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The latest in ediscovery software news, product updates, and best practices.
litigation-collaboration

Litigation Collaboration: The Four Simple Rules

Litigation Collaboration: The Four Simple Rules 1000 667 Jason Krause

When your team is preparing for a new litigation matter, how do you organize, collaborate, and share information? Do you email files to co-counsel, team members, or outside parties? Do you have a collaboration tool to keep track of where documents go and who has the current version? According to the ABA Legal Technology Survey,…

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New Nextpoint Feature: Digital Notes for Document Reviewers

New Nextpoint Feature: Digital Notes for Document Reviewers 150 150 Jason Krause

Folder Tags is a brand new feature that lets reviewers add notes to folders in Nextpoint. The inspiration came from a Nextpoint client with a large review project. The review team wanted to make it possible for groups of reviewers to leave comments after finishing work on individual folders. Like a Post-it for Document Reviewers…

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Nextpoint & Clio Integrate Cloud-based Practice & Litigation Management

Nextpoint & Clio Integrate Cloud-based Practice & Litigation Management 150 150 Jason Krause

Cloud-based Providers Announce New Discount Program and Integration Roadmap to Deliver Unprecedented Value to Law Firms Nextpoint and Clio have announced the formation of a strategic initiative to deliver an integrated service offering to law firms seeking to move their practices to the cloud. Nextpoint is the leading cloud-based evidence management service. Clio is the…

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Better Deposition Software

Deposition Summary Software: Do More with Depositions

Deposition Summary Software: Do More with Depositions 1000 667 Jason Krause

Deposition Summary Software Imagine you are deposing an adverse expert witness from a remote location. Your expert is listening to the deposition by telephone to help you ask the appropriate questions. Suddenly, the adverse expert produces a revised report. How do you get the report into your litigation database and get everyone on the same…

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better-legal-billing

Lawyers Getting Paid: Better Legal Billing Practices

Lawyers Getting Paid: Better Legal Billing Practices 1000 783 Jason Krause

Your clients do not order legal service a la carte. They can’t order one deposition, two filings, and a side of legal research. They are paying to have their disputes resolved. That said, clients want to limit the ultimate cost of any dispute resolution at the outset of a matter.   The Alternative to Alternative Fee…

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Faster Document Review: Introducing Review Folders

Faster Document Review: Introducing Review Folders 150 150 Jason Krause

Document review for litigation can be tedious slog. At Nextpoint, our goal has always been to help legal teams do it more quickly and efficiently. Longtime users will notice some enhancements to the Review tab in Nextpoint. It’s all part of our continued effort to improve control, collaboration, and preparation for any matter. Say Hello…

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dispute-resolution

Prepare Your Matter for Any Type of Dispute Resolution Venue

Prepare Your Matter for Any Type of Dispute Resolution Venue 1000 752 Tricia Boguslawski

Few matters ever actually see the inside of a courtroom. Few attorneys can claim to have selected a jury, much less obtained a successful verdict. In fact, 90 percent of some types of matters settle without going to trial. But that hardly means lawyers do not need serious trial presentation skills. In fact, lawyers often need…

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Making Dispute Resolution Technology Work for You

Making Dispute Resolution Technology Work for You 150 150 Jason Krause

Yesterday, Nextpoint vice president of Client Success Tricia Boguslawski presented the third in a series of webinars on litigation technology best practices. If you missed “Preparing for Your Hearing, Settlement, or Trial,” you can listen to all our ediscovery webinar recordings here. Following our first two webinars in the series on identifying and culling data…

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Everything You Need to Know About eDiscovery Review

Everything You Need to Know About eDiscovery Review 150 150 Jason Krause

On Thursday, July 24 2014 Nextpoint Project Manager Dave Schaaf presented the Client Success Summer Camp Webinar Series, “Preparing for eDiscovery Review.” During the most recent event, we took question online via chat, but weren’t able to answer them at the time. Here are answers to questions about preparing evidence for review. Q. You mentioned…

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How to Prepare for Your Next Hearing, Conference or Trial

How to Prepare for Your Next Hearing, Conference or Trial 150 150 Tricia Boguslawski

The jury trial has been slowly disappearing. While that is true, any time a new matter comes to your firm, you should be thinking about the possible endgame – presenting evidence in a hearing, trial, settlement conference, or regulatory review. In particular, we are focused on moving evidence from the Review to Prep services within Nextpoint.…

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