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The Hire an Esquire – Digital Legal Partnership Cuts Legal Costs by Bringing the “Local Movement” to E-Discovery

Hire an Esquire is the first online service for the emerging freelance legal market.

Philadelphia, PA & Wilmington, DE (PRWEB) January 24, 2012

Headlines of the past decade documented the fall of the American lawyer: a once high salaried hot shot now frequently unemployed, indebted, . . . and a factory worker? Or so it seemed from prominent stories describing conditions and wages for attorneys performing electronic discovery or “e-discovery.” Yet e-discovery—often involving large teams of temporary attorneys reviewing millions of documents in corporate litigation—could still break the budget of Fortune 500 companies. Law firms and clients wondered if costs could be contained. Lawyers wondered if dignity could be restored to their profession.

The newly formed Digital Legal – Hire an Esquire, LLC partnership addresses both issues. Together they provide a local-remote e-discovery solution that dramatically reduces costs while providing attorneys with better hourly rates and improved working conditions.

“REMOTE-LOCAL”: THE MOST ECONOMICAL E-DISCOVERY SOLUTION

Digital Legal’s web-based e-discovery review tools allow attorneys to work remotely from their own offices and computers, eliminating the typical facility costs of renting office space and computers for temporary attorneys. Hire an Esquire, the first online service for law firms to locate, manage, and pay freelance lawyers makes traditional staffing agency inefficiencies— and their 50-100% markup on attorney hours—obsolete. With this combined solution, law firms can easily locate local, US-barred attorneys who can work remotely while still being available to meet on site with in-house counsel, partners, and associates as necessary. With 400+ attorneys and firms registered nationally since its launch in 2011, Hire an Esquire has specialized in allowing firms to locate a variety of independent contractor and per diem attorneys for legal research and writing, court appearances, specialized expertise, and local counsel. With Digital Legal, a national provider of electronic discovery and litigation support services, Hire an Esquire has entered the e-discovery market.

“In recent years, onshoring e-discovery to low cost U.S. cities became more economical and convenient than outsourcing. Now local attorneys will trump onshoring in cost and convenience,” says Hire an Esquire co-founder Julia Claire, Esq. “The local-remote solution also eliminates the expense and hassle of travel. East and West Coast-based counsel frequently had to make trips to Midwestern onshore location. This solution makes life easier for firm attorneys and wages higher for project-based attorneys, all while firms support their local economy and clients see e-discovery costs cut in half.”

FROM OUTSOURCING TO CROWDSOURCING:

With Digital Legal’s newly designed IDS software, firms can track the progress of remote attorneys even more closely and accurately than if they were in the same room. Ezra Silverman, Director of Technology for Digital Legal, explains, “the IDS platform makes tracking your reviewers simple and accurate. With in-depth information you can see your overall review progress and individual reviewer productivity reports. The software even outlines attorney coding decisions that are out of line with other attorneys so that you can ensure you’re getting accurate results from your team.”

Case review software has increasingly become web-based and designed to secure highly confidential information accordingly. Thus, many firms have begun to allow attorneys to review case documents from their own computers off-site. Silverman notes that, “Digital Legal’s web review platforms all feature secure login portals to protect all of the hosted data; the portals are secured using a variety of methods. Attorneys can be restricted to accessing data from specific physical locations, documents, and portions of the case.”

The Digital Legal – Hire an Esquire partnership arose from firms and clients increasingly exploring and requesting the cost efficiencies of a local-remote solution. Together, the companies make this solution simple to execute and manage.

ATTORNEYS GAIN AUTONOMY, REGAIN PROFESSIONALISM AS FIRMS CUT COSTS

Hire an Esquire provides attorneys with better lifestyle options and hourly rates by electronically facilitating a direct relationship with law firms. Currently, attorneys who contract directly with firms can earn 50% more than those who work through staffing agencies for comparable work.

Hire an Esquire promotes a freelance law model that allows attorneys to choose the type and amount of work they take on and enables them to build their own diversified book of law firm business. Firms can then match attorney power to business cycles. With even storied law firms downsizing or permanently closing their mahogany doors, few lawyers can entrust their careers to a single firm. And few firms can afford to spurn the latest cost-saving solutions and technology. The Digital Legal – Hire an Esquire partnership allows both attorneys and firms to enjoy all the benefits of freelancing for e-discovery—making “attorney factories” a relic of the turn of the century.

ABOUT HIRE AN ESQUIRE, LLC AND DIGITAL LEGAL:

Hire an Esquire is the first national online service to help law firms and legal departments locate, manage, and pay per diem, contract, and local counsel. Digital Legal is a national provider of electronic discovery, litigation support, and document management services.

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Southeastern New York Library Resources Council Spearheads The Collaborative Digital Effort of the Hudson River Valley Heritage

Highland, NY (PRWEB) May 28, 2006

What if residents from the Hudson Valley can easily look back to the past to their community’s history and heritage – real photos, old newspapers, postcards, maps, etc.? Or if students can easily research their community’s historic documents from their schools and homes? What about the serious researcher having the ability to access pictures, documents, maps, sound and video bytes that portray the rich heritage of the communities that comprise the Hudson River Valley? What if someone can search the region’s historic newspapers – searching for period articles, birth and death notices, and other interesting tidbits as reported by the press in the 19th and early 20th century?

