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Free Webinar: Effectively Manage E-Discovery Expenses the Right Way – Expert Advice and Tips on Building the Litigation Spend Architecture July 18th 11:00am EDT

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Wilmington, Delaware (PRWEB) July 10, 2012

All legal professionals that handle litigation know the pitfalls and challenges faced in today’s environment. Finding real solutions and honest answers to overcome these can be difficult. doeLEGAL responds to clients’ requests by offering this valuable webinar series free to all legal professionals. Learn the steps to design and build a stronger and more manageable litigation spend program that saves you time and money. Tom Russo delivers this educational webinar on July 18th at 11:00am EDT. Join us by registering here!

Advances in legal technology and legal project management have enabled litigation professionals to control E-Discovery expenses in more intelligent ways than ever before. Tom Russo delivers more expert advice as he walks you through the steps for designing and building a litigation spend process that is similar to the steps undertaken in building a new house. You’ll also get a sneak preview of his Extreme Budget Guide developed to gain better control of litigation spending. This webinar is provided at no cost to legal professionals! Register Now!

Who Should Attend:

Corporate, in-house counsel interested in managing the myriad law firms and vendors critical to busy legal departments
Corporate finance executives interested in tools and strategies for maximizing every dollar spent by their legal group
Corporate technology executives interested in easy-to-use tools that add strength and value to the company

Webinar Goals:

Create a collaborative work space for all members of a legal team to share and update a project plan
Develop outside counsel guidelines and the electronic rules which help enforce case planning, budgeting, and risk profiling
Show opportunities for strategic and operational savings to reduce overall legal expenses
Outline the major components of sound litigation project management

The first 30 registrants are entered for a chance to win a new Kindle Fire preloaded with Tom’s favorite business books. All others are entered in a drawing for an Amazon gift card enough to download the books. Register today for your chance to win and learn from an expert.

About Our Speaker:

Tom Russo, President & CEO of doeLEGAL, a premier legal service provider for Litigation Support Services spanning the entire EDRM Process. Tom is also a co-founder of the Corporate Counsel Technology Institute (CCTI) where Tom is the recognized leader in teaching legal technology advancements used in court today.

About doeLEGAL:

doeLEGAL is a premier provider and innovator of cloud-based legal enterprise collaboration solutions for the legal industry. Our suite of end-to-end collaborative software and services for corporate legal departments and law firms includes electronic invoice processing, legal spend and matter management, litigation support and electronic discovery. doeLEGAL serves small, medium and large Global Fortune 500 corporate legal departments as well as law firms in more than 35 countries. Established over four decades ago, doeLEGAL has built an impeccable reputation and takes pride in providing advanced technology offered at an excellent price point to clients who value and depend on exceptional service. Visit doeLEGAL at http://www.doeLEGAL.com.







Nexus Achieves Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco in USA

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Valencia, Calif. (PRWEB) July 13, 2012

Nexus IS, Inc. (Nexus) announced today that it has achieved the Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco. This specialization recognizes Nexus as having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco

San Francisco, CA Modern Architecture Firm Hart Wright Architects Opens New Office in the Mission District to Expand Opportunities For Collaboration

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San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) July 13, 2012

San Francisco modern architecture firm Hart Wright Architects has moved their office to a new location. The firm is a growing success and they decided it was time to move to an office that reflected their growth. Their new place of business is now in San Franciscos Mission District, a neighborhood well known for its restaurants, cultural venues and artist studios. There is ample public transit nearby and the location is central to the San Francisco downtown and other well-known neighborhoods.

This is what architect and urban designer Eliza Hart had to say about the move:

We are excited to be in a space shared with creative professionals and we can’t wait to collaborate and share ideas.

Principal Eliza Hart has separate masters degrees in both Architecture and Urban Planning from UCLA. Before forming HWA, Eliza was employed at S.F. Bay Area firms Studio Bergtraun Architects and Sagan Piechota Architecture. She has worked on a variety of residential and commercial projects, including remodels as well as new construction; with extensive experience spanning the full range from schematic design to construction documents to construction administration. Eliza also has a background in urban design and worked in Los Angeles with urban designer, architect and author, John Kaliski on a variety of projects. Her B.A. is from the University of Pennsylvania.

