A Future Beyond Hammers
When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Arguably, litigation support has been a one-tool affair to date. What I saw at Legal Tech this past week suggests the possibility – if not necessity – of expanding the toolkit. To be...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
E-discovery and De-duplicating
Newly developed software may prove promising to address the problems of duplicate and near-duplicate documents in discovery. Why are duplicates a problem? First, lawyers may inconsistently tag duplicates or near dups, meaning some versions are designated responsive and some non-responsive, some privileged and some not-privileged....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
2 min read
Bringing EDD In-House: A Bad Idea
A recent article suggested that law firms should make electronic evidence discovery an in-house profit center. Blogger Adam Smith, Esq. beat me to the punch in explaining why this is an ill-considered idea. His post, EDD: Look Who’s Not Coming to Dinner, explains three reasons...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
1 min read
Litigation Support Market Set to Consolidate
Litigation support has long been a fragmented market: many suppliers and no single one with high market share. A new study suggests this will change. It also finds – and I believe this is related – that most large law firms lack electronic evidence expertise....
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
Evolving Electronic Discovery Rules
The article Federal Courts Propose Rules for E-Discovery in the New Jersey Law Reporter provides an interesting update on potential changes in the rules of discovery, especially with respect to digital data and electronic evidence discovery. Readers who follow the e-discovery world know that the...
Ron Friedmann,
21 years ago
3 min read
Developments in Full Text Searching
Regular readers of my blog know that I have a long-standing interest in the potential of full-text search technology for both litigation support and knowledge management applications in large law firms. With the seeming explosion of new companies offering advanced full-text approaches, I have been...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
4 min read
Technology to Present in Court
The Wall Street Journal reports today on the growing use of technology in trials. This raises an interesting point, an extension of my prior post about lawyer resistance to change. “Courtroom-Technology Firms Give Evidence State-of-the-Art Look” (WSJ, 5/26/04) reports that growing use of technology...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
Marsh & McLennan Acquires Kroll
Marsh & McLennan announced on May 18th that it would acquire Kroll, provider of electronic evidence services via KrollOntrack. It will be interesting to see what impact, if any, this has on the litigation support and electronic evidence market. Identical press releases (Marsh and Kroll)...
Ron Friedmann,
22 years ago
2 min read
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