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Use E-Billing or Lose Business

Electronic billing has gained mainstream attention in the legal profession because it enables law firms to deliver invoices in a more detailed and consistent format to satisfy clients' growing demands for more precise billing information. Consequently, e-billing has became one of the most widely and quickly adopted legal technologies among Fortune 100 companies.

Corporate counsel and vendors encouraged firms to use such technology with promises that e-billing would revolutionize the attorney-client relationship. Clients promised their firms a faster payment cycle, expedited dispute resolution, lower administrative costs and a more efficient method for billing. Knowledgeable law firm administrators found that these systems can identify billing patterns, analyze time and resource expenditures and unify billing practices among practice groups. These programs also give firms more tools to ensure compliance with client billing guidelines. The firms that use these systems effectively have established a stronger bond with their corporate clients.


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Maps maps maps!

Here is a site where you can find maps of any city in the world.

http://maps.google.com/
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WHO reports steep rise in obesity in poorer countries

A staggering one billion of the world's population of 6.45 billion is overweight, warns the World Health Organization. And rates of overweight and obesity are rising dramatically in poorer countries, not just wealthy nations.

If the current trend continues, by 2015 there will be 1.5 billion overweight people in the world. Being overweight or obese greatly increases a person's risk of heart disease, stroke, diabetes and other chronic diseases.

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One more hurricane to hit US South

Rita, with winds of 165 m.p.h., forced the evacuation of as many as a million people from Corpus Christi to New Orleans.

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Supreme Court declares acts of Congress unconstitutional

Laws permitting public employees to sue state employers for discrimination on the basis of disability and age, and also giving women access to federal court to sue rapists for damages, ran up against the court's new definition of the limits on Congress's power and the justices' insistence that they alone have the final word in interpreting the Constitution.

"I take umbrage at what the court has said, and so do my colleagues," Senator Specter told Judge Roberts.

From 1995 to 2003, the Supreme Court overturned all or parts of 33 federal statutes, 10 of them on the ground that Congress had exceeded its authority either to regulate interstate commerce or to enforce the constitutional guarantees of due process and equal protection. Until then, the modern court gave Congress wide berth to define its own role under both of the Constitution's relevant provisions, the Commerce Clause and the 14th Amendment.


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Can an aircraft accommodate more than 800 passengers???

The Airbus A380 can!!! The A380, will be the largest airliner ever built. Lengthwise, it would nearly stretch from goal line to goal line of a football field while its wing tips would hang well beyond the sidelines. Three full decks will run along the entire length of the plane. Upper and main decks will serve as passenger areas, and will be connected by a grand staircase near the front of the plane and by another smaller staircase at the back. Although the lower deck will be reserved primarily for cargo, it could be outfitted for special passenger uses such as sleeper cabins, business centers or even child care service. In a one-class configuration, the A380 could accommodate as many as 840 passengers. The more likely three-class configuration will still offer an unprecedented 555 passenger seats.

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Today's Frontpages

Here you can check newspapers frontpages from many countries around the world...
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What is the longest word in English???

Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use. For example, the medieval Latin word honorificabilitudinitas (honourableness) was listed by some old dictionaries in the English form honorificabilitudinity (22 letters), but it has never really been in use. The longest word currently listed in Oxford dictionaries is rather of this kind: it is the supposed lung-disease pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters).


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