Legal Technology Blog

ILTA 2007

2007-08-28T06:25:00.000-07:00

The International Legal Technology Association annual conference was held in Orlando, Fla.in August. The theme was collaboration and communication to solve IT problems. A variety of new product offerings were on display in the vendor hall and there were several legal technology and collaboration and other educational tracks offered at the conference.

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Wiki

2007-05-22T12:23:00.001-07:00

There is an article on law.com (http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1178269484628) describing how some legal professionals are using a new technology (the same one used for on-line encyclopedias) in the legal profession.

Client Change Practice Groups

2007-05-22T12:21:00.000-07:00

There are more and more client change practice groups being created at law firms in response to these emering issues. Firms are doing everything from creating practice group websites, to creating databases of articles and publications and we even found a law firm with a client change blog.

Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development Purposes

2007-04-12T05:07:00.000-07:00

Please feel free to join this webinar if interested:

The Litigation Support and Practice Management Peer Groups of ILTA are pleased to announce a free webinar titled, “Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development Purposes.”Be sure to join us for this webinar on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at 12:00 PM Eastern / 11:00 AM Central / 10:00 AM Mountain / 9:00 AM PacificTo register: https://sdma.webex.com/sdma/j.php?ED=92676442&RG=1Building a Law Firm Practice Area Portal for Business Development PurposesThis session discusses and shows how a hosted, Web-based collaboration system can be used to build a repository of information using technologies to support marketing efforts and demonstrate experience in virtually any area of law (IP, insurance, products liability, etc.). This application of collaboration technology is somewhat different than the "traditional" or "typical" use of collaboration technologies in the litigation support theater which provide services like calendaring, document management or case tracking/management.During the session, the Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold E-Discovery Portal will be used as a case study to illustrate these concepts.Presenter:Ken Jones, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP/XERDICT GROUP LLC Ken leads Xerdict Group LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sedgwick that provides litigation support extranets to clients. Xerdict offers Web-based collaboration products that help clients manage complex litigation data, such as litigation calendars, case management data, litigation costs, discovery materials and litigation documents in a secure and efficient online portal. Ken’s professional history includes information management and applications development positions in Fortune 500 companies, at which he led efforts to build innovative website content management systems, to construct worldwide Internet-based financial collection and reporting systems and to implement SAP modules in functional areas such as order processing, manufacturing and logistics.

Blog Journalists

2007-02-14T05:00:00.000-08:00

The Libby trial in Washington has a pretty interesting twist to it -- Blog journalists are receiving press credentials just as "traditional" media individuals are.

New Legal Extranet Reporting Capability

2007-02-14T04:55:00.000-08:00

Xerdict recently developed a new reporting capability within the CaseEnsemble Collaboration System for use in all collaboration systems.

The new reporting capability allows CaseEnsemble to produce any report generated by the system " Query Builder" in a configurable PDF format. To help properly format the reports, CaseEnsemble allows the system users and clients to define the report characteristics such as the report font, font size, and page size and orientation in the PDF file (prior to printing/saving/emailing the PDF file). This new feature, which adds to the existing CaseEnsemble functionality allowing clients to either view the report on the screen or export report contents to an Excel file, greatly improves CaseEnsemble clients's ability to save Case Management and other types of system reports in a useful and attractive format appropriate for printing or emailing to clients. This capability is particularily useful for those case management applications that require periodic reports (weekly, monthly, quarterly) to be sent to clients.

Xerdict / Method360 Alliance

2006-04-05T03:48:00.000-07:00

The Xerdict Group LLC and Method360, Inc. announced today a strategic alliance that brings together Xerdict’s web based collaboration technology and professional services with Method360’s enterprise project management and IT management services.

The alliance serves several mutually beneficial strategic purposes. One such benefit is that this partnership will help to further broaden Method360's already impressive and broad set of technology consulting services into the additional vertical markets of hosted collaboration software products, focusing on the legal sector in areas such as litigation support, document management and law firm marketing. Furthermore, the union of Method360 and Xerdict will help provide additional delivery mechanisms into the marketplace for Xerdict's leading legal collaboration product, CaseEnsembleTM. And most importantly, for our present and future clients, this new alliance positions both Xerdict and Method360 to expand and grow the set and range of high quality services and products they provide.

"Developing an strong relationship with an elite consulting company such as Method360 illustrates the importance Xerdict places in identifying and partnering with best-in-breed firms as integartion partners for our hosted collaboration products" noted Kenneth Jones, Chief Information Officer of the Xerdict Group LLC. Furthermore, comments Jonathan Wong, a Managing Director at Method360, "The Xerdict-Method360 alliance will expand an established client base to provide legal and non-legal industry clients with a comprehensive range of technology consulting ."

Both Method360 and Xerdict are available to discuss collaboration or other technology consulting needs with current or prospective clients. Free demonstrations of the powerful and flexible CaseEnsembleTM are also available upon request.

