Cybercasts post alternatives to videoconferencing; participants can hear and type in questions to a speaker - and can review running transcripts
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Advances in communications technology offer cybercasting, giving attorneys the advantages of videoconferencing at a lower cost and with an immediate printed record of what is said. Users use personal computers to communicate via the Internet, both hearing and reading a speaker's words. A telephone call to a cybercasting service starts the process, with the audience connecting with the meeting by means of PC browsers. This avoids the need for special equipment and multiple long-distance telephone calls. Archiving a cybercast provides the opportunity to revisit it.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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Document repositories assist joint defendants; electronic imaging goes beyond traditional scanning to make data available to many
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The document repository is an advance in image-enabled case management systems which uses electronic imaging to transform documents to an electronic search-and-retrieval format. This is particularly attractive to joint defense groups on complex litigation. Such repositories do not replace scanning and coding but are a later development making better use of case-critical data. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) technology is one evolutionary extension which has resulted in searches more than 100 times faster than old, manual methods.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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Compressed transcripts ease load; for litigation
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Compressed transcripts enable attorneys to practice more cost-effectively; they also increase productivity and cut down on storage space needs, xeroxing and postage costs. Most attorneys can obtain them for a small added fee from the court reporter. Various packages are available with a choice of several page layouts and a word index giving page and line numbers for all except the most commonly used words such as articles and conjunctions.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1992
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