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- May 17th
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Separating the Wheat from the eDiscovery Software Chaff
There are hundreds of e-discovery software applications available. Every stage of the EDRM can be assisted by one or more commercially available applications. Some of these are designed for very specific functions, such as trial presentation, while others claim to have multiple parts that can be used at different EDRM stages, such as software that collects, processes, analyses and reviews electronic information. The marketing collateral that accompanies many of these products proclaim each of them as “the best” at what they do. They advertise various types of functions, such as near duplicate identification, conceptual clustering, predictive coding, etc. With all the different options available, how can one filter out the “sales-speak” and actually evaluate an e-discovery offering on its merits? The following tips may help: 1. Make sure the software fits you, not the other way around The reason you [...]
posted at 10:00am on May 17th
- May 3rd
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The making of strong Project Management Offices within Legal IT
Law firm IT leaders about the success of their PMO
The definition of a Project Management Office is a group or department within a business, agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization. For…posted at 1:35am on May 3rd
- March 20th
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The Implication of Market Trends for Legal-Project Management in the United Kingdom
This is a guest post by Antony Smith, a solicitor by training with qualifications and experience in project management. He is the owner of Legal Project Management Limited, and offers legal-project management services to legal-service providers in the U.K. He also writes about legal-project management on his company blog. Disruptive change is the most conspicuous characteristic of the current legal-services market in England and Wales. What does this mean for legal-project management? Is legal-project management no more than a passing fad, a barely established movement that may, in any event, have missed an opportunity to make a mark? Or do the market…
posted at 4:18am on Mar 20th
- March 1st
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How to Create an eDiscovery Team that Works for your Organization Part 2
Creating a solid in-house eDiscovery team is indeed a big undertaking, and in last week’s post we talked about how to determine which procedures should be handled internally vs. externally, and some good strategies for getting cross-department collaboration. Another challenge is determining how far the in-house team will take discovery. It’s often a question of resources. What is the appropriate EDRM stage to which the in-house team will take discovery? Legal teams first of all need to determine what level of effort they want to provide to Early Case Assessment and First-pass review. If the staffing is too thin to spend time performing these functions, you will definitely be paying to have your outside counsel and eDiscovery vendors doing it for you. The best thing to do is get a handle on your litigation costs, and compare the charges against [...]
posted at 9:00am on Mar 1st
- February 8th
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What Does an E-Discovery Project Look Like?
As a lawyer, do you find the concept of project management as alien to your practice and education as the notion of providing your own IT support? In a follow-up to his LTN article, “Right-Thinking in E-Discovery Project Managment,” Brett Burney trains his focus on what an e-discovery project looks like to breed a little more familiarity with the process. As a point of departure, he looks at the Electronic Discovery Reference Model group’s Project Management Framework for a broad outline of the logistics necessary to navigate each categorical task in the EDRM. If you’re still in the weeds, he suggests tools that break down the broad framework into more manageable tasks, honing in on tools that are specifically focused on managing e-discovery projects, including Framework from Wave Software, Project Matrix and PHIGRID from eClaris, and Exterro Discovery Workflow. “The goal of all of these products is to give you a standard platform to manage your e-discovery projects and reuse workflows that have been tried and are true,” writes Burney. But remember that the best framework and the most tried-and-true platform fall down without proper communication and documentation. For the full picture, read “Anatomy of an E-Discovery Project.”
posted at 5:23pm on Feb 8th
- January 21st
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Right-Thinking E-Discovery Project Management – Law.com
Law.comRight-Thinking E-Discovery Project ManagementLaw.comE-discovery, however, throws a curveball at the intellectually routine practice of law. And evidence shows that lawyers are not prepared or not willing to manage the granular tasks necessary to…
posted at 2:07am on Jan 21st
- January 17th
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Legal Project Management in Spain
Is legal-project management gaining traction in Spain? If Anna Marra has any say in the matter it will. Anna recently published an article in Lawyer Press, an on-line, Spanish-language publication for lawyers. I don’t read Spanish, but could make out most of the article using Google Translate. The article provides a brief introduction to LPM, why lawyers should use it and how they can deploy it it and apply it to their daily activities. Anna also mentioned in a recent discussion posted to the PMI LPM Community Group on LinkedIn that she is writing a book on the subject.Related articlesLPM 2012 and…
posted at 6:04am on Jan 17th
- January 9th
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In Search of the Industry Standard
Have you ever received a detailed project estimate from a service provider and wondered how they came up with it? I have. Unless you provided them your client specific data assumptions, they likely used “industry standards” to fill in the blanks. Hmmm. Where did these industry standards come from and how accurate are they?
posted at 10:30am on Jan 9th
- December 27th
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LPM 2012 and Beyond: Legal Project Management Grows Up
It is that time of the year again: this is the time when the blawgosphere looks back at the past year and prognosticates what the year ahead holds for the legal industry. Those of you who follow this blog will know that I’m not generally one for reading tea leaves. This year, however, I have decided to share my thoughts on how I think LPM will develop over the next few years, based upon the experiences of other industries and the history of modern project management. I hope you find it interesting and I wish you and yours health, happiness,…
posted at 7:18pm on Dec 27th
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Practical QC in eDiscovery
One key element for transforming your eDiscovery from an ad hoc reactive fire drill into a mature, proactive business process is the development and implementation of formal Quality Assurance(QA) and Quality Control(QC). I have always viewed QA as tackling ongoing process improvement such as regular cross case comparisons, while QC tends to be checking on did the process perform properly. Basically, how can we make the process better versus did everything work right? When interviewing corporate client eDiscovery teams, everyone is conscious of the need for QA/QC, but the vast majority seem to feel that it is impractical or unrealistic given their tight deadlines, lack of resources and typical fire-fighter mentality. Some law firm clients have swung to the opposite extreme, with elaborate workflow, check lists, physical chain of custody forms and more. Their QC has grown out of reasonable proportion and their productivity suffers because their overall QA has been neglected. So how do we achieve a reasonable quality process without bringing the legal process to a halt?
posted at 10:02am on Dec 27th