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7 May 2012, 9:57 am
It’s no surprise that the eDiscovery frenzy gripping the American legal system over the past decade has become increasingly expensive. Particularly costly to organizations is the process of preserving and collecting documents, a fact repeatedly emphasized by the Advisory Committee in its report regarding the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). These aspects of discovery are often lengthy and can be disruptive to business operations. Just as troubling, they… [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 8:23 am
Legal forms, without the legal advice or assistance of a lawyer, continue to decline in value. As a pure digital product, a legal form follows the price curve of other digital goods eventually approaching zero. Several new start-ups in the legal industry will accelerate this trend.
Docracy is a new legal document start-up, founded by Matt Hall and John Watkinson, that grew out of a TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York City. The idea is to provide a free depository of legal documents that meets… [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 9:50 am
You have one new voice message. First message: Monday, 4:45pm --
I must have just missed you, Vice President Joe.
It's Mike van Dyke, your CEO.
Remember that complicated widget invention --
Our best-seller you copied from the Widget Convention?
The one in your job interview that you mentioned,
And stole from your last boss for withholding your pension?
Well, they've sued us for patent infringement and such,
And theft of trade secrets -- it's really too much.
So I need you to shred all the… [read post]
4 Jul 2011, 7:05 am
In a Fortune Magazine blog post by Roger Parloff just last week, entitled Can Software Practice Law?, writing about the class action suit against LegalZoom in Missouri for violating Missouri's UPL statute, Parloff argues that LegalZoom is no more than a self-help legal software company, and therefore entitled to the same protections as a self-help legal software publisher. The question of whether legal software constitutes the practice of law is a controversial one. When the Texas Bar won a suit… [read post]
25 Oct 2011, 6:50 am
In this post I describe the process and requirements that eventually led to the MetaLex Document Server, a server that hosts all versions of Dutch national statutes and regulations published since May 2011, both as CEN MetaLex, and as Linked Data. Before I set out to do so, however, I would like to emphasize that, although the development of the server and its contents was a one-man-job, the road to make it possible surely was not solitary. A couple of people I’d like to mention here are… [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 8:16 pm
[NOTE: Updated on 27 January 2010 to link to videos of all of the workshop panels, and video of the Law.gov panel. Updated on 25 January 2010 to link to the Google Wave for this workshop.]
The workshop entitled Open Government: Defining, Designing, and Sustaining Transparency (POGW), held 21-22 January 2010 at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), featured much valuable discussion about legal information.
Click here for videos of all of the workshop panels.
(The… [read post]
25 Nov 2012, 11:37 am
Some of my earliest memories having to do with grown-ups lying came from the Watergate hearings.
We only had the one television set downstairs and my father wouldn’t watch anything else for what seemed like several years. I was about 12 years old at the time, so I didn’t understand everything I was being shown, but I understood one thing for sure… these guys were lying their asses off.
I remember the Saturday Night Massacre too. Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox… [read post]
25 Nov 2012, 11:37 am
Some of my earliest memories having to do with grown-ups lying came from the Watergate hearings.
We only had the one television set downstairs and my father wouldn’t watch anything else for what seemed like several years. I was about 12 years old at the time, so I didn’t understand everything I was being shown, but I understood one thing for sure… these guys were lying their asses off.
I remember the Saturday Night Massacre too. Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox… [read post]
15 Sep 2008, 12:38 pm
How to fix Merge Templates if you need to move them from one server or computer to another. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:04 am
Read All About It, Oregon: Government Documents News“Read All About It, Oregon, is a service of the Oregon Documents Depository Program and the Oregon State Library. The blog’s goal is to provide easy access to Oregon state government documents that are in the news, or relevant to current news topics….” (Link to blog.) [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 8:27 am
The lawyers I talk to love Dropbox, so maybe these are not new to them - but just in case:
"10 Things You Didn’t Know Dropbox Could Do," from an October 29th, 2012, iLibrarian post, which links to the Mashable post. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 1:25 pm
The future of Biglaw is in Wheeling, West Virginia…
Continue reading »Follow Above the Law on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.Tags: Associate Salaries, Biglaw, Cheapness, Document Production, Document Review, Gary A. Sokulski, Gary Sokulski, Insourcing, Money, Orrick, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Outsourcing, Ralph Baxter, Reed Smith, West Virginia, Wheeling
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19 Sep 2010, 9:16 am
Sean McGrath of Proplyon, has written an interesting new post on authentication of electronic legal information, entitled Pssst…there is no such thing as an authentic/original/official/master electronic legal text.
Filed under: Applications, Others' scholarly or sophisticated blogposts, Policy debates Tagged: Authentication of digital legal documents, Authentication of digital legal information, Authentication of electronic legal documents, Authentication of electronic legal information, Sean… [read post]
12 May 2011, 10:19 am
Recently, we’ve had the opportunity to explore the online availability of state superior court filings, both through commercial retrieval services (such as Lexis’ CourtLink or Westlaw’s CourtExpress), and the superior courts’ own websites. Sites like Justia are also incredible resources for obtaining select trial court documents, but our project instead examined more standardized provision of [...] [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 9:34 am
GPOAccess, once the U.S. government go-to site for legal research involving the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations and much more, will no longer be updated with new content after Nov. 4, 2011. All new content, including the daily Federal Register and Congressional Record, will be loaded to the new FDsys (Federal Digital Sysytem) site. We will continue to see GPOAccess survive [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 6:30 am
Twenty years ago, creating a PDF required Adobe Acrobat. Today free or low-cost third party PDF writers are abundant and PDF generation is built into traditional and online office suites.
With a price tag starting at $299 for Standard and $449 for Pro, is Acrobat really necessary? The answer is yes! Here are just a few [...] [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 12:00 pm
Email has quickly become many lawyers’ preferred method of communicating and exchanging documents. One problem, however, with sending documents as email attachments is that you can end up acquiring multiple versions of the same document. If you are not extremely well organized, it may become unclear which version is the latest and greatest. If that [...]---------------------
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6 Sep 2011, 4:35 pm
Dow Jones is reporting that the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has met with a securities lawyer at the SEC who claims that the agency had destroyed "roughly 9,000 files since 1993 containing documents on inquiries into potential securities-law violations." Allegedly the documents were destroyed routinely as a matter of the agency's policy and violated federal rules. [read post]
2 Aug 2009, 8:20 am
New Article:
Practice Management Assessment and Action Plan
To become more efficient, organized and profitable, start by completing a focused Practice Management Assessment. You identify the areas where you will benefits most from improvements in how you use your practice management software. Next, create a concise Action Plan with follow dates. Do it on your own or by working with us over the phone. Then implement your Action Plan on your own or with our assistance.Download as a MS Word document to… [read post]
11 Aug 2011, 2:17 am
Bob Sweat, a talented writer and eDiscovery expert is back today with another guest blog. Bob, as most of you know, hails from the Great State of Texas where everything there is bigger - even the cases. In the previous issue, I wrote about scanning as most cases still include a paper component; lots of it in some cases. As these two subjects (scanning and unitization) intertwine so closely it would be a good idea to tuck these guidelines on unitization away for future use with last issue’s article… [read post]