Document Production
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Small Law Firms
Discovery: The Trenches Of Litigation
Discovery is where cases get won or lost, and it's far more important than many litigators realize. -
Small Law Firms, Technology, Women's Issues
alt.legal: Hanging Out The Alternative Women-Owned Shingle
This woman-owned boutique firm encapsulates so much about courageous lawyers executing their own vision of practice. - Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use. -
Biglaw, Contract Attorneys, Legal Ethics
Best (And Not So Best) Practices For Billing Clients For Contract Attorney Work
In some jurisdictions, it's illegal for law firms to treat contract attorneys as a profit center.
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Politics, Technology
alt.legal: The Age Of Congressional eDiscovery
It all makes for good wonky perusing, especially for lawyers, and it helps put into perspective the work of government. -
Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: Now You Are Speaking My Language
Do you need to conduct document review in a foreign language? This entrepreneur can help. -
Benchslaps, Litigators
Benchslap Of The Day: Blow Off Preparing A Privilege Log At Your Peril
Preparing a privilege log sucks, but forfeiting attorney-client privilege sucks even more. -
eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
Why eDiscovery Is Important To All Of Us
Technology columnist Jeff Bennion interviews leaders of the influential Sedona Conference to see what we can hope to learn about the future of discovery. -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
Legal Technology And Innovation: Ediscovery, Machine Learning, And Transactional Practice, Oh My!
When it comes to legal technology, there's a whole lot of innovation going on. - Sponsored
Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm. -
Conferences / Symposia, Technology
Legal Technology And Innovation: 3 Key Points
Law firms and lawyers must embrace innovation, including new technology -- or suffer the consequences. -
Technology
Do You Need An A-Z Solution?
Technology columnist Jeff Bennion reviews the pros and cons of using one company for most or all of your software needs. -
Biglaw, Document Review, Litigators, Pro Bono
This Lawyer Just Wrote The Best Smackdown Letter You'll See Today
"You appear to have confused the production being less voluminous than you had hoped or expected with the production being 'incomplete.'" -
Celebrities, Document Review, Pictures, Technology
What Morgan Freeman's Face Teaches Us About Metadata And E-Discovery
What lessons does an online controversy about a celebrity image have for e-discovery? -
Benchslaps, Document Review, Federal Government, Federal Judges
Benchslap Of The Day: Just. Produce. The Documents!
Is this benchslap of the federal government unjustified?
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Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace
How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.
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Are Small Firms Going Big On Legal Tech?
Please help us benchmark your firm against your peers through this (always) brief and anonymous survey and enter for a chance to win a $250…
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Profit Powerhouse: Elevating Law Firm Financial Performance
In this CLE-eligible webinar on April 10th, we’ll explore the most common accounting pitfalls and how to avoid them for your firm.
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How AI Is The Catalyst For Reshaping Every Aspect Of Legal Work
Findings from the "Future of Professionals Report," based on a survey of 1,200 professionals from North and South America and the UK.
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Document Automation For Law Firms: The Definitive Guide
Legal document automation is no longer only for the exclusive few.
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Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Cheapness, Money, Outsourcing
Why Doesn't Every Biglaw Firm Have An Office In Wheeling, West Virginia?
The future of Biglaw is in Wheeling, West Virginia... -
11th Circuit, Attorney Misconduct, Biglaw, Federal Judges, In-House Counsel, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Litigatrix, Partner Issues, Scott Rothstein, Screw-Ups
Benchslap of the Day: Judge Cooke Sanctions Greenberg Traurig and TD Bank
Judge Cooke has ruled on the motion for sanctions against TD Bank and its former counsel, Greenberg Traurig. What did she decide? -
Document Review, Election 2012, Election Law, In-House Counsel, Litigators, Politics, Technology
Inside Straight: Why Are Elections Like E-Discovery?
Here's some food for thought, from in-house columnist Mark Herrmann: Why are elections like e-discovery? -
Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Patents, Qualcomm, Technology
Dispatch from Amelia Island: When Clients Attack
Adam Bier was still a self-described "baby lawyer" when he was wrongfully sanctioned in the landmark 2008 Qualcomm e-discovery case. The appealed sanctions were finally vacated, more than two years after they were first imposed. Bier shared his story with attendees at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit, joined onstage by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse and Frank Cialone, who defended several of the outside counsel in Qualcomm. Read on to learn the details of Bier's nightmare experience. Can you imagine yourself in his shoes? -
Biglaw, Document Review, In-House Counsel, Technology
Inside Straight: Why Vendors Win The Document Review Work
Document review, which was historically an important profit center for large law firms, has moved permanently into the hands of third-party vendors. That sea change was not prompted by the recession, and things are not going to return to the old "normal" after the economy recovers. But why? -
Biglaw, Document Review, Federal Judges, General Counsel, In-House Counsel, Litigators
Inside Straight: Clawback Agreements -- An Oft-Missed Trick
I recently heard a panel of judges speak about e-discovery issues. Their opinions on several subjects varied, but on one subject they agreed unanimously: Clawback provisions under Federal Rule of Evidence 502 are valuable tools in most significant litigation, but they remain rarely used. This piqued my interest, so I asked several in-house litigators (not […] -
Bad Ideas, Benchslaps, Document Review, Federal Judges, Screw-Ups, Technology
D.C. Lawyers Screw Up E-discovery So Badly, It’s 'Literally Unheard Of'
If you read a lot of e-discovery articles — and I know y’all do — you know that judges are quickly losing any patience for attorneys who don’t have their act together during e-discovery (or even regular old discovery). I know that nothing about the process is simple or easy. I know e-discovery is expensive […]