You may recall that I joined ALSP this year because the membership fee was only $25 for an individual, and while I didn’t really know what would happen with the new group, I thought it was worth $25 to be on the inside to find out. Well, in my email today came an interesting invitation,…
I couldn’t help but nod my head reading Brett Trout’s post about corporate packrats today. Does your company still have “floppy” disks in storage? Is your company storing invoices from the 80?s? If so, it is time for a little spring cleaning. The cost of cleaning your electronic house is actually quite small compared with…
Don’t you just love it when a court will only accept PDF’s of a certain file size and you have to split a file into various sections so that each is below that threshold? Someone on one of the ILTA mailing lists turned me on to A-PDF Size Splitter, and today, since someone was asking…
Today was the last scheduled Summation training class for this batch of training, and it proved to be one of the most interesting. Breaking the training up into hour long segments, each focusing on an individual part of the Summation tool, was definitely the right way to go. Instead of trying to cram things into…
I believe I’ve written before that with the release of a new version of Summation iBlaze, they were also requiring everyone who might market themselves as a trainer to pass another certification test, before Aug. 1 in order to not have to go through the whole process all over again. Today, I completed that exam,…
As I’ve mentioned before, in talking to various folks working in this industry it becomes apparent that the background of the litigation support people in any firm makes a huge difference in how they interact with the paralegals and attorneys. I come from an IT background, and haven’t really had to go on site for…