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Wells Anderson, Beware Genius Rescue; TL NewsWire Due Diligence?

Charles Drayson, Review of ActionStep and NetDocuments

Ted Jordan, Actionstep as a Cloud Replacement for Time Matters

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The Un-Sweet Spot of Litigation

CosmoLex Adds Casemaker Integration

Employers Can't Be Compelled to Recover Company Email Stored in Personal Accounts of Employees

Daubert v. Frye: A State by State Comparison

Congratulations to Eric M. Eckert of Baylor Law School on winning our LitigationWorld Pick of the Week award: Two Legal Writing Instructors Share Tips

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Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers ediscovery software priced to disrupt the marketplace (see article below), a Bluetooth pen that captures handwritten notes, an iOS audio recording and editing app, and an ediscovery suite with analytics tools for assessing case strength. Don't miss the next issue.

Ediscovery software may conjure up images of Enron-size cases and expensive gatekeepers who talk jargon to keep prices high, but a democratization is underway on several fronts such as price and user experience.

Digital WarRoom Private Cloud 8.8 … in One Sentence

Launched recently, Digital WarRoom Private Cloud 8.8 is an end-to-end ediscovery platform for processing, reviewing, and producing discovery documents.

The Killer Feature

Software has always benefitted from having little marginal cost for each additional unit sold. But only in recent years have both storage and bandwidth also declined in price.

With Digital WarRoom Private Cloud, Digital WarRoom has set out to "disrupt" the ediscovery software industry on price. The service costs $1,995 per month for up to 500 GB of data, access to all features of the software, unlimited cases, training, and support. Each additional gigabyte beyond the 500 GB costs 50 cents.

"As President and General Counsel of Digital WarRoom, it is my goal to shake up the status quo by offering all-in-one enterprise software that is accessible anywhere at a price point that is de facto disruptive," Justin Farmer tells us. "Gone are the days of excessive costs. We are about 100% transparency."

Other Notable Features

You access Digital WarRoom Private Cloud either through a remote desktop app or a web browser. You begin by creating a case, and using a wizard to "ingest" the data you or your client has collected. Processing occurs next, which involves removing garbage files and duplicates, extracting metadata such as document dates, email participants, document authors, etc. You can automate processing by setting up a Policy. Digital WarRoom Private Cloud supports several languages, and includes translation technology so that you can get a sense of documents.

The customizable review environment displays documents and email as they would appear in their native program. You can sort documents by Relevance Score, Custodian, Date, or practically any other parameter. You redact by drawing a box with your mouse. Initially gray so you can still see the material within, the box changes to black when confirmed. You can apply tags such as Nonresponsive, Responsive, Hot, etc. Search tools include fuzzy, proximity, stemming, and synonyms.

A number of advanced tools exist for large data sets. For example, data visualization of email can identify connections you didn't know about. You can also reveal "Who-to-Whom" connections in social media data. Gist, the company's predictive coding technology, runs in the background. If you mark a document responsive, Gist functions much like Amazon (you may find these documents responsive too). It does this by scoring documents from -100 to +100 based on your designations. For an added charge, you can use Gist to automate these designations once it has acquired enough data from your manual review to finish the job with a satisfactory confidence level.

Digital WarRoom Private Cloud includes a number of reports, chief among them the Document Control Log and Privilege Log. The former lists all the activity on a case from import to production. This can help justify an invoice, get a new paralegal up to speed, etc. The Privilege Log eliminates the need to use Microsoft Office since you can edit and finalize this report in Digital WarRoom Private Cloud.

What Else Should You Know?

A wizard walks you through the production process, including Bates numbers, metadata, and OCR. Binders enable you to export a selection of documents with slip sheets and a hyperlinked index for use in depositions or to give an expert witness. Learn more about Digital WarRoom Private Cloud 8.8.

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Coming today to BiglawWorld: Our editorial team has assembled links to all the partner promotions and lateral moves announced by America's largest law firms during the past week in an easy-to-scan format. You'll also find must-read analysis, rankings, trends, etc. about large law firms.

We'd like to congratulate everyone who leveled up this week. Here's a sampling:

Five Attorneys Elected to Bracewell Partnership

Greenberg Traurig Elevates Eight Attorneys in New York City Office

Squire Patton Boggs and Carroll, Burdick & McDonough to Combine

Mayer Brown Welcomes Preeminent Consumer Financial Services Group

Julie M. Riewe, Former Co-Chief of the Asset Management Unit of the SEC's Division of Enforcement, to Join Debevoise

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Coming today to SmallLaw: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 43 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our SmallLaw Pick of the Week.

