By Aaron Fluss, FRONTEO
Aaron Fluss, the National Director of Managed Review for FRONTEO, talks about the value of creativity during document review and explains why, despite an explosion of data – and costs related to corralling all that data – technology can’t replace the human touch. His remarks have been edited for length and style.
Continue Reading How to Design Document Reviews To Cut Costs: It all starts with building the right workflow
By Charlie Platt, iDiscovery Solutions
A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to meet with some senior in-house counsel from a Fortune 10 company. We were discussing data and the powerful ways analytics can be used in litigation. One of the attorneys appeared somewhat dismayed, saying that while analytics are amazing and she really wanted to make use of the technology, rarely did any of her cases contain anything other than emails and documents. One of her colleagues asked, “Aren’t you working on the <XYZ> matter?” She was. Her colleague replied, “I used to work in that division; have you considered the following?” and then proceeded to list about a dozen different data sources that were present – many of which were good candidates for analytics.Continue Reading The Ethical Hacker: Data, Disputes, Discovery and more…I Got 99 Problems, But No Data Ain’t One
By Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
The Association of Corporate Counsel’s 2016 Law Department Management Report has a bit of a good news-bad news flavor to it.
The good news is that law departments continue to gain “greater access to the inner sanctums where decisions are made,” as ACC puts it in its executive summary. The bad news is that their hard-won seat at the table derives, first and foremost, from the perception that a law department is cost-efficient.Continue Reading Backstory: Reconnect Redux
By Shamir Colloff, FRONTEO
When you are looking for a needle in a haystack, the addition of more hay does not alter your objective, only your approach. The same is true when searching for relevant information. Although we live in an era of exponentially increasing data volumes, the reality is that the material that matters most remains constant. This was true 10 years ago, when the FRCP changed to include electronically stored information as a codified information source, and it’s true today: Just because you have more documents doesn’t mean you have more relevant documents. Those with the tools to sort, compile, analyze and apply the details they gather, rather than simply review them, have a valuable competitive advantage.Continue Reading Distinguishing Data That Matters Most: Survey says: Users want easily accessible metrics
By Bill Sowinski, David Moran, Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions
Legal bill reviewers are specialists who can help in-house counsel keep a close eye on the bottom line without spending all day poring over detailed invoice line items. Below, two legal billing and technology veterans, David Moran and Bill Sowinski of ELM Solutions, discuss the obvious, and not so obvious, advantages of third-party legal bill review. Their remarks have been edited for length and style.Continue Reading It’s All About That Bill: Invoice review specialists explain why managing the bill improves relationships with providers
By Metropolitan Corporate Counsel
Median compensation for general counsel increased slightly between 2014 and 2015 at companies ranging from under $1 billion in revenue to more than $15 billion, according to “General Counsel Pay Trends 2016,” a new survey from Equilar, which collects information on 150,000 executives and board members of public companies. The healthcare sector delivered the highest median total direct compensation for GCs at $3 million, as compared to an average of $1.2 million for the S&P 500 as a whole.Continue Reading Backstory: GC Comp: Doing More with . . . a Little More
By Lloyd M. Johnson Jr., Chief Legal Executive LLC
For in-house counsel, convincing colleagues in the C-suite —or in the rest of the company, for that matter —is rarely a simple matter of saying, “Do it. I’m the lawyer.” Influence and persuasion require strategic thinking, a deep understanding of a company’s objectives and culture, credibility in the organization, and a keen sense of timing.
Continue Reading Influencing the C-Suite: Advice for in-house counsel on the fine arts of influence and persuasion
By: Alan S. Kaplinsky
One of the ABA’s Top 100 Blawgs for four straight years, Ballard Spahr’sCFPB Monitor sets itself apart with its laser focus on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In the first of a continuing series of interviews focused on top bloggers in the top legal blogging network, LexBlog, Alan S. Kaplinsky, head of Ballard’s Consumer Financial Services Group, discusses the genesis and evolution of CFPB Monitor and the latest goings on in and around one of the federal government’s most active and controversial agencies. His remarks have been edited for length and style.
Continue Reading A Hot Blawg for a Hot Area: CFPB Monitor has emerged as the must-read blog in the consumer finance world
By: Hal Marcus, OpenText™ Discovery (formerly Recommind) & Ari Kaplan, Ari Kaplan Advisors
OpenText™ Discovery (formerly Recommind) recently partnered with Ari Kaplan Advisors to poll partners at leading law firms regarding e-discovery issues. The results are captured in “How Law Firms Are Incorporating Efficiency, the Cloud and Technology to Meet Enhanced Client Demands,” which is available at recommind.com/survey. The report provides an enlightening window into the varying approaches of in-house counsel and their outside firms in terms of technology solutions. Below, Ari Kaplan and OpenText’s Hal Marcus preview the findings. Their remarks have been edited for length and style.
Continue Reading Technological Advances Breed E-Discovery Collaboration: Survey reveals growing alignments and continuing disconnects between firms and clients
By: Brandon Leatha & Charlie Platt, iDiscovery Solutions
The year is 2004, and Google quietly releases a new offering called Gmail. It’s invitation only, and there is little fanfare. Techies pass invitations amongst themselves, and a cult following grows, but generally the world fails to take notice. The year is 2006, and Google launches Google Apps. Again, it’s seen as an interesting experiment but generally not taken seriously by the industry. Then small businesses and startups start noticing the service is free, and for small businesses, free is a critical differentiator. They can access their documents from the office, home, the road, an airplane or anywhere they find themselves. It’s collaborative; multiple users can edit the same document at the same time. This is how they work, and it gives them a competitive edge. The year is 2010, and Google announces that Google Apps is no longer in beta, and that almost 2 million companies are now using it. The year is 2015, and Gmail has just passed 900 million users and Google Apps has over 60 percent of the Fortune 500 as users.
