As someone who works as non-attorney staff, I found this article really interesting, and probably much closer to the truth than I might want to admit. Legal Secretaries Find Door to Advancement Shut Now, to be fair, I’ve seen this sort of thing play out at places outside of law firms as well. You have…
Some of you may know, that there’s another Ignite Columbus event coming up on Jan 21, and I’ve already submitted a talk proposal. I wanted to take 5 minutes to talk about what I do for a living, at least in terms of trying to explain electronic discovery to people who are not in the…
Back in November I told you about an ABA Journal Survey of lawyers regarding the impact of recession on their practice. Today, as part of the special recession issue, they’ve shared the results. The numbers that jump out at me, and not just because they are front and center of the page, are that 31%…
I had a random thought today while I was processing some e-discovery documents. I stumbled upon a resume, and noticed that the author name didn’t match the name on the resume. That got me thinking. Now, certainly there are plenty of reasons why the author name would not match the name on the resume, things…
In my short time working in Litigation Support, I’ve been through a number of product demo’s from vendors and there are a couple of pet peeves of mine that could easily be avoided. I felt the need to address a couple of them here, in the hopes that someone out there will take the time…
I noticed today on the Lit Support Yahoo Group that the email list is celebrating it’s 10th birthday. Wow, I can’t even imagine what working in this field would have been like 10 years ago. So much has changed just on the tech side of things in that time that keeping up through all the…