XIRA Upgrades Its Marketplace/Practice Management Platform for Solos and Eliminates Booking Fees
XIRA, a platform for solo attorneys to get clients and manage their law practices, is introducing a variety of upgrades to its platform as well as changes to its pricing that includes elimination of booking fees for new clients and new subscription fees for its practice management platform. I first wrote about XIRA in November 2020, …
Legal Data Wonks - New Report on the State of the Legal Market - Charts Galore
From : Blog Entry >> Maureen's Blog Entry 2023 Report on the State of the Legal Market by Thomson Reuters Posted on January 17, 2023 by Maureen Each year I look forward to the State of the Legal Market report in order to get a more granular look at the past year in legal services. In 2022, the demand for transactional law firm services declined, most notably in Big Law. But law firms continued to hire apace. The result was a drop in productivity and profits. Profit Per Equity Partner growth was down in 2022. But More
Excel Tips for eDiscovery
***Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author Kathy Dallaire, CEDS, eDiscovery and Litigation Support Coordinator, Stikeman Elliot LLP. In this blog, we will demonstrate some handy Excel formulas commonly used to build load files where the information required is spread out over multiple spreadsheets or has been parsed out into separate cells. While there can be numerous situations which require manually building a load file, hopefully these tips will save you some time and effort. [More]
Excel Tips for Litigation Teams (Or Anyone) - Pivot Tables
****Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of Julie Niebel. Julie has over 25 years of experience in Litigation Support / Information Services and is now retired. She is passionate about education, learning and trying to keep up with technology! Pivot Tables Pivot noun the central point, pin or column on which something turns or balances. 1 In the context of litigation and data sets, the two key words are: “column” and “turns”. A pivot table provides a way to “turn” [More]
Dennis and Tom’s 2023 Technology Resolutions – Podcast
Tom Mighell and I have an annual tradition at The Kennedy-Mighell Report podcast of publicly announcing and discussing our technology resolutions for the upcoming year. We also talk about how well or not so well we did with our resolutions from the last year. The 2023 edition of the podcast is now out to launch... Continue Reading...
Excel Tips for Litigation Teams (or Anyone) - Cheat Sheet
****Please enjoy this quick cheat sheet posted on behalf of the author, Denise Ash, Event Education Manager, ILTA. Concatenate Have you ever been tasked with having to combine multiple fields? If so, hopefully you used a formula to do it! If not, you should definitely check out the Concatenate function. Here is how I always get to it because it’s how I found it initially. 1. Click the Insert Function button (it is an fx ) to the left of the Formula Bar. 2. The Insert Function box [More]
Automate, Automate, Automate! (Like Marsha, Marsha, Marsha. Brady Bunch? Anyone? Sigh... Part 2
***Please enjoy this blog posted on behalf of the author, Phil Weldon, Director of eDiscovery and Litigation Support Technology, Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP. With Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), software has undertaken a Copernican Revolution. OpenAI's GPT3-5 has passed both Evidence and Torts on the bar exam . Where we used to have to point and click, we now have software that pushes its own buttons. We can now use low code RPA workflows coupled with [More]
