A Little Career Warning for Attorneys

ByMike McBride March 4, 2009July 20, 2014 Reading Time: 1 minute

Courtesy of Tom O’Connor, who picks up the discussion about lawyers needing to get some tech skills in order to understand how to effectively deal with e-discovery:

Sharpen up those pencils kids ?. it?s time to go back to school. Or fire those luddites and hire people who will.

It’s true, when your client needs to deal with ESI, and your firm doesn’t have the expertise to help them out, they won’t wait around for you to get some technical expertise, they’ll find one that already does.

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If you don’t get networking, you won’t get online networking
ByMike McBride June 10, 2010June 4, 2017 Reading Time: 1 minute

Earlier this week I was reading Kevin O’Keefe’s post about what you really learn about blogging from lawyers who give it up, and I was reminded about some conversations I had about this time last year. As I was preparing to talk at the ILTA09 conference about social networking, I had many conversations inside and…

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Ethical Considerations of Outsourcing
ByMike McBride January 31, 2011 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I caught this post over at Above and Beyond KM today while I was taking a look at twitter updates from LegalTech New York. It’s about the ethical and practical considerations of outsourcing legal work. Mary doesn’t mention ediscovery specifically, but she did share with me that ediscovery was absolutely mentioned during the session. Specifically…

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LegalTech Blog Round-up Day 3
ByMike McBride February 4, 2009April 9, 2015 Reading Time: 1 minute

Not sure if I’ll see any more blog posts tomorrow, since the event ended today, but if I do, I’ll post them over on Delicious with the Legaltech09 tag. So you can pop over and take a quick look there! LegalTech: Inside and Outside E-Discovery Legal Tech New York 2009: Is EDD the New DOS?…

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Summation Training Classes
ByMike McBride March 6, 2008 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I’m done with my first attempt at doing some Summation training. Had one class yesterday afternoon, another this morning. The goal was to do 90 minutes on the very basics, what the program does, how to navigate around, do some basic searching, edit the summaries, add notes to transcripts, etc. I’ve learned a couple of…

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Linked: Craig Ball on Processing
ByMike McBride November 5, 2019November 5, 2019 Reading Time: 1 minute

Have you ever wanted a place to point someone to read to help them understand what actually happens when we talk about “processing” documents as part of eDiscovery? I know I have, and I’ve struggled to know where to start when someone says to me “What do you process the documents?” You could do a…

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Linked – The Flu is Everywhere! So… How Do You Get Employees to Take a Sick Day?
ByMike McBride January 22, 2018January 24, 2020 Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is true, what is also true is that most of these things would be mitigated, and the spread of the virus also mitigated, by having remote employees. The reasons vary as to why workers didn’t use all of their paid sick leave: roughly 73% said they weren’t sick enough, 37% wanted to save them…

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