The legal profession as a whole tends to remain on the cutting edge of technology. An example of this is before you, we maintain this web site in house on our own equipment. The entire office is connected to the Internet via a cable modem, allowing us to maintain our own Internet mail server as well. The five workstations in the office are connected to the file/web server via a 100 Mbs (Fast Ethernet) network and Novell Netware 4.11. Below is a general outline of the computer technology our office utilizes.

Hardware

• Server
  • Dell PowerEdge 2300
  • Intel Pentium III 500 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB RAM
  • Two (mirrored) 9.1 GB UW LVD SCSI hard drives
  • Two 100 Mbs LAN cards
  • Intel Faxmodem card
  • HP Tape Backup
• Workstations
  • Dell Optiplex Gxa
  • Intell Pentium II 333 MHz Processor
  • 256 MB RAM
  • 4 GB SCSI hard drive
  • 100 Mbs LAN card
  • IBM Keyboard with trackpoint
  • 19" Monitor

Software

• Server
  • Novell Netware 4.11
  • Novel GroupWise 5.5
  • Cheyenne FAX Serve 5.0
  • Web serving software
• Workstations
  • Corel WordPerfect Suite 8.0
  • Microsoft Office 2000 Premium
  • Divorce 3.0 (for property division analysis)
  • MathPac (for interest and child support calculations)
  • Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (for electronically annotating and filing exhibits)
  • West Publishing Westmate 7.2 for Internet based research
  • GroupWise 5.5 Client (for calendaring and inhouse/Internet e-mail)
  • Client Manager 3.0 (to maintain current information about each client)

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