No legal presentation is ever like another. Sometimes attorneys handle dry, complicated intellectual property matters; other times, emotional personal injury cases. But in many years of making dynamic presentations for all kinds of hearings and audiences, our team has learned that there are a few important steps that will ensure your slides have the weight…
read morePowerpoint is one of the more unfairly maligned tools in a lawyer’s arsenal. Yes, presentations that rely on the default color schemes and fonts are probably not going to look good. And presentations that are too wordy or have long lists of bullet points are going to bore your audience. But, PowerPoint is still a…
read moreAt Nextpoint we talk to thousands of attorneys with all types and sizes of cases. It’s fair to say every case is unique, attorneys’ clients are all difficult in their own way, and that traditional litigation technology fails legal teams for different reasons. That said, law firms tend to come to us when they are…
read moreCloud-based e-discovery software providers join forces to provide a cost-effective flat rate document discovery solution from collection to production. Cumulus Data, Inc., the creators of eCloudCollect™, today announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with cloud computing leader Nextpoint, to provide an integrated end-to-end eDiscovery solution. The service will allow corporations, law firms…
read moreElectronic redaction in Nextpoint is designed as the ultimate failsafe. Once a piece of information, other parties or opposing counsel cannot recover it. (This has not always been true of other technologies, where redaction failures are common.) In order for redacting to work, it has to be truly unreadable and unrecoverable once in place. Unfortunately, the failsafe…
read moreWe’re excited to bring a significant refresh to the Discovery Cloud experience, as we introduce Enhanced Review Metrics this week. These updates add more clarity to your review at the Reviewer and Subreview levels and provide visibility into the advancing progress of reviews. Further, the ability to more clearly differentiate between documents that are not…
read moreA guest-post by Joshua Gilliand of Bow Tie Law There are phrases a lawyer never wants to hear a judge say. One is your law firm “acted negligently in failing to comply with its eDiscovery obligations.” Another is your client “acted willfully in failing to comply with its discovery obligations and assist its outside counsel…
read moreBy this point, I’m sure you’ve seen a lot of sensationalist news about cloud computing. That’s to be expected, as cloud computing represents a huge technological shift and will continue to demand a lot of attention. Yesterday, the Washington Post published this gem of an article based on a power outage that impacted one of…
read moreCloud computing has clearly changed the technology landscape. Most users are familiar with the decreased storage costs and productivity gains found in cloud solutions, but there are other, more subtle ways cloud platforms take advantage of the efficiencies of the Internet. One of the most liberating aspects of adopting a cloud solution for hosting your…
read moreFourteen years ago, if you visited Google.com, you would have found pretty much the same basic search functionality you see today. Amazingly, since that time Google has been able to offer the same mind-blowing search speeds despite the explosion of content. In 1998, Google indexed 28 million pages. By 2000 that number was 1 billion.…
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