Posted in Legal IT, Values on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »
A recent post on ars technica describes an emerging trend dubbed IT consumerization. Basically the idea is that the technology industry’s innovations are now primarily focused on the consumer market. Great new technologies start with the consumer and are later adapted to the enterprise. Think iPhone or Gmail & Google Docs. It’s a big shift.
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Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager, Trial Preparation, Values on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
From Hacker/Essayist Paul Grahams Mind the Gap
Will technology increase the gap between rich and poor? It will certainly increase the gap between the productive and the unproductive. That’s the whole point of technology. With a tractor an energetic farmer could plow six times as much land in a day as he could [...]
Posted in Legal IT, Values on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
A recent post on law.com discusses the maturity of computer assisted search and review technologies. It describes some recent tests that were run comparing the predominant boolean search methodology with newer approaches such as concept searching, clustering, taxonomies, and um… Bayesian classifiers of course (calculating probabilities based on known relevant results). What they [...]
Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager, Values on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Not be confused with Supply and Demand, Comply and Command is the way we’ve come to think about the eDiscovery and evidence management processes. No offense to the serviceable 9-step process laid out by EDRM.net or the many other eDiscovery survival guides. But in our experience working with law firms, corporations, and legal [...]
Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager, Trial Preparation, tagged Add new tag on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Complexity’s inevitable result is failure. No matter how it’s dressed up packaged and sold, too much complexity is a bad thing. We develop really creative ways to simplify complex concepts for juries. Our technology lab makes software that simplifies really complicated data management processes.
When people ask us about the value we can [...]
Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager on March 24, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I recently met with a law firm to demo Nextpoint and talk about our Vision services supporting lawyers in trial practice. They listened politely, too politely, and said that they found this very interesting. But there was a sense of serenity of confidence and complacency that was disturbing. Even those firms that [...]
Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Every now and then I get into a discussion where someone thinks locally installed software applications will always be the dominant player in the market - kinda like the way dinosaurs will always rule the world.
Contrast this attitude with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect, Ray Ozzie. There is no company who would be more invested [...]
Posted in Gadget Geek, Legal IT on March 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just posting a quick link to our post on the Nextpoint Lab Blog about the iPhone SDK and its implications for law firms. Hope you enjoy it!
Posted in Legal IT, Trial Manager, Values on March 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Wayne Smith and Mark Manoukian posted a nice summary of Software as a Service (SaaS), Open Source, and Virtualization on law.com’s legal technology blog yesterday. It’s great to see law firm IT directors seeking out new approaches and showing a willingness to break out of the traditional paradigms followed in our industry. [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Legal IT, Values on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Like so many others, I’ve made the leap to iPhone and so far I’m really enjoying the switch. Rest assured I have no intention to write yet another iPhone review, but I will say that it feels like a big step forward in the quest for ubiquitous computing. I do have a simple [...]
