Document Management Software

This is FindLaw’s Legal Technology Center’s collection of Document Management Software articles. Managing documents is an important aspect for every law practice that creates correspondence, filings, transactional agreements and other documents. Free information, white papers, case studies and press releases on document management software solutions and more are provided here.

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Document Management Software Articles

Collaboration in the Cloud Gets Richer with Presentations Added to Google Docs

As part of its ongoing efforts to enable users to take advantage of the web for sharing and collaborating, Google today added features for presentations to the Google Docs application. At http://documents.google.com, users can create simple web-based presentations that others can update and view from their own computers, even at the same time.
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Adobe Releases Security Update for Acrobat Vulnerabilities

In response to the discovery of a security flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, Adobe has released updates to older versions of the popular PDF viewing and editing software. The new updates, which are available as full installation packages rather than patches, should prevent malicious programmers from taking control of users' machines, according to the company.
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Linguistic Pattern Matching

Linguistic Pattern Matching ("LPM") is a sophisticated new search technology that gives legal teams the ability to work much more quickly and thoroughly with large databases of scanned discovery documents and electronic files.

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Lawyers Take Note: Popular Free Android Note Apps

Learn about some of the more popular free note apps available for Android phones and tablets.

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Interview: E-Filing Pioneer Mohammed Shaikh

Learn more about e-filing from this interview with e-filing pioneer Mohammed Shaikh.

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Ideal Note-Taking Tool for Today’s Lawyer: Microsoft Office OneNote

Microsoft^(r) Office OneNote^(tm) is a note-taking software program that combines the flexibility of a legal notepad with the efficiency, organization and accessibility of a computer. Attorneys can now write, organize, reuse and share their notes on any laptop, desktop or Tablet PC.

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Preparing Your Firm to Implement a Retention Policy

Law firms have begun to realize the importance of having a clearly defined and consistent information management strategy that is aligned with their strategic business goals. A document retention policy provides the framework for firms to implement policies that will reduce costs, mitigate risk and help to gain control of vast amounts of information.

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Knowledge Management (KM) Survey: A World First

Gretta Rusanow has produced a world first. A global knowledge management survey of a select group of large law firms across Australia, the UK and the US.

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From Scanarchy to Best Practice Paper Capture

A best practice implementation to capture paper into a law firm's electronic information system provides work efficiencies, process improvement, cost reductions, security, audits, and a lowered carbon footprint. To optimize the scan capture benefits and minimize associated risks, a firm must standardize on best practice methods for managing, profiling, scanning, and capturing information from paper. But instead of a best practice approach, most firms today suffer from Scanarchy.

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Elections A Go-Go; Every Vote Counts, Right?

Here we go again, another election cycle brings the political rock stars to the fore. Will Arnold, the Governator, be reelected in California? Obama has come out swinging, and may steal the start of Hillary's Presidential campaign thunder. But such political-celebrity hype begs the real question - do we have the mechanisms in place to ensure accurate election results?

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