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 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 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 Values on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The title of Steve Martin’s first album and our approach to software development… “Let’s get small.” This week we’ll be launching a new version of Nextpoint.com that embodies this philosophy. We took a minimalist approach to the design and implementation and are already reaping the rewards.
What we changed is simple. We [...]
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 [...]
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 Values on February 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to assume for the sake of this post, that you’ve already decided to host your evidence with an outside service provider. That’s a decision that acknowledges the true cost of managing in-house production/evidence systems. From storage, to software, to staff it’s a huge commitment to manage your evidence in-house. But [...]
