How do you get buy in for technology tools that make legal work more efficient from people who are being “measured” by the number of hours they bill? This is not a silly question for those of us working in this field. I can sit here all day and talk about the benefits of using…
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…
Last night I posted about the idea that your employees using social networking tools, and gathering important information about yor business, your industry, etc. was a no-brainer. Today, I had a conversation with someone that really brought that point to home for me. Not that we were having a conversation about social networking per se,…
I enjoyed reading this case review from Josh Gilliland about a ruling in regards to production of data from a database. As it turns out, the information being asked for from the database, wasn’t actually tracked in the database. As Josh says: However, there is a bigger issue: A database contains only what data it…
So with the advent of so-called self encrypted SSD hard drives, what does that mean for e-discovery data? Sure in terms of using the drives to exchange data between client and firm, or between plaintiff and defense, having it encrypted is a pretty good idea. On the other hand, will it become more of a…
Ralph Losey is putting his money where his mouth is. After years of trying to encourage law schools to do a better job teaching e-discovery, he’s decided to take on that challenge himself, with the help of some friends. Earlier this week, he announced the opening of E-Discovery Law Training, an online course equivalent to…