Brett Burney reviews the Lex Machina legal analytics platform from LexisNexis for Legaltech News: You’ve heard a lot of talk about “big data,” but what application could that possibly have in a law practice? As a litigator, you actually have to analyze a lot of data such as: What’s the best court to file in? [...]
Brett Burney reviews the latest updates and features to Casepoint for Legaltech News on Law.com: Based on the number of e-discovery products and platforms available today, an innocent observer could easily conclude the market has become relatively commoditized. After all, the cloud has leveled the playing field allowing almost anyone to upload, review, and produce [...]
I know we were supposed to call it "Legalweek: The Experience" but it's hard to get everyone to re-brand in one year, and it still felt like the same old Legaltech (not necessarily a bad thing). Monica Bay offered an expert write-up on the conference remodel but I agree with Mary Mack in that piece that [...]
E-discovery consultant Brett Burney reviews eDiscovery Point from Thomson Reuters in the June 2016 issue of Legaltech News magazine. eDiscovery Point is a SaaS-based document review platform recently offered by Thomson Reuters in early 2016. eDiscovery Point allows customers to upload data and review documents through a web browser. I honestly wanted to snub eDiscovery Point, but Thomson Reuters has delivered [...]
E-discovery consultant Brett Burney reviewed the SaaS-based, document review platform from Thomson Reuters’ called eDiscovery Point for the June print issue of Legaltech News magazine (reprint hosted by Thomson Reuters). On June 22, 2016, LTN’s panel of experts echoed Brett’s conclusion in naming eDiscovery Point LTN’s Product of the Year. The Legal Solutions Blog from [...]
Brett Burney’s article, “Setting Up an All-Mac Law Office,” was featured last month on the Attorney at Work website as part of the “Read of the Classics: Best of Attorney at Work” series. You can also read “Part Two: Lawyers Who Use Macs: Why They Do It and How” where Brett interviews four Mac-using attorneys who provide [...]
If you have been around litigation support or e-discovery for any length of time, you've encountered Summation. AccessData, who currently owns Summation, recently tweeted tweeted a link to Terry Mazura’s review of Summation 6.0 and they graciously let you download it from their website. In my article on www.ediscoveryinfo.com, I go through a little history of the Summation [...]
E-discovery consultant Brett Burney reviews Exego Select from Planet Data in the May 2016 issue of Legaltech News magazine. Exego Select is the tool offered by Planet Data that allows litigation teams to filter and cull information before being sent to a document review platform. Contrary to popular thought, there's more to e-discovery than just [...]
E-discovery consultant Brett Burney reviews iConect-XERA, the web-based document review platform from industry veteran iConect. The review first appeared in the April 2016 issue of Legaltech News magazine. Originally iConect nXT, the company released its updated XERA platform in 2011. Users get an immediate sense that iConect-XERA is a mature, Web-based platform that could only [...]
Brett Burney contributed a guest post to the GlobalMacIT blog on how to customize Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac with Macros. Brett Burney received a question from a Mac-using lawyer on how they could customize Microsoft Word on the Mac since it doesn't have the same options for customization as the Windows version of the [...]
