Watching the docket can be software's job; automated court-docket tracking ensures that deadlines are met and embarrassing default judgments and dismissals avoided
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The most overlooked case-management, business-development and research tool may be the court calendar, and new software can follow docket activity in the federal courts and automatically make a daily delivery to an attorney's computer of new docket activity in the firm's cases, new cases involving the firm's clients or prospective clients, and new cases involving judges, lawyers, firms, or subjects the lawyer wants to track. Information delivered can be configured to the lawyer's precise specifications.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1999
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They scan docket sheets instead of the stock tables; two San Francisco attorneys pioneer a new way to profit: financing plaintiffs' appellate defense of big judgments
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San Francisco attorneys Michael G. Blum and Alan Zimmerman founded Judgment Purchase in late 1994 to finance plaintiffs' appellate defense of large judgments. Since then they have taken a stake in 22 civil appeals, buying discounted stakes in selected awards of $300,000 or more. Often, they say, defendants have an unfair advantage over financially strapped plaintiffs, so they level the playing field. Judgment Purchase must approve the appeals team but takes no active role in the appellate strategy.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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Several recent appellate court rulings highlight the trend towards misapplying the attorney-client privilege and extending the doctrine in unintended ways
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Several federal appellate court rulings handed down in the 1990s reveal a trend towards improper use of the attorney-client privilege, as this privilege should not be extended unless the advice involves applying legal principles to facts disclosed by the client. The cases discussed are the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit case of US v. Bauer, and two cases decided by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, TAX Analyst v. IRS and In re: Sealed Case.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1998
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