Volume 7, Number 8, August 2011
 
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IntelliConnect News

Beta test the next release of IntelliConnect

The Fall 2011 release of IntelliConnect is ready for beta testing. To participate, go to http://intelliconnect.beta.cch.com and use your regular "live" ID and password.

In this beta version of IntelliConnect, we’ve enhanced the workflow of the New Advanced Practice Area feature. It allows you to create customized practice area sets for different clients or tasks. Once created, each new practice area set can be accessed as needed from the "Search/Browse" dropdown.

Don’t miss this opportunity to test the newest version of IntelliConnect. Beta testing will conclude on August 30, 2011, 11: 59 p.m. CT

 
Product News

NEW PRODUCT: Health Care Compliance & Reimbursement Daily Smart Chart

The new Health Care Compliance & Reimbursement Daily Smart Chart will allow you to select a topic and retrieve information from these document types: News, Federal Register issuances, cases, administrative decisions, and CMS letters. Search results are presented in an easy-to-read chart with links to source documents. Updated daily, Smart Charts provide documents the day they're released by the government, courts and other sources. Smart Charts also offer mobile access through the IntelliConnect mobile app (IC Mobile). For more information about this new Smart Chart, click here for a pdf flier.

CCH Medicare and Medicaid Guide enhanced with Smart Charts research tool

The Smart Charts tool offers a new way to research the content of the CCH Medicare and Medicaid Guide. They allow you to navigate topics and retrieve all the related government documents within the Guide—and view the information in an easy-to-read chart. The Guide includes six Smart Charts covering information for Medicaid, reimbursement, health care compliance, providers and program administration. Charts are also accessible through the IntelliConnect mobile app (IC Mobile). For more information about the new Smart Chart, click here for a pdf flier.

NEW PRODUCT: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reporter

With formal operations of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that began July 21, legal practitioners can prepare for the new environment and the challenges ahead with the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reporter, the industry’s first "go-to" resource. It is specifically dedicated to the Bureau’s activities and enforcement powers over a broad array of financial services companies and other entities that will now be regulated by the new Bureau and features:

  • Comprehensive coverage of the sweeping new rules, regulations and enforcement activity
  • Practice Commentary and Analysis by Ralph C. Ferrara and Gary Apfel of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
  • Complete compilation of applicable legislative history
  • CCH QuickChartsTM - Current Developments for the most up-to-date changes
  • Federal Banking Law Reporter QuickCharts – Financial Reform
  • Federal Securities Law Reporter QuickCharts – Financial Reform

The Reporter will be an essential tool to assist with confidently and accurately advising clients, developing strategies to challenge or reform Bureau rules, and defending clients against Bureau actions.

The new reporter is available in Internet format (updated weekly) and loose-leaf print format (updated monthly). Click here for more information or contact your Wolters Kluwer account representative to subscribe.

Special Report: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Governance, Structure and Funding Issues

President Obama has nominated Richard Cordray to be the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He must now be confirmed by the Senate. In the meantime, the Treasury Department, which has interim authority under Dodd-Frank Act Section 1066 to perform the Bureau's functions until a director is confirmed, announced that Elizabeth Warren was leaving her position as Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as of August 1, 2011. She has been replaced by Raj Date, Associate Director of Research, Markets, and Regulations at the agency.

Although the Bureau does not have a Senate-confirmed director, the agency can fulfill many of its mandates under the Dodd-Frank Act. This Special Report examines these and related issues. Click here for a pdf of the report.


Training & Customer Support

Training Tip for IntelliConnect

How do I retrieve a document if I already have/know its citation?

With IntelliConnect, it’s easy to use a specific citation and retrieve a document. There are a few ways:

  • Click on the drop down arrow in the Search box and select "citations" and then enter in your complete citation in the Search box. Federal Securities example: 34 Act s14(b), Federal Tax example: IRC s263
  • Click on Citations in the Tool Bar above the Browse Tree; locate the publication in the "Find by Citation" listing on the left; enter the citation into the desired template on the right (or enter the complete citation into the top "free form" field for that publication).
  • Link directly to a specific citation reference when it is contained/linkable in another document.

Learn more about retrieving citations for specific publications within your online subscription by requesting/attending a complimentary training session. Send an email to cchlegaltraining@cch.com or contact your Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Account Representative.

LegalPro Training

The Legal Markets Group of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business offers complimentary telephone training for legal professionals. Click here to view instructions on how to register.

To view all of our upcoming LegalPro Training sessions in a variety of formats:

Month-by-month Calendar view
Listing (sortable by Course or Date)

Personal Telephone Training - To arrange for a telephone training on specific content at a certain time or date, ask your Account Representative to have a Legal Training Specialist contact you directly, or send us an email at cchlegaltraining@cch.com, and we'll gladly coordinate a customized telephone training.

Training Resources for Legal Professionals

We also offer additional online resources regarding our internet products and platforms via our Training for Legal Professionals website http://business.cch.com/training/. You'll find links for videos, links to instructor-led trainings and other resources. You can review materials by Platform/Application, such as IntelliConnect, Kluwer Arbitration, Loislaw, and SECnet, or by type of material, such as LegalPro Training, Videos, Other Resources.

Recently added/updated items include: