LawSight E-Letter

The LawSight E-Letter provides a brief view of practical elements of the use of technology, as well as other items of interest to the legal community. In this edition, LawSight discusses the potential impact of an Internet site encouraging employees of companies providing technology-based products to 'self-report' Year 2000 problems, announces a series of free, CLE-accredited real estate law seminars and reports on a NC Triangle band featuring a Raleigh trial lawyer which has released its first album.

Project Damocles: Harbinger or Sideshow?

The president of a key client calls with a puzzled but worried message. He says that his company has just been notified that it is in danger of failing to meet a 'Year 2000' deadline which, he admits, he only superficially understands. The warning is from a group calling itself 'Project Damocles'. What do you tell him?

Project Damocles is, depending on whose view you accept, a responsible effort to make corporations toe the line in updating critical systems, a scare tactic designed to promote litigation, or a promotional sideshow. The project, created by well-known Year 2000 expert Peter deJager, touches on one of the most contentious aspects of the whole Year 2000 problem: the potential litigation. To read more about its potential effect, review the article found in the Year 2000 Resource Center, http://www.lawsight.com/2k.htm

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Investors Title announces its 1998 Real Estate CLE accredited seminars. These highly rated seminars cover a variety of topics of interest to the real property legal community. In addition to their CLE accredited sessions for attorneys, special credit-approved sessions are offered for paralegals, secretaries and assistants. For more information, or to register online, see LawSight's Real Property Interest section. http://www.lawsight.com/ps.htm

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Doug Abrams, of the Raleigh, North Carolina firm of Twiggs, Abrams Strickland & Trehy, together with his band IndoorStorm, has released its first album in CD format, Blinded by the Moon. The album, featuring original songs by Abrams and collaborator Doug Fisher, is reviewed at http://www.lawsight.com/window4.htm.