It’s getting hard to remember a time when everyone didn’t have Internet access available at all times. Or when every restaurant, airplane, and office park didn’t offer WiFi access. (How did people settle bar bets before Google was perpetually available?) Technology is so widespread and so reliable that it’s easy to take it all for…
read moreIt’s hard to think of anything more dramatic, more compelling, or exciting than lawyers, judges, and witnesses squaring off in a courtroom. Think of every episode of Law & Order, movies like A Few Good Men or To Kill a Mockingbird, or read the cover of this month’s ABA Journal, Theater’s 12 Greatest Courtroom Dramas.…
read more” A recent study completed at Boston University School of Law concluded that the cost of defending against patent trolls in 2011 totaled $29 billion in the U.S. According to the participants of the Article One’s Napa Summit, a single NPE (N.B. this is a euphemism for patent trolls) lawsuit can cost a company an average of $1.1 million.”…
read moreEXPERT 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 moreWe’ve spent years watching paralegals and associates fetch and annotate large lists of documents for the witness to review. We created Theater, a function within Nextpoint to address the more time-consuming and tedious tasks that bedevil our creative services team and the lawyers they support. Theater contains the basic functionality to create and annotate document call-outs…
read moreNextpoint began more than a decade ago as a litigation services company supporting a handful of loyal customers. Since that time, we’ve worked with hundreds of law firms and Fortune 100 companies in all kinds of high-stakes litigation. We know that preparing for trial is an unpredictable and difficult proposition for even the most experienced…
read moreHaving been involved in trial support for more than a decade, we know that chaos and last-minute revisions are often part of litigation. We’ve also seen a lot of complicated and convoluted solutions for managing trial evidence on site come and go over the years. That’s why we think litigators everywhere should love Trial Cloud…
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