Here is a brief synopsis of last week’s LegalTech New York 2014, one of the most important legal technology trade shows: Jason Thomas of Thomas...
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Products to Put Under your Tree
TechnoLawyer's popular TL NewsWire recently published their "Top 25 Products of 2013". Click here to review their list of the 25 top products for...
Safety and Ethics in Lawyers’ Use of Cloud Services
The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 1.1 Competence states that “To maintain the requisite knowledge and skill, a lawyer should keep...
Stratifying the Storage Clouds-Worldox GX3
This week's post in our series on Cloud-based document management systems was contributed by my colleague Andrea Prigot, a partner at Eastern Legal...
Stratifying the Storage Clouds-NetDocuments
This article won the BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award. BlawgWorld is a free weekly email newsletter that links to the best articles on the web for...
Stratifying the Storage Clouds-Sharefile
ShareFile was initially created as a stand-alone file transfer application, designed specifically for secure transmission of files between users...
Stratifying the Storage Clouds-Box
Continuing our review of Cloud-based document storage services, this week I review Box, again with these six variables in mind: Security Disaster...
Stratifying the Storage Clouds–Dropbox
In last week’s post I laid out a conceptual framework for evaluating the various Cloud-based document storage options commonly in use in law...
Stratifying Document Storage Clouds: An Introduction
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the term “stratify” means: “to divide into a series of graded statuses.” That is my intention...
Lexis Feature Friday Webinar Recordings from Eastern Legal Systems Staff
As Certified Consultants for LexisNexis Time Matters and PCLaw for a number of years, Eastern Legal Systems has amassed a good bit of expertise in...
No More Excuses – New ABA Rules Require Lawyers to “Get With the (Tech) Program”
In August, 2011 the ABA House of Delegates adopted six new resolutions to amend the Association’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct. Among the...
Impressions from LegalTech 2013
Here is a round up of our tour of the Exhibit Hall at last week’s LegalTech New York 2013, one of the most important legal technology trade shows....
Speed, Mobility and Protection
I am a dyed-in-the-green-wool Philadelphia Eagles fan, so of course I have been anxiously following the unfolding story of Chip Kelly, the new...
Worldox GX3 – Access from Anywhere
I just returned from a three day certification class in Worldox GX3, the latest version of World Software’s powerful document management system. The...
Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
As new cloud-based systems are announced each day, law firms are balancing the responsibility to keep client data secure with the need to make...
Worldox GX3 Debuts at LegalTech NYC
World Software Corporation’s Worldox GX3 was announced this week at LegalTech New York. There are three components: Worldox GX3 Professional Worldox...
Whose Cloud Are You In?
Cloud-based data storage is proliferating, hastened along by such technology giants as Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. The rise of the tablet...
Greet the Holidays – with Timeslips Mail Merges
Happy Holidays! By now we’ve finished our Halloween treats and Thanksgiving feast, and are heading for the home stretch amidst the end-of-year...
Seek Correctly and Ye Shall Find
Search has become a very hot topic in today’s technology environment. Google, Bing, DogPile, WebCrawler, Yahoo – everybody touts their search...
Clearing the Fog from the Clouds
In the September/October 2011issue of The Pennsylvania Lawyer, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Association, practicing attorney and technology...
As the Clouds Roll In
I am casting my vote for “Cloud” as the leading candidate for “techie buzzword of the year.” Those of us in the industry who are old enough to have...
Making Timelines with Adobe Acrobat
Recently I received an interesting request from one of our clients: “Can you tell us how to create timelines that can be sent outside of the office...
Putting Your Docs in the Cloud
There is much talk about Software as a Service (SaaS) being the “light” version of the traditional server-based networks that have been deployed...
Sticking Your Toe in the Cloud
As I return from certification training in Salt Lake City for NetDocuments, the popular document management service for document-intensive...
Live From New York! — It’s……
No, it’s not “Saturday night”, it’s only Tuesday. But all of us at Eastern Legal Systems were excited by what we learned at the Legal Tech New York...
Resolve to get your Docs in a Row in 2011
When people used to think about document management solutions (or DMS), two things were true: Only large firms could afford one, and an internal IT...
File, File, Who’s Got the File?
Let me describe an all-too-common scenario called “Who has the file?” It depicts an old fashioned law firm that has gone completely topsy-turvy...
Technolawyer’s Guide to Document Management Systems
"Manual" systems for managing the myriad documents which pass through the doors of even the smallest law firms can - and frequently do - lead to all...
Understanding Document Management
In order to function most efficiently, all law firms need some sort of formalized system by which to store, organize, retrieve and process...