Category: Legal Technology Small Firm, Big Technology TASA ID: When you think of a small firm, what words come to mind? Compact, frugal and budget could be some examples. When you compare large and medium firms to small firms, one would assume the smaller firm is constantly trying to catch up to the larger firm. This statement may have been true ten years ago, but not today. When you step outside the box, you will find that smaller firms are steps ahead of the larger ones. Read more
Category: Legal Technology Online Jury Verdicts and Settlements Made Easy TASA ID: Do you know what your case is worth? Does opposing counsel know? In the beginning stages of a legal suit, your answer is often "No." Plaintiff's counsel creates the value of a case when preparing the complaint. Thereafter, defense counsel completes a review of the materials and evaluates the claim based on the information and documentation initially provided. Read more
Category: Legal Technology The Paperless Law Firm: How Paralegals Can Take Advantage of New Organizational Tools TASA ID: Over the past couple of years, there has been a surge of law firms going paperless. The idea of a "paperless law firm" describes an electronically organized law office. Presently, clients are looking for law offices to abandon paper files and embrace electronically stored information. Read more
Category: Legal Technology At Trial, Don’t Leave Technology Behind: The Trial Consulting Paralegal TASA ID: As you jump on the elevator with trial boards in one hand and your entire case on a pull cart next to you, you wonder, "Do I have everything?" If it were 1999, the answer would be yes. In 2009, dragging voluminous numbers of records and multiple trial boards to court is a thing of the past. Read more
Category: Manufacturing Wire Bonding TASA ID: 4595 The dominant process for interconnecting semiconductor chips to the outside world is an ultrasonic welding process called wire bonding. More than 90% of the chip interconnections produced annually (more than 15 trillion wires) are produced with this process. Welding is a process where an intermetallic alloy is formed from the materials to be joined. Generally, intermetallic alloys are stronger and also more brittle than their constituents. Welding is superior to other joining methods, such as soldering which require that a low melting temperature material melt and solidify within the joint. Low melting temperature materials, such as solders have significantly lower strength and are more subject to creep and fatigue failures than intermetallics. Read more
