The Secrets of Collecting, Processing and Reviewing Multilingual Data
December 27, 2012
How non-English data is handled, collected, processed, and translated during an e-discovery process can significantly affect the quality of the information that can be mined from electronically stored information (ESI). Key factors, including how data is encoded, what languages are present in the data and the systems and processes that are used to translate and review data will all impact the accuracy, timeliness and cost of the project.
Standard Law Firm Operating Procedures: Optional or Critical?
December 27, 2012
Without Standard Operating Procedures, law firms suffer from inconsistency, chaos and lack of control. Having SOPs is a must for legal IT departments. From lost equipment to lost passwords and data, not having written policies and procedures can create liability and losses that are sometimes unrecoverable.
Profiting from the Learning Curve
December 27, 2012
A recent study published by Altman Weil listed the ways in which chief legal officers would like to see their outside counsel embrace service improvements and innovation. The top four responses were greater cost reduction, non-hourly pricing, more efficient project management and improved budget forecasting. To anyone paying even cursory attention to the legal marketplace in the last half decade, these should not come as a surprise.
Leave As a Reasonable Accommodation
December 27, 2012
The time has come for the minority of circuits to join the majority, and explicitly hold that non-indefinite unpaid leave is a reasonable accommodation under the ADAAA. Cases prosecuted by women with difficult pregnancies would be particularly compelling impact cases to push the remaining circuits to explicitly accept non-indefinite leave as a reasonable accommodation.
Why Every Lawyer Needs to Lead
December 27, 2012
In a law firm environment, great leaders are necessary to provide client service, build client relationships, develop more junior lawyers, and generally ensure the profitable use of firm resources. This requires everyone's best thinking. How does a leader harness the group's best thinking? The most effective leaders use coaching skills. In other words, all they do is ask the right questions.
Protect Your Firm!
December 27, 2012
Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) programs, which allow employees to use their personally owned smartphones, tablets and laptops in and out of the work environment, are significantly changing information technology (IT). Law firms around the country are embracing BYOD as it lets executives and employees use the mobile devices, service providers and operating platforms of their choice.
Bit Parts
December 27, 2012
Reality TV Shows May be Substantially Similar<br>Suit Can Proceed Against Sponsor of Planned Awards Show<br>Translation of Russian Agreement Allows Copyright Claim to Be Reinstated
Counsel Concerns
December 27, 2012
Damages Assessed Against Lawyer with Share of Royalty Company for Fraudulent Transfer of Assets<br>No Judicial Estoppel against Law Firm in Malpractice Suit over Multimedia Patents