On June 9th at Locust Grove, The Samuel Morse Historic Site in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., librarians, archivists, legislators and special guests will witness the public debut of a new resource featuring the extensive and diverse heritage of the Hudson River Valley. Called the Hudson River Valley Heritage [http://www.hrvh.org artifacts and documents are accessible and searchable through the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week for researchers — academics, history teachers, students or browsers. The Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH) is a powerful new resource that allows libraries and cultural heritage organizations from the region to digitize, organize, and showcase a wide range of historic collections of the Hudson River Valley region — from precious photographs and maps to multimedia clips, newspapers, postcards, documents, manuscripts and other memorabilia — along with searchable labeling or metadata. Further, the online collections at http://www.HRVH.org will continue to grow as more and more organizations join this regional digital archiving collaborative.

The Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC) is spearheading this significant regional information technology initiative comprised of computer hardware, a regional license to digital access management software called CONTENTdmTM, and many organizations committed to offering the region’s history through the Internet.

The Hudson River Valley Heritage, established in 2004 when three organizations tested the capabilities of the software, is dedicated to creating and administering the unique resource for unlimited online access to the repository of digital historic materials about the Hudson Valley Region — Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties of New York State. HRVH funding comes from federal funds, NY State funding for library systems, competitive grants and annual membership dues.

“This is an exciting collaborative initiative between SENYLRC and libraries, historical societies, museums and other cultural heritage organizations of the region,” said John Shaloiko, Executive Director of the SENYLRC. “Such priceless contributions today at http://www.HRVH.org will endure for generations, providing unlimited, online educational value and search capabilities for many inside and outside our communities.”

This collaborative regional information technology initiative is a fast, scalable and cost-effective way to build, manage, and share digital collections on the Web at http://www.HRVH.org. It circumvents the need for organizations to seek individual and costly archival solutions. Several organizations in the Hudson Valley River area began testing the capabilities of the new initiative in 2004. Marlboro Free Library, Vassar College and Wilderstein Preservation were already identifying and archiving valuable artifacts and materials for their own collections. Now, their efforts of preserving and sharing the essential heritage of the Hudson River Valley have been digitized and are accessed and shared internet wide.

In addition to the three pilot organizations, these other organizations now have collections residing on HRVH: Bard College, Chester Historical Society, Consortium of Rhinebeck History, Hudson River Valley Institute, Huguenot Historical Society, Library Association of Rockland County and Woodstock Public Library. Seventeen other organizations soon will be contributing digital objects as part of a federally-funded Library Services & Technology digital training grant awarded to SENYLRC by the New York State Library.

The HRVH is now seeking additional affiliate organizations within the Hudson River Valley to digitize unique and valuable collections to assure tomorrow’s unlimited, historic information access at http://www.HRVH.org. Participation allows member organizations to use their own computer hardware and high-speed Internet access, or to use

SENYLRC’s digital lab, which contains the computer hardware and software to simplify the digitizing processes to create, store and catalog (metadata) the collections. SENYLRC also offers on-site individual and group training for organizations’ staff members to properly and accurately digitize collections, as well as, facilitate interaction among contributing organizations via user groups and a listserv.

For Hudson Valley River organizations interested in becoming archival contributors, contact Tessa Killian at the SENYLRC, 21 S. Elting Corners Rd., Highland, NY 12528-2805; phone: 845-883-9065. No matter the level of sophistication, researchers can visit http://www.HRVH.org to explore the new online historic resource debuting on June 9th.

The Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH) is a collaborative, digital access and archiving initiative between the Southeastern New York Library Resource Council (SENYLRC) and libraries, historical societies, museums and other cultural organizations of the Hudson Valley Region – Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Ulster, Sullivan, Rockland, Orange and Putnam Counties of New York State. At http://www.HRVH.org, researchers, students, instructors and website voyageurs are granted unlimited online access to the repository of digitized historic materials – photos, postcards, letters, newspapers, diaries, scrapbooks, manuscripts, memorabilia, maps, ephemera, and audio and video clips – about the Hudson Valley Region. The online digital repository is administered and hosted by SENYLRC, one of nine reference and research library resources councils in the state. HRVH funding comes from federal funds, New York State funding for library systems, special grants and annual membership dues. For complete details, visit the website http://www.HRVH.org or call 845-883-9065.

The Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC), chartered by the NY State Board of Regents in 1967, is one of nine state-funded regional library consortia. SENYLRC’s mission is to support its members in the Mid Hudson Valley in order to enrich their services and enhance access to information for their users. Located in Highland, NY, SENYLRC targets services to over 70 governing member libraries of all types – college, special, business, hospital, law and large public — to help them improve their library services to medical, technical, scholarly and professional library users. Through recent initiatives like HRVH, SENYLRC now touches over 500 cultural heritage organizations and public and school libraries and library systems in the region. Visit SENYLRC at http://www.senylrc.org .

