Should Law Firms Outsource or Insource E-Discovery Tools? || ESIBytes

Listen to Karl Schieneman, Director of Legal Analytics and Review with JurInnov talk with Stephanie Maw, Litigation Support Manager with Cincinnati based Keating Muething and Klekamp, PLL and Chris Olsson, CEO of Cricket Legal Technologies and a former E-Discovery Technology Manager for an Am-Law 20 law firm discuss the complex issues associated with this question. What it takes for a law firm to be able to sustain managing technology in e-discovery, the risks of owning software, when it makes sense, and other issues will be discussed.

Because this show was created from San Juan, Puerto Rico on a cell phone, there were a few technical problems with me losing contact with the show which required me to edit part of the show. It was still a very interesting dialogue and the only edits reflected dialogue involving me rejoining the call and asking what had happened while I was off. Like every E-discovery project, things sometimes don’t go perfectly. My guests were outstanding and carried on without me for the 5 minutes or so which I lost audio contact. Enjoy.

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Microsoft Drops the Price for SharePoint Online

Seems increased competition with Google is making Microsoft look twice at its pricing for online services such as SharePoint news, site and Exchange.

The company has reduced the monthly rates for its Business Productivity Online Suite BPOS which includes SharePoint from US$ 15 to US$ 10. They also dropped the monthly subscription for Exchange Online from US$ 10 to US$ 5.

In addition to the price reduction, BPOS is also available in Singapore, and soon India. BPOS will be available in over 36 countries by the end of this year and there are a number of new high profile organizations using the service. Trials are slated to begin in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Israel, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania and Taiwan.

Its this adoption that is pushing the price of the online services down. According to Microsoft specifically, ““rapid customer adoption, global scale and improved efficiencies from new software such as Exchange Server 2010.”

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