Frank - The NextPoint Blog
" 'Frank' isn’t a person. It’s the way we talk: honest, direct, to the point. Our blog fosters lively discussion about trial preparation, thematic development, technology and power of simple. At Nextpoint, we shave with Occam’s Razor."
Author: Nextpoint is a litigation services firm with offices in Chicago, Los Angeles and Madison, Wis.
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Recent Posts from Frank - The NextPoint Blog
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New Problem, Old Paradigm
As I was reading this article Legal Technology - Coming to Terms on Mining Metadata, I couldn’t believe that courts would consider barring opposing counsel from searching metadata within a document that they have been…
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Using Simple Language
Our creative and technology expertise are driven by the idea that simpler is better. Jargon is toxic and is purposely designed to create communications barriers. In fact, that’s the whole point of jargon. Here’s a…
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The “Other” Federal Bailout
On September 8, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that adds Rule 502 to the Federal Rules of Evidence and President Bush officially signed it (who says he’s not doing anything for this…
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Matter Specific IT As A Pass Through
As the sheer volume of ESI overwhelms the existing EDD competencies of law firms perhaps it’s time to fundamentally question the underlying the basic business model of technology investment by law firms. For purposes of…
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Everyone’s in the same boat
One of the exciting things for us is seeing the interest in our web application from other litigation support providers. Anyone who is in the business of helping corporations and law firms with their technology…
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IT Consumerization
A recent post on ars technica describes an emerging trend dubbed IT consumerization. Basically the idea is that the technology industry’s innovations are now primarily focused on the consumer market. Great new technologies start with…
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The Plane! The Plane!
To borrow from Tatoo, seems like internet on the planes will be a service here sooner rather than later. Maybe rich corinthian leather is next! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121382851874286403.html?mod=djemptech
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Discovering Discovery?
We’ve been talking a lot internally about how to approach the e-discovery roadblocks our customers are feeling pain about. As mentioned in a previous post, E-Discovery seems like an overly broad and at this point,…
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Plowing through eDiscovery
From Hacker/Essayist Paul Grahams Mind the Gap Will technology increase the gap between rich and poor? It will certainly increase the gap between the productive and the unproductive. That’s the whole point of technology. With…
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What Generation Is Your Software
Courtney got this link from her sister. It’s a newspaper ad from 1989 for the Tandy 5000 MC Professional System. First off, it just jumped off the page what an anachronistic view of technology this…