Archive for 2008
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Thursday, December 25th, 2008Mind hidden items in Excel
Friday, October 17th, 2008
© Copyright 2008, J-Walk & Associates, Inc. (28364)
Computerworld reports that a Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton associate at reformatted an Excel spreadsheet and mistakenly added 179 contracts to an agreement to buy Lehman Brothers assets… It seems the spreadsheet contained nearly 1,000 rows and more than 24,000 individual cells.
I will quote Elie Mystalas at Above the law on this one: “we all know, they don’t teach “Excel” in law school and they really, really should.”
Hat Tip to Catherine Sanders Reach for directing me to the article.
Ledjit in La Presse
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
this morning, I was awaken by a friend’s SMS: « Good looking, page 7 La Presse Business Section ». After looking at my neighbors’ balcony to find the newspaper, I went online where I found this article written by René Lewandowski, the guy behind Droit-inc, following an entreview I had given him a couple of weeks before.
The article entitled “Quand le droit se marie à la techno” [When law and IT unite] offers an overview of the services offerred by Ledjit and the increasing needs of enterprises and law firms in the domains of information management and e-discovery.
As stated in the article [our translation]:
Ledjit offers consulting services in four domains: information management, law and IT, e-discovery and law practice management. A good niche, particularly in Québec where, generally, jurists have learned to integrate technologies in their practices less than elsewhere. Its clients are mainly entreprises legal departments and major law firms.
All lawyers, not only litigators, should learn how to use new technologies and how electronic documents work.
We were not aware of La Presse readership up until today: our inboxes (email and vocal) were filled three times in one day! Thanks René!
Litigators blame IT
Monday, September 15th, 2008Last week, we were flabbergasted by this article which appeared on on the online edition of the ABA Journal entitled Litigation Too Costly, E-Discovery a ‘Morass,’ Trial Lawyers Say. This article is based on the interim report following a joint survey created by the American College of Trial Lawyers and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) of Denver University. Prima facie, this document had some credibility but after reading it, I must say doesn’t pass muster!
Thanks to Ralph Losey for putting on the dots on the “i” in his post Trial Lawyers Turn a Blind Eye to the True Cause of the e-Discovery Morass! In two words, as Ken Withers, director at The Sedona Conference, told me:
Looking at the American College report, I had the impression I was reading a report from the Buggy Whip industry, complaining about the dangers and high cost of transportation caused by the advent of automobile. These were the Buggy Whippers’ findings, I’m sure: paved roads would be a waste of taxpayer resources; since only the rich can afford automobiles, poor and middle class people will be deprived of any means of transport; and rules should be adopted requiring that all these newfangled horseless carriages be led a person on foot waiving a warning flag. For the Buggy Whippers, learning to drive, or even get a bicycle, would not be considered viable options.
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