Litigation support delivers a real boost to your firm’s productivity enabling attorneys to focus on delivering great legal work. When lawyers have access to great technology support, it helps win new clients, deliver strategic advantages in litigation, and ultimately can add to a firm’s bottom line. For smaller firms, litigation support is a force multiplier,…
read moreEarly Data Assessment is your secret weapon against cost increases from big data in ediscovery. 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…
read moreAre you directing your ediscovery collections with maximum efficiency and speed? Data collection can be the most complex and technically rigorous of all ediscovery phases. It involves the extraction of potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) from its native source into a separate, secure repository for review. The collection process should be comprehensive without being over-inclusive. It…
read moreDaniel D’Angelo – Nextpoint This free, recorded webinar gives you everything you need for deposition preparation. After the review and production phases of discovery are complete, a lot of people must collaboratively work with produced evidence to prepare a strong case. Keeping them coordinated is often a challenge, particularly when you’re working with expert witnesses…
read moreDownload this Rule 26(f) Conference Checklist to walk through all the questions you need to consider to prepare for the Meet and Confer. With proper planning, you can ensure that ediscovery is a smooth process. Rule 26(f) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that parties meet early in a litigation to negotiate an…
read moreAs is often the case with new technologies, the concept of storing legal data in the cloud battled its share of skeptics before it gained wide acceptance from vendors and law firms alike. Let’s face it, the imagery it conjures up isn’t great (clouds seem pretty out in the open), and for the technophobic, there…
read moreFor lawyers, there is a decided focus on the past. Precedent is the godhead. Show a lawyer technology that helps them better present their argument (PowerPoint, tablets, laser pointers), and they want it. NOW. Introduce telephony that improves the speed of lawyer-client communication (Blackberry, iPhone), and they will embrace it wholly. The legal industry has…
read moreSoftware built for lawyers by lawyers — a number of legal tech startups have recently etched this on their marketing sandwich boards. And, a recent thought-provoking post on Lawyerist.com suggested the underlying problem with legal technology is that there aren’t enough lawyers actually employed by companies in the legal tech space. Sam Harden writes that until we “see…
read moreAs a litigator, you may view eDiscovery is a necessary evil; and discovery software as a basic and necessary remedy. The use of document review software has become ubiquitous at law firms of every size, and most teams are leaning on technology in some way to organize data and automate repetitive tasks. But can technology…
read moreWe covered some diverse ground on the Nextpoint blog in 2015, publishing 23 legal technology stories that ranged from dissecting new laws and trends, outlining best practices in eDiscovery, and teaching legal professionals how to work more efficiently with the aid of software. In case you missed them, here are summaries of our five most…
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