Read Electronic Discovery updates, articles, and commentary from leading lawyers, law firms, and legal consultants:
The Growing Role of Social Media in Litigation and How to Prepare for It
Safeguards against Data Security Breaches (Part Two)
Information Governance Quickly Coming to the Forefront for Corporations—Recommind’s Nick Patience
Demands of E-Discovery Technology Drives the Creation of New Software
Predictive Coding’s ROI Outpaces Other Processes Even As Technology Costs Rise
Technology and the Law Come Together at Raytheon—Woods Abbott
An E-Discovery Litigator’s Perspective on LegalTech New York 2013
LPOs Stealing Deal Work from Law Firms
How Corporations Are Using Technology to Manage Costs of Discovery
Information Governance Will Replace Predictive Coding As Biggest Trend in E-Discovery—Judge Peck
Proportionality: Why Considering Value of Case Is Important in Discovery—Judge Baylson
Three Key Data Retention Questions
Social Media Workplace Policies
How Lawyers Can Navigate the Current Messy State of EDiscovery
Top 3 Concerns in Data Security
Social Media as Evidence: Challenges & Considerations
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Big Data and the Law
When your Boss is spying on You at Work
LXBN This Week Ep. 2: EEOC on Criminal Records & Transgender Discrimination, BP Oil Spill Arrest, AZ Immigration Law at SCOTUS
Manage your electronic data before facing litigation. Melissa Darigan, Litigation Attorney
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg Law) -- Legal process outsourcers (LPOs) and other alternative legal service providers are beginning to take the bread-and-butter of large law firms -- handling whole mergers and acquisitions, not just the...more
(SAN FRANCISCO, January 19, 2012) This week, I will highlight some of the upcoming industry events that will be taking place during “The Show.” In previous years that I attended LegalTech, I felt like a “fish out of water”...more
It is not uncommon for law firms being pressed by clients for more accurate budgeting and better budget management to raise the “unpredictability defense.” Whether in litigation or transactional matters, the...more
Privacy is one of the public’s biggest concerns when discussing eDiscovery and its place within the realm of social media. For one thing, many people feel that it still exists…it does not. More and more courts are...more
Delivered on December 20, 2011, as the ethics portion of the Seattle, Washington, Continuing Legal Education seminar (CLE) "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web." ...more
Written for the ethics portion of the Seattle Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminar text "Find it Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web.” Michael Kaiser presented the ethics portion of the...more
As Jeff Carr the voluble distinguished general counsel at FMC Technologies has long noted, legal services can be into four buckets: counseling, advocacy, process and content. See, for example,...more
The pendulum has shifted dramatically for how lawyers develop business, litigate cases, and obtain/demonstrate the necessary evidence to win their cases. When I started my legal career 13 years ago, I used “redwells”,...more
This August ILTA, in partnership with InsideLegal, administered the annual ILTA/InsideLegal Technology Purchasing Survey. The annual survey includes many of the categories covered in past years, and has been enhanced to...more
From the May 2011 edition of the Palm Beach Bar Bulletin, here is the Lawyer's Guide to Sending Large PDF Documents by Email. Send large PDF, JPEG and other files to clients without fear of hitting email file size limits. ...more
What do sites like Avvo say about your reputation as a lawyer? Are you prepared for the ABA rankings of law firms? This article discusses how clients -- or worse, simply anonymous posters -- may be commenting about...more
A quick checklist...more
InsideLegal and the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) recently released the findings of the 7th annual ILTA Member Technology Purchasing Survey (survey). The 2010 survey, which was administered by ILTA and...more
This manuscript was submitted as material for a Presidential CLE program at the 2010 ABA Annual Meeting. The panel discussion, hosted by the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, covered cloud computing and virtual law practice,...more
Law firm profitability continues to be under attack. Despite official reports that the The Great Recession ended last year and the continued rise in the stock market, the squeeze on law firm profits continues unabated....more
With the many products and services available in the marketplace today, the need to be able to uniformly contrast and compare electronic discovery offerings continues to grow. Though more and more vendors are providing tools...more
The rise of e-discovery over the last decade has provided law firms with fertile ground for racking up hours on document review, but it has also made the traditional method of having associates conduct the work under the...more
Social networking has become another tool in savvy lawyer's business development toolboxes. Unfortunately, many lawyers and law firms have yet to figure out how to use them effectively. This article highlights one attorney...more
There's certainly a lot of talk about alternative fees. In a February article about tying outside legal costs to value, Altman Weil's Pamela Woldow discussed the various ways alternative fee arrangements are manifesting...more
Are you on Facebook? Have you tweaked your Facebook privacy settings to ensure that you keep your personal and professional lives separate? Read this article and learn the essential steps you can take in under 10 minutes to...more
As the planning and preparation for FRCP Rule 26(f) mandated “Meet and Confer” conferences continues to be a major topic of interest for both law firm and corporate legal professionals, it is increasingly important for...more
Electronic Discovery Provider Orange Legal Technologies Announces Quarter Over Quarter Revenue Growth of 27% During the First Quarter of 2009 Revenue Growth Follows Strongest Annual Revenue Performance (2008) and Strongest...more
A Short, Nine Page Presentation On Meet and Confer Planning. Source: OrangeLT.com...more
A simple one slide overview of how one electronic discovery vendor is leveraging "Web 2.0" technologies in digital communications efforts. Source: Orange Legal Technologies (orangelt.com)...more
This article is a Primer for any attorney that is behind the curve with regard to electronics and technology (which means almost all attorneys). It was written for a program given recently at a National Law Conference put on...more
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