Wendy says that she is «particularly excited about Heuristica's unique methodology for streamlining and improving the quality of
large document review projects by teaching lawyers to use all available legal technology to its maximum potential.
Used correctly, technology can reduce costs and streamline
large document reviews and productions.
Not exact matches
In addition to your desk and computer, consider adding a counter (this could simply be a
large floating shelf mounted to your wall at the appropriate height) where you can stand to
review documents or where you can mount a webcam and flatscreen to video conference with your boss or clients.
«It just got lost in the shuffle,» the prosecutor said, acknowledging it was a «
large document» and that defense lawyers ought to have a chance to
review it all before they question Singh.
A former New York state pension manager «eliminated
documents and manipulated procedures» to hide a pay - to - play scheme that unfolded inside one of the nation's
largest retirement systems, according to an internal
review by the state comptroller's office.
Professor Milgram was the only math content expert on the Validation Committee
reviewing the standards, and he concluded that the Common Core standards are, as he told the Texas state legislature, «in
large measure a political
document that... is written at a very low level and does not adequately reflect our current understanding of why the math programs in the high - achieving countries give dramatically better results.»
If principals spend time
documenting and
reviewing the small things, such as staff engagement at a meeting, tone of responses to an inquiry, or the types of concerns raised by parents, they might notice a
larger trend, uncovering areas of strengths and areas for improvement.
As the Los Angeles teachers union continues to try to organize educators at the city's
largest charter school network, teachers at one of the few independent charter schools that joined the union voted to leave it after less than two years because union officials were pushing their own agenda, according to interviews and
documents reviewed...
As the Los Angeles teachers union continues to try to organize educators at the city's
largest charter school network, teachers at one of the few independent charter schools that joined the union voted to leave it after less than two years because union officials were pushing their own agenda, according to interviews and
documents reviewed by LA School Report.
Other features also make texting and messaging life a lot easier, including: being able to
review your messaging history across all of your devices (which is especially nice on a
larger screen for those with a lot to say), easily send items from your computer (potentially giving you access to all of your
documents and images, not just those that happen to be on your smartphone or tablet), save attachments to your computer where they are most useful (while not losing them on your other devices as well), and my favourite — universal copy and paste (copy text from one device and paste it on a different one).
The
large square screen is optimized for viewing and creating content, and makes everyday tasks like reading and writing emails,
reviewing and editing
documents, web browsing, and map navigation more comfortable and effortless.
The
large square screen is optimized for viewing and creating content, and will make everyday tasks like reading and writing emails,
reviewing and editing
documents, web browsing, and map navigation, more comfortable and effortless.
Many
large mortgage servicers reached settlements with regulators to address a range of troubling practices, including a practice known as robo - signing, where banks submitted foreclosure
documents that were not properly
reviewed or notarized.
After a month in the trenches of the legal world — a contract lawyer assignment (
document review) at a
large law firm in Los Angles — I'm pleased to report that it exceeded my expectations by a long shot.
A freelance attorney with ten years of experience working in a
large metropolitan area on brief - writing projects is going to charge more than a freelance attorney with five years of experience working in a remote location on
document -
review projects.
The office, which will open in April 2011, will principally focus on
reviewing and analysing
large volumes of
documents from major contentious work, notably in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations.
Canada Supreme Court decision on cross-border beer run could rewrite trade rules, Globe and Mail Feds order budget
review of Gordie Howe bridge over cost concerns,
documents show, Toronto Star Ex-wife wins one of
largest alimony judgments in Quebec history, Ottawa Citizen
These are: clarifying the role of CEC experts, formalizing the CEC's authority to
review environmental assessment
documents, encouraging a
larger variety of CEC proceedings, and clearly distinguishing the regulatory and the hearing processes.
In complex,
large - scale litigation and regulatory investigations, the level of electronic information is too big to by hand sort, organize and
review (also known as objective coders, database coders, legal coders, or litigation coders)
review and code
documents, files along with other data so the litigation team can easier search and retrieve information throughout the situation or project.
Earlier in his career, Willis served as the lead attorney and project manager for
large - scale
document reviews, and was a lawyer at the Internet Law Group from 2001 to 2006.
«The first stage of progress in eDiscovery was about building out the full utility and power that's needed for
large scale
document discovery and
review - to - produce workflows,» Jeremiah Kelman, co-founder and president of Everchron, told me.
What began in the legal field with automated
document review for
large firms, has begun to spread to public defenders and legal services providers as well.
TAR offers many advantages in e-discovery, but the reason it took off as it did was ultimately economic — it was far cheaper for the client and far more efficient for the lawyers to use TAR to
review large quantities of
documents for e-discovery.
