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Choices, choices.. Trying to decide amongst all those competing SaaS Providers?
Today’s post is a direct hat tip to Joshua Poje, attorney and Research Specialist with the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC), and coauthor of the LTRC’s legal technology blog “ABA Site-tation.” In January Mr. Poje brought us The ABCs of Cloud-Based Practice Tools, including this list of 18 key questions to ask a SaaS Vendor before signing on the dotted line. Several of these questions apply equally to a potential IaaS Provider. It pays to ask a few questions, so go on, get SasSy...Read more
Harmful if Swallowed Posted By Daniel Kaiser, Esq. on March 9, 2010
Have you finished digesting that data sir?
Spoliation simply can’t get much worse than this. Following his arrest outside of a bank in Queens, New York this January, Florin Necula apparently swallowed a 4 GB Kingston flash drive in an attempt to keep Secret Service agents from discovering the evidence. Facing a charge for the use of a “skimmer” to collect ATM and credit card numbers, Necula’s bizarre version of spoliation also earned him a charge of obstruction of justice...Read more
LFP…WTF? Posted By Adam Reilly on March 4, 2010
In this post, we’ll build on the
previous post’s technique of iterating through a file line-by line.
LFP files are an extremely common form of data interchange as document
sets trade hands in litigation. Their popularity is probably
due in part to their simplicity. As a review, LFP files are ... Read more
This will just be a quick update to the last post. In the previous version of the duplicate record detector the input file is specified statically (or “Hard Coded”) inside the file. This means that the source code must be modified each time that users want to run analysis on a new load file.
Unlike compiled languages like C++ or Java, Python doesn’t have a lengthy build cycle associated with making changes. While this isn’t too inconvenient, your users might not be comfortable directly modifying source code and there’s also the potential to introduce bugs by changing the wrong line. Fortunately, Python provides a method for passing data to a program via the command line...
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The Ten Step Rain-Dance Posted By Daniel Kaiser, Esq. on February 11, 2010
In the legal arena, regardless of how long you’ve been in the game, it always comes down to “making it rain.”
Myra L McKenzie, assistant general counsel in the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. legal department, offers the following ten tips to rain-making in her article In Order to Make Rain, You Have to Know How to Gather the Clouds: Tips for Young Lawyers on Client Development, printed in the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division 101 Practice Series...Read more
In this edition of “eDiscovery-related Python Tricks,” we’ll cover some fundamental techniques and operations that you’ll likely find yourself using repeatedly. Suppose you’ve been given the task of merging load files from several productions together.
You’re fairly sure that merging several files together has left the load file with duplicative lines, but the file is large and this would be difficult to determine manually. While this example may seem a little contrived, it will provide a simple setup for laying foundation that will likely be re-used when we get to more interesting examples...Read more
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