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"Exploring the intertwined roles, costs and benefits of law and IT in a business environment."

Author: Bruce Wilson is a law and technology consultant in Seattle.

Blawg Related Categories: Law Practice Management • Legal Technology • Trials & Litigation • Evidence • Consultant

Recent Posts from Wilson IG

Even the biggest law firms mess up—that’s why we need contract automation
One of the innovators that the ABA journal has profiled as part of its “Legal Rebels” project is contract drafting guru Ken Adams. Ken is author of A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting, a…
Reduce e-discovery cost and disruption with Early Case Assessment
In previous posts (What is Discovery?, Evolution of eDiscovery Analytics, Tape Indexing Breathes Life Into Tape Storage) I’ve talked about early case assessment or “ECA.” ECA happens when a company looks at the information that…
e-Discovery document review: what should counsel outsource?
Earlier this week I blogged about placing the locus of control for e-discovery decisions in the right hands to ensure that the decisions made pass muster in court. To illustrate the potential impact of moving…
e-Discovery outsourcing 101: who makes which decisions?
Because e-discovery is complex, and the penalties for screwing it up are significant, the following choice should be considered periodically by attorneys, clients and IT people involved in e-discovery: “Do we do this piece of…
IT crapshoot: cost-cutting is costly in disaster recovery, archiving for e-discovery
Disaster recovery and archiving are key zones of interaction for IT and Legal Departments. When a lawsuit is filed and an e-discovery production request is received, a company must examine all of its electronically stored…
Catch-22 for e-discovery standards?
Lawyers are waiting for judges… who are waiting for lawyers. What’s a client to do? E-discovery law is always going to be out of step with information technology because of the way in which the…
Cloud Control: What to Look Out For When People in Your Company Use Web-based Software
As an enthusiastic user of SaaS (“Software as a Service”) applications, I’ve increased my own productivity via the cloud. But while wearing my Information Governance hat I see companies becoming sensitized to information control and…
TREC and the gold standard for document review
Ron Friedman recently blogged an excellent critique of TREC Legal Track’s effort to objectively assess eDiscovery document review practices. Like Ron, I commend TREC Legal Track while wishing to offer comments that may contribute to…
Desktop, laptop, email backups critical for employee lawsuits
I recently spoke with Thao Tiedt, a labor and employment partner at Ryan Swanson & Cleveland, PLLC, a mid-sized full service Seattle law firm. (Full disclosure: I’ve benefited from her incisive advice a number of…
Reusing document clustering categories to spend less on eDiscovery?
After drafting a blog post about mass data sampling and classification in the “cloud,” I became curious about the potential for reusing categories developed in eDiscovery sampling and classification projects as “seeds” for later projects.…