As World Embraces Statistics, Lawyers Sit on Sideline
The world is rushing to embrace statistics. Not so lawyers. For Today’s Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics (New York Times, 6 August 2009) explains the rise of statisticians. “In field…
Technology Productivity Blackholes
I recently wrote about my My Current Personal Productivity Favorites. Now I turn to my technology productivity blackholes. For 18 months I felt like Comcast was my best friend based…
Socha-Gelbmann 2009 EDD Survey – Highlights and Observations
The litigation support and e-discovery market has felt chaotic for years now: rapid growth, technological shifts, emerging judicial reviews, and changing roles of the the main players (law departments, vendors,…
Managing v. Administering Outside Counsel
Is the legal profession unusual in its reliance on untested assumptions? I frequently point out that lawyers implicitly assume the human document review in e-discovery is reliable so I won’t…
A Good Discussion of Defensible E-Discovery
Over at the EDD Update blog, there is a very good discussion of defensible EDD / ESI search. It’s worth reading and prompts me to ask what we mean by…
Roundup of Twitter Posts – July 2009
Since not everyone is a Twitter fan, I reproduce here a selection of my recent Tweets. Lost more time, again, to fixing problems with Sprint Blackberry desktop sync to…
Do the US and UK Spend Too Much on Legal Services?
Big US and UK companies have cut spending on BigLaw. Has anyone stepped back to ask how much should they should spend? The current US debate on health helps illuminate…
Reducing Legal Costs Beyond Tinkering with Price
We may or may not be in the midst of a legal market revolution. Many an article suggests that general counsels are slashing costs. At best, however, the data are…
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