Too Good to be True?
Corporate Counsel magazine named the General Electric law department as best of the year. Home-grown technology was a key factor the editors considered. All Systems Go (Corporate Counsel, 4/18/07) reports that the GE law department has developed many interesting applications, including a web-based questionnaire to...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Document Review: Lawyers v. Machines
A new National Law Journal (4/19/07) article profiles the Cisco law department and general counsel Marc Chandler. The article reiterates many interesting legal technology applications at Cisco. I was most struck by Chandler’s comment on document review in e-discovery. Using Technology to Cut Legal Costs...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
How’s Your Horseless Carriage Handling?
If I ask the titular question, you’d rightly think me odd. But if I ask “how’s e-discovery going?”, what’s the problem. Do names mean anything? For centuries, the horse and carriage was a key way to get around. It took years before the horseless carriage...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
New Law.com Legal Search Engine
Law.com has released a new search tool, specific to legal web sites. This will likely be a useful tool for lawyers and legal professionals. Law.com Quest lets you search two sources: (1) “the Law.com Network of sites, including the New York Law Journal, The American...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Roundup (4/12/07)
In this Roundup: New York Times article on high-end jobs flowing to India; Defense Department using Endecca faceted search; and Morrison Foerster being “green” in its information technology. Outsourcing India’s Edge Goes Beyond Outsourcing (NY Times, 4/4/07) reports that “increasingly the jobs of Western white-collar...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Records Management and E-Discovery
Is e-discovery the tail wagging the dog? Consider the stages of EDD, each costly: 1. identify sources and custodians, 2. preserve data, 3. collect data appropriately, 4. convert data into usable formats, 5. review data for responsiveness and privilege, 6. produce data to opposing parties,...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Online Legal Service for Records Management Policy
Legal technology worlds collide: online legal services meet records management and e-discovery. E-mail archiving solution vendor Fortiva offers an online tool (“Policy Builder“) to generate a corporate electronic communication policy covering topics such as acceptable e-mail use and records retention. The tool is free; registration...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Legal Publishing and Context Sensitive Ads
Two respected publishers now offer e-discovery (EDD) help, both supported by advertising. Law.com (ALM) offers its e-discovery roadmap and Findlaw (Thomson) its Electronic Discovery Rule Wizard. The former is organized by stage of EDD processing, the latter by the FRCP. Both have interesting interfaces, offer...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
1 min read
Harvard Law – Berkman Legal Technology Report
A Harvard Law legal tech study about which I posted last November has been published. Gene Koo of the Berkman Center for Internet at Harvard Law School wrote New Skills, New Learning: legal education and the promise of technology (PDF), a study with interesting findings...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
Legal Publishers in 2007 and Beyond
Legal publishers play an important role in the legal market. They have moved from print, to digital content, to assembling an array of services. How will changing technology affect the publishers? A large legal publisher recently asked me to address this question. This was not...
Ron Friedmann,
19 years ago
2 min read
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