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  • Rakesh Madhava

The Legal Challenge of Our Time: Technology That Gets the Internet
The Legal Challenge of Our Time: Technology That Gets the Internet 1000 667 Rakesh Madhava

Healthcare.gov is at the core a legal technology. It’s a technology designed to facilitate a legal process – the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. It is very analogous to the way ediscovery technology facilitates the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. What’s amazing about Healthcare.gov is that this “website” is the central…

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  • Jason Krause

Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco
Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco 150 150 Jason Krause

The failure of the Healthcare.gov site has put a spotlight on the value of having well-designed, lightweight, and modern software. It seems like a lot of things went wrong with the new site, but the common assessment is that government’s development teams were unable to make the backend, legacy databases work with the more modern,…

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  • Jason Krause

Review More Documents, Faster: eDiscovery Review Metrics
Review More Documents, Faster: eDiscovery Review Metrics 150 150 Jason Krause

Review is the single most expensive and complicated part of eDiscovery. That’s a fact. The most recent estimate is that 73 percent of any litigation budget is spent in the eDiscovery review phase. So it’s no surprise that Nextpoint customers (already a self-selected cost conscience bunch) have been asking for an analytic tool to keep…

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  • Jason Krause

What is eDiscovery, and Why is it a Problem?
What is eDiscovery, and Why is it a Problem? 150 150 Jason Krause

What is eDiscovery? I get asked that question a lot. For me, the topic usually comes up at parties and kids’ soccer games – whenever I have to try to explain what I do for a living. If you’ve been around the law, litigation support services, or legal technology for any period of time, it’s easy to forget that…

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  • Jason Krause

Social Media and eDiscovery: Anatomy of a Tweet
Social Media and eDiscovery: Anatomy of a Tweet 508 381 Jason Krause

This is the third in a three-part series explaining the role of social media and website evidence in litigation. Part One focused on understanding the rules for authenticating social media. Part Two walked through the tests used to authenticate digital evidence in court.  Litigating in the age of social media is like trying to solve a…

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  • Jason Krause

12 Questions to Ask Any Cloud Provider About eDiscovery
12 Questions to Ask Any Cloud Provider About eDiscovery 150 150 Jason Krause

eDiscovery and cloud computing go hand-in-hand. Need convincing? Then download the definitive guide to eDiscovery in the cloud today. As the leading provider of cloud computing software for litigation, eDiscovery review, and archiving, we have a lot to say on the subject. As we announced recently, we have been awarded the U.S. Patent for using cloud technology for litigation.…

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  • Jason Krause

5 Steps to Authenticate Social Media, Email, Texts and More
5 Steps to Authenticate Social Media, Email, Texts and More 150 150 Jason Krause

This is the second in a three-part series explaining the role of social media and website evidence in litigation. Part One focused on understanding the rules for authenticating social media. Part Three will look at the practical issues in authenticating digital evidence. Every lawyer wants a smoking gun – that one piece of hard, irrefutable evidence…

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  • Jason Krause

The Rules for Authenticating Social Media in eDiscovery
The Rules for Authenticating Social Media in eDiscovery 150 150 Jason Krause

This is the first in a three-part series explaining the role of social media and website evidence in litigation. Part Two provides a straightforward, 5-step guide to authenticating and entering social media evidence into litigation. Part Three will look at the practical issues in authenticating digital evidence. The U.S. Court system has had a long…

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File Deduplication Software Tips
  • Jason Krause

File Deduplication Software Tips for Document Collections
File Deduplication Software Tips for Document Collections 1200 700 Jason Krause

FILE DEDUPLICATION SOFTWARE Big data is making life increasingly complicated for lawyers. In eDiscovery, a big part of the challenge is simply eliminating duplicate copies of stuff – emails, Word documents, spreadsheets, files, and metadata – that is often found in duplicate, triplicate, or almost infinite numbers in any collection. File deduplication software is the…

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  • Jason Krause

Social Media Archiving: Someone is Saving Your Social Media. Shouldn’t You?
Social Media Archiving: Someone is Saving Your Social Media. Shouldn’t You? 150 150 Jason Krause

Social media only seems vaporous. You may not remember posting that photo from your bachelor’s or bachelorette party, but it’s out there. And no one in your company may remember that social media campaign from a few years ago, or Tweets your marketing department made for a long ago product launch. But someone on the…

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