Recently, I wrote quite a bit about the misconception that younger employees are automatically more technically qualified when it comes to understanding things like electronic discovery. As I said at the time, The ability to use an iPhone has nothing to do with knowing how to create a data-map, a deep understanding of PST files,…
In an otherwise maddening post about his experience with a law school student, Craig Ball makes an interesting “throw away” comment: We look to the crop of eager young lawyers to be inherently more adept at e-discovery than we who preceded them. After all, they have iPhones. Craig (who I assume was being facetious), is…
In all of the recent discussion about creating a certification for Litigation Support professionals to measure their proficiency in working with electronic discovery, I’ve always felt a strong push against the idea, but could never really articulate what about it bothered me. Today, in reading Chris Dale’s blog post about it, it clicked for me….
Two things struck me as more connected than it might first appear today as I was reading through my RSS feeds. First, the announcement that Merrill Corp. is going to to partnering with the University of Alabama on an ESI course, and the second that the latest Kroll OnTrack survey shows a steady increase in…
OK, so I’ve seen all the “experts” talking about how Foursquare is going to be the next big thing, and I’ve seen other folks using it, and looked at what it is, and how they’re using it, and I’m just not seeing the point. Oh I see the point for commercial opportunities, isn’t having all…
Many of you may already know this, and to some extent I’m marking this here for my own purposes, but you can download the Enron data set from the EDRM website and use it as sample data for testing purposes. Personally, I’m going to grab some of the data for testing, and for training. Never…