February, 2018

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Litigation Statistics: Settle or Fight?

Trial Technology

Although the overall percentage of cases filed actually going to trial remains predictably low (around 2-3%, depending on where you’re getting your data, the period covered, and type of case), this year has started off (for us, anyway) with a trend we’ve seen before during times of economic growth. I’m not going to get all analytical here, but it is noteworthy to those involved in litigation and related services.

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eDiscovery Basics

NSLT

Electronic Discovery – Culling Simply defined, “culling” means creating a subset of documents from a larger dataset. Typically, the most common usage, within the electronic discovery workflow, for “culling” to take place, is after we have collected a bunch of data and before we begin a document review. The goal is to reduce the volume of documents we need to review for production, aka the document review stage.

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Episiode 6: Casey Flaherty on Tech Competency, Legal Ops and Client Driven Change

Technically Legal

For Episode 6, we sat down with D. Casey Flaherty at the Legal Tech conference in New York City. Casey talked about a few things: how many lawyers struggle to master everyday technology, his experience as corporate counsel and the efforts he took in that role to improve the way company lawyers did their jobs. But, a good chunk of the conversation focused on Casey's belief that inefficiencies in legal service delivery will not change until clients demand change.

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eDiscovery Basics

NSLT

Electronic Discovery – Culling Simply defined, “culling” means creating a subset of documents from a larger dataset. Typically, the most common usage, within the electronic discovery workflow, for “culling” to take place, is after we have collected a bunch of data and before we begin a document review. The goal is to reduce the volume of documents we need to review for production, aka the document review stage.

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PracticePanther - Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

PracticePanther Law Practice Management Software PracticePanther prides itself on giving you ways to interact with your team. The program has a built-in chat program so you don’t need to hop over to Google Hangouts or Slack. You can also have PracticePanther notify you when certain client actions are taken, like when they open an invoice or make a payment.

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PracticePanther - Law Practice Management Software

NSLT

PracticePanther Law Practice Management Software PracticePanther prides itself on giving you ways to interact with your team. The program has a built-in chat program so you don’t need to hop over to Google Hangouts or Slack. You can also have PracticePanther notify you when certain client actions are taken, like when they open an invoice or make a payment.

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Slack - Office Technology Software

NSLT

The Definitive Guide to Slack for Litigators Would you like to spend less time in your inbox? How about communicating with your co-workers in realtime without needing to interrupt each other? If the answer to either question is yes, you should consider setting up a Slack account and inviting your team members to use it with you.

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Episode 5: Ken Grady on Lean Thinking and Law

Technically Legal

In Episode 5 we talk to Ken Grady about lean thinking and the practice of law. Ken explains that the main goal of lean thinking is to eliminate waste from business processes and that legal work is rife with waste. He also points out that eliminating waste from the practice of law might just free up time for lawyers to do other work, including the pursuit of access to justice initiatives.

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OneDrive - Office Technology Software

NSLT

OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide OneDrive is cloud file storage similar to Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. While Dropbox and Box better known, OneDrive is starting to gain traction, mostly due to its tight integration with Microsoft Office.

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OneDrive - Office Technology Software

NSLT

OneDrive for Lawyers User Guide OneDrive is cloud file storage similar to Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. While Dropbox and Box better known, OneDrive is starting to gain traction, mostly due to its tight integration with Microsoft Office.

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Xero - Office Technology Software

NSLT

Xero Accounting for Law Firms Xero is a cloud-based accounting software that has positioned itself as “The online accounting software alternative to QuickBooks” for lawyers and other small businesses. Like QuickBooks Online, it can work well as general-purpose accounting software for law firms, although it lacks specific trust-accounting features.

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Xero - Office Technology Software

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Xero Accounting for Law Firms Xero is a cloud-based accounting software that has positioned itself as “The online accounting software alternative to QuickBooks” for lawyers and other small businesses. Like QuickBooks Online, it can work well as general-purpose accounting software for law firms, although it lacks specific trust-accounting features.

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Microsoft Excel - Tips and Tricks

NSLT

Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.

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Microsoft Excel - Tips and Tricks

NSLT

Excel: Work with Macros You want to automate a repetitive task in Excel so that you can do the task again with a single click. The best way to do that? Record a macro. And the macro recorder is the easiest way to create a new macro in Excel.

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