Principal and architect, Stuart Wright, has worked on a broad range of architectural projects and he bridges the gap between design and building. Prior to forming HWA, Stuart worked at Studio Bergtraun Architects, and before that at Sagan Piechota Architecture, specializing in modern residential projects. He is attentive to detail and knows that details are his best architectural expression. Stuart received his Master of Architecture at UCLA and studied at the Technical University in Vienna, Austria and at Studio Daniel Libeskind in Berlin, Germany. He holds a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Michigan.

Hart Wright Architects’ new office is in The New Black or NWBLK, (http://www.thenwblk.com/) an American design and build headquarters with a 6000 square-foot retail gallery featuring an edit of relevant contemporary furniture, applied arts, and the objects of utility defining the 21st Century. The NWBLK brings to San Francisco a roster of yet to be seen designers, and products international in scope. With an in-house fabrication workshop, the NWBLK prototypes furniture and products for clients, and builds custom environments for events and exhibitions.

The NWBLK design offices provide a collaborative work environment for Hart Wright Architects, Lindsay Chambers, Hazel.wood Design Group, Steven Miller Design Studio, and more. Eliza Hart and Stuart Wright are looking forward to all the collaborative opportunities the NWBLK will have to offer.

About Hart Wright Architects

Hart Wright Architects is a green architecture, urban and landscape design firm based in San Francisco serving clients in Palto Alto, Atherton, Napa, Mill Valley and most of the Bay area. Through all phases of design and construction, HWA is committed to excellence in architectural design solutions, active problem solving, and the highest standards of client service. They recently became certified DBE for being a woman owned architecture business.

Hart Wright Architects

1999 Bryant Street

San Francisco, CA

(415) 503-7071

http://www.hartwrightarchitects.com

http://www.hartwrightarchitects.com/blog

This press release was prepared by Bobrow Consulting Group (BCG) for Hart Wright Architects. BCG works with building design professionals to build their business by optimizing their online strategy, teaching marketing for architecture firms as well as offering web design and SEO consulting services.







Concept Searching Webinar – Deep Dive on Governance: Implementing Governance for SharePoint Information Architecture

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McLean, VA, US and Stevenage, UK (PRWEB) July 11, 2012

Concept Searching, a global leader in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software, and developer of the Smart Content Framework, will be hosting the fifth Webinar in its 2012 Expert Webinar Series on Tuesday, July 31st at 11:30am 12:30pm EDT, along with Project Performance Corporation, and industry experts Lt Col David Sanchez, USAFR, Deputy PM, USAF Pilot Physician Program, and Tom Reamy of KAPS Group. The topic of the Webinar is Deep Dive on Governance: Implementing Governance for SharePoint Information Architecture.

This webinar will explore how to maximize investment in taxonomy and metadata design with SharePoint, by developing a governance plan that can help an organization maintain the information architecture. It will discuss Term Store management strategies and best practices for governing the growth and modification of the SharePoint 2010 information architecture.

Experts will highlight areas that have minimal impact on change and updates, and areas that will require greater scrutiny for the impact the change may have on the information architecture. Concept Searching will explore using tools to apply governance strategy to identify and lock down sensitive information, such as PII, to safeguard it from being published on uncontrolled portals, and the significance of the Smart Content Framework.

Guest speaker Lt Col David Sanchez, USAFR, Deputy PM, USAF Pilot Physician Program, is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee attached to the Pilot Physician Program for the Air Force Medical Service, and will speak on the subject of metadata driven application of policies delivering a secure collaborative knowledge environment.

