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    EDRM Remains Vital to E-Discovery

    by Albert Barsocchini

    The 9th annual Electronic Discovery Reference Model kickoff meeting wrapped up this week in Saint Paul, Minn., to set the agenda and direction for the year. All participants agreed that we continue to operate in the 1% bubble and the e-discovery community needs to find better ways to reach out to the other 99%. However, this problem seems to be solving itself. [MORE]

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12 on 12: Tech Gifts for Mom

Mother's Day is a great opportunity to treat your favorite mom to a new tech experience.

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Tech Circuit: Enron's Toxic Sandbox Edition

BeyondRecognition's John Martin says he discovered 7,500+ incidents of privacy invasions in the classic Enron email public database. [MORE]

D. Casey Flaherty, corporate counsel, Kia Motors America

Digital Signatures Are Safer Than Ink on Paper

Pen and paper is an inferior option for executing legally binding agreements. Yet a recent study commissioned by Adobe Systems Inc. found that 98 percent of surveyed managers "still rely on hard copy in the 'last mile' to deliver contracts to get clients and customers to sign on the dotted line." Such madness needs to cease. Electronic signatures are an idea whose time has long since come. [MORE]

Steven Barentzen

How to Protect Against Outside Counsel Overbilling

Overbilling is something that all consumers of legal services should know about and protect themselves from. There are several actions that a client can and should take to protect itself from possible overbilling abuses such as those alleged in the DLA Piper matter.

David Cowen, president and managing director of The Cowen Group.

Tech Circuit: Vocabulary Edition

David Cowen, president and managing director of The Cowen Group, brought together just the right combination of people on Thursday in midtown Manhattan to generate a spirited conversation around Big Data and Google's Jack Halprin spoke on "The Cloud: Fear, Irrationality, and Reality," at the City Club in San Francisco but right out of the box, he changed the vocabulary.

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Next! LTN Picks of Upcoming Panels & Events

Next! LTN Picks of Upcoming Panels & Events: This week includes an e-discovery boot camp, the Civil Rules Committee, Big Data, and drones. [MORE]

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12 on 12 Green Ideas to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

With spring in the air, it's a good time to identify favorite activities, products, law firms, services, apps, and websites that can help reduce our "carbon footprint." It all adds up to 12 (actually, a baker's dozen 13) green ideas on April 12. [MORE]

Michael Arkfeld

Tech Circuit: The Circle of Life Edition

Michael Arkfeld is on a quest to identify the next generation of e-discovery leaders; Heather Schultz finds apps that help guests share joyful wedding pictures, and we bid adieu to a legal technology veteran. [MORE]

Matthew Homann, CEO at Kendeo and founder at LexThink

Legal Market Disruptions Ignite at ABA Techshow

An event that started as a "lark" is now a tradition on the eve of the ABA Techshow. LexThink.1 (formerly Ignite Law) is a collection of thematic monologues delivered in six-minute increments that expound the future of law practice.

Mahshad Koohgoli

Using Open Source Software? Put a License on It

You may have heard the argument, or seen the poster, in software development organizations: Reuse the Code, Do Not Re-invent the Wheel. Using off-the-shelf code to accelerate software development and reduce costs is nothing new. If it is available, and does the job, then use it. Open source software is probably the ultimate manifestation of code reuse, widely recognized in software organizations. Without open source ... [MORE]

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