The Estrin Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Shelia Grela Litigation Paralegal Sheila Grela is a Senior Litigation Paralegal and an advanced certified paralegal (ACP) in eDiscovery. He was recently honored with the 2024 Legal Professional of the Year – Law Practice Management award by the California Lawyers Association.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re a new litigation paralegal or have been on your litigation career path for years, Kim’s story is the perfect inspiration for welcoming mobility into your paralegal career and seeing the possibilities of where it can take you. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION? Prefer Audio Instead of Reading?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JANUARY 25, 2024

These were the top 7 actionable strategies and tips for litigation paralegals to accelerate their paralegal career in 2024. How to Get Up to Speed Fast on Your Cases I think one of the tips for litigation paralegals that could help here is what I had recommended in our three-step roadmap for new litigation paralegals.

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Rocket Matter

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Efficiency Imperative: Why Lawyers Need to Embrace Technology We are now in an era when clients demand fast turnaround times and value for money. This places huge demands on lawyers and their teams, making the old ways of working simply unsustainable. Inefficiency brings a host of problems for lawyers.

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Attorney at Work

APRIL 4, 2024

Ari Kaplan interviews Geoffrey Vance, chair of Perkins Coie's E-Discovery Services and Strategy Group, and Ross Guberman of BriefCatch. The post Judicial Preferences, AI, and Leveraging Technology in Complex Litigation appeared first on Articles, Tips and Tech for Law Firms and Lawyers.

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LawTechnologyToday

APRIL 13, 2022

Lawyers can be a tough crowd. Especially when it comes to technology, many lawyers are reluctant to put their confidence in workflows and solutions that seem to operate in a black box. Portable AI is an emerging tool that our teams are beginning to use to deliver practical improvements in e-discovery.

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The Estrin Report

MAY 13, 2024

Estrin Legal Apartheid: The Poisonous Impact of the ‘Non-Lawyer’ Label on Professional Equality There is a petition going around to strike the term “non-lawyer” from use by the ABA. They bring a wealth of knowledge and skill to their roles , often serving as indispensable members of legal teams.

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Above The Law

MAY 27, 2022

Companies and lawyers need to be prepared for the metaverse to play a real role in litigation. The post Welcome To The Metaverse: Challenges To Expect From eDiscovery appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

JULY 25, 2023

The cloud-based e-discovery company Nextpoint has received a growth capital investment from RF Investment Partners , a company that provides structured growth capital. The firm will provide discovery and litigation legal services to other law firms and to corporate legal departments.

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LawTechnologyToday

DECEMBER 9, 2022

“Slowly but surely” may be an apt phrase to describe the results from the 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report covering Litigation Technology & E-Discovery. Many Years and Much Litigation. Software for Litigation & E-Discovery.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MARCH 17, 2023

However, litigation technology can be tricky to understand. Using Litigation Technology Effectively Litigation technology can be tricky, but learning how to use it effectively is worth it and important for a litigation paralegal. Technology can help you as a litigation paralegal in many ways.

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JayS.Rothman&Associates

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In California State court, the discovery process plays a crucial role in litigation, serving the purpose of ensuring fairness, facilitating the exchange of information, and promoting efficient case resolution. The methods of discovery and the timing associated with them are governed by California’s Code of Civil Procedure.

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LawTechnologyToday

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Each trend has its roots in the now well-established field of litigation-support technology. Litigation technology was born out of a need to manage the high volume of potentially responsive documents because of the shift from paper to electronic documents and communication. Document Review Tools. Automation.

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Above The Law

APRIL 2, 2025

At one point, early in the generative AI era, I wondered if developing this technology to essentially take over first-pass review and hand senior lawyers who view computers much like the Supreme Court views voting rights access to interrogate discovery materials might deal a devastating blow to the alternative legal service provider sector.

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LawSites

MAY 30, 2023

In a first for an e-discovery technology company, Chicago-based Nextpoint is launching an Arizona law firm June 1 under that state’s liberalized law practice rules that allow non-lawyers to own law practices. Its lawyers will not appear in court. ” Leading the firm as managing partner is Andrew R.

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LawSites

MARCH 12, 2024

Proxiio Global Solutions , an India-based provider of litigation and corporate legal services for law firms and in-house legal departments, is today officially launching in the United States. sales Peter Vazquez , vice president of business development, who was formerly regional director of e-discovery sales for Consilio.

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LawTechnologyToday

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The ABA Legal Technology Survey Report is the most comprehensive study available of lawyers’ actual technology use, spanning a vast range of topics from security and basic office software to technology budgets, marketing tools, and much more. V: Litigation Technology & E-Discovery.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 9, 2022

A new litigation paralegal should look at three key areas early in their career. These three key areas to focus on early in your litigation paralegal career are about more than just paralegal skills. These three key areas to focus on early in your litigation paralegal career are about more than just paralegal skills.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The skills that you need as a litigation paralegal in a law firm are going to be completely different than the skills you need as a commercial real estate paralegal working in-house. It’s the same when lawyers graduate from law school. This problem is not unique to the paralegal profession.

