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	<description>The Blog of Joseph Ficocello - Litigation &#38; Practice Support, Technology &#38; Law Firm IT</description>
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		<title>Leveraging 3D Animation in Patent Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Case theory development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Intellectual property cases, especially within patent litigation, can be a visually demanding area of the law. The illustration of claim language, accused devices, a variety of products and the minutiae of complicated science, are often best explained in a visual form. Among the various tools of depiction, 3D animation is one of the most [...]


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		<title>3 Tips for Faster Concordance Indexing/Reindexing</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/03/3-tips-for-faster-concordance-indexingreindexing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Concordance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Although the product is mature and an excellent offering (overall), indexing or re-indexing a large Concordance database (or series of databases) can be a time consuming task. The efficiency can be impacted by several factors, including the number of records and size of the database, speed and resources available on the computer, the usage [...]


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		<title>Trial PowerPoint Presentation Slides: How to Match How You Look with What You Say</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/12/trial-powerpoint-presentation-slides-how-to-match-how-you-look-with-what-you-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Presentation development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint is an adept tool during trial &#8211; it&#8217;s relatively easy to use, the results are typically predictable and it&#8217;s widespread. One of the most critical skills to develop is matching how your argument looks to what you&#8217;re saying &#8211; the message has to match the body. These skills are not developed overnight and [...]


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		<title>LegalTech 2010 Opinion: TrialDirector 6 &#8211; New Features, Fun &amp; Fast</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/09/legaltech-2010-opinion-trialdirector-6-new-features-fun-fast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Litigation Support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trial Presentation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ I was afforded the opportunity to attend LegalTech NY this year and previewed some of the latest and greatest software, services and techniques. While I was impressed by many of the offerings, the demo I received from inData on TrialDirector 6 was one of the most memorable. Although the iteration of the product is [...]


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		<title>Review: Mozilla&#8217;s Free Thunderbird 3.0 &#8211; A Good Email Solution for Law Firms?</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/02/review-mozillas-free-thunderbird-3-0-a-good-email-solution-for-law-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I converted from Microsoft Outlook several years ago, and have not looked back since. Outlook is an excellent local email client with support for server synchronization, integration with the rest of the Office line of products and many mainstream legal document management systems. However, free and open source solutions such as Mozilla&#8217;s Thunderbird can offer [...]


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		<title>Early Overview: The Apple iPad &amp; Law Firm Implementation</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/27/early-overview-the-apple-ipad-law-firm-implementation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Product Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Today, to an eagerly anticipating crowd of journalists and insiders, Apple&#8217;s CEO Steve Jobs introduced the Apple iPad tablet to the world. In typical Jobs fashion, the venue was tastefully decorated and minimalistic to the core. The offering of the iPad/iTablet/iSlate has been one of the single most talked about technological offerings in years. [...]


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		<title>Law Firm Technology Solutions: Watch the Lights or the Cars?</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/25/law-firm-technology-solutions-watch-the-lights-or-the-cars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Litigation Support]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ If you live, work or frequent a major city you most likely walk a great deal and cross intersections on a regular basis. I am continually amazed, no matter which city I&#8217;m in, at how many individuals pay greater attention to the crosswalk indicator light than they do the cars speeding to the intersection. [...]


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		<title>The Apple Tablet: A Game Changer for Litigation Technology?</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/18/the-apple-tablet-a-game-changer-for-litigation-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Apple invited various journalist to attend an &#8220;event&#8221; on January 27th. Media outlets, technology insiders and financial analysts have been predicting over the past weeks that Apple will launch a 10&#8243; tablet (think of it as a big iPhone) that will not only revolutionize the publishing industry, but the way many elect to consume [...]


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		<title>Six Steps to Safer Cloud Storage</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/04/six-steps-to-safer-cloud-storage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ With the advent of cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) models of business and information storage, management and retention, the safety and integrity of our information is at a critical juncture. As old practices give way to new methods, vulnerabilities can still exist. In October, T-Mobile users who operate one of the [...]


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		<title>Merry Christmas &amp; Happy Holidays!</title>
		<link>http://www.borrowedladder.com/blog/index.php/2009/12/24/merry-christmas-happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Ficocello</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hope you and those you celebrate with have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and good health in the New Year! I am so thankful for many things this past year (Concordance unicode support, HTML5, Adobe CS4&#8230;just kidding) and am looking forward to spending time over this holiday with family.
2010 will be a lightening [...]


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