http://logik.com/ en joedie@logik.com Copyright 2011 2011-10-07T14:00:42+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_be_an_amazing_ediscovery_team_member/ http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_be_an_amazing_ediscovery_team_member/#When:13:00:42Z You’re sitting at your desk all day. Work is piling up. Pressure is piling up. And yet, somehow, you’re supposed to be a great eDiscovery team member. What do you do? Take Initiative For starters, even if your direct supervisor isn’t in the office or lives across the country, you never know who you could impress. When you’re going through the eDiscovery process, look for value. Take charge of your role and own it. You might feel like you’re the unimportant litigation support on the bottom of the totem pole, but if you show that your work is amazing and your opinions are supported, you won’t stay that way for long. {body} 2011-10-07T13:00:42+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/three_resources_a_discovery_attorney_cant_live_without/ http://logik.com/whats_new/three_resources_a_discovery_attorney_cant_live_without/#When:12:00:07Z The smartest move a busy discovery attorney can make is to use available resources wisely. But given the amount of resources available, figuring out which ones to focus on can be difficult.{body} Industry Rants 2011-09-30T12:00:07+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/tape_backup_is_dead_long_live_backup-to-disk/ http://logik.com/whats_new/tape_backup_is_dead_long_live_backup-to-disk/#When:02:31:32Z Disk backups are a lot more convenient than tape, since restoring all kinds of data can be completed much faster. What’s more, all of the latest deduplication technologies can be used with backup-to-disk, so you’re not storing 5, 10, 20, 100 copies of the same data in your backup rotation. Some may say that disk is clearly the way of the future. If only that were true. There is one area where tape is still quite competitive with disk, and that’s in truly long-term storage—as in, ten years’ worth of long term. Information retention policies can be quite conservative these days, so needing to keep ten-year-old data is not uncommon. And tape does have some advantages over disk...{body} Industry Rants 2011-08-04T02:31:32+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/should_computer_forensics_experts_be_licensed_private_investigators/ http://logik.com/whats_new/should_computer_forensics_experts_be_licensed_private_investigators/#When:18:10:15Z State jurisdictions are still split on the question, but Virginia says No. States such as South Carolina contend that the computer forensics industry attracts a flow of contenders eager to cash in on lucrative disputes; contenders that may very well be expert in pulling information from a computer, and yet might be ignorant of the ethics and standards involved in handling personal information. These jurisdictions hold that computer forensics experts should be held to the same standards (including licensing and insurance coverage) as any other investigation agent or agency. Whether the motivation here is truly privacy oriented or fiscal, in effect this adds a number of hoops to jump through. The wide majority of states (including the District of Columbia) require a state-administered license in order to become a private investigator. While the requirements for this license aren’t particularly difficult, they usually include at least a certificate in criminal justice, hours of training, and a state administered exam. This state vetting process creates certain legal exemptions, easing access to personal information...{body} Industry Rants 2011-04-08T18:10:15+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/cooperation_101/ http://logik.com/whats_new/cooperation_101/#When:20:11:37Z Academics have rattled on about cooperation in discovery for years now. It’s a principal that, if it works, could make life easier for counsel and cheaper for the client. If cooperation is in everyone’s best interest and Sedona principles are popular, why can’t we all just...get along? Steven Bennett’s recent NYSBA Journal article, “How can Courts Encourage Cooperation in Discovery?” takes a run through several factors that discourage cooperation between parties and suggests several approaches that should be taken by federal courts to encourage the process. A sampling of Bennett’s suggested incentives includes...{body} Industry Rants 2011-02-21T20:11:37+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/words_of_advice/ http://logik.com/whats_new/words_of_advice/#When:11:00:04Z To all the young Chicago attorneys out there getting ready to argue a case, want a tip or two from your judge first? Who could be a better mentor? Don’t worry, no political corruption is involved.. The Seventh Circuit Bar is gearing up to deliver these helpful tidbits through their new e-mentoring project. A product of the Association’s Young Lawyer’s Committee, the project currently offers video-based mentoring sessions with over 45 judges and senior trial lawyers from throughout the circuit. Even better, the plan is to further develop this library into a collection including every Seventh Circuit district and magistrate judge. It used to be that only a lucky few had access to the knowledge held by these jurists. It’s still a lucky few: those who are members of the Seventh Circuit Bar Association. But hey—progress!...{body} Industry Rants 2010-09-01T11:00:04+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/the_future_of_law/ http://logik.com/whats_new/the_future_of_law/#When:11:00:52Z Where is this all going? Nicholas Parrella ran an article this summer in the New York Bar Association’s State Bar News speaking to the future of our profession. In it, Parrella discusses New York State Bar President Stephen P. Younger (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP) and his new “Task Force on the Future of the Legal Profession.” These days there has been a growing undercurrent of academics, practitioners and consultants trying to predict what the legal profession will become{body} Industry Rants 2010-08-23T11:00:52+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/selling_born_to_do_it_right/ http://logik.com/whats_new/selling_born_to_do_it_right/#When:15:17:31Z We were born to sell, right? When you need something as a little kid you beg, plead, insist, put on a sad face and hopefully you get what you want, right? My daughter is not even four and she has mastered the art of selling. Walking by the candy store she'll say, "Daddy, can we get some candy?" My first response is a quick "No, keep walking.” What does she do? She starts her sales process with her body language. She slowly drops her head all-the-while looking at me out of the corner of her eye. She slumps her shoulders, arms hang loose, and BAM! Dad is sold right into the candy store without her uttering a word. Selling is an innate skill we all possess to some degree, and there are countless ways to approach it...{body} Industry Rants 2010-08-13T15:17:31+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/polish_up_your_scripts_with_optparse/ http://logik.com/whats_new/polish_up_your_scripts_with_optparse/#When:11:00:13Z If you've ever written an especially useful or popular script, you've noticed that features tend to creep into the codebase as you encounter variations in the input. As the code evolves to handle more and more variation, you may notice that distinct 'modes' of operation arise. One way to accomodate these different modes is to use values hard-coded into the source. Examples such as field delimiters, input path, recursive operation and output paths are often wired directly into the operation of quickly-written scripts. {body} How Tos 2010-07-28T11:00:13+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/so_you_want_to_do_business_in_boston/ http://logik.com/whats_new/so_you_want_to_do_business_in_boston/#When:11:00:19Z Never mind dropping your Rs, how’s your WISP? And no, I don’t means lisp.. How’s your Written Information Security Plan? Vigorous identity theft regulations introduced by the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation (201 CMR 17.00 et. seq.) requires any person or business that owns or licenses (receives, maintains, processes or accesses) personal information about a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to meet minimum standards in safeguarding that personal information—whether in paper or electronic form. Such parties must develop and implement a Written Information Security Plan to protect personal information in a manner fully consistent with industry standards and other applicable laws and regulations.{body} Industry Rants 2010-07-12T11:00:19+00:00