Linked – Law School Has Failed The Profession
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Linked – Law School Has Failed The Profession

James isn’t pulling any punches in his claim that law schools aren’t teaching basic business skills. “This lack of basic financial literacy has been holding back the management and growth of the legal industry for decades. Many large law firms are only now starting to adopt the financial analytics tools that have long been commonplace…

Linked – Streamlining the E-Discovery Process
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Linked – Streamlining the E-Discovery Process

Monica makes a compelling case for more organizations to bring their eDiscovery work in house. Despite my place in an outside firm, I actually agree with much of what she has to say. “Monica Enand: It all comes down to three components: control, security and cost. First, having a system that the entire legal team…

Bad Instructions in Litigation Support

Bad Instructions in Litigation Support

HashtagLegal put together this little video about the frustration of not getting complete instructions from clients and project managers. One, I found it pretty on point. Two, it reminded me of something I’ve often mentioned to attorneys and other folks in our industry. The “dirty little secret” of working in litigation support is that we…

Linked – WordPress Plugin Hacked By Former Employee
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Linked – WordPress Plugin Hacked By Former Employee

I’m not sure about this headline, it appears that, according to the company that makes WordPress Multi Language, the plugin code itself wasn’t hacked, just the customer database. Nevertheless, we see yet again that it wasn’t outside hackers causing problems for the company, it was an inside job. WPML claim that the email came from…