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

LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Minutes to a Better LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn for Lawyers: 10 Minutes to a Better LinkedIn Profile 150 150 Jason Krause

Fix up your LinkedIn Profile, make big bucks. According to an ABA Journal story, attorney Mark Poniatowski beefed up his LinkedIn profile and quickly got referrals worth $12,000 by connecting with colleagues, friends, and new clients. How important is LinkedIn for networking? Try a Google search on your own name, and you’ll probably find that your LinkedIn Profile ranks…

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Social Media Archiving: What to Tell Clients

Social Media Archiving: What to Tell Clients 150 150 Jason Krause

Here are some statistics that will make most employers want to ban social media: According to survey by DLA Piper, 31 percent of employers have taken disciplinary action against an employee for improper social media usage, but only 14 percent of employers have a social media policy. That means many of those companies taking disciplinary action have no protection…

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How to Use iPads in the Courtroom: Tips for Litigators

How to Use iPads in the Courtroom: Tips for Litigators 150 150 Jason Krause

According to the American Bar Association’s Annual Legal Technology Report almost 50 percent of all attorneys use a tablet, and 9 out of 10 lawyers using tablets are using an iPad. That’s almost 400,000 lawyers using an iPad to do their work. But the real power of any iPad or tablet computer is in the courtroom, where the size, power,…

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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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