Modern Ediscovery Blog

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

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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6 Tips to Make Your Legal Presentations Pop

6 Tips to Make Your Legal Presentations Pop 150 150 Nextpoint

No legal presentation is ever like another. Sometimes attorneys handle dry, complicated intellectual property matters; other times, emotional personal injury cases. But in many years of making dynamic presentations for all kinds of hearings and audiences, our team has learned that there are a few important steps that will ensure your slides have the weight…

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Power User Tips for Powerpoint

Power User Tips for Powerpoint 150 150 Nextpoint

Powerpoint is one of the more unfairly maligned tools in a lawyer’s arsenal. Yes, presentations that rely on the default color schemes and fonts are probably not going to look good. And presentations that are too wordy or have long lists of bullet points are going to bore your audience. But, PowerPoint is still a…

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Nextpoint eDiscovery Collections Webinar: Questions Answered

Nextpoint eDiscovery Collections Webinar: Questions Answered 150 150 Jason Krause

On Thursday, July 17 Nextpoint hosted the first Client Success Summer Camp Webinar Series, “eDiscovery Collections.” If you missed the event, you can listen to all our ediscovery webinars here. In the most recent session, Michele Kell, Project Director for the Nextpoint Client Success team explained important considerations and questions every litigator needs to know…

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Document Review Strategies That Work

Document Review Strategies That Work 150 150 Tricia Boguslawski

No matter how well a litigator plans and organizes a new case, some new wrinkle or challenge will interfere with their plans. Next month, Nextpoint will introduce our Client Success Summer Camp, a free, three-part webinar that will offer all of the tips, workflows, and guidance you need to manage any matter from start to…

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Awesome Trial Presentations – Science Behind Better Trial Prep

Awesome Trial Presentations – Science Behind Better Trial Prep 150 150 Jason Krause

The bad news for any courtroom litigator is that no matter how hard you work, how many facts you gather, and how much you obsess over your content, the jury will forget most of the information you present to them. Fortunately, there is a ton of great research into retention and how to make your…

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How to Thrive as a Mac Lawyer

How to Thrive as a Mac Lawyer 150 150 Jason Krause

According to most surveys, more than half of lawyers use an Apple device or computer every day. Three quarters use an iPhone. Meanwhile, much of the legal software world is still wedded to the Windows/PC/Internet Explorer world. But in our experience, its easy to put together a suite of applications that give you all of…

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Meet and Confer: Pre-trial Strategies and Negotiations That Work

Meet and Confer: Pre-trial Strategies and Negotiations That Work 150 150 Tricia Boguslawski

By now, every lawyer knows that they have an obligation to meet and confer with opposing counsel to discuss eDiscovery at the start of litigation. At Nextpoint, we don’t see the Rule 26f Conference as an obligation, but an opportunity. How to Negotiate the Meet and Confer Lawyers going into litigation are ready to do…

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