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Posts on Legal Tech, Litigation, & E-Discovery

eDiscovery
April 05, 2016

DIY eDiscovery: Taking Control & Saving Money

One of the reasons I decided to learn e-discovery was to save money. Early in my career as a lawyer, I developed a strong aversion to spending money on experts and litigation vendors. After spending $5,000 out of my own pocket in my first year of...

Litigation Management
April 05, 2016

The Role of Actionable Data in Managing a Law Office

In The Lean Startup, author Eric Reis emphasizes the distinction between actionable data and vanity metrics. The latter appeals to your ego (total clients served, total dollars earned this year), whereas the former helps you make better judgments...

Litigation Management
April 05, 2016

3 Essential Tips For Cross Examination Questions | CaseFleet

Cross examination has been described as “greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.” 5 J. Wigmore, Evidence § 1367, p. 32 (J. Chadbourn rev. 1974). Although I think e-discovery is a more powerful engine for discovering the...

Litigation Management
April 05, 2016

3 Ways to Get What You Want in Discovery

As a lawyer, I skipped the apprenticeship phase that constitutes the first part of most legal careers. Rather than having a wise elder to show me the ropes, I learned my craft by watching others practice, reading the rules until I nearly had them...

Litigation Management
April 05, 2016

Zealous Cooperation is Essential in Discovery

Broad pretrial discovery is one of the key features of the American legal system, and it’s intended to avoid the problem of “trial by ambush” - where one side introduces surprising evidence at trial that the other side has never seen before. But the...

eDiscovery
April 05, 2016

Going Native: The Importance of Native Files in eDiscovery

Other than witness testimony, nearly all the evidence worth discovering in litigation is electronic. More often than not, it’s emails, text messages, database records, digital images, metadata, and Microsoft Office files that tell us the truth about...

Business Development
April 05, 2016

Digital Marketing for Lawyers: Capitalize on Digital Media to Increase Your Law Firm’s Exposure (Part 1)

Often when it comes to business, we focus so much on working in the business that we overlook focusing on building the business. While this is true in most business, I think it is especially true with lawyers. So much time is spent with clients...

Business of Law
April 05, 2016

Digital Marketing for Lawyers: Part 2

Capitalize on Digital Media to Increase Your Law Firm’s Exposure

This is Part 2 of a 4-part series. Click here to read Part 1, which discusses websites.

eDiscovery
April 05, 2016

Talking eDiscovery and Legal Tech with Craig Ball (Part 1)

 I was privileged to have the chance to interview one of my heroes, Craig Ball, a few months ago in a wide-ranging and very interesting talk. It was a lengthy discussion, so we’ve broken the interview into several parts. We cover eDiscovery best...

Business of Law
April 05, 2016

Digital Marketing For Lawyers Part 3

Capitalize on Digital Media to Increase Your Law Firm’s Exposure

This is Part 3 of a 4-part series. Click here to read Part 1 which discusses websites, click here for Part 2 which discusses Paid Advertising.