Mindfulness is a popular term coming out of psychology and Buddhism. It means moment-to-moment awareness of events as they are happening. Before you roll your eyes and dismiss this as new age-y nonsense that doesn’t apply to litigation, consider that the reason litigation costs explode is often a simple lack of awareness. Brainpower and…
read moreNo matter how well a litigator plans and organizes a new case, some new wrinkle or challenge will interfere with their plans. Next month, Nextpoint will introduce our Client Success Summer Camp, a free, three-part webinar that will offer all of the tips, workflows, and guidance you need to manage any matter from start to…
read moreNextpoint 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…
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 moreWhen Jason Molder left a large firm to start his own practice, his colleagues warned him that his plan to start his own boutique law firm was going to be rough. They told him, you’re not going to have the technology, infrastructure, and expensive software that a large law firm can support. A few years…
read moreOn Friday, I sat down with Josh Gilliland from the Legal Geeks podcast to talk about legal technology trends for 2014. Unlike most legal technologists, I decided NOT to talk about the usual legal technology trends. At least not directly. Instead, I wanted to talk about a broader issue that often gets lost in these kinds of…
read moreLawyers like to put up a tough front. In fact, that’s their job – to be a zealous advocate for their clients. But underneath the tough facade, lawyers are only human and capable of making mistakes – especially when it comes to technology. Let’s be honest – no one can ever truly prepare for the…
read moreWhat is the first thing people say about lawyers? Do people talk about how great their lawyer is? Do they talk about the zealous representation, or ethical service and high standards? Sadly, no. They talk about their bill. No matter how good legal representation is, people usually talk about how much it cost. Even when…
read moreThis is the first in a two-part series looking at how Judges and Federal Rule-makers are attempting to make eDiscovery less expensive. The last time the federal courts adopted new rules for the use of electronic evidence in litigation, things went pretty well. Everyone knew that courts needed rules to make lawyers take electronic evidence…
read moreCost is still the most challenging problem in eDiscovery. The volume and complexity of discoverable evidence in litigation is such that law firms are struggling to manage it in-house. As we’ve discussed before, the battle to control litigation support IT costs is being fought on two fronts – one, the overall firm technology infrastructure, and…
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