Focused on the subject of metadata driven application of policies for both Information and Knowledge Operations, Lt Col Sanchez also serves as an Air Force Medical Service representative with the Air Force Enterprise Information Services Working Group and is responsible for exploiting the SharePoint ECAL Suite Enterprise Agreement for the Air Force Medical Service, by driving the ability to leverage automatic metadata tagging capabilities and Managed Metadata Services within SharePoint 2010.

Guest speaker Tom Reamy is Chief Knowledge Architect and founder of KAPS Group, a group of knowledge architecture, text analytics, and taxonomy consultants, and will discuss governance, how it fits into an organization, and semantic structures. Reamy has 20 years of experience in information projects of various kinds. He has published a number of articles in a variety of journals, and is a frequent speaker at knowledge management, taxonomy, and text analytics conferences.

For the last 6 years, Reamys primary focus has been on text analytics, helping clients select the best text analytics software for their needs, as well as doing text analytics development projects that include applications such as call support and customer experience, enterprise search and enterprise content management, voice of the customer, and customer behavior prediction.

Space is limited. Register now at: https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/912896918

For full details of the Expert Webinar Series 2012 click here

Follow Concept Searching: http://www.twitter.com/conceptsearch

About Concept Searching

Founded in 2002, Concept Searching provides software products that deliver conceptual metadata generation, auto-classification, and powerful taxonomy management from the desktop to the enterprise. Concept Searching, developer of the Smart Content Framework, provides organizations with a method to mitigate risk, automate processes, manage information, protect privacy, and address compliance issues. This information governance framework utilizes a set of technologies that encompasses the entire portfolio of information assets, resulting in increased organizational performance and agility.

Concept Searching is the only platform independent statistical metadata generation and classification software company in the world that uses concept extraction and compound term processing to significantly improve access to unstructured information. The Concept Searching Microsoft suite of technologies runs natively in SharePoint 2010, FAST, Windows Server 2008 R2 FCI, and in Microsoft Office applications.

The building blocks of Concept Searchings Smart Content Framework are being used by organizations from a diverse number of industries including the US Army, the US Air Force, the UK MOD, Baker Hughes, Deloitte, Logica, NASA Safety Center, OppenheimerFunds, Point B, Perkins+Will, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Burns & McDonnell, MarketResearch.com, the US Department of Health & Human Services, Transport for London, the London Fire Brigade, the National Transportation Safety Board, and Xerox.

Headquartered in the US with offices in the UK, South Africa and Canada, Concept Searching solves the problem of finding, organizing, and managing information capital far beyond search and retrieval. The technologies are being used to drive intelligent migration, enable effective records management, identify and lock down sensitive information and enhance governance. For more information about Concept Searchings solutions and technologies please visit http://www.conceptsearching.com

About Project Performance Corporation (PPC)

As the North American arm of AEA, the international energy and environment consultancy, Project Performance Corporation brings to bear a wide range of expertise in business management, technology solutions, and the business drivers that its clients deal with every day. Its staff includes more than 300 dedicated and knowledgeable professionals, united by a tightly-knit team attitude. As a result, PPC excels at creating easy-to-use solutions to the most complicated challenges, allowing clients to keep their focus where it should be: on accomplishing their core missions.

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DRS and Associates proud to announce Five Top Clients’ Building-Product Brands Win Prestigious GREEN GOOD DESIGN Award 2012: Museum of Architecture and Design

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Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) June 25, 2012

The Chicago Athenaeums Museum of Architecture and Design today announced the winners of their 2011-2012 GREEN GOOD Design Award, which recognizes the worlds leading sustainable design in products, technology and research. DRS and Associates is proud to be the agency of record for five winners: Caroma, Creative Systems Lighting (CSL), LAUFEN, Watermark Designs and Zephyr, and we are sending out this joint release on their behalf.

