From Prism Legal’s Strategic Legal Technology: Last week the Times Online published Eversheds report looks at how ‘perfect storm’ will affect the legal profession (18 Mar 2010), which provided an advance look at “Law firm of the 21st century – The clients: revolution – An Eversheds report on the post-recession legal sector in 2010″. The [...]
Gabe and Ed's Excellent e-Discovery Adventure!
Tag Archive: Law Technology
Backup tapes: Friend or Foe?
From docNative Paradigm Blog: I’ve been involved recently in three separate cases where backup tapes have been a major factor in some data recovery efforts. And not a useful factor unfortunately, although more due to lack of a good inventory of some very old tapes than anything to do with the tapes themselves. Still we’ve been [...]
Lazy Sunday Links 3.7.10: “Come to the (e-Discovery) Cut”
Wow. I just received some major props from the Posse List on my ATL article about contract attorneys from last week. On something Ed had covered a few days ago, Rick Horowitz invites you to “Come to the Cut.” Chris Dale give his opinion on iCyte. Microsoft wants to be off in the cloud. EDiscovery [...]
e-Discovery Technology Adoption Lifecycle: Lawyers vs. Technologists
From The eDiscovery Paradigm Shift: …I can’t remember having ever witnessed such an antagonistic atmosphere as the one that exists today in eDiscovery as technologists attempt to introduce new technology and lawyers desperately try to avoid the use of this new technology. I have been wrong a few times in the past about markets that [...]
Breaking Monopolies? There’s An App For That
Great post from TechCrunch: Last month, we broke the news about BarMax, the most expensive app in the App Store. At $999.99 (the highest price Apple allows you to sell an app for), the app differentiated itself from the joke $999.99 app in the past because it actually seemed like a solid deal. That is, [...]
The disadvantages of locked PDFs
From PDF For Lawyers: One thing that makes PDFs superior to TIFFs as a format for storing digital documents is PDFs ability to incorporate security features. Many lawyers aren’t aware of the full features of Adobe Acrobat. Of course, you password protect a document so that it can’t be opened, but that’s not something you’re likely [...]
Mass of Legal Technology Employees Promise Not to Have Fun If Allowed to Attend Conferences in 2010
From Steve Fletcher of Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein: Can Tech Shows Boost a Firm’s Bottom Line? You can’t help but wonder about an Am Law 200 firm that significantly cut or eliminated IT and litigation support staff attendance at this year’s LegalTech and ILTA ’09 conferences. The reasons vary, from “it wouldn’t look right” [...]
Featured Review Software: Attenex Pattterns from FTI
From their website: We increase review productivity with a multi-dimensional look at a collection’s main concepts and themes. Reviewers can quickly and accurately identify, analyze, review and categorize electronic information in a single application. Our proven productivity not only reduces the expense of document review, the most costly component of the e-discovery process, but also [...]