Aaron asked a good question in the comments from last night’s post: Given the (low) cost of storage, is it worth the time/hassle of keeping track of 1GB vs. 15GB? I have no idea what typical volumes of data are for your organization, but as you noted, the client will end up paying more for…
Nicole Black’s new endeavor Legal Tweets is keeping track of a conversation about whether the billable hour is still feasible for law firms. It’s an interesting discussion, and I think it wouldn’t hurt for you to go check it out and follow the links to the different ideas. Now, I definitely think there are places…
Over the years I’ve worked with technology, I’ve listened to many, many complaints about the technological tools that folks are using in their work. Everything from poor interfaces, slow response times, and various limitations of the tools. One of the more interesting ones I’ve seen though, are the folks who get bad data from a…
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 spent some office time today listening in on the 10 Things every Corporate Legal Department Should know about Discovery webinar sponsored by Mimosa Systems today, and had a few notes that I posted to Twitter, and want to talk a bit more about here. The speaker for this webinar was Bill Savarino, Partner at…
Last week, when I talked about the questions of having the right adapter for every hard drive type possibly being a reason to consider not doing this sort of work in-house, I responded to a comment with this phrase, “it’s a bit trickier when you have to explain why I can image THAT laptop, but…