Archive for the ‘Legal Technology News’ Category
Eliminating Spam Contact Forms
Author: Chris Costa
I have many lawyer clients who are sick and tired of getting 100’s of contact forms that are just full of gibberish and links from spammers. For one it’s a pain in the ass to go through them all to find legitimate forms, but it’s also a let down when you get a contact form from what you think is a potential new client, just to find its just another piece of spam!
The main solution is to make sure your contact form has a CAPTCHA feature, which makes the user manually fill in a # or keyword before submitting the form.
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart".
Here is an example of this form in action on a California DUI lawyers website.
I had one lawyer who was getting 100’s of forms per day and since the setup of this new form, he has gotten just 1 in the last few weeks, so that’s a nice improvement! You can’t stop someone from manually filling out the form over and over BUT you can stop spammers who use automated tools.
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JDSupra Free User Generated Legal Document, Forms & Brief Library
Author: Chris Costa
JDSupra has officially launched and opened its site to the public. The JDSupra site allows legal professionals to upload legal documents, memos, forms, filings and briefs and share them with the legal community. On the marketing front, lawyers and law firms can have their own detailed profile page that promotes their practice.
This seems to be one sharp product and its FREE! This is another way to get your firm recognized and for an extra fee you can get a link to your website. It lets lawyers create a profile and then upload a variety of documents but you can also search the database for information and it seems to be a very useful legal research tool.
source: Justia
Harness the Power of Video-Enhanced Summations
Author: Chris Costa
At the end of each day of a five-week trial in Middlesex County, N.J., plaintiffs’ lawyers Barry Eichen and William Levinson spent hours reviewing and editing video footage of testimony, while defense lawyers did the same. During summations, each side played back the culled clips on a 4-by-6-foot screen, glossed by their own commentary.
After taking in both video shows, the jury on Aug. 10 awarded $19 million to the family of a railroad mechanic who died of asbestos-related lung disease.
The technique, known as video-enhanced summation, is still new to New Jersey. Few courtrooms are set up with technology allowing lawyers to obtain a DVD recording of each day’s proceedings.
Full Story at Law.com
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