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Litigation Video Review: Intake, Access and Purge

Litigation Video Review: Intake, Access and Purge

A matter produces nothing for months, then several hundred hours arrive inside two weeks because a production deadline landed. A dozen people who do ...

Streaming a Law Firm Town Hall Across Global Offices

Streaming a Law Firm Town Hall Across Global Offices

The first law firm town hall streamed to every office usually goes badly in a way nobody predicted, and the postmortem blames the wrong thing.

Law Firm Intranet Video: What Actually Changes

Law Firm Intranet Video: What Actually Changes

Most firms do not decide to put video on the intranet. They decide to put one video on the intranet, usually a recorded town hall, and discover over ...

Legal Video Platform What It Does for a Law Firm

Legal Video Platform: What It Does for a Law Firm

A firm of two thousand attorneys running on Teams and Zoom produces hundreds of recordings a month without anyone deciding to. Client intake calls, ...

A Maturity Model for Court Digital Evidence: Foundational, Developing, Advanced

A Maturity Model for Court Digital Evidence: Foundational, Developing, Advanced

Budget conversations about court technology go badly when the ask is a product and well when the ask is a stage.

Online Evidence Portal or eFiling: Where Should Exhibits Actually Be Submitted?

Online Evidence Portal or eFiling: Where Should Exhibits Actually Be Submitted?

Courts deciding where exhibits should be submitted are choosing between an online evidence portal for court exhibits and the eFiling route they ...

Integrating an Evidence System With the Court Case Management System

Integrating an Evidence System With the Court Case Management System

Ask a court clerk where the day goes and a large share of the answer is retyping. The case number exists in the case management system. It gets typed ...

Writing Digital Evidence Requirements a Court Can Actually Procure Against

Writing Digital Evidence Requirements a Court Can Actually Procure Against

Digital Evidence Management procurement in courts has a recognizable failure pattern. Read enough court solicitations and it appears every time. The ...

Court Digital Evidence Management: Exhibits, Filings, and the Record

Court Digital Evidence Management: Exhibits, Filings, and the Record

Most guidance on digital evidence was written for the people who collect it. Search for advice and you will find material about body-worn camera ...

From Filing to Docket Automating the Intake a Clerk Does by Hand

From Filing to Docket: Automating the Intake a Clerk Does by Hand

Between a filing arriving and appearing on the docket sits a person doing four things. Reading the document to work out what it is. Deciding which ...

Self-Represented Litigants and Digital Evidence: Designing for the Unrepresented

Self-Represented Litigants and Digital Evidence: Designing for the Unrepresented

Nearly every rule, guide, and system a court uses for evidence assumes the person submitting it is a lawyer. Self-represented litigant evidence ...

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

Giving Jurors Access to Admitted Evidence in Deliberation

Jury access to evidence in deliberation is a narrow technical problem wrapped around a firm legal principle. The principle is that jurors decide on ...

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

Digital Court Recording: The Half You Have to Budget For

The people who produced the verbatim record are leaving faster than they can be replaced. The US stenographer workforce has fallen roughly 21 percent ...

The Judicial Viewer: How Judges Review Digital Evidence Before and During a Hearing

The Judicial Viewer: How Judges Review Digital Evidence Before and During a Hearing

Give a judge a login to the evidence system and you have solved an access problem while leaving a usability problem. A judicial viewer for digital ...

AI Tools for Judges: What Belongs on the Bench and What Does Not

AI Tools for Judges: What Belongs on the Bench and What Does Not

Judges are already using AI. A Northwestern University study of 502 sampled federal judges found more than 60 percent of the 112 who responded had ...

AI Drafting Support and the Review Gate

AI Drafting Support and the Review Gate

AI drafting rulings in courts has moved from hypothetical to deployed faster than the governance around it. Products that distil motions and produce ...

Statewide and National Digital Evidence Repositories: What It Takes to Run One

Statewide and National Digital Evidence Repositories: What It Takes to Run One

A county evidence system has one owner. A statewide repository has several, none of whom report to each other, and that single structural difference ...

The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List

The Digital Exhibit Lifecycle: Marking, Offering, Admitting, and the Exhibit List

Police manage evidence. Courts manage exhibits. The difference between those two sentences is the act of admission, and it is the reason digital ...