About Xerdict

Xerdict Group LLC is a subsidiary of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, one of America’s preeminent litigation and trial law firms. As part of Sedgwick’s focus on efficiency, productivity, and client service, Xerdict Group was founded in 2004 to offer outstanding litigation support technology including legal case management and practice management collaboration software products such as CaseEnsemble, ClientEnsemble and ProjectEnsemble and other technology-based litigation support services.

Contact :
Kenneth Jones, Chief Operating Officer
Phone: 973-286-4350
Electronic Mail: kenneth.jones@xerdict.com. (www.xerdict.com)

About Method360

Method360, Inc. has provided high-end consulting services including enterprise technology project management, data architecture, business workflow, SAP integration and IT management services since 1997. Client industries include legal, financial, healthcare/pharmaceutical, telecommunications, utilities, retail and insurance.

Contact:
Jonathan K. Wong, Managing Director,
Phone:
Electronic Mail : jwong@method360.com. (www.method360.com)

LegalTech 2006 West

2006-03-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

This conference is scheduled for June 5-6, 2006 in Los Angeles. For more information please click here.

Courtroom Technology

2006-03-08T08:10:00.000-08:00

Law.com has a very interesting article on courtroom technology. It is available by clicking here.

2006-03-05T08:19:00.000-08:00

There are a number of very good articles out on disaster planning and contingency planning and the need to plan appropriately in this area. Once of the better articles on this topic is in this month's CIO (www.cio.com).

Microsfot Security Issues

2006-01-11T10:39:00.000-08:00

Microsoft has published several updates on this topic in the past few days, if you are not aware of them please be sure to do a bit of research on the topic so you can properly protect and update your PC's and network environments.

Buying a laptop?

2005-10-20T05:00:00.000-07:00

Here is a nice resource and article to assist one in making a purchase of a laptop.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-7602_7-1016082-2.html?tag=cnetfd.sd

ZoneAlarm

2005-10-20T04:58:00.000-07:00

ZoneAlarm, who makes a very nice personal firewall product, is moving into the anti spyware area. The article describing this is below.

http://reviews.cnet.com/ZoneAlarm_AntiSpyware/4505-3667_7-31563660.html?tag=cnetfd.sd

Holographic Imaging

2005-08-24T06:01:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting article on this new and exciting technology and how it might be appropriately used in the context of the courtroom. To review the article please click here.

Remote coding solutions

2005-08-08T07:49:00.000-07:00

You might want to consider a legal extranet as a possible way of enabling multiple document codes from multiple document locations to work through and categorize documents which require categorization as part of the discovery process or other legal requirements.

Chip prices are dropping

2005-08-08T07:42:00.000-07:00

This could mean lower prices for PC's in the future. Good news for those charged with keeping equipment up to date.

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=GU3VA3O0JWNFSQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=167600320

Firefox Version 1.5 beckons

2005-08-07T07:47:00.000-07:00

See the referenced article for more information.

http://www.linuxpipeline.com/news/166402116

Tougher Punishment For Identify Theft

2005-08-04T07:43:00.000-07:00

The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act would require companies with large numbers of customers to extend and exhance various types of privacy protection measures. More details are available by clicking here....

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166404272&tid=6295

In-flight cell phone and data standards work marches on

2005-08-02T07:46:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting update for those of us who enjoy spending our time wisely while on the road.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/mobile/167600505

New Browser Version Available

2005-07-14T07:48:00.000-07:00

The Mozilla Foundation has posted the second alpha edition of its next stand-alone browser, for now code named "Deer Park." The link is available at this address:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702111&tid=5979

On-line Privacy Investigators

2005-07-12T07:49:00.000-07:00

Here is a really interesting article, looks like some of the methodologies used by investigators are fairly aggressive and that the FTC will be looking into these practices. For more information on this please visit the following link:

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701674

Open Source Migration Article

2005-07-05T04:40:00.000-07:00

If you are considering migrating some or all of your IT infrastructure to Linux, this recent article in CIO will probably be of interest to you. It covers many issues and lessons learned for one company which completed such a migration.

The article is available here: http://www.cio.com/archive/070105/cendant.html

Service Level Agreements

2005-07-03T04:44:00.000-07:00

If you are developing or deploying applications within your law firm (undoubtedly if you work in Applications Development within IT you must be involved in one of these activities) it is a strong practice to develop service level agreements on your applications with your clients. Having these discussions will help you and your client understand what is important to the business in terms of performance, features and reliability/availability. And, having this document in place will set some expectations with respect to the levels and types of service this application should be providing to the business.

More details on Service Level Agreements can be found in the recent article posted on CIO.com, which is available by clicking here.

Strategy to Avoid Shipping Backup Tapes

2005-06-30T04:03:00.000-07:00

Here is an interesting article proposing some electronic vaulting alternatives to snail-mailing electronic backup tapes all over the place....

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164901978&tid=16008

College Recruiting / Entry Level IT Job Programs

2005-06-27T04:08:00.000-07:00

Looking to recruit fresh IT talent? Here is an article from CIO which describes three different programs in place within the industry.

http://www.cio.com/archive/061505/staffing.html