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The complexities of dealing with Medicare issues when resolving Workers Compensation and Liability Claims is a growing challenge for all parties involved in the claim resolution process. Theres help with that and more. In this edition of Ringler Radio, host Larry Cohen looks at the newly formed subsidiary of Ringler Associates, called Ringler Medicare Solutions, Inc. with President, David L. Hays. They explore the world of Medicare, workers compensation and liability claims, what lawyers and adjusters need to know and the advantages to the client.

Thomson Reuters has done it again! Another black eye in librarian relations.

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I finally got a first look at WestlawNext today. I think our students are going to love it because it looks and acts a lot like Google. It will probably be hard for some faculty members to make the transition to WestlawNext, and we librarians will have to do a lot of individualized hand holding and training. We couldn’t figure out whether the Custom Digest feature has been incorporated, but our Westlaw rep couldn’t find it. Other concerns, at least for the academics out there, include: support for standalone printing, which I assume will work at some point in the future; the Alert feature, which isn’t supported at this time; and links from TWEN– links from TWEN to westlaw.com don’t work in WestlawNext and have to be put in. Another ongoing concern is the question of content. I am still annoyed that ALR International was made available to the law school market and then pulled summarily after a very short time. Thomson’s answer is that we can buy it separately if we want it, and I suspect that that will be the answer as more databases are taken down from the academic market. Read the rest of this entry »

United Student Aid Funds v. Espinosa, showed up first with some breathless headlines:

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Conrad E. Jacoby provides an overview of the New York LegalTech show and conference, long one of the preeminent opportunities to catch a glimpse of the future of legal technology. Conrad highlights how the conference provides a surprisingly accurate snapshot of litigation support, electronic discovery, and even the health of the legal industry as a whole.

In this edition of the ESI Report, host Gina Jytyla, Managing Staff Attorney in the Legal Technologies division at Kroll Ontrack, welcomes Donald Ramsay, Of Counsel with Stinson Morrison Hecker LLP and Rhea Frederick, Senior Legal Consultant with Kroll Ontrack, to discuss how to successfully tackle document review projects in order to increase cost-effectiveness and strengthen defensibility. In the Bits & Bytes Legal Analysis segment, Kroll Ontrack Legal Correspondent Kelly Kubacki will take a look at the discovery order issued in Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. v. Cammarata.

The National Jurist ranks the best law school libraries. In a brief intro that warms my heart, even as we all will instantly begin to quibble over their criteria, they begin, Read the rest of this entry »

A three and a half year government investigation in Ireland, called the Murphy report, revealed a cover-up of three decades of clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic church. And, in an official pastoral letter to Irish sexual abuse victims, Pope Benedict XVI apologized to Irelands Catholics. Co-Host and attorney J. Craig Williams welcomes guests Attorney Helen L. McGonigle, a victim of clergy abuse and victims advocate and Vincent Shannon, Senior Partner of Shannons Solicitors in Dublin, Ireland. They discuss the investigations into allegations of sexual abuse at the hands of priests, the Vaticans tepid response, legal jurisdictions versus canon law and what victims of clergy sexual abuse can do legally here and abroad.

Attorneys, litigation support professionals and IT teams have to keep up-to-date with trends and changes in the discovery realm to effectively and efficiently manage ESI for their clients and organizations. Listen to this special report and hear about Electronic Evidence and Discovery: What Every Lawyer Should Know Now co-authored by Attorneys Michele Lange and Kristin Nimsger from Kroll Ontrack. The book, on the American Bar Associations best seller list, is everything law firms and corporate practitioners need to know for a successful discovery effort. Rick Anderson moderates the discussion with Michele Lange and Patrick Oot. Click here to order the second edition of the book.

Time management is a key element in running your law practice. In this edition of The Un-Billable Hour, host Attorney Rodney Dowell, Director of the Massachusetts Law Office Management Assistance Program, welcomes attorney, consultant and coach, Allison C. Shields, Esq. President of Legal Ease Consulting, Inc. to share tips on how to find the time to be a lawyer, the importance of prioritizing, systematizing your law firm and how to market and manage your practice.