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
The so-called “modern attachments” found in emails, collaboration software platforms like Slack and MS Teams, and other digital formats are presenting interesting and frustrating challenges for legal professionals in terms of...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
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
Embrace the New Archetype in Transcript Management and Supercharge Your Outdated Litigation Process - Deposition transcripts have played a key role in case building since the dawn of our modern legal system.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
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
Litigation in our modern digital age often forces legal teams to sift through a mountain of electronic data to find potential evidence. Early Data Assessment can reduce this mass of data and give legal teams valuable insight...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
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
10/8/2022: Printer Settings on Local Computer Carry Over to VMWare - When you send a job to a printer not on your office network from inside VMWare or another VPN, you may not see all of the options which should be...more
9/3/2022 – LINE CONDITIONERS - Most people will have a used a power strip with a surge protector at some point – this will shut off an electrical current when the power becomes too high. If you are setting up...more
August 6, 2022 – Powershell Script to Get the File Size of Files in Multiple Locations - You can run a simple PowerShell script to get the file size of files saved in various locations on a network....more
7/1/2022: Fixing Excel Links Repointed to C drive - If you find that Excel spreadsheets for which you have added hyperlinks to a network drive using the HYPERLINK formula are inexplicably repointed to the users appdata...more
June 4, 2022 – Getting a HP duplexer to work after you’ve installed it. Note that on HP printers, even after you have manually installed a duplexer into the rear of a model such as those for the HP 600 series, it will not...more
May 7, 2022 – Excel array formula to check when all columns match, but ignore blanks - Tonight’s tip of the night explains how you can use an array formula in Excel to confirm that values on a single row for multiple...more
APRIL 2, 2022: Checking for overlapping deposition designations - If you have a list of page and line deposition designations and want to see not only where they match marked page and lines from a previous set, but also...more
MARCH 5, 2022: Finding which PDFs are not text searchable - If you have a very large set of PDFs, and you’re uncertain about which files have searchable text, you can set up an Adobe action utilizing the Preflight tool to...more