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…
So I’m scheduled to do a presentation next month to a group of fellow Litigation Support folks who are new to the idea of using RSS to keep track of the latest e-discovery blogs, and how to use other technologies like an RSS feed of “recommending reading” from those RSS feeds, or Wiki’s as knowledge…
I got an email a couple of weeks ago with my login information for the new ALSP website. Supposedly, logging in was going to allow me to access all parts of the site, but I haven’t actually seen any pages that I can’t get to without logging in, so I’m not sure just what is…
I’ve been writing about technology on this blog for a long time. The first posts here date back to Oct. 2001. and while I don’t claim they are very good, I will claim to have been around the tech blogosphere for a very long time relatively speaking. Within the last year, however, as I’ve been…
I saw this late last night, a post by Ron over at Strategic Legal Technology in response to a LexisNexis survey: Inside Counsel (April 2008) reports on a LexisNexis survey on information overload by professionals: ?77% of legal professionals? cite a clack of sufficient information technology tools to cope with the ever-increasing information burden.” Law…
One of the stories I like to tell people about working in Litigation Support is the conversation I had with someone shortly after I made the transition. Upon hearing my description of the job, and my reference to handling electronic evidence, I was asked if it was like when they do the computer forensics stuff…
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