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Jason Krause

Grow Your Law Firm with Social Media Marketing

Grow Your Law Firm with Social Media Marketing 150 150 Jason Krause

Social media marketing is an essential part of any law office’s advertising and marketing efforts. But we understand that social media is a little more complicated for law firms than it is for other businesses. Social media disclosure rules and lawyer advertising rules are going to complicate Facebook and Twitter efforts for any law firm.…

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Nextpoint Adds Predictive Coding On-Demand to Ediscovery Software

Nextpoint Adds Predictive Coding On-Demand to Ediscovery Software 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint is excited to unveil the integration of predictive coding on-demand technologies from our friends at Backstop into Nextpoint’s next-generation evidence management platform. What this means for our clients is that they now have access to advanced machine learning capabilities to meet any of their litigation, regulatory or compliance needs. By leveraging both companies’ expertise…

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Beyond Heartbleed: How to Secure Your Law Firm from Hackers

Beyond Heartbleed: How to Secure Your Law Firm from Hackers 150 150 Jason Krause

Imagine your law firm gets a call from the FBI or other law enforcement agency. An agent tells you an investigation has uncovered evidence that your law firm’s security had been breached and client data has been stolen. After checking on the report, not only do you find that hackers have in fact been in…

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Social Media Law

Social Media Law : Nextpoint’s Case Law Sampler

Social Media Law : Nextpoint’s Case Law Sampler 1000 678 Jason Krause

Think social media case law is only for special cases? Are you still wondering if it applies to your practice? In the past couple of years, social media evidence has become central to more and more matters, including all kinds of civil and criminal cases. We’ve seen more clients using our products to collect social…

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Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Moneylaw: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game 1000 667 Jason Krause

Yes, we ripped off that title. Michael Lewis’ classic sports book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, has helped popularize the idea that small, feisty organizations can identify inefficiencies in their market in order to compete with better funded competitors. In Moneyball, it was the underfunded Oakland A’s using advanced metrics that other teams ignored to…

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How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice

How to Rightsize the Modern Law Practice 150 150 Jason Krause

The legal industry seems to be finally bouncing back from a lost half-decade of stagnation. However, as the law practice business improves, it is not returning to the same law firms. According to most metrics, midsize law firms are taking a growing share of big-time litigation. For example, legal consultant Ken Lopez finds that medium-sized law…

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Why Social Media Archiving is Now a Lawyer’s Duty

Why Social Media Archiving is Now a Lawyer’s Duty 150 150 Jason Krause

This week a case in Florida has been getting a lot of attention when a state appeals court last week threw out an $80,000 settlement between a Miami prep school and a former headmaster. The reason?  The former headmaster’s daughter boasted about it to her friends on Facebook. “Mama and Papa Snay won the case against Gulliver,”…

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Looking for Straight Answers About eDiscovery?

Looking for Straight Answers About eDiscovery? 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint doesn’t sponsor many industry events. We used to do more, but too often these events have devolved from educational opportunities into sales and marketing road shows for vendors. However, we would like to point you to one upcoming event we are sponsoring, the University of Florida/EDRM eDiscovery Conference for the Small and Medium Case on March 14.…

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eDiscovery Tips: Getting More Done with Keyboard Shortcuts

eDiscovery Tips: Getting More Done with Keyboard Shortcuts 150 150 Jason Krause

We’re all looking for ways to work faster, more efficiently, and effectively. In litigation, you hear a lot about topics like predictive coding, analytics, and cloud computing as the keys to faster legal review. But today, let’s consider some more practical and day-to-day considerations, like keyboard shortcuts. Nextpoint has integrated a whole list of shortcuts…

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eDiscovery Burden

The Purpose of Discovery in Civil Litigation

The Purpose of Discovery in Civil Litigation 1000 667 Jason Krause

For many litigators, it’s easy to think of discovery in civil litigation as a burden. That may partly be because that’s all lawyers hear about from the self-styled eDiscovery “experts.” In our industry, there seems to be an endless stream of commentary about the ways exploding volumes of electronic evidence is crushing the legal system.…

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