A post at Lockergnome about IT burnout got me thinking today. The author listed some of the reasons we see a high rate of burnout in IT, and I couldn’t help but think of the seemingly large number of people I know who have left legal IT specifically, in recent months, citing burnout as a…
Despite the fact that we’ve been talking about electronic discovery, and the FRCP were changed 4 years ago to account for eDiscovery, apparently things are still a mess out there in the real world, according to the 2010 ESI Trends Survey from Kroll: Seventy-seven percent of companies are not confident in the repeatability and defensibility…
So, statistics show that, despite the increasing number of bans on cell phone use, or texting while driving, the number of traffic accidents hasn’t gone down. I’m not at all surprised. Now, mind you, it’s probably too early to really tell whether there will be any long-term drop as a result of these bans, and…
Monday, I was up in Cleveland at the state-wide ILTA Litigation Support event. There were a number of sessions throughout the day and some excellent speakers. One of the themes that came through, from the morning session on litigation holds, through the e-discovery project management sessions and on through Craig Ball’s final session on the…
If you were intrigued by the 3 minutes Josh Gilliland and I spent talking about Social Networking and eDiscovery at ILTA a couple of weeks ago, you might want to check out the Social Media and eDiscovery webinar that is being put on as part of Virtual LegalTech on Sept 23. The panel looks to…
Jeff Brandt asked on Twitter at the end of the conference if the educational sessions or the networking opportunities were more valuable from the conference. I my 140 characters on Twitter I replied that I thought the networking was more valuable, but the firm wanted to see the quality sessions for the money spent. I…