MARKETSPAN UNVEILS FOURTH WEB-BASED PRODUCT.CaseStream Alert!, the fourth web-based product from MarketSpan, Inc., Wayne, Pa., in as many months, has been unveiled at www.CaseStream.com. The new product enables attorneys to be notified of important federal civil litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. automatically anywhere in the world without special software or Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 considerations. CaseStream Alert! apprises attorneys each day of newly-filed cases involving the issues, clients or competitors they specify. It also enables them to monitor court activity in their own cases, a responsibility mandated by law. Each night, CaseStream Alert! queries 87 federal district courts and retrieves dockets for new and requested cases. It stores the dockets in an on-line data warehouse and notifies the attorney via email of relevant docket activity. CaseStream Alert! is accessible via a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , and attorneys with Internet access can use the product without additional software. Web access also gives users the ability to access docket information from home and travel locations. "As we approach Y2K some MIS departments in law firms are instituting software `lock downs' and will not install new software until after January 2000. This has no affect on CaseStream Alert!, since it operates via the same browsers already on the attorney's desktop," according to David I. Bookspan, esquire, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of MarketSpan. CaseStream Alert! joins a suite of three other legal research products released on the world-wide web by MarketSpan, Inc. this year: -- CaseStream Historical, released in April, is a searchable database of two million federal civil dockets that enables attorneys to study the legal arguments of previous cases and to investigate the litigation history of a litigant litigant n. any party to a lawsuit. This means plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, cross-complainant, and cross-defendant, but not a witness or attorney. LITIGANT. One engaged in a suit; one fond of litigation. or adversary. -- CaseStream Docket Direct, also released in April, retrieves dockets instantly over the web based on the docket in hand; in the plan; under consideration; in process of execution or performance. See also: Docket number. -- CaseStream(R) Delaware Chancery, released in May, provides an Internet search capability against a database of dockets from Delaware Court of Chancery court of chancery n. pl. courts of chancery A court with jurisdiction in equity. Noun 1. court of chancery - a court with jurisdiction in equity chancery , the nation's most important corporate litigation court. For more information, call 800/500-0888, ext. 106. |
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