PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Paralegal Insights: A Collaborative Trademark Practice, Series 3
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Trending Now: An IP Podcast - Paralegal Insights: A Collaborative Trademark Practice
Regardless of how much discovery and litigation change, paralegals remain a central component to the success of any team, matter, or case. Honing their skills and consistently developing them is a hallmark of litigation...more
Technology can augment and streamline many aspects of the litigation process, but these advantages look different depending on the size of your practice. Thanks to innovations in the legal tech sphere, technical tools can be...more
Depositions are essential to gaining a full understanding of a case, and the resulting transcripts are a key building block of any winning argument. But between managing several transcript and video files, adding notes and...more
February 5, 2024: Destroying Solid State Drives - The Tip of the Night for March 25, 2022, mentioned that the data on solid state drives cannot be degaussed because such drives do not use magnetic fields to store data. A USB...more
Most lawyers and law firms want to organize their clients’ case files. Organization can be key to having a successful outcome. For example, lawyers need to be able to find pleadings quickly in court or in the office. It is...more
We have been examining what attorneys and their teams can do to receive a helpful rough draft, focusing on the steps you can take prior to the deposition. The importance of preparation cannot be overstated when it comes to...more
October 9, 2023: Projector Types - There are two basic types of projectors – digital light projectors and liquid crystal display projectors. An LCD projector sends light through a prism. A DLP projector works with micro...more
If you have an upcoming international deposition in Hong Kong, we’ve got you covered! Follow these top tips and recommendations for a memorable experience...more
We’re sharing our list of important tips for you when you prepare for videotaped depositions: Include “Videotaped” in your Notice of Deposition...more
Embrace the New Archetype in Transcript Management and Supercharge Your Outdated Litigation Process - Deposition transcripts have played a key role in case building since the dawn of our modern legal system. But the ways...more
August 8, 2023: Detect Whether or Not Text Was Generated by AI - It’s becoming more and more common to come across text on the internet which appears as though it may have been written by AI. You may question the...more
Oyango Snell, CEO and Executive Director at the California Lawyers Association (CLA) and the California Lawyers Foundation (CLF) and Tony Sipp, cohost of the podcast, “The Paralegal Voice” and the Paralegal Manager for...more
July 1, 2023: Javascript to Split PDF Into 5 Page Segments and Save & Rename - You can use javascript code in Adobe Acrobat to extract set ranges of pages from a PDF file and then save and rename each extracted PDF range...more
Global Advisory Board Chair Ari Kaplan, a legal industry analyst and principal of Ari Kaplan Advisors, moderated a conversation for the ACEDS community about how paralegals can elevate their roles with board members: Joy...more
Who doesn’t dream of one day going to Europe? From Big Ben to the Louvre, the Colosseum to the Alps, the beaches to the food, countless cultural touchstones call visitors from around the globe to this magnificent continent...more
In our previous article, we introduced the ACEDS Summer Sale. We highlighted the benefits of joining ACEDS, enrolling in training, and pursuing certification in e-discovery. We want to delve deeper into why professionals in...more
June 3, 2023 – Hunting External Links - Tonight I used the below vba code posted here by Domenic to successfully generate a list of each cell in a workbook which contained a link to an outside Excel file. This code is...more
May 6, 2023 – Finding Abandoned Families in Active Learning Projects - In an Active Learning project if a reviewer, while in the course of reviewing a family of documents for a prioritized review, is taken off a project,...more
April 7, 2023 – Stopping Excel From Rounding off Long Numbers During Import - The Tip of the Night for March 24, 2023, warned about Excel’s tendency to cut off numbers with multiple decimal places. Excel will also round...more
March 4, 2023 – Searching for Emojis in Relativity - A Relativity admin can make it possible to search for emojis in a Relativity workspace. A dtSearch index can be edited to include a special code that will enable the...more
2/4/2023: Regular Expression Search to Get the Line Count in a Text File - Running the regular expression search: \S+\s*$ . . . in a text editor like NotePad++ will generate a count of the number of non-empty lines in...more
January 1, 2023—Searching Inside an Excel Cell for One of Multiple Strings - You can use an Excel formula to check to see when any one of multiple values appears in the contents of a cell. ...more
Nextpoint wants to bring just a little more strategic planning to your firm’s ediscovery process. Like any other stage of litigation, there are ways to maximize your chances of success in ediscovery. You want to receive...more
Legal data volumes have exploded in our modern digital age, which can translate to huge cost increases if not handled properly. It’s more important than ever for legal teams to make strategic decisions at the outset of a case...more
December 4, 2022 – S.D. Cal.: Request for Production from Backup Tapes Denied - In 2015, Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo, in United States ex rel. Carter v. Bridgepoint Educ., Inc., 305 F.R.D. 225 (S.D. Cal. 2015), ruled...more