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During a recent webinar hosted by eTERA Consulting that featured two highly experienced litigation support professionals, Amy Bowser-Rollins, Founder of Litigation Support Guru; and Bonnie-Elizabeth Powers, Senior Manager of Legal and Litigation Support at Wiley Rein LLP, the two panelists provided an excellent and detailed overview of the critical skills that are necessary to work in the field of l

Given the global economy and the fact that technology has eliminated geographic data boundaries, it was only a matter of time before the globalization of eDiscovery emerged.

Today’s litigation support professionals face many day-to-day challenges including having to manage multiple projects, changing priorities, tight deadlines and keeping up to date with all of the technology changes taking place in the legal industry. Litigation support professionals are expected to identify, evaluate and utilize a vast array of technology  resources, tools and information. Unfortunately, long work hours and hectic days make it nearly impossible to keep up with all of the changes in the world of litigation support.

Steve Levy, CEO of Lexician and author of the book, Legal Project Management, stated during a recent webinar hosted by my company that “legal project management is not a fad.” During the webinar on the important and timely topic of legal project management, Mr. Levy presented ten excuses that he often encounters from law firms and corporate legal departments for not getting started: 

During the past several months, I have written a number of blog posts covering topics such as early information assessment, project management, emerging legal professionals, strategic partnering, technology management, client service, contract staffing and working with vendors. In my last blog post, I wrote about the importance of transparency in the legal industry.

The latest update in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Group et al. is U.S. District Court Judge Andrew L. Carter on March 13 granted plaintiff’s request to file a brief documenting their objections to the Judge Peck predictive coding opinion. In that brief filed on March 26, the plaintiffs claimed that the protocol approved for predictive coding “risks failing to capture a staggering 65% of the relevant documents in this case” and questioned Judge Peck’s relationship with defense counsel and the selected vendor for the case.

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” 

― Sydney J. Harris

What an appropriate quote given all the recent commentary over Judge Peck’s decision to allow technology assisted review. 

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.” -- Vince Lombardi 

“..a stitch in time saves nine.” – Francis Baily

Like several legal industry professionals, I have had the opportunity to read Judge Peck’s recent Opinion and Order addressing the use of computer-assisted review involving predictive coding in Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Group et al. I have also read the several blogs and press releases that have been generated since the opinion was released.