I had posted recently on both my own profile, and the Page that I created for fans of the site that the Facebook blog import to Notes feature has been broken for a little while now, and so new blog posts here were not getting added over there. Well, thanks to a mention on a…
I signed up for this webinar as soon as I saw the title, Creating Standards for Ediscovery Practices. First, the bad news: Without a framework for success, electronic discovery (or “e-discovery”) projects can result in expensive sanctions and wasted resources, not to mention missed deadlines, productivity loss and frustration. The good news is that, since…
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…
I’ve decided to use Firefox Sync to sync my bookmarks and other things now that Xmarks is shutting down. It’s not perfect, since it only works with Firefox, but at this point I’ll settle for that. Interestingly, the beta of Firefox 4 actually has the feature built in, which is maybe the wave of the…
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…