This blog post is written during week #4 of pervasive social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Forced Change
Across the globe people are working from home and relying on SaaS technologies to keep working. This has raised a number of challenges, of course, but we have already noticed a number of “new normal” trends that have been developing.
Going Paperless
One of the new normal trends is that legal teams are no longer choosing to print everything in their eDiscovery workflow. Print a production QC set? Nope….I’ll just review online (frankly it is easier). Print binders? Actually, no thanks, I have an iPad app that works just fine for that. Print documents for future reference? Well, I could…but since my home printer is not as powerful as the one at work, I finally learned how to create reference sets (personal folders in Casepoint) that make it very easy to organize and pull up important documents. Print deposition kits? While many of my depositions have been postponed, I now know how to access the documents via my iPad or laptop through the Casepoint eDiscovery website…so I guess I really don’t have to print.
And this is a pretty big change. For an industry with “e” in its name, eDiscovery has often been weighed down by a heavy amount of printing. But working from home has steered the industry toward more efficient use of technology…and that includes going paperless for eDiscovery workflows. Some thought the day may never come, but here we are.
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Vice President of Operations
Jessica Robinson is an attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in Legal Operations at all levels, from analyst to operations executive. She held the position of Vice President of Operations at Casepoint from September 2019 to October 2023. Prior to joining Casepoint, she was the Director of Practice Support and LPMO at an international law…