How to Handle a Problem Employee

The Seven Deadly Sins of Succession Planning

Google Removes Ads From the Search Sidebar

Tools and Tricks to Automate Your Marketing

Congratulations to Arita Damroze of GP Solo on winning our SmallLaw Pick of the Week award: What to Do When Your Billing Process Stinks

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Coming today to BlawgWorld: Our editorial team has selected and linked to 66 articles from the past week worthy of your attention. Below you'll find a sample article from each section of today's issue, including our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week.

Review: Eero Wi-Fi System

How to Use Windows' File History to Back Up Your Data

Meet the Modern Mobile Lawyer

ABA TECHSHOW 1993 Flashback

Congratulations to Walt Mossberg of The Verge on winning our BlawgWorld Pick of the Week award: Review of Eero Wi-Fi System

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Today's issue of TL Serendipity contains these articles:

John Hightower, The Evils of the Comma Splice

Donald Coker, The Difference Between CRM and Practice Management

Pam Rolph, Review: Acrobat Pro v. Power PDF for PDF-Word Conversions

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Coming today to SmallLaw: You didn't go to law school to learn about lawyer bios. But like so many other sentences that start with these words, tough luck. In this issue of SmallLaw, online legal marketing expert Gyi Tsakalakis explains why so many lawyer bios drive more prospects away than they attract. He then asks and answers six key questions to help you understand what a lawyer bio page should and should not contain as well as what to emphasize. If you're surprised, you've got some work to do. Also, don't miss the SmallLaw Pick of the Week to read about a small law firm that was hacked and asked to pay ransom.

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Today's issue of TL NewsWire covers a practice management system that offers a desktop experience in your web browser (see article below), an online backup service with Dropbox-like functionality, a NetDocuments add-on for electronic signatures, and an iOS app for tracking packages. Don't miss the next issue.

Practice management software resides at the center of your practice. However, your practice is not always centered at your office. Therefore, it has become essential for practice management software to travel with you — but without you giving up any functionality.

Amicus Attorney Premium 2016 … in One Sentence

Launched recently, Gavel & Gown Software's Amicus Attorney Premium 2016 is a popular practice management system with a new focus on remote access.

The Killer Feature

The new version of Amicus Premium offers full access from any web browser, including on Windows, Mac, and iPad. Your firm's data remains on-premise at your firm.

Amicus Premium in the browser offers the same features as the core Windows program with an optimized user experience. For example, on an iPad interaction elements are sized for fingers rather than a mouse pointer. When you login, the main dashboard displays appointments, telephone messages, unbilled activity and unposted time entries, tasks and deadlines, and a tip.

Other Notable Features

During a demo, Gavel & Gown president Ron Collins said that law firms want to reduce the number of products they need to buy and manage. To this end, Amicus Premium offers significantly enhanced document management. New features include versioning so that you never lose any work, preview and zoom for viewing documents in hundreds of formats, and check-in/out for preventing changes while you work on a document.

Searches list the current version of documents by default, but you can also search prior versions. With Amicus Premium's famous "Do" button, you can now launch Word, time your work, and save the document to the appropriate matter. Integrations with Microsoft Office further enable you to capture all email and documents in Amicus Premium.

Gavel & Gown also lavished a lot of attention on communications. Amicus Premium now groups calls, email, and internal messages. Related features include rules-based auto-filing, and a filter for finding messages by date, matter, to/from, etc. Integration with Office 365 and Exchange powers the email functionality.

A new Client Portal with your firm's logo and letterhead enables you to exchange secure messages with clients, have clients complete forms for documents, and share documents.

Other new features include improved mass billing, support for LEDES billing formats, client receipts, an Apple-like installer, and automatic updates. In all, you'll find more than 35 new features plus of course the core practice management functions — contacts, calendars, matters, billing, notes, research, etc.

"Amicus Premium 2016 is packed with features and enhancements to help legal professionals stay ahead of the ever evolving demands being placed on them," says Collins. "We focused on simplifying workflows, saving our users valuable time while equipping them with the necessary tools to beat the competition."

What Else Should You Know?

Amicus Premium supports Office 2016 and Windows 10 as well as earlier versions. Pricing starts at $849 with upgrades at $649. Learn more about Amicus Attorney Premium 2016.

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Coming today to LitigationWorld: Donald J. Trump has made fools of those who dismissed his candidacy. But TechnoLawyer publisher Neil J. Squillante realized months ago that Trump had developed a potent formula for success at the expense of his opponents. This zero-sum outcome is exactly the result litigators want at trial so in this issue of LitigationWorld Neil distills three Trumpisms you can use in opening and closing arguments. Also, don't miss the LitigationWorld Pick of the Week for nine techniques for effective litigation graphics.

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