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Now, Casetext is formally launching that search tool under a new name, AllSearch , and with a focus on helping litigators search large sets of legal documents, including for e-discovery or to search internal databases and repositories, such as brief banks, litigation records, deposition transcripts, and expert reports.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

As a paralegal, you will also be required to have an advanced skill set in practice-specific technology, such as e-discovery tools, trial technology , and applications that increase the efficiency of the legal team. A paralegal with a proactive mindset prioritizes tasks so that they are done when the lawyer needs them done.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc., Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 16, 2022

You know, one of those CLE companies calls you or reaches out on LinkedIn and says we would love to have you do a training session on a litigation or real estate topic. Fast forward a couple of decades, and I get a call from one of those companies asking if I’d like to present a 60-minute webinar on a litigation topic.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

AUGUST 11, 2022

In it, they announced the launch of Robo Review, a software that incorporates legal AI to help lawyers research patent applications before filing. If you’re in litigation, you’ve been hearing about and working with legal AI in your eDiscovery technology tools for years. Something a patent paralegal might typically do.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 18, 2023

Do you want to know what a path from paralegal to lawyer can look like? I started the process, then went to work for a law firm and a team of lawyers that had me sitting second chair at trials, and they paid me very well. Again, that was learned from having a lawyer come to me and say, “Hey, great job marking up this contract.

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The Estrin Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

You can get on software websites such as Relativity (the most popular litigation support software at this writing) and take the tutorial for free. Obtain certifications in relevant legal tech, such as eDiscovery and AI-powered case analysis. Talk with a lawyer, if you feel you have a case. Are you discouraged and want to sue?

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The Legal Ease

JANUARY 5, 2022

Litigation Technology and E-discovery. As I discuss in the article , I think this is a missed opportunity, especially since client portals make communicating with clients efficient and keeps client communications in one place (not to mention, often more secure than the way lawyers and clients are currently using email).

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LawSites

AUGUST 15, 2022

Last January, the law firm Redgrave LLP , which specializes in e-discovery and information law, formed the company Redgrave Strategic Data Solutions LLC to provide “i nnovative services and solutions centered at the intersection of the law, technology, and science.” for advanced client data solutions?at at Hogan Lovells.

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LawTechnologyToday

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Lawyers Duty of Competence) professional competence requires that attorneys keep “abreast of changes in the law and its practice, including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology.” . 2015-193, makes it clear that “in today’s technological world, almost every litigation matter potentially” involves e-discovery.

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LawSites

JANUARY 3, 2024

BriefCatch BriefCatch empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples. Ai.Law Ai.Law provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery.

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The Estrin Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

When you hear things such as “just need a good trial lawyer or paralegal” or “typical legal assistant responsibilities”, a red flag should go up immediately. She publishes the prestigious digital magazine, KNOW , the Magazine for Paralegals , and is the former Editor-in-Chief of Sue , the Magazine for Women Litigators.

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LawSites

AUGUST 18, 2021

An international working group of academics, vendors, lawyers and other legal professionals is today releasing the legal industry’s first comprehensive guide to best practices and workflows for creating effective legal documents in Microsoft Word. To my mind, the result is not to constrain creativity, but to enhance effectiveness.

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Cenza

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This combination will also allow expanding contract management solutions by blending consulting, advisory, project management, hosting, and legal AI with lawyers-in-the-loop. “We KLDiscovery Inc. (“KLD”), We couldn’t be more excited to join the KLDiscovery team,” said Aditya Mirza, CEO of Cenza.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Estimates say some 60 percent of small business owners deal with legal problems without the assistance of a lawyer, and countless middle-income Americans go without legal help. The sponsors and exhibitors are focused on products for e-discovery, contract lifecycle management, large firm financial and business management, and the like.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The e-discovery company DISCO said today it has entered into a long-term license with the international legal research company vLex to obtain access to its U.S. primary law library of cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. Earlier this year, vLex acquired Fastcase and its collection of U.S.

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LawSites

MARCH 23, 2023

As has been the case for several years, e-discovery and contract-management companies dominated the news coming out of Legalweek. See also my posts this week about the expansion of Law.com Radar and about two surveys from LexisNexis on generative AI and litigation analytics. Here is part two.

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LawSites

AUGUST 31, 2022

Virtually all search tools – whether for legal research, e-discovery review, document review, or anything else – are confined to indexes. It has dramatically changed how lawyers and legal professionals work. No doubt, keyword search is powerful. New Ways to Search. Examples and Alternatives.

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