

The US Patent Law is based on the utilitarian reasoning, which is to promote the progress of science and useful arts in general public interest. The eligibility criteria for patentability is that the invention should be useful, must be non obvious and novel with proper specifications.

Managed Outsource Solutions (MOS) is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers outsourced services in patent litigation support services, patent infringement litigation, (IP) Intellectual Property litigation, legal transcription, legal documentation and legal research for clients in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia.

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One must not choose colors at random while designing a website but only after due consideration of what would be good for your niche audience or website users. Under no circumstance would any business website want the site users/ browsers to feel bad about the bad choice of colors or design. Hence it becomes essential to plan the clors well in advance.

Here are a few things to remember.

• Maintain contrast in color between background and the text color
• Colors should be replaceable for different browser settings
• Prefer plain and solid text
• Avoid too many colors
• Use color coding for navigation
• Let the site color convey the firms character and message
• Have consistency in color
• Avoid backgrounds with textures
• Consider the popular color blindness needs
• Avoid florescent writing
• Regarding colors on site get color feedback from customers
• Consider lighting condition of viewers
• Consult color wheel chart before pairing colors

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based web design and development firm offering professional web design services like corporate website design, e-commerce website design, real estate web design, small business website design, and SEO services for clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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During legal research when one wants up-to-date information on a topic, it becomes mandatory to refer to the latest periodicals and journals. But then there are different categories of these periodicals each with a distinct character and level of information. When using online or offline resources from major libraries one must be aware of the different levels of scholarship associated with the different categories of periodicals. The basic four types of categories are,

• Scholarly journals
• Substantive,
• News/General Interest
• Popular
• Sensational

The word scholarly is mainly concerned with research and academic study, and has the attitude and characteristics of a scholar. It is often accompanied by an abstract or a summary of the article. Scholarly journals

• are written by scholars
• have the purpose of reporting original research
• always cite sources
• always list the author's credentials
• have a serious look with very few flashy pictures
• use a disciplinary style of language

While substantive periodicals are publications meant for an educated audience they contain illustrations and photographs and are made to look attractive with the objective to provide information in a general manner. Information got from a popular magazine is always second or third hand and will never cite the source. Sensational publications assume certain gullibility in their audience and often use inflammatory language.

While doing legal research it would be best to get a reference book that describes and evaluates all the periodicals in a library. Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based legal outsourcing company that offers services like legal research, litigation support, legal transcription, legal coding, legal web design, legal animation for clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia

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Information processing and data entry is an important and accepted process in all sectors of the economy.Data entry has become an industry has created a different profession requiring specialisations for specific sectors. In the earlier days in offices all such work was done by clerks and typists who had to do data entry work as part of the overall operation either in the marketing department, administrative accounts or other departments. With the dawn of the information age data became very crucial and along with the evolution of the IT /ITES and data processing /mining sectors there also evolved the fulltime data entry professional.

A typical data entry worker starts work while in high school and after graduation data entry and keyboarding is the first job that he gets.The average worker earns about $25000 annually.However over a period of time most of them increase their skills and move on to higher level jobs with more responsibilities such as secretary, administrative assistant, supervisor or statistical clerk. However now it is predicted that in the long run (by 2014) the demand for data entry in the US is going to reduce as lot of data entry work will be outsourced and done at other global locations and most work will be replaced by automation. Data entry workers are also known by the following names,

• Word processors
• DTP specialist
• Typists,
• Data entry keyers
• Information processing workers
• Electronic data processors
• Keypunch technicians
• Transcribers

There is already an increased trend of data entry keyers working with non keyboard forms of data entry, using scanners and electronically transmitted files. As time goes by the use of data-capturing technologies, such as barcode scanners, voice recognition technologies, and sophisticated character recognition readers will replace the traditional data entry operator or professional.

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based data entry company offering both domestic and offshore outsourcing in services like online data entry, offline data entry, key data entry, numerical data entry, image entry, data processing, data mining, data cleansing, ICR, OCR etc to clients in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

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Excel here refers to the spreadsheet program Microsoft Excel from the MS Office Suite. Excel data entry services are provided by professional data entry firms and the service involves entry of numerical as well as text data using Excel format and also entry of any data into Excel format work sheets. So what are the common types of Excel data entry projects? They include the following. The list is not exhaustive.

• Data entry from spreadsheets
• Data entry from magazines/journal
• Numerical data entry
• Name / location details into Excel
• Survey data entry into Excel work sheets
• Banking data entry
• Credit card database processing
• Accounting data entry
• Web data entered into Excel

Professional data entry service providers today use the latest state of the art digital technologies for Excel data entry. Technologies like OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) and other non manual methods are used to scan and convert and enter text or image data and stored as Excel format in databases or in other formats.