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.museum – the digital address of museums

(PRWEB) July 13, 2003

Secura is authorized by ICANN and MUSEDOMA to register museum-domains. Museums get museum – domains by Secura in a fast and reliable manner (https://www.domainregistry.de/museum.html).

Why museum-domains? MUSEDOMA writes: “The rationale for the .museum TLD is fundamentally based on the notion of authenticity. The .museum TLD is intended to privilege and to provide a platform for facilitating and encouraging all of the varied and unique activities that are part of a museum’s mission for the ever-growing professional and non-professional audiences relying on online communication and education.

It is perhaps even more important in cyberspace than it is in physical space for the sources of information about inventions, art works, artifacts and other evidence of people and their environments to be authentic and verified.”

The .museum-domain is an exclusive domain.It is open for registration by museums, organization of museums and friends of museums. A proof to be a museum is necessary for registering museum-domains. Museums get the eligibility to register .museum-domains at Musedoma. After they have got the ENS ID (=proof of eligibility) and the Confidential Key, they have to return to http://www.domainregistry.de/museum.html in order to

register their museum-domains.

Attention: The registration of the ENS by Musedoma is not the registration of the museum-domains.For museums, who do not want to apply themselves at MUSEDOMA, Secura procures the ENS for the museums by sending the application in the name of the museums to MUSEDOMA as a special service: everything from one hand.

The museum-domains have a third-level-structure in the form specific.generic.museum. It is e.g. not possible to register munic.museum. A correct museum-domain looks like chicago.art.museum. The

second level shall define a disciplinary afiliation, the location or a generic notion, but you are free to make a choice. The second level label is not exclusiv for a certain museum. The third level label should derive of the name of the museum.

The rules shall prevent, that a third party is registering the name of a (well known) museum.The combinations of all three labels are unique and belong to the owner of the museum-domain. The managers of digital museums can register at virtual.museum, digital.museum, online.museum or

cyber.museum – even at all second levels.

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Full Sail University Announces Digital Cinematography Bachelor of Science Degree Program

For more information about Full Sail, please visit www.fullsail.edu.

Winter Park, FL (PRWEB) December 4, 2010

Full Sail University (fullsail.edu) is proud to announce the launch of its Digital Cinematography Bachelor of Science Degree Program. This 32-month online degree provides students with a focused knowledge and understanding of digital cinematography necessary to be successful in a host of digital-video and digital-filmmaking fields of the entertainment and media industry.

The Digital Cinematography Bachelor of Science Degree program educates students on how the critical application of new technologies can create inspiring cinematic and commercial works. Course offerings in this degree program encompass all aspects of the digital cinematography field, ranging from photography, HD video production, visual effects, and lighting, to digital filmmaking techniques, audio postproduction, internet marketing, and film distribution.

“Full Sail University’s Digital Cinematography Bachelor of Science Degree Program immerses students in the emerging field of digital cinematography and storytelling through various visual mediums,” said Rick Ramsey, Full Sail’s Director of Visual Arts. “We are providing students with the ability to be dynamic visual authors by merging communication and connectivity with technology and creativity.”

This degree program offers a solid artistic and technical foundation to digital video artists who are also interested in focusing on becoming creative entrepreneurs. These students will have the opportunity to shoot and edit digital films, commercials, documentaries and webcasts. Graduates of the program are given the tools to start their own production companies or to join the workforce in various positions including editors, digital cinematographers and independent producers.

Through the use of Full Sail’s online platform, students of both degree programs are able to gain access to course information 24 hours a day, while participating in an innovative way to interact with instructors and fellow students via the Internet. To further facilitate connectivity, students will engage the curriculum through an Apple MacBook Pro, the primary element of Full Sail’s “Project LaunchBox” laptop initiative, which serves as their production studio and personal workstation throughout their education and into their careers.

About Full Sail University:

Since 1979, Full Sail University has been an innovative educational leader for those pursuing careers in the entertainment industry. With over 34,500 alumni, graduate credits include work on OSCAR®, Emmy® and GRAMMY®-winning projects, best-selling video games, and #1 grossing U.S. concert tours. Full Sail’s 191-acre campus and online education platform proudly welcomes over 12,400 students from 50 states and 49 countries. Full Sail currently offers a total of 33 Associate, Bachelor, and Master campus and online degree programs including: Computer Animation, Creative Writing for Entertainment, Digital Arts & Design, Digital Cinematography, Education Media Design & Technology, Entertainment Business, Film, Game Art, Game Design, Game Development, Graphic Design, Internet Marketing, Media Design, Mobile Development, Music Business, Music Production, New Media Journalism, Recording Arts, Recording Engineering, Show Production, Sports Marketing & Media, and Web Design & Development. Full Sail was named the 2008 “School/College of the Year” by the Florida Association of Postsecondary Schools and Colleges; The Harvard of Game Schools by Tips & Tricks Magazine; one of the top three New Media Schools by Shift Magazine; one of the Top Five Game Degree Programs in the world by Electronic Gaming Monthly; one of the Best Music Programs in the country by Rolling Stone Magazine; and one of the Best Film Programs in the country by UNleashed Magazine.

For more information about Full Sail, please visit http://www.fullsail.edu.

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