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- November 1st
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Data Security Is Top Concern in Annual Law Firm Technology Survey
Although the struggling recovery must still be reckoned with, feedback from the technology chiefs who responded to American Lawyer’s annual survey on law firm technology and follow-up interviews with nearly a dozen of them reveal that the main focus has moved from dollars to data. The key issue: How do firms make information accessible to their lawyers without making it too accessible?
posted at 9:16am on Nov 1st
- October 27th
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Viewpoint™ Chosen as e-Discovery Platform at Kramer Levin – PR Newswire (press release)
Viewpoint™ Chosen as e-Discovery Platform at Kramer LevinPR Newswire (press release)Viewpoint, capable of executing the major phases of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), will be used across the firm's practices beginning in the fir…
posted at 9:10am on Oct 27th
- October 18th
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Staff Layoff Watch: O’Melveny & Myers Replaces 75 Humans With Technology
The big news this morning is bad news for the staff at O’Melveny & Myers. News started leaking out last night that the firm would be laying off 75 support staffers. The firm has confirmed the news that was first published in the Recorder. Approximately half the of the laid off O’Melveny staffers will be…
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posted at 10:01am on Oct 18th
- September 27th
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The Cowen Group Survey of AmLaw 200 Firms Reveals Key Industry Trends – Including Plans For Continued eDiscovery Hiring
Cowen Group’s 2011 eDiscovery Models and Structures Survey Reveals 60% of law firms surveyed plan to hire eDiscovery staff within next six months. (PRWeb September 27, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8830804.htm
posted at 3:50am on Sep 27th
- September 26th
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Mainstreaming of e-Discovery for Everyday Litigation Matters Will Benefit Both Law Firms and Corporate Legal
E-Discovery experts from Digital WarRoom and Litigation Paralegals LLC to Share Best Practices in ACEDS Web Seminar (PRWeb September 26, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/9/prweb8828986.htm
posted at 5:55pm on Sep 26th
- September 16th
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Is There a Change in the Document Management Paradigm?
The functionality offered by a number of new web-based “Document Management” programs on the market raises the question of whether the basic document management paradigm is shifting. Traditional document management for law firms has several key characteristics: ● It is…
posted at 8:31am on Sep 16th
- September 6th
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Merger Fever is Spreading in Legal Biz
Firms are hooking up, or at least flirting with each other, at a level not seen in a while, according to this article today in WSJ. It’s a sign that some firms are bullish about the legal market and are willing to invest the time and money into merger discussions, which so often founder over cultural differences, compensation disputes, or client conflicts. “Coming out of the recession, quite a few firms have shifted from survival mode and are dusting off their strategic plans to grow,� said Ward Bower, a principal at Altman Weil Inc. “There is more interest now [among firms] in merging than at any time in the past 10 to 20 years,� said Kent Zimmermann , a consultant with Zeughauser Group.
posted at 12:33pm on Sep 6th
- September 2nd
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Should You Send Your Document Review Project to a Law Firm?
Mark Herrmann of Aon has an excellent article over at Above the Law entitled, “Why Vendors Win The Document Review Work.” Mark does a nice job of explaining the trend toward corporations sending document review projects to non-law firm vendors rather than law firms. Quick note before we begin: I think we can all agree that document review by humans should only be undertaken after we have exhausted defensible technologies and processes to cull the document population down to the documents that are most likely to be relevant. However, assuming there are documents to be reviewed by humans, the question is whether …
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posted at 10:11am on Sep 2nd
- August 30th
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Intelligent Litigation Software targets small firms. – ThomasNet Industrial News Room
August 30, 2011 – Offering mobile support, MasterFile v5 spans EDRM review, litigation support, case analysis, and production stages for litigation, up to 50,000+ documents. Program includes document management as well as search filters and analysis to…
posted at 9:30am on Aug 30th
- August 24th
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Announcing MasterFile v5 – Intelligent Litigation Software for the Small Firm: Review, Organize, Ana – PR-USA.net
MasterFile v5 spans the EDRM review, litigation support, case analysis and production stages for litigation up to 50,000+ documents. “It gives the litigator the capabilities of several disparate products in one intelligent, coherent system, full mobile…
posted at 11:50am on Aug 24th