Posts on legal tech, litigation, & eDiscovery

Litigators eat, breathe and sleep facts. Indeed, non-lawyers are often surprised by the near-fanatical thoroughness that many litigators exhibit when investigating the facts of a case. Most of us have either taken or defended 7-hour depositions,...

We owe our clients a duty of confidence, and we owe it to ourselves to keep our business data secure. But in fact, security means more than keeping data out of the hands of the bad guys: it also means having steady access to our data and maintaining...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Slack already. The company has grown at an incredible pace, achieving a valuation of  approximately $4 billion in the three years since it was founded. It currently has 2.7 million users active on the platform on...

A modern law office needs more than furniture and smart lawyers in order to run. We use computers to write briefs, send emails, review evidence, generate invoices, and manage firm finances. In the realm of law office technology, there are good tools...

The way we interact with and use computers changes constantly - technology growth is exponential in today’s world. Yet certain industries are hesitant to adopt new technology en masse, unconvinced of its ability to work well within the structured...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...