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 Trial Manager, Values on May 8, 2008 | No Comments »
I always grab a book to read when I go on vacation. Something that doesn’t pertain to my work is typically the primary objective and I like it to be printed on actual paper. So a couple months ago on a trip to Florida, I picked up a copy of Steve Martin’s autobiographical [...]
Posted in Gadget Geek, Presentation, Trial Manager, Trial Preparation on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
In all aspects of life today, bigger is better, so why shouldn’t this apply in the courtroom? With many computer screens, projector screens, and televisions now featuring a 16:9 aspect ratio, rather than the 4:3 ratio, document treatments should fill the screen no matter what the screen size.
By looking at the image below, which overlays [...]
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 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 Legal IT, Trial Manager, Trial Preparation, Values on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Some reading for a cold night — which we’ve been in no shortage of here in Chicago. These are some of the voices I’ve been hearing and are shaping my thinking on our purpose here at Nextpoint. These sources seem to be confirmation that we’re moving into a phase of tremendous change in [...]
Posted in News, Trial Manager, Trial Preparation, tagged News on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do the names Zeke, Hunk and Hickory ring a bell? They were the three affable farmhands in ‘The Wizard of Oz’. These workers, employed at the Gale’s farm in Kansas, were transformed in Dorothy’s dream into (respectively) the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tin Man. At Nextpoint, we have named three of our farmhands [...]
