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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 3, 2010 -- Once you determine how best to network the discovery/case management software, training will be essential. There are different levels of training that will be required. For starters, you will need to train partners at an executive level so that they understand what the software can do for them and what they can ask more junior lawyers to access for them. Vital at this level is explaining the abilities of the program to search and sort files and the format on which written reports will be produced and how to read them.

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The threshold level of training is designed to include education on how the discovery-management software organizes materials, how attorneys must define issues for effective use of the software, what functions the software can actually perform and constraints in the use of the software. The threshold training also focuses on the ability to access data compiled with the use of the software and appropriate staffing levels for use of the software in a given case. Without this type of overview training, senior attorneys cannot make informed decisions in using the technology.

Mathew Browndorf To counter these problems, on many of our larger cases we have used data exchange agreements that set out in advance precisely the format required and what is to be supplied to each party for their individual litigation support systems. In addition, we settle on a single, neutral bureau to reduce conversion costs as the bureau scans and codes the data on behalf of all parties. The implementation of a data exchange agreement as soon as possible on a case means that a case can be fought on the law not on issues of technology.

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As we saw after the fall of Lehman Brothers and the subsequent shutting down of the credit markets, all markets, except for the flight-to-safety assets like US Treasuries, moved in tandem on the way down as a global selloff of all assets took place with little regard to technical or fundamental reasoning. This phantom correlation to the downside seemed to break all the diversification rules of portfolio management theory and threw a big monkey wrench into asset allocation models that aim to mitigate portfolio volatility by diversifying among many asset classes and investment models.

Mathew Browndorf Profile A second explanation is the different way in which the US and UK markets have evolved due to their inherent differences. The size of the US market dictates that home-grown products are, unsurprisingly, developed with the domestic market in mind. As a result the UK comes a poor second in influencing the evolution of products used within the US. Consequently, when US firms go shopping for products they tend to confine themselves to the US market where they will be able to buy products designed for the way they practise law.

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