Lawyers, take note – “While the humans had better delivery, the group agreed, the machine offered greater substance in its arguments. That, IBM said, spoke to the heart of its goal: augmenting human beings to make decisions quickly and with more data than ever before.” In front of a jury, the human lawyer has the…
This is mostly because it’s too difficult and/or expensive to retain SMS messages, but I have another takeaway. “In other words, only 22 percent of FOIA requestors got everything they asked for. 22 percent!” The demand for the Federal government to move this percentage higher is going to result in a lot more scrutiny of…
It seems like a no-brainer, if you’re going to play in this field you should understand the technology, and learn how to cooperate so that eDiscovery isn’t this huge issue that it can be. And yet, here we are. Still having the same problems and the same arguments in many corners of the legal world….
This post is full of bad news like this: Radware released its 2018 Executive Application and Network Security Report. For the first time in the survey’s five-year history, a majority of executives (53%) reported paying a hacker’s ransom following a cyber attack. Ouch. Like most hacking/scam/spam tools, they are usually popular because they work. Ransomware…
This is pretty horrible. “Patients sitting in emergency rooms, at chiropractors’ offices and at pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing on their phones the kind of messages typically seen along highway billboards and public transit: personal injury law firms looking for business by casting mobile online ads at patients. The potentially creepy…
Honestly, I think one of the most common problems I’ve seen over the years is doing these steps, but in the wrong order. “Identify the facts and recognize missing pieces Confirm what you know Interview key players Compile data for analysis” Too many people are compiling ALL the data, then figuring out the case later….