The session was right after lunch, and was sparsely attended, to say the least, but I think it went pretty well. At least a couple of folks seemed to get something out of it, so there’s that. I wanted to share a little bit of the idea for my section of the discussion. I drew…
In an otherwise maddening post about his experience with a law school student, Craig Ball makes an interesting “throw away” comment: We look to the crop of eager young lawyers to be inherently more adept at e-discovery than we who preceded them. After all, they have iPhones. Craig (who I assume was being facetious), is…
Recently, I’ve had some conversation about the idea of whether a particular law firm is innovative or not. It’s a tough question to answer, in my mind, because it really depends on how you define innovative. Just having innovative technology in place does not make a firm innovative, yet at the same time, even the…
I saw their article today about the results of their annual survey of the Electronic Discovery market, and found a couple of striking statements: While two years ago every copy shop in the land became an EDD provider, today law firms nationwide purport to harbor deep EDD expertise. Much of this is a convenient fiction,…
This is a bit of a follow-up to a post a few days ago about whether having an open ticketing system would help with the communications between techs and the users they support. As I mentioned there, and talked more about in the comments, when you have systemic failure to communicate, it’s much more than…
This evening, Angela and I finally found our way to the Wexner Center for Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms exhibit. As we looked around, I was struck by how much of Warhol’s work involved videotaping, photographing, reproducing with paint, and recording just what was going on around him and sharing it with the world….