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19-49 Legal Econ. News 1 (1968-1974)

handle is hein.journals/lecnews2 and id is 1 raw text is: Legal conomics January, 1968 No. 19 Standing Committee on Economics of Law Practice, American Bar Association TEXAS BAR DEVELOPS INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM A radical new information retrieval system was made available to Texas lawyers in June, 1967. The State Bar of Texas Com- mittee on Professional Efficiency and Economic Research through its chairman, J. Harris Morgan, and co-chairman Will Jordan, in cooperation with Orme Lewis and Paul Ulrich of the Phoenix, Arizona Bar and the McBee Company developed a Retrieval Card foi Mechanical Computer use keyed to the law of Texas. The retrieval system permits needle retrieval of past work products through a multitude of index avenues. Past work products may be indexed permanently on the retrieval card by punching into the edges of the card any or all of the follow- ing information: the lawyer who did the legal work by firm number; the first three letters of the clients' name; the year in which the work was done; and the following material by section, article or rule number, as applicable; West Publishing Company Key Number,Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes of Texas, United States Code Annotated, the Texas State Consti- tution, the United States Constitution, the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the Federal Rules of Civil and Criminal Proce- dure, the Business Corporation Act of Texas, the Code of Criminal Procedure of Texas, the Election Code of Texas, the Insurance Code of Texas, the Penal Code of Texas, the Probate Code of Texas, the General Taxation Law of the State of Texas, and the Uniform Commercial Code. The entire retrieval system, as developed for Texas lawyers and Texas firms, may be completely installed for as little as $17.50-the cost of a McBee hand card punch, 200 retrieval cards and a sorting needle, or as much as $200.00-the cost of a beginning supply of 200 cards, a McBee hand punch and a McBee mechanical selector unit or sorter. Once the system is understood by the user, the coding of the work product is a short, non-timeconsuming operation. Not only is it possible for past work products to be keyed, the system can also be used for magazine and law review articles, court decisions, or any other matter that the user feels might be useful in the future. Vast amounts of material can be searched in very short periods of time after full implementa- tion. Comments from Texas lawyers using the system indicate that it is by far the most effective information retrieval system currently on the market. At the present time the system is suitable for use only in the State of Texas, however, work is currently being done in the area of adapting other state codes to the system. State Economics Committees interested in implementing this system in their state should contact the Economics Department, Amer- ican Bar Association, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637. NEW COMMITTEE PUBLICATION ANNOUNCED The Committee on Economics of Law Practice has announced the publication of a book entitled Partnership Problems and New Developments in Law Office Equipment. The 238 page book is the edited transcript of the Proceedings of the Second National Conference on Law Office Economics and Manage- ment which was held in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 7th and 8th, 1967. Subjects covered in the book include recruiting, training and managing young lawyers; partnership manage- ment; compensation of lawyers; plans for retirement, disability and death; magnetic tape and other memory typewriters; the telephone; duplicating and copying equipment; dictating equipment; better financial management through automatic timekeeping, control of unbilled time and other control re- ports; tax work and estate planning by computer; and the re- sults of a partnership practice survey which was done in con- junction with the conference. An order blank for this book and the other economics publications available through the Economics Department of the American Bar Association is included in this issue of the Legal Economics News. Additional order brochures may be procured by writing The American Bar Association, Econom- ics Publications, 1155 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637.

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