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Trial Presentation 101: Impactful Courtroom Demonstratives
Trial Presentation 101: Impactful Courtroom Demonstratives 1000 679 Michael Beumer

TRIAL PREPARATION SERIES / PART THREE of THREE A looming trial or hearing date is no reason to panic. As we have described in PART 1 and PART 2 of our blog series, if your trial team has kept a well-organized and thoughtful document review and deposition process, your courtroom preparations and trial presentation phase…

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Nextpoint Named Leading eDiscovery Software in G2 Summer Report
Nextpoint Named Leading eDiscovery Software in G2 Summer Report 1024 551 Michael Beumer

Well, we did it again. For the fourteenth time in a row, Nextpoint has been singled out by G2.com for being a leading eDiscovery software in the crowded marketplace. We hear glowing reviews from our clients every day, but it’s always gratifying to receive recognition from one of our industry’s leading review sites.  The G2.com…

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Taking Depositions: Preparation Strategies for Attorneys
Taking Depositions: Preparation Strategies for Attorneys 1000 679 Michael Beumer

TRIAL PREPARATION SERIES / PART TWO of THREE Taking depositions is arguably the most useful discovery exercise to gather information and build a strong case. It is the only opportunity, prior to trial itself, where an attorney can question a witness about nearly everything he or she knows regarding the case. In other words, it’s…

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Trial Preparation 101: Strategies for Building Winning Arguments
Trial Preparation 101: Strategies for Building Winning Arguments 1000 679 Michael Beumer

TRIAL PREPARATION SERIES / PART ONE of THREE It is a fact of modern law that many litigators never actually try a case. And those who do rarely appear in a courtroom more than once or twice a year. But you must have a foundational strategy for trial preparation early in any case. Further, you…

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Effective Document Review
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Effective eDiscovery Document Review Guidebook
Effective eDiscovery Document Review Guidebook 1000 600 Michael Beumer

This free guide is full of best-practice tips for reviewing electronic evidence, protecting privilege and winning ediscovery. Before we get into the tactics and strategy of modern document review, it is important to remember the exact purpose of the review phase in discovery. According to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26, any party may…

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eDiscovery Document-Review-Responsive
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eDiscovery Document Review: Getting Results
eDiscovery Document Review: Getting Results 1000 657 Michael Beumer

DOC REVIEW Part III: Finding Responsive Documents in Your Evidence If you’ve read part one and two of our three-part Document Review series, you can understand why the review process is the most time consuming, error prone, and costly part of eDiscovery. However, it is also the most important and potentially rewarding phase. It’s the…

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eDiscovery Document Review: Search & Privilege
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eDiscovery Document Review: Searching for Success
eDiscovery Document Review: Searching for Success 1000 667 Michael Beumer

DOC REVIEW PART II: Organizing Your Evidence & Protecting Privilege Before we get too deep into our three part series on Document Review, let’s ask, why is document review even necessary? According to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 26, any party may obtain discovery regarding any non-privileged information that is relevant to a legal…

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Organize eDiscovery data
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eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories
eDiscovery Organization & Insight: Introducing Folder Categories 1303 597 Michael Beumer

If you’ve been reading our three-part blog series on document review, you know that the ultimate goal of ediscovery is not just to search, find, and present relevant documents. ediscovery is about organizing and making sense of an otherwise disorganized collection of evidence.   We’re excited to unveil our completed redesign that delivers more powerful…

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eDiscovery Document Review Strategy
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eDiscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle
eDiscovery Document Review: Strategy Is Half the Battle 1000 667 Michael Beumer

DOCUMENT REVIEW SERIES / PART ONE When most people think about ediscovery, they probably imagine a lawyer staring intently at a computer screen, hoping to find an incriminating document in a massive database of collected files. If that is your mental image, what you are picturing is the document review phase of ediscovery. However, if…

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cloud-based ediscovery software
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eDiscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story
eDiscovery Data Migration at Law Firms: A Modern Success Story 1000 668 Michael Beumer

eDiscovery Data Migration: Cloud to the Rescue Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm based in Minneapolis, had been using a legacy, on-premise eDiscovery platform for over a decade. When the vendor notified Foley & Mansfield that they were sunsetting their product, Amy Koski, Foley’s Litigation Support Services Manager, gained approval for an eDiscovery data…

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