An Iridescent Look at Activities During LegalTech New York by Kevin L. Nichols on 1/19/2012 (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
Putting Some Pepper Into Legal Project Management? by Pamela Woldow on 1/12/2012 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
Social Media Tips in the Age of eDiscovery by Kevin L. Nichols on 12/21/2011 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
Legal Ethics in the Digital Age (Powerpoint) by Kaiser Legal Group on 12/20/2011 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
Legal Ethics in the Digital Age (text) by Kaiser Legal Group on 12/20/2011 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
LPO’s Have Become Legal Project Outplacement Firms: They Are Outplacing Legal Work from Traditional Law Firms by Jerome Kowalski on 10/12/2011 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
Embracing Legal Technology by Kevin L. Nichols on 10/5/2011 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
Law Firm Purchasing Trends Survey - ILTA/InsideLegal by InsideLegal on 8/22/2011 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
Sending Large PDF Documents By PDF by Christopher Hopkins on 5/25/2011 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
Lawyers Beware: Your Job May be Replaced by a Computer by Jerome Kowalski on 3/8/2011 The New York Times recently reported that “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software.” In fact, the computer software the Times reported about is not only dramatically cheaper -- the software is actually 5%...more
Trending for Law Firms in 2012: What to Expect This Year by Jerome Kowalski on 1/3/2011 Here is the definitive list of items that will dominate the news for the legal profession for 2012. I am quite sure that we have been fairly thorough and inclusive. If you think we left anything off the list, please let...more
Conference Review: ALM's Social Media: Risks & Rewards - E-Discovery & Social Media by International Lawyers Network on 11/10/2010 The third session of ALM's Social Media: Risks and Rewards conference focused on social media's impact on e-discovery, and was presented by Michael Lackey, Jr. a partner at Mayer Brown LLP. Lackey started with an overview...more
Need of social media policy in the legal industry today by Globalex Solutions on 10/3/2010 This document aims to provide whether use of social media during working hours could be productive or unproductive. It also states about the need of social media policy in the legal industry today....more
What Do Internet Lawyer Rating Sites Say About You? by Christopher Hopkins on 10/1/2010 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
Outsourcing: One Tree Many Branches by sadanand naik on 9/29/2010 This is about an outsourcing industry and its developments today....more