There, Lorraine assisted corporate clients and law firms in managing
large - scale
document review project teams domestically and globally.
They read and «triage»
large numbers of
documents based on pre-determined criteria into shorter lists for lawyers to
review, increasing speed and accuracy and reducing costs.
Offshoring
document review to India hasn't gained much traction with most law firms, in
large part because of concerns about security and quality control.
Services for Firms of All Sizes Mahoney is quick to dispel the myth that he works only with
large corporations and law firms on massive
document reviews.
Non-law-firm providers of legal services (i.e. consultants and LPOs) have been some of the fastest adopters of legal technology, and accordingly have been able to win
large chunks of «unbundled» legal work (largely
document reviews) by diverting in - house legal department spend that had previously been earmarked for law firms.
«There are opportunities to help bring this technology in - house for companies that don't have
large legal teams, and save them hundreds of hours per year in manual
document review,» Combs explains, then adds that Boston, their base, is home to many fast - growing tech businesses.
I closed this previous post on contract lawyering with a question on whether
large firms will stick with the now prevalent «contract attorney» model or follow the lead of corporations like Dupont, which are offshoring
document review to Asia.
«The ability to quickly migrate case data from Concordance to Attenex Patterns enables us to quickly scale when a small case turns into a
larger and more complex
document review project.
Predictive analytics incorporates human intelligence to leverage the results of
review across
large document populations.
Our Transaction Services Team is our experienced and proven solution for more efficient and imaginative ways of resourcing client assignments, from
large M&A projects to litigation and regulatory
document reviews.
For example, a
larger law firm may contract you to
review trial
documents or make court appearances.
Given good high - speed Internet, secure communications and a body of qualified lawyers in India, the company is able to offer a variety of legal services as agents to North American lawyers at a much cheaper cost (the obvious examples are
document review or analysis,
large drafting projects or legal research or client bulletins that do not require specific «local» knowledge).
In India, communications between clients and in - house counsel are not protected by privilege, «Indian lawyers are not accustomed to
reviewing documents for privilege» and «Indian lawyers are not familiar with
large - scale electronic discovery.»
Outsourcing
large - scale
document review to India makes sense as a way to save costs.
In 2006 the firm selected Ringtail Legal for its customizable web interface and ability to handle very
large document sets, and because the collaboration features on Ringtail complemented the legal
review team's procedures and workflows.
Quality control (QC) measures to prevent these types of mistakes might involve a system by which
review teams conduct different levels of
review to verify accuracy of other reviewers, or by sampling certain categories, maybe
reviewing one
document for every 10 deemed irrelevant and looking for mistakes, which may expose
larger issues such as a consistently overlooked keyword.
Massive volumes of electronic information have led to «brute force»
reviews of
large volumes of electronic
documents, which can drive litigation costs so high that litigants settle out of court.
Sonali has over 8 years» experience in the LPO industry and has led many complex,
large and demanding
document review and contract management including projects involving several financial, pharmaceutical, airline industry and antitrust
document review and contract management projects.
«We were searching for a capability we could manage internally that would allow us to initiate
document reviews quickly and analyse
large amounts of data efficiently, but without traditional per / GB pricing.
Stephen spent a period on secondment in a property department of a
large law firm where he advised on various commercial and non-contentious matters including drafting and
review of contract
documents.
Envision Discovery received a frantic call from a client that had received 14
large banker boxes of
documents and a 20 GB hard drive of email data from their corporate client that needed to be
reviewed and produced by the end of the following week.
These technology tools are used to facilitate
large scale
document / data production and
review for commercial litigation, regulatory compliance (ATO, ASIC, ACCC) and due diligence for merger and acquisition transactions.
Applied to the problem of
large - scale legal
document review and production, technology - assisted
review enables a small number of expert human reviewers to train a computerized system to recognize the subtle differences between responsive and non-responsive
documents based on the
review of a small but representative sample of the
document collection.
This enables clients to use Predictive Discovery to assist in a wide range of tasks, including prioritizing
documents in the collection based on relevance, culling out pools of largely irrelevant materials, cross checking manual attorney
review and isolating key terms in a
large collection of coded
documents.
Zeren and Chapman Tripp partner with Luminance to deliver artificial intelligence for
large - scale
document reviews.
This permitted us to identify and pull out
large groups of privileged and irrelevant
documents which would otherwise have required a page by page, linear, bilingual
review.
Throughout his career, he has trained and consulted with case teams at law firms and corporations on search,
review and production strategies to maximize speed and efficiency of
document review all while minimizing the costs associated with
large scale discovery.