Archive for October, 2008

Mind 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!