Law Technology

Our mission: find the perfect computing device. It should: Run nearly any software. Provide remote connection to the office from the wilds of Alaska. Be small, but not too small. Weigh under (3) pounds and under (2) if possible. Run as fast as a desktop computer. And, in a pinch, […]

We recently upgraded from Microsoft Office 2010 to Office 2013. To add to the change, we went to Microsoft 365, a cloud based framework. For the most part the transition went smooth, largely because we have cooperative users who recognize the value of improved technology and the inconvenience that goes […]

Trying to make the best of rules open to highly subjective interpretation… Discovery in litigation is the heart of the process. It is the system by which parties can obtain evidence from other parties and refine knowledge about the proof available for their causes of action and defenses. If done […]

If you are one of the cool kids, or cool adults, or a techie, you might have received a drone for a gift during the past year.  Like a toy out of the future, drones allow observation from above and afar.  They are very cool. And, it was pretty much […]

If you ask an opposing party about the details of their document collection; the custodians interviewed; the keywords searched; or the culling approaches used; you are likely to get one response, a quickly erected brick wall. In Cooperation and Litigation: Thoughts on the American Experience (2013), Richard Marcus writes: “I […]

I attended LegalTech   2015 this year in New York. It was a great seminar and another well done project by ALM. One wrinkle, though. Lawyers, vendors and even judges continue to want to shove predictive coding down everyone’s throat. Not “technology assisted review (TAR)”, but specifically predictive coding. With the […]