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  • Nextpoint

5 Common Reasons eDiscovery Budgets Break
5 Common Reasons eDiscovery Budgets Break 1000 667 Nextpoint

At Nextpoint we talk to thousands of attorneys with all types and sizes of cases. It’s fair to say every case is unique, attorneys’ clients are all difficult in their own way, and that traditional litigation technology fails legal teams for different reasons. That said, law firms tend to come to us when they are…

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  • Jason Krause

Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game 1000 667 Jason Krause

Yes, we ripped off that title. Michael Lewis’ classic sports book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, has helped popularize the idea that small, feisty organizations can identify inefficiencies in their market in order to compete with better funded competitors. In Moneyball, it was the underfunded Oakland A’s using advanced metrics that other teams ignored to…

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  • Jason Krause

How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice
How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice 150 150 Jason Krause

The legal industry seems to be finally bouncing back from a lost half-decade of stagnation. However, as the law practice business improves, it is not returning to the same law firms. According to most metrics, midsize law firms are taking a growing share of big-time litigation. For example, legal consultant Ken Lopez finds that medium-sized law…

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  • Jason Krause

eDiscovery Tips: Getting More Done with Keyboard Shortcuts
eDiscovery Tips: Getting More Done with Keyboard Shortcuts 150 150 Jason Krause

We’re all looking for ways to work faster, more efficiently, and effectively. In litigation, you hear a lot about topics like predictive coding, analytics, and cloud computing as the keys to faster legal review. But today, let’s consider some more practical and day-to-day considerations, like keyboard shortcuts. Nextpoint has integrated a whole list of shortcuts…

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  • Jason Krause

2 Keys to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege
2 Keys to Protect Attorney-Client Privilege 150 150 Jason Krause

As we detailed last week, corporate law giant Quinn Emanuel has taken a very public beating for failing to protect confidential information from leaking to a corporate client. At first glance, it might be hard to criticize the firm for the leak. After all, how can you expect to keep track of millions of pages…

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  • Jason Krause

1 Lawyer Deep: How Attorney-Client Privilege is Destroyed
1 Lawyer Deep: How Attorney-Client Privilege is Destroyed 150 150 Jason Krause

John Quinn, Founder & Managing Partner at Quinn Emanuel, had one of the toughest jobs a lead attorney can ever have in a major case. Quinn had to face the presiding judge and explain to a dubious courtroom how his firm had managed to let confidential and privileged information leak to clients who had no…

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  • Jason Krause

The Snowden Effect in eDiscovery
The Snowden Effect in eDiscovery 150 150 Jason Krause

Do Edward Snowden’s revelations about NSA spying have any relationship to eDiscovery? Until now, the answer probably would have been no. However, the Internet Cases blog has an interesting recap of a recent district court case in Texas about eDiscovery and metadata that makes that connection. Metadata is discoverable. In this case, U.S. v. Post (S.D.Tex. January…

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  • Jason Krause

Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Get eDiscovery?
Why Doesn't Silicon Valley Get eDiscovery? 150 150 Jason Krause

Lawyers have taken a lot of criticism over the years for being slow to wrap their heads around eDiscovery. However, it turns out that lawyers aren’t the only ones having trouble with the issue. Silicon Valley, the hotbed of high-tech innovation, is now struggling to deal with electronic evidence in litigation. The Bay Area is…

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  • Jason Krause

Start Your Own Law Firm. We’ve Got Your Back.
Start Your Own Law Firm. We’ve Got Your Back. 150 150 Jason Krause

When Jason Molder left a large firm to start his own practice, his colleagues warned him that his plan to start his own boutique law firm was going to be rough. They told him, you’re not going to have the technology, infrastructure, and expensive software that a large law firm can support. A few years…

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eDiscovery Turns 25: Why Are Lawyers Still Ignoring It?
eDiscovery Turns 25: Why Are Lawyers Still Ignoring It? 150 150 Jason Krause

Twenty-five years ago, in February of 1989, Oliver North stood trial on 12 counts related to lying to Congress about his role in the Iran-Contra Affair. One of the most damning pieces of evidence that had led to North’s trial was his own email. Specifically, emails that Oliver North and John Poindexter thought they had deleted…

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