Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

The Portable Courtroom – The Case for Paperless Courtrooms

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Below is a Powerpoint presentation by Dominic Jaar on this subject:

- The cost of paper
- Judge’s responsibilities
- Lawyer’s obligations
- Why Technology
- Courtroom Set-up costs
- Issues for lawyers
- New requirements

View more presentations from Ledjit.

Interview about e-courts (Canadian Lawyer Magazine)

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Here are parts of an interview Dominic Jaar gave to the Canadian Lawyer Magazine during the 3rd edition of the LegalIT conference regarding the use of technologies in the judicial system.

Tech PR Generator

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Funny article in Corporate Counsel Magazine by Elliott Hurwitt on tech companies PR and their use of empty buzzwords. Here are some examples:
“fully loaded, user-centric, scalable”, etc.

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May 2009

Dominic Jaar, Legal Counsel at Ledjit Consulting: ABA TECHSHOW 2009 Interviews

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

LexBlog’s Rob La Gatta talks to Ledjit Consulting legal counsel Dominic Jaar on the TECHSHOW 2009 floor about his take on where technology is taking the law and why he hasn’t been as active a blogger in recent months as he used to be.

Click here to see the interviews

Mind hidden items in Excel

Friday, October 17th, 2008

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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.