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    Wisconsin Lawyer
    September 01, 1999

    Wisconsin Lawyer September 1999

    Vol. 72, No. 9, September 1999

     

     

     

    CoverA New Approach
    to Employment Administration

    By James J. Gettel & Bruce A. McIlnay

    Developing a relationship with a professional employer organization (PEO) can help law firms more evenly compete for quality employees and reallocate limited resources to focus on client service. A PEO can be an ethical, economic, and efficient means of unburdening attorneys from the "business of law," and free more time to devote to the "practice of law."

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    *SideBar: Legal Ethics of Coemployment

    LaptopLaptop Litigation: The Impact
    of Technology on Litigation

    By Michael K. McChrystal,
    William C. Gleisner III & Michael J. Kuborn

    Unless litigators insist upon and courts develop a systematic and effective set of rules to deal with the realities of litigation in the information age, the authors warn, developments in electronic litigation may warp our justice system.

    In this first of a series of articles on litigation technology, the authors survey the various ways in which technology is being used to prepare for and litigate a case, and include an overview of various hardware and software systems. Future articles in this series will discuss more discrete issues related to the broad topic of litigation technology.

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    Multidisciplinary Practices:
    What Will It Mean for Smaller Firms?

    Incursions into the legal market by nonlawyers and business service firms will continue. Here are some strategies small and mid-sized firms could use to compete with the "one-stop shopping" these nontraditional competitors offer to clients of legal and other professional services.

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    Columns

    *President's Message
    *Bar Commission to
    *Study Multidisciplinary
    *Practices

    *Practice Tips
    *Multidisciplinary Practices:
    *What Will It Mean for Smaller
    *Firms?

    *Ethics
    *Conflict of Interest: Representing
    *Married, Former Clients at
    *Divorce

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    Letters

    *Legal News & Trends
    *Case Management Software
    *Review
    *ABA Museum of Law

    Book Reviews

    *Supreme Court Digest

    *Court of Appeals Digest

    *Lawyer Discipline

    *Supreme Court Orders
    *97-06: Special Responsibilities
    *of a Prosecutor, and Amended
    *Petition
    *98-09: Prosecutor Board of
    *Bar Examiners Records

    *In the News

    *Marketplace

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