Presented by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, the GREEN GOOD DESIGN Awards are an extension of the GOOD DESIGN Awards. GOOD DESIGN is the worlds oldest and most coveted international design award, bestowed only to the most important and influential industrial and graphic designers. Current and previous winners of GREEN GOOD DESIGN are world-class brands such as BMW, Electrolux, Bosch, Hansgrohe, Herman Miller, Cuisinart and Mercedes Benz. To stand with such recognizable brands is an honor that these manufacturers do not take for granted. “Having multiple clients once again be recipients of a world recognized award such as the Green GOOD DESIGN is quite an honor for my DRS team and me. It reinforces that our clients innovations tied together with our strategic brand building efforts are yielding wonderful returns,” stated David Schlocker, president of DRS and Associates. Each of these five brands stands on their own merits for their contribution to green design and we encourage you to take a look at them individually and as a whole.

Here are the winning brands and their respective products:

Caroma

2012 Washingtonian Residential Design Awards Winners Celebrated with Exhibition at the District Architecture Center

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 09, 2012

The District Architecture Centers SIGAL Gallery has opened its latest exhibition, Washington Living. The exhibition is organized and presented by The Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA|DC) in cooperation with Washingtonian Magazine and the 2012 Washingtonian Residential Design Awards, and celebrates award-winning residential design around Washington DC.

For more than 30 years AIA|DC and Washingtonian Magazine have co-sponsored a design competition which recognizes excellence in residential design. Nine winning submissions were selected by a panel of distinguished architects from outside the Washington DC area, including Nancy Rogo Trainer, FAIA, Kenneth Hobgood, FAIA, and Sanford Steinberg. The winning submissions represent works by:

NewSchool of Architecture and Design Team Wins First Place at International Competition

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San Diego (PRWEB) May 11, 2012

A NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD) team won the MCM Group Mock Firms International Skyscraper Award, the highest honor in the international 2012 Mock Firms Competition collegiate division held in Chicago May 34. The undergraduate team, which also won the titles of Top Sustainable Mock Firm and Top Architecture Mock Firm, was among six finalist teams in the competitions college division, formally called the International Skyscraper division. The finalists also included a second NSAD team composed of graduate students.

The fourth annual Mock Firms Competition was held by Chicago Architecture Today, an LLC online publication reporting on architecture in Chicago and beyond. The winning team members, who named their mock firm Capsule Architecture Lab, are all undergraduate students in NSADs Bachelor of Architecture program: Monika Banakaite, Wilfred Briones, Brandon Nash, Lam Thanh Nguyen and Carlos Sandoval. The groups NSAD faculty mentor was Raul Diaz, an associate with Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects. As the overall winner of the competition, the student team receives a $ 1,000 prize sponsored by the MCM Group International, an award-winning studio of planners and architects that has developed more than 2,000 projects around the world. Their primary practice areas include sustainable design, leisure and tourism and cultural and heritage projects.

The other NSAD finalist team, SALT (Sustainable: Architecture: Landscape: Technology), was made up of graduate students in the Master of Architecture program: Ann Capinguian, Kevin Colbert, Daniel Kwak and Rodrigo Villalon. The groups NSAD faculty mentor was Daniela Deutsch of the architecture firm exitecture.

We are proud of our two student teams that demonstrated as finalists the quality and professionalism that we encourage in all our students, said NSAD President Steve Altman. At NSAD we have made global experience part of our mission. This competition, with its focus on a hypothetical project in China, was an opportunity for our students to show how they can successfully apply their technical and creative backgrounds at an international level.

The competition, which includes a separate category for secondary school students, provides students with practice in creating and participating in a simulated architectural design firm in preparation for the work environment. Other finalist teams at the collegiate level were from Cornell University, Drexel University, Higher Technical School of Architecture (Spain), and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. NSAD was the only school in this years college competition with more than one team represented in the finals.

For the competition, the collegiate teams developed a mock design/build firm and prepared a project proposal for a skyscraper based on the competitions theme of versatility, which was defined as varied building uses and adaptability. The site of the conceptual project was Beijing, China. During the final competition, teams pitched their design concepts directly to some of the industrys leading design/build professionals to receive immediate feedback and critique. The collegiate teams competed in the categories of marketing, construction, organization, engineering, architecture and sustainability, in addition to the top overall mock firm.