What are the commonly used different data entry tips that are useful to speed up the Excel data entry process? They include,

• Use of shortcut keys from the keyboard
• Entering same data in multiple cells simultaneously
• Copy of data to nearby cells
• Using Fill handle to enter data selectively over large or small portions
• Use Excels built-in data form
• Use Excel add-in data forms

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based data entry company that offers professional outsourcing of data entry with specialized services including, online and offline data entry, numeric data entry, remote data entry, image entry, OCR, ICR, data mining, data processing, data capture and data cleaning services to clients in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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It is always a good idea to have a Will. Will is a legal document that lets us decide how our property and estate has to be distributed after our death. No one is ever aware as to when death will occur and it makes perfect sense to be well prepared. We might not be quite rich, yet we would definitely have personal preferences as to who are the people that must receive our personal belongings. By definition in the common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the testator) regulates the rights of others over his or her property or family after death.

The actual will can have all details and instructions of how exactly our family members should proceed. A will makes everything clear and one does not have to get the special service from any law professional. If in any doubt about how to get a Will documented, it is best to consult professional legal documentation service providers. Such experts can help us in letting others know details regarding funeral arrangements, advice on appointing guardians for children, protecting loved ones etc.

Who is the eligible person for writing a will? Well any person over the age of majority can draft their own will without the aid of an attorney. The age of majority is the threshold of adulthood as it is conceptualized in law. It is mandatory that the following points should be included in a Will.

• The testator must clearly identify himself as the maker of the will, and that a will is being made; this is commonly called "publication" of the will, and is typically satisfied by the words "last will and testament" on the face of the document.
• The testator must declare that he revokes all previously-made wills and codicils. Otherwise, a subsequently-made will revokes earlier wills and codicils only to the extent that they are inconsistent. However, if a subsequent will is completely inconsistent with an earlier one, that earlier will be considered completely revoked by implication.
• The testator must demonstrate that he has the capacity to dispose of his property, and does so freely and willingly.
• The testator must sign and date the will, usually in the presence of at least two disinterested witnesses (persons who are not beneficiaries).
• The testator's signature must be placed at the end of the will. If this is not observed, any text following the signature will be ignored, or the entire will may be invalidated if what comes after the signature is so material that ignoring it would defeat the testator's intentions.

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based legal outsourcing service provider offering professional services in legal documentation, legal research, legal transcription, legal consulting, legal web design and litigation support for clients all across the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.

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Though both the terms legal transcription and legal scoping are closely related there has been much lesser use of the term scoping whereas the term transcription has almost become popular. Just for the sake of the naive let me start with first differentiating transcription from translation because the term scoping also relates to translation. (here we translate short hand language into text). To clarify,

• Translation is conversion of one language text / audio into another language. ( Ex : Translating from French to Japanese)
• Legal translation is the translation of texts within the field of law.
• Transcription is converting audio file / recording into text documents (or a transcript)
• Legal transcription involves transcription of legal documents.
• Legal scoping is converting of court reporting documents into transcripts that could mean either,

a) Translation of stenotype (short hand machine) notes into text or transcripts.

b) Converting audio/video court recordings into transcripts using computerized text editors (this one is almost like transcription but differs from legal transcription mainly because the term legal transcription involves transcription of legal documents that have originated both from inside and outside the court.)

c) Real time transcription, using CAT (Computer Aided Transcription) instantly produces unedited text on all the computer screens in court in real time which is later edited by scopists and then proofread before final conversion into legally authorized transcripts. (This service can be made available both onsite and remote)

Busy court reporters always prefer to get their court reports scoped using professional scopists or avail services from online scoping outsourcing providers who arrange to get the work done on a regular and consistent basis at attractive rates. This service is available with minimal TAT (turnaround time) and over 99% accuracy.

Managed Outsource Solutions is a US based legal process outsourcing leader offering services in legal scoping, legal transcription, legal documentation, legal research, litigation support, legal web design, legal animation and the like to clients and legal communities in the US, Canada the UK and Australia.

Labels: affordable legal transcription, CAT, computer aided transcripttion, legal scoping, legal translation

It is not sufficient to just design an E-commerce website but it also needs to be continuously maintained and upgraded. What are the features required in an E-commerce website? Here is a list of the must have features / possibilities required for a successful e-commerce website.

• Limitless bandwidth / downloading
• No page / sub-page limits
• Possible linking to all document formats
• Quick and easy product page creation
• There must be no space limits
• Password protect any page or section of your web site
• HTML source edition possibility
• Self subscription memberships
• Compatible with all search engines
• Paid and free memberships
• Site traffic monitoring / reporting
• Preformatted page layouts
• Anytime system up gradation
• Shopping carts
• Configurability for any type of product / service
• Inventory tracking and reporting
• Creation of automatic thumbnail images
• Effective catalog search options
• Good and appropriate internal linking
• Unlimited categories and sub-categories
• Secure selling documents and software
• 128-bit SSL Security
• Real-time payment processing / Visa, MC, Discover, Amex, PayPal etc
• Real-time worldwide shipping calculations
• Extra shipping fees
• Quote mode
• Popular item reporting
• Simplified che