Kind words from the Posse List eDiscovery Reading Room

If a supplier asked me what to do if it received unsolicited praise from a respected source, I would tell them to stick it up on their web site. What is the proper reaction when someone says nice things about me?

My own shy and retiring nature is at odds with my role as cheer-leader for the e-Disclosure / eDiscovery industry and its players. This very English reserve extends to my own articles: Google alerts for, say “eDiscovery”, pick them up, sometimes within minutes, but I have usually by then moved on to something else. I see the heading and think “that looks interesting”, only to realise that it is my own. It is, of course, unsurprising that I should be interested in the topic about which I write several thousand words a week, but I ought to be able to recognise my own articles.

An alert turned up a few days ago about a blog: “… incisive and trenchant showing a penetration to the heart of a subject with clear, sharp, and vigorous expression”. Wow, I thought. I wouldn’t mind that as my epitaph – only to discover that the extract was in fact about me.

Legal Technology Awards 2009

The Legal Technology Awards list is out. The number of categories, providers and products may seem bewildering, but their web sites give a good idea of what they do. Follow some links and see what maps to the problems which your firm or company faces.

The Legal Technology Awards come in two waves, the juried awards (broadly for individuals, law firm departments, inspired uses of technology and so on) and the vendor categories which are voted for by those who use them. There are about 33 categories and up to three awards in each of the vendor categories. I will not list them all because Monica Bay has already done that here for the juried awards and here for the vendor awards.