About NewSchool of Architecture and Design

NewSchool of Architecture and Design (NSAD), founded in 1980, is located in San Diego, California. NSAD is accredited by the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). ACICS is listed as a nationally recognized accrediting agency by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. NSADs Bachelor of Architecture, Master of Architecture and Executive Master of Architecture programs are accredited by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB). NSAD also offers a pre-professional Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media Arts, a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management, a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, a Master of Landscape Architecture, a Master of Construction Management and a Master of Science in Architecture. NSAD was ranked among the top 10 undergraduate architecture schools in the western United States, according to the DesignIntelligence report Americas Best Architecture & Design Schools 2012. For more information, visit http://www.NewSchoolArch.edu.

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Florida-based Landscape Architecture Firm Knaak Design Group Launches Budget-Friendly Online Landscape Design Services for Homeowners and Investors

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Orlando, FL (PRWEB) June 13, 2012

With PlanWorx, homeowners gain more control over the budget and schedule of their outdoor living project through innovative design and accessibility. Homeowners can receive comparative bidding by presenting the same set of construction plans to various landscape and pool contractors. If a homeowner wishes to implement a DIY (do-it-yourself) strategy, PlanWorx can reduce the labor costs by up to 40% and open scheduling options to phase various parts of the project over time.

Our landscape design services are help homeowners who are trying to maximize their return on one of their largest investments, by lowering costs and offering a friendly alternative to the traditional way of shopping for a landscape contractor. We feel it is important for consumers to know what they are buying and getting apples-to-apples bids from different landscape and pool contractors will help them be more informed and gain more buying power said Robert Knaak, Principal and founder of Knaak Design Group.

PlanWorx is the online division of Knaak Design Group, offering low-cost landscape design services to homeowners, real estate investors, and contractors nationwide and in Canada. Kn

Accenture and the World Economic Forum Outline New Energy Architecture, Big4.com Reports

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(PRWEB) June 15, 2012

Big4.com, the premier social networking forum for professionals and alumni of Accenture, Andersen, BearingPoint, Capgemini, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers PwC, notes a new joint report that states continued increase in energy consumption, which is expected to grow by approximately 40 percent by 2035, will require significant changes in countries energy architectures as they try to meet the demands of economic growth, environmental sustainability and energy security.

Big4.com reports joint effort by Accenture and World Economic Forum states the path countries take to transform their energy architecture will have some common features efficient, low-carbon and increasingly electrified systems — but will vary according to their stage of economic development and their resource endowment.

New Energy Architecture: Enabling an Effective Transition, notes the shift to new energy architecture to secure sustainable and affordable energy will entail trade-offs and difficult choices for society. To help decision-makers in planning and driving an effective transition and to assess their progress, Accenture and the World Economic Forum have developed an Energy Architecture Performance Index.

The assessment shows while almost all of the countries have improved the efficiency of their energy sector, the share of non-carbon energy in the total primary energy supply is still less than 5 percent for 69 of the 124 countries assessed.

About Big4.com

Big4.com is the accounting, tax, consulting and IT professions premier resource, and has been exclusively focused on Big Four firm professionals and alumni for 10 years, providing high quality content, connectivity and commerce. The Big Four Job Board offers fresh job opportunities clients include the worlds leading companies. Big Four News covers key news, developments, events, survey results, press releases and appointments. The Big Four Blog provides opinion and insight on recent and key developments, news, happenings, management changes, regulations, acquisitions and capital market activities. Big4 Video is a professionally produced news covering key global developments in this space.

Big4.com has a strong presence on key social media platforms:

Youtube: Big4Video is a professionally produced weekly news magazine.

Twitter: twitter.com/big4 has 9,000 followers.

LinkedIn: The Big Four Alumni and Professionals group is the largest corporate and alumni group with 85,000+ members.

Facebook: The Big4 fan page has 5,500 fans at facebook.com/big4page.

Xing: The Big Four Alumni and Professionals group has 1,450+ members.

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