EXPERT WITNESS: Tom Mighell Nextpoint’s Expert Witness is a new feature here on the Frank blog, offering insights from lawyers, technologists, law enforcement, entrepreneurs, and other interesting people influencing our industry and world. Check back regularly for thought-provoking and in-depth conversations. Lawyer Tom Mighell is probably best known for his blog inter-alia, which he…
read moreLaw Technology News noted that the National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the long-awaited “Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations.” The document is meant to provide guidelines for using cloud computing platforms so that organizations and government agencies can feel comfortable migrating data to these platforms. Most of the recommendations are common sense and…
read moreDivorce is always a messy proposition. As discussed this week, Facebook and social media have blown up family law cases and made a contentious process even more volatile. The most spectacular recent case in this regard is perhaps a Connecticut divorce in which the husband and wife were ordered to exchange passwords so they could…
read moreLike a lot of small computer forensics companies, about 25 percent of our cases involve family law. Emotions often run high in family law matters, especially when adultery is a factor (and it is almost always present). Regardless of who is cheating, the aggrieved spouse is generally some unhappy combination of angry, sad and bitter.…
read moreSocial Media and Family law are a volatile mix. According to the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML), more than 80 percent of divorce attorneys have used social media posts in divorce court cases. In a prominent recent case, a judge in Connecticut ordered a husband and wife to exchange social media and dating site passwords as the…
read moreMay will be “social media in the law month” on our blog, putting a spotlight on the ways social media is changing eDiscovery for small firms and personal cases. Enter Small Law eDiscovery was once the sole concern of Big Law and large-scale litigation, but has increasingly become an issue in smaller cases for smaller…
read moreFourteen years ago, if you visited Google.com, you would have found pretty much the same basic search functionality you see today. Amazingly, since that time Google has been able to offer the same mind-blowing search speeds despite the explosion of content. In 1998, Google indexed 28 million pages. By 2000 that number was 1 billion.…
read moreHaving recently come from the ABA Techshow in Chicago, it was interesting to see that even after more than a decade of explosive growth, the field of litigation technology is still largely dominated by a small handful of experts. As with any insular world, there’s always a chance for conflicts of interest and the appearance…
read moreThere is a lot of scary talk in the industry about a ‘data deluge’ overwhelming litigation. But the real issue that no one wants to acknowledge is that traditional eDiscovery technology simply doesn’t scale well enough to handle the exploding data requirements of discovery. The first thing to understand is that eDiscovery data requirements will…
read moreBlast from the (recent) Past: This post was originally published on October, 4, 2012. To help Florida attorneys understand the new eDiscovery rules in their state, Nextpoint is offering a free webinar. Register Now and join us on Wednesday, March 6 at 1:00 p.m. It might seem difficult to get excited over the state of Florida adopting…
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