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Rakesh Madhava

A Message on Cybersecurity from CEO, Rakesh Madhava

A Message on Cybersecurity from CEO, Rakesh Madhava https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/About-Header.png 1920 1280 Rakesh Madhava Rakesh Madhava https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/18c889ef7011e5f9213c29f8c9483c19?s=96&d=mm&r=g March 11, 2020 March 17, 2022

To All Nextpoint Clients: After the news that Epiq Global had suffered a ransomware attack, it is appropriate that many will have data security at top of mind, and may be curious about Nextpoint security provisioning. Our sincere sympathies go out to our clients who have been affected as well as to the staff of…

Michael Beumer

Filter by Keyword in Ediscovery: The Human Role

Filter by Keyword in Ediscovery: The Human Role https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Data-Filtering-Human-Role.jpg 1200 660 Michael Beumer Michael Beumer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6bc8c45dd498b5a340bedd2570a6fa99?s=96&d=mm&r=g February 17, 2020 May 17, 2023

DATA FILTERING SERIES / PART TWO Ediscovery is automated in many important ways, but attorney judgment is still vital to the process. Legal teams need to make smart decisions up front about how to filter by keyword, what to cull, and what to keep. If you are too cautious about processing, you will have too…

Michael Beumer

The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling

The Art of Ediscovery Data Filtering and Culling https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ediscovery-data-filtering-culling.png 1200 801 Michael Beumer Michael Beumer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6bc8c45dd498b5a340bedd2570a6fa99?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 30, 2020 May 4, 2023

DATA FILTERING AND CULLING SERIES / PART ONE Every lawyer wants a smoking gun email, text, or Facebook post that will decidedly win a case or force a settlement. Given the mind-boggling volume of electronic data flooding our world, finding relevant, discoverable information is a more difficult and expensive endeavor. But, if you are strategic…

Michael Beumer

Billing for Ediscovery: Fully Recover Costs and Meet ABA Ethical Standards

Billing for Ediscovery: Fully Recover Costs and Meet ABA Ethical Standards https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Billing-for-Ediscovery-e1574808510881.jpg 1000 625 Michael Beumer Michael Beumer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6bc8c45dd498b5a340bedd2570a6fa99?s=96&d=mm&r=g December 1, 2019 March 31, 2022

Ediscovery software is indispensable in modern, internet-era civil litigation. Here’s how you can recover ediscovery software costs. Attorneys are under increasing pressure to invest in legal technology in order to provide effective counsel to their clients. Additionally, in recent years the majority of state bars have modified their guidelines related to an attorney’s duty of…

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Ediscovery

Michael Beumer

Essential Ediscovery Planning: The Federal Rules You Need To Know

Essential Ediscovery Planning: The Federal Rules You Need To Know https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Ediscovery-Planning.jpg 1000 667 Michael Beumer Michael Beumer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6bc8c45dd498b5a340bedd2570a6fa99?s=96&d=mm&r=g November 26, 2019 May 17, 2023

The adversarial nature of the system of law in the United States is not about cooperation and playing nice. Law schools train lawyers to crush their opposition. But in ediscovery, the updated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and emerging case law not only make it possible for discovery to be a cooperative process, but if…

Annie Johnson

Law Firm Case Study: Cost Predictability in Ediscovery

Law Firm Case Study: Cost Predictability in Ediscovery https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/PalmersheimMathew-FeaturePhoto.jpg 1000 563 Annie Johnson Annie Johnson https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/3f177189d7d6799cad0d8269e336af3f?s=96&d=mm&r=g July 1, 2019 May 17, 2023

Ediscovery Case Study Palmersheim & Mathew LLP was founded in 2018 by award-winning attorneys with proven expertise in handling complex business disputes. I recently sat down to speak with founding partner Anand Mathew in their Chicago office. In this ediscovery case study, we discussed what it means to practice in the boutique environment, the high-touch…

Ediscovery Software Pricing - No Data Charges

Rakesh Madhava

Ediscovery Pricing Models: The End of Data Charges

Ediscovery Pricing Models: The End of Data Charges https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/No-data-charges.jpg 1000 558 Rakesh Madhava Rakesh Madhava https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/18c889ef7011e5f9213c29f8c9483c19?s=96&d=mm&r=g May 20, 2019 March 18, 2022

Ediscovery Pricing Models Have Changed Our drive for simpler, transparent invoicing wound up inspiring us to eliminate data charges in ediscovery software. Let’s just say, our clients were stoked. Data-volume has long been the default measuring stick for ediscovery software pricing models. The gigabyte (GB) of electronically stored information is data’s defining unit of measure.…

Michael Beumer

Ediscovery Data Requests – Simple and Secure

Ediscovery Data Requests – Simple and Secure https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ediscovery-data-requests-made-easy.png 1000 724 Michael Beumer Michael Beumer https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6bc8c45dd498b5a340bedd2570a6fa99?s=96&d=mm&r=g February 28, 2019 February 28, 2019

An efficient ediscovery process starts with getting potentially relevant ediscovery files collected quickly. Nextpoint just made getting ediscovery data from clients, IT staff, litigation support managers, opposing counsel – or whomever you need data from – as simple as sending an email. Nextpoint users can now securely request files from anyone by providing timely access to a dedicated…

Rakesh Madhava

What Happened to Paul Manafort’s Redactions?

What Happened to Paul Manafort’s Redactions? https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/42396505391_76b147ca88_k.jpg 2048 1244 Rakesh Madhava Rakesh Madhava https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/18c889ef7011e5f9213c29f8c9483c19?s=96&d=mm&r=g January 10, 2019 March 19, 2021

Lawyers working for former Trump Campaign manager and convicted felon, Paul Manafort filed a document yesterday that contains the clearest public evidence to date of coordination between the Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Russians. The lawyers did not intend to release this evidence. The admissions are located deep in a court filing prepared in response to…

Tricia Boguslawski

New Smarter Export Templates & Data Fielding

New Smarter Export Templates & Data Fielding https://www.nextpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ExportTemplate-step1-copy-e1551300378329.png 717 458 Tricia Boguslawski Tricia Boguslawski https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/06f1186c2516026d7541c7718f66a45d?s=96&d=mm&r=g October 1, 2018 June 18, 2021

In 2015, Nextpoint ediscovery software unveiled custom, reusable templates for expediting the process of data export. Over the last 3 years, export templates have saved thousands of hours for hundreds of Nextpoint users. Today we’re now happy to announce the release of a more comprehensive export template library, coupled with a metadata fields expansion project.…

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