Very helpful tips for tech-oriented paralegals interested in the challenging field of knowledge management (KM): "Law firms struggle with knowledge management. On the one hand, law firms are classic examples of information and knowledge businesses. On the other hand, managing lawyers has often been likened to 'herding cats.' Combining 'knowledge' with 'management' in the law firm setting has...
Gosh, I definitely need this advice! What does your desk look like? "Do you feel like you're buried under a mound of paper by the end of the day? If so, join the crowd. According to the Smead Corporation, which manufactures filing systems and records management products, the average office in the US spits out more than 45 paper missives each day - adding up to a whopping 1300 sheets of paper...
Sounds like a good idea to us: "ShadowCounsel, a paper and other media-to-digital conversion and remote paralegal support company serving law firms and other paper intensive enterprises, today introduced what is believed to be the first complete search and retrieval database processing service requiring no specialized software . “'Two products, Summation and Concordance, currently...
Wow, this is amazing info (pointed to by The Virtual Chase): "Public Printer Bruce James recently returned to the Rochester Institute of Technology, his alma mater and the school that launched his 40-year publishing career, to talk about printing. "After nearly four years of leading the U.S. Government Printing Office into the Digital Age as its chief executive officer, James recently...
From a tech, not legal, publication, but this article offers some good advice: "Many large projects generate a lot of documentation. Depending on the type of project, sometimes there are literally hundreds or even thousands of documents produced. One often overlooked aspect of a large project is the need to organize and manage all of the documentation. More and more companies have document...
Okay, these changes sound very helpful! "Another chapter in the history of Adobe Acrobat opened Monday, and this one includes some juicy plot points that might tantalize the legal industry. "Acrobat 8 now devotes a whole toolbar to redaction features allowing you to mark, apply and 'Search & Redact.' You can use different colors to delineate why you redacted certain portions (red...
Must read this article! "The $16 billion merger of SBC Communications Inc. and AT&T Corp. represented a high-water mark in the legal cattle call known as document production. Some 600 contract attorneys converged in Washington, D.C., to work on the SBC side of the deal, where the telecom giant's antitrust counsel, Crowell & Moring and Arnold & Porter, ran a massive antitrust...
Sure lots of us would agree with this sentiment, but what might it mean for paralegals? "Mention offshore outsourcing, and Americans fume. But who would cry if we outsourced the work of lawyers, with their fat fees and endless strategies for adding years to litigation? Sounds like a great idea, but many might say it can't be done anyway. Legal work is too sensitive and technical to risk...
Something litigation paralegals need to know: how word searches can limit the scope of e-discovery production: "With the impending changes in the federal rules related to electronic discovery, opposing parties will be required to discuss any and all discovery issues involving electronically stored information (ESI). "In this context, discussions will likely focus on what information...
Smart guidance & helpful discussion: "The wrong time to enact an e-mail archiving and retention plan is after your company gets audited or sued. The best way to protect your company, of course, is by developing a plan for managing and legally deleting your data before something happens. For companies just starting to look at their e-mail data retention policies...." The article...