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
An iPhone Knows Your Significant Locations - Keep in mind that iPhones use a particular method to track the smartphone’s location known as ‘significant locations’. ...more
If you’re involved in eDiscovery in any way, you’ve undoubtedly come across JSON files. These files increasingly act as the way in which we access and interact with digital evidence—especially as the limitations of screenshot...more
Behind every winning argument is a compelling story. But crafting that narrative is not as simple as piecing together a few pieces of evidence. Legal teams have to prepare for and take depositions, manage transcripts, conduct...more
Don’t miss how easy it is to have Windows keep backups of folder contents, so you can always access the set of files that you had in a folder yesterday, a week ago, last year, or even 10 minutes ago....more
Regardless of how much discovery and litigation change, paralegals remain a central component to the success of any team, matter, or case. Honing their skills and consistently developing them is a hallmark of litigation...more
Artificial Intelligence is increasingly disrupting the litigation world. While it cannot replace the need for attorneys to exercise judgment, it can support data-driven decision making and transform legal research and writing...more
Trial is fast approaching. With 30 days left before the starting date, how will you accomplish all the tasks that remain? It’s time to work together and utilize your support staff to get you successfully through the final...more
Oyango Snell, CEO and Executive Director at the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the California Lawyers Foundation (CLF) and Tony Sipp, cohost of the podcast, “The Paralegal Voice” and the Paralegal Manager for...more
Do you know the name of your family law paralegal? Although you may not immediately think of a paralegal when you hire an attorney, your paralegal should become a trusted companion as you navigate your family law case....more
11/6/2022: Hash values of files sent via MMS can vary - Multimedia Messaging Service is used by cell phones to send video, audio and multiple images. It contrasts with Short Message Service that can only send text up to...more
Does the thought of improperly preparing subpoenas for litigation keep you up at night? Given the heavy workloads and tight deadlines attorneys and paralegals routinely face, it’s all too easy for errors to slip through in...more
11/1/2020: National Practitioner Data Bank - The Department of Health and Human Services maintains the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), a database which records restrictions placed on physicians’ privileges to...more
9/1/2020: FedRAMP 3PAOs - Make sure that your CSP is evaluated by a third party assessment organization approved by FedRAMP. 9/2/2020: Courtroom Technology in the District of Minnesota - The ELMO should have a ‘freeze’...more
7/1/2020: Regex to Remove Relativity Numbering on Downloaded PDFs ([0-9]{1}_|[0-9]{2}_|[0-9]{3}_)(.*) 7/2/2020: UPDATE – How to Automate the Insertion of Hyperlinks in MS Word - This macro can be edited so that the full...more
6/1/2020: When to use – ; – ; or — A hyphen – to separate words. An en dash – to separate ranges. An em dash — in place of a colon, comma, or parentheses....more
5/1/2020: (California Styling) - The California style is distinguished by enclosing citations in parentheses and putting the venue and year between the case name and reporter cite. 5/2/2020: Predicting the number of top...more
Preparing for complex litigation has traditionally been a collaborative effort, oftentimes among large teams of attorneys and paralegals. After a document corpus is culled down to relevant bits of evidence, legal teams then...more
12/1/2019: D.S.C.: Fact Summaries Withheld Despite Faulty Metadata Review - District of South Carolina allows fact summaries to be withheld even though some determined to be dupes without word by word comparison. ...more
9/25/2019: more on searching text files with powershell - Case sensitive search for multiple strings: Select-String -Path C:\FooFolder\txt\*.txt -pattern Art,Beauty,Law -CaseSensitive - 9/26/2019: more helpful...more
Sorry folks. Litigation Support Tip of the Night is badly sleep deprived. These tips will improve when he is no longer working on a trial....more
How do we, the legal paraprofessionals, build a consistent, reliable bridge between the attorney and the clerk, while delivering our pleadings through the Court's gatekeepers? ...more
The rehearsals are over and the morning of the big performance has arrived. Emotions are high and the anxiety in the air is thick. It is time to execute what you have been practicing and hope you receive a standing ovation...more
As an actress and dancer, I know how important it is to ensure that the members of your cast know their lines, the choreography and are ready to stay on their toes to compensate for any mistakes that are made during a live...more
Nexsen Pruet member (partner) Marcus A. Manos recently conducted a refresher for paralegals at the firm. Entitled "A Primer (Reminder) for Lead (and other) Paralegals," Manos took veterans and newer hires through each step...more