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Social Media Archiving Gets Serious
Social Media Archiving Gets Serious 150 150 Jason Krause

In an era of NSA revelations, it’s easy to make jokes that the government has a copy of every phone call or email. But it is actually close to the truth. The National Security Administration is tracking social media connections, and according to Facebook’s recent report on government requests, the company received 11,000-12,000 requests from American agencies in first…

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The Collapse of Big Law, and the Rise of Small Law Firms
The Collapse of Big Law, and the Rise of Small Law Firms 150 150 Jason Krause

In the past decade, twelve major firms with more than 1,000 partners between them have collapsed entirely. That’s an unfortunate trend, but one that will likely only get worse. Noam Schreiber summarized the coming legal conflagration this way in the New Republic: There are currently between 150 and 250 firms in the United States that…

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Death of the PC: The Rise of the iPad Lawyer
Death of the PC: The Rise of the iPad Lawyer 150 150 Jason Krause

When we started the Nextpoint Evolution newsletter two years ago, the PC was still king and most lawyers were tied to their desktops. However, 2011 was also the first year that the U.S. market for personal computers shrank. It’s been a slow, painful decline ever since. The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping more traditional…

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Nextpoint Joins Forces with Curo Legal To Provide Innovative Litigation Support Services
Nextpoint Joins Forces with Curo Legal To Provide Innovative Litigation Support Services 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint, a leading provider of litigation support services, and Curo Legal, a practice operations firm focused on creating greater efficiencies and profitability for law firms, announced today that they have entered into a strategic partnership to provide cost-efficient, technology-based trial support for law firms around the country. Nextpoint’s litigation software platform makes eDiscovery, trial, and…

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Free eBook: How to Protect Attorney Client Privilege
Free eBook: How to Protect Attorney Client Privilege 508 381 Jason Krause

Protecting the right to attorney client privilege is one of the most expensive and complicated parts of eDiscovery, but there is little guidance to help lawyers. To fill this void, Nextpoint has updated and expanded our Best Practices Guide for Protecting Privilege. In clear and straight-forward language, this free white paper breaks down the recent…

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Protect Attorney Client Privilege from Waiver
Protect Attorney Client Privilege from Waiver 150 150 Jason Krause

Executives from phone giant Nokia got a nasty surprise when they sat down to negotiate an important licensing agreement with competitor Samsung. Samsung representatives demanded that Nokia give them the same terms as Nokia had given Apple in an earlier agreement. The Apple agreement was supposed to be confidential, but Samsung executives allegedly bragged that…

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Low Cost eDiscovery: Making Legal Services Affordable
Low Cost eDiscovery: Making Legal Services Affordable 150 150 Jason Krause

What is the first thing people say about lawyers? Do people talk about how great their lawyer is? Do they talk about the zealous representation, or ethical service and high standards? Sadly, no. They talk about their bill. No matter how good legal representation is, people usually talk about how much it cost. Even when…

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Is Affordable eDiscovery Possible Without Undermining Justice?
Is Affordable eDiscovery Possible Without Undermining Justice? 150 150 Jason Krause

This is the first in a two-part series looking at how Judges and Federal Rule-makers are attempting to make eDiscovery less expensive. The last time the federal courts adopted new rules for the use of electronic evidence in litigation, things went pretty well. Everyone knew that courts needed rules to make lawyers take electronic evidence…

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Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco
Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco 150 150 Jason Krause

The failure of the Healthcare.gov site has put a spotlight on the value of having well-designed, lightweight, and modern software. It seems like a lot of things went wrong with the new site, but the common assessment is that government’s development teams were unable to make the backend, legacy databases work with the more modern,…

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Review More Documents, Faster: eDiscovery Review Metrics
Review More Documents, Faster: eDiscovery Review Metrics 150 150 Jason Krause

Review is the single most expensive and complicated part of eDiscovery. That’s a fact. The most recent estimate is that 73 percent of any litigation budget is spent in the eDiscovery review phase. So it’s no surprise that Nextpoint customers (already a self-selected cost conscience bunch) have been asking for an analytic tool to keep…

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