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Power User Tips for Powerpoint
Power User Tips for Powerpoint 150 150 Nextpoint

Powerpoint 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…

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  • Jason Krause

Awesome Trial Presentations – Science Behind Better Trial Prep
Awesome Trial Presentations – Science Behind Better Trial Prep 150 150 Jason Krause

The bad news for any courtroom litigator is that no matter how hard you work, how many facts you gather, and how much you obsess over your content, the jury will forget most of the information you present to them. Fortunately, there is a ton of great research into retention and how to make your…

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How to Use iPads in the Courtroom: Tips for Litigators
How to Use iPads in the Courtroom: Tips for Litigators 150 150 Jason Krause

According to the American Bar Association’s Annual Legal Technology Report almost 50 percent of all attorneys use a tablet, and 9 out of 10 lawyers using tablets are using an iPad. That’s almost 400,000 lawyers using an iPad to do their work. But the real power of any iPad or tablet computer is in the courtroom, where the size, power,…

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  • Jason Krause

Lawyers and Legal Technology: A Love Match
Lawyers and Legal Technology: A Love Match 150 150 Jason Krause

Before coming to the legal technology industry, I spent five years in Silicon Valley during the dotcom boom. In Silicon Valley, I was used to dealing with early adopters and wannabe technology visionaries. These are people who loved technology in all of its forms, embraced change, and were desperately trying to look around the corner…

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  • Jason Krause

The Collapse of Big Law, and the Rise of Small Law Firms
The Collapse of Big Law, and the Rise of Small Law Firms 150 150 Jason Krause

In the past decade, twelve major firms with more than 1,000 partners between them have collapsed entirely. That’s an unfortunate trend, but one that will likely only get worse. Noam Schreiber summarized the coming legal conflagration this way in the New Republic: There are currently between 150 and 250 firms in the United States that…

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  • Jason Krause

Death of the PC: The Rise of the iPad Lawyer
Death of the PC: The Rise of the iPad Lawyer 150 150 Jason Krause

When we started the Nextpoint Evolution newsletter two years ago, the PC was still king and most lawyers were tied to their desktops. However, 2011 was also the first year that the U.S. market for personal computers shrank. It’s been a slow, painful decline ever since. The growth of tablet sales has been outstripping more traditional…

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  • Jason Krause

Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco
Litigation Support Technology: Lessons from the Healthcare.gov Fiasco 150 150 Jason Krause

The failure of the Healthcare.gov site has put a spotlight on the value of having well-designed, lightweight, and modern software. It seems like a lot of things went wrong with the new site, but the common assessment is that government’s development teams were unable to make the backend, legacy databases work with the more modern,…

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Nextpoint’s Guide to Trial Preparation for Expedited Trials
Nextpoint’s Guide to Trial Preparation for Expedited Trials 150 150 Jason Krause

Nextpoint is a trial services company. We manage data for a lot of multi-district (MDL) and complex litigation, including many cases that last for years. Some of our earliest cases are still active, thanks to appeals or new actions. It might seem like a litigation support technology company would like long engagements and oppose shortened…

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  • Jason Krause

E is for Arbitrator.
E is for Arbitrator. 150 150 Jason Krause

If you read the thousands of articles, news releases, and scholarly papers published every year about eDiscovery, you’d think that electronic evidence was only important in jury trials. The 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provided very clear guidelines for lawyers to follow regarding digital evidence in trial. e-Arbitration is a well-understood…

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5 Simple Steps to Deposition Designations
  • Jason Krause

5 Simple Steps to Better Deposition Designations
5 Simple Steps to Better Deposition Designations 1024 683 Jason Krause

This guide explains how to use deposition designations to your advantage for a smooth case planning and trial prep process. Testimony from a living, breathing person is always better than recorded testimony in any legal matter. But given the cost and scheduling conflicts that come with a trial, recorded depositions are often a necessity. The…

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