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

Facebook for Lawyers: 5 Tips For Your Law Firm
Facebook for Lawyers: 5 Tips For Your Law Firm 150 150 Jason Krause

Facebook for law firms is a no-brainer. The stats alone make it impossible to ignore: over a billion users, with 128 million people logging on every day in the U.S. It’s got an incredibly broad user base, but delivers highly targeted and direct results that no other platform can match. But finding clients and making connections…

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New Tools for Document Review: How to Split Your Massive Documents
New Tools for Document Review: How to Split Your Massive Documents 150 150 Jason Krause

eDiscovery document review is still an unnecessarily complicated and difficult process in many ways. In particular, attorneys are still producing large, bulky documents to opposing counsel, making it difficult to even start the review process. A new document splitting tool in the Nextpoint litigation platform makes it possible for document review attorneys to quickly cut unwieldy…

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Grow Your Law Firm with Social Media Marketing
Grow Your Law Firm with Social Media Marketing 150 150 Jason Krause

Social media marketing is an essential part of any law office’s advertising and marketing efforts. But we understand that social media is a little more complicated for law firms than it is for other businesses. Social media disclosure rules and lawyer advertising rules are going to complicate Facebook and Twitter efforts for any law firm.…

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Nextpoint Adds Predictive Coding On-Demand to Ediscovery Software
Nextpoint Adds Predictive Coding On-Demand to Ediscovery Software 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint is excited to unveil the integration of predictive coding on-demand technologies from our friends at Backstop into Nextpoint’s next-generation evidence management platform. What this means for our clients is that they now have access to advanced machine learning capabilities to meet any of their litigation, regulatory or compliance needs. By leveraging both companies’ expertise…

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Beyond Heartbleed: How to Secure Your Law Firm from Hackers
Beyond Heartbleed: How to Secure Your Law Firm from Hackers 150 150 Jason Krause

Imagine your law firm gets a call from the FBI or other law enforcement agency. An agent tells you an investigation has uncovered evidence that your law firm’s security had been breached and client data has been stolen. After checking on the report, not only do you find that hackers have in fact been in…

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5 Common Reasons eDiscovery Budgets Break
5 Common Reasons eDiscovery Budgets Break 1000 667 Nextpoint

At Nextpoint we talk to thousands of attorneys with all types and sizes of cases. It’s fair to say every case is unique, attorneys’ clients are all difficult in their own way, and that traditional litigation technology fails legal teams for different reasons. That said, law firms tend to come to us when they are…

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Social Media Law : Nextpoint’s Case Law Sampler
Social Media Law : Nextpoint’s Case Law Sampler 1000 678 Jason Krause

Think social media case law is only for special cases? Are you still wondering if it applies to your practice? In the past couple of years, social media evidence has become central to more and more matters, including all kinds of civil and criminal cases. We’ve seen more clients using our products to collect social…

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Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game 1000 667 Jason Krause

Yes, we ripped off that title. Michael Lewis’ classic sports book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, has helped popularize the idea that small, feisty organizations can identify inefficiencies in their market in order to compete with better funded competitors. In Moneyball, it was the underfunded Oakland A’s using advanced metrics that other teams ignored to…

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How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice
How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice 150 150 Jason Krause

The legal industry seems to be finally bouncing back from a lost half-decade of stagnation. However, as the law practice business improves, it is not returning to the same law firms. According to most metrics, midsize law firms are taking a growing share of big-time litigation. For example, legal consultant Ken Lopez finds that medium-sized law…

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Why Social Media Archiving is Now a Lawyer’s Duty
Why Social Media Archiving is Now a Lawyer’s Duty 150 150 Jason Krause

This week a case in Florida has been getting a lot of attention when a state appeals court last week threw out an $80,000 settlement between a Miami prep school and a former headmaster. The reason?  The former headmaster’s daughter boasted about it to her friends on Facebook. “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver,”…

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