Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Paralegal Insights: A Collaborative Trademark Practice, Series 3
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Paralegal Insights: A Collaborative Trademark Practice
Let’s face it: In this digital age, using technology in your legal practice is basically a given. And software fees become another overhead cost that can diminish the profitability of your firm. But that doesn’t have to be...more
9/2/2024 BatchGuru – Transform Metadata in Relativity - BatchGuru from vdiscovery and Nikolai Pozdniakov’s Hashtaglegal, is a set of tools to be used in a Relativity workspace which helps you easily transform metadata in...more
The so-called “modern attachments” found in emails, collaboration software platforms like Slack and MS Teams, and other digital formats are presenting interesting and frustrating challenges for legal professionals in terms of...more
August 8, 2023: Detect Whether or Not Text Was Generated by AI - It’s becoming more and more common to come across text on the internet which appears as though it may have been written by AI. You may question the...more
July 1, 2023: Javascript to Split PDF Into 5 Page Segments and Save & Rename - You can use javascript code in Adobe Acrobat to extract set ranges of pages from a PDF file and then save and rename each extracted PDF range...more
Whether you are a lawyer, paralegal, or legal expert, this webinar will equip you with valuable insights and techniques to help you quickly and efficiently find the data that will help you present your client’s story for your...more
June 3, 2023 – Hunting External Links - Tonight I used the below vba code posted here by Domenic to successfully generate a list of each cell in a workbook which contained a link to an outside Excel file. This code is...more
May 6, 2023 – Finding Abandoned Families in Active Learning Projects - In an Active Learning project if a reviewer, while in the course of reviewing a family of documents for a prioritized review, is taken off a project,...more
April 7, 2023 – Stopping Excel From Rounding off Long Numbers During Import - The Tip of the Night for March 24, 2023, warned about Excel’s tendency to cut off numbers with multiple decimal places. Excel will also round...more
Litigation in our modern digital age often forces legal teams to sift through a mountain of electronic data to find potential evidence. Early Data Assessment can reduce this mass of data and give legal teams valuable insight...more
March 4, 2023 – Searching for Emojis in Relativity - A Relativity admin can make it possible to search for emojis in a Relativity workspace. A dtSearch index can be edited to include a special code that will enable the...more
2/4/2023: Regular Expression Search to Get the Line Count in a Text File - Running the regular expression search: \S+\s*$ . . . in a text editor like NotePad++ will generate a count of the number of non-empty lines in...more
January 1, 2023—Searching Inside an Excel Cell for One of Multiple Strings - You can use an Excel formula to check to see when any one of multiple values appears in the contents of a cell. ...more
Legal data volumes have exploded in our modern digital age, which can translate to huge cost increases if not handled properly. It’s more important than ever for legal teams to make strategic decisions at the outset of a case...more
December 4, 2022 – S.D. Cal.: Request for Production from Backup Tapes Denied - In 2015, Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo, in United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015), ruled...more
10/8/2022: Printer Settings on Local Computer Carry Over to VMWare - When you send a job to a printer not on your office network from inside VMWare or another VPN, you may not see all of the options which should be...more
9/3/2022 – LINE CONDITIONERS - Most people will have a used a power strip with a surge protector at some point – this will shut off an electrical current when the power becomes too high. If you are setting up...more
August 6, 2022 – Powershell Script to Get the File Size of Files in Multiple Locations - You can run a simple PowerShell script to get the file size of files saved in various locations on a network....more
7/1/2022: Fixing Excel Links Repointed to C drive - If you find that Excel spreadsheets for which you have added hyperlinks to a network drive using the HYPERLINK formula are inexplicably repointed to the users appdata...more
June 4, 2022 – Getting a HP duplexer to work after you’ve installed it. Note that on HP printers, even after you have manually installed a duplexer into the rear of a model such as those for the HP 600 series, it will not...more
May 7, 2022 – Excel array formula to check when all columns match, but ignore blanks - Tonight’s tip of the night explains how you can use an array formula in Excel to confirm that values on a single row for multiple...more
APRIL 2, 2022: Checking for overlapping deposition designations - If you have a list of page and line deposition designations and want to see not only where they match marked page and lines from a previous set, but also...more
MARCH 5, 2022: Finding which PDFs are not text searchable - If you have a very large set of PDFs, and you’re uncertain about which files have searchable text, you can set up an Adobe action utilizing the Preflight tool to...more
2/5/2022: Spreadsheet to Track Time Used for Each Party and for Each Examination - The Tip of the Night for September 4, 2021 discussed how to use the SUMIF formula in Excel to set up a spreadsheet to track the time each...more
Join Nextpiont’s founder, Rakesh Madhava, and senior members of the product team as they unveil exciting new product developments that will give users “next level” insight and control over litigation data, case composition,...more