Admittedly, this article had me at the headline. You can buy all the expensive tech toys you want, and in the eDiscovery world, there are plenty of them out there, but if you don’t have the people in place to use them properly, they do you no good. The real power over eDiscovery, investigations and…
“The parties themselves agreed at oral argument that an individual who, in the course of reviewing discovery documents, undertakes tasks that could otherwise be performed entirely by a machine cannot be said to engage in the practice of law.” There is a potential of some very far-reaching implications from this ruling. If doc review can…
So, apparently we’re back on the “we must block access to personal email accounts” bandwagon at large law firms. At least they aren’t claiming it’s to keep people productive, that argument went out the window the day the first iPhone showed up at the office, and we no longer needed the company’s internet connection to…
Well, in the case of the Seattle Public School District’s data breach, the culprit seems to be their outside law firm: “Late Tuesday night Seattle Public Schools learned that a law firm retained by the district to handle a complaint against the district inadvertently sent personally identifiable student information to an individual involved in the…
I was not able to attend this years ILTA conference, but thanks to the power of Twitter, I was able to follow along in my own, small, way. No, it’s not the same as being there, but seeing some of the information being presented, and the ideas flowing around social media definitely gave me some…
Over the weekend Ralph posted a video on his blog, and had some rather strong opinions about what his firm is doing, and what firms should be doing in general. I no longer have to supervise a litigation support department. Instead I manage a relationship with a vendor. It is much more pleasant, believe me….