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This is an interesting thought. “For attorneys that can’t keep up with what becomes generally accepted as standard practice for lawyer tech, like email, there could be an ethical issue with charging clients for tasks that take twice as long due to antiquated business practices.” I think this is something that we could very easily…
E-Discovery Certification For Litigation Support Folks?
In all of the recent discussion about creating a certification for Litigation Support professionals to measure their proficiency in working with electronic discovery, I’ve always felt a strong push against the idea, but could never really articulate what about it bothered me. Today, in reading Chris Dale’s blog post about it, it clicked for me….
Linked – When Bar Examiners Become Mental Health Experts
If we want to encourage people to get help for mental health issues, we have to not also turn around and use that against them. Seems to me this process may be doing exactly that to potential lawyers, a group with a higher rate of mental health issues to start with. “The most stressful question…
Reading – FAA Approves In-Flight Internet That Might Not Suck
Darn, now they’re going to expect me to answer emails on the plane too. There goes my one chance for being unplugged! 😉 In all seriousness, with the price they charge for GoGo wireless now, it’s shameful that it is so terribly slow. Ignore the bandwidth issues around everyone streaming video on the plane at…
Linked – The Simple Curse of The GIANT PDF in eDiscovery
Granted, I’ve been out of the real world of litigation, working in the confines of a nice training environment instead. But is this STILL happening? Why aren’t the people on the receiving end of these going back to the Court to complain? “In today’s world of eDiscovery it is still commonplace for a law firm…
Linked – If job stress is killing you, it’s time to leave
The quote below reminded me of something I heard mentioned on a podcast interview recently. Unfortunately, I don’t remember which podcast it was, but the gist of it was that if we are seeing so many people leave stable employment to become “life coaches”, maybe we should look at how bad the workplace has become…
