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Courts Increasingly Cognizant of eDiscovery Burdens, Reject “Gotcha” Sanctions Demands
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The Fabric of Inadequate Search & Spoliation Allegations
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eDiscovery in Small Cases – The Small Firm Advantage
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Da Silva Moore and the Role of ACEDS
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I’ve been keeping an eye on the Organization of Legal Professionals since they announced themselves awhile back. Obviously, the area of ediscovery education and certification is something I want to be informed of, and it seemed like maybe this group was trying to get something rolling in that regard. Last week they certainly did get…
“Much has been written about the increase in loneliness and isolation that has accompanied the internet. This is said to be caused by shallow online friendships which are no substitute for genuine relationships. Being exposed to the heavily curated lives of others on social media has also been found to create feelings of depression and…
“Predictive coding tools have serious ROI beyond litigation, because employees can find what they’re looking for — quickly.” Makes sense to me. I’ve worked with some folks who are using their eDiscovery tools to simply store and index data that they may need to search at some point. Most of the time that decision is…
Look, I will 100% agree with the tips in the article, those three things are the base upon which everything your team does will grow. Get them wrong, and you won’t have much of a team left. But, don’t do them just because you want to run a team. You can say you want open communication, but that requires you to care about what they have to say, including things that are hard. It means caring about how decisions made by the organization are affecting their mental health, their work-life balance, and their home lives.
Too many people in management have not cared about that stuff for too long. Thankfully that is changing. It’s been a long time coming.
This was written about law firms, but I think this kind of applies to any team. “Poor communication within a small law firm can send the message that partners and other firm leaders are too busy to listen to team members’ concerns or to give them important information they need to do their jobs. This…
First off, I forgot one thing I will miss yesterday, the vacation time. Not only because taking a new job spoiled plans Angela and I were making but because I’m losing the “extra” vacation time earned by having been here a number of years. (I’ll go from 17 days per year back to 10) Of…