It is that time of year again at Millnet Towers. Last year, Millnet offered £10,000 worth of processing of electronic documents completely free. As a result, a number of law firms were able to move on pieces of litigation which had previously become stuck because of the costs associated with e-disclosure. Amongst those were two… Read More »
On 12th March 1829 undergraduates at the University of Cambridge sent a challenge to their counterparts at Oxford and started a tradition which continues in more or less the same form to this day. If you missed it last Saturday, imagine 16 heavy athletic men, plus a smaller man and a girl, afloat on the… Read More »
Pen Hadow, the polar explorer kindly entertained me to dinner recently at the Frontline Club. Pen and I share an ancestor way back in the 19th century but until last year I was only dimly aware of his existence and had no idea we might be distantly related. I knew, of course, that he was the first… Read More »
You put your left leg in You put your left leg out In, out, in, out Shake it all about You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around That’s what it’s all about. First there was outsourcing. You know what I mean. Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) in exotic places like the Philippines, South Africa,… Read More »
It’s a jungle out there. Where does most of a company’s electronically stored information (ESI) reside? If you need to retrieve ESI for the purposes of litigation where do you turn? In the days before electronic documents, lawyers and their clients would ferret about in old files, even older filing cabinets and possibly in warehouse… Read More »
Two Red Indian braves are pictured standing on a rocky outcrop looking over a scrubby cactus strewn expanse of desert towards the horizon where four puffs of smoke rise steadily in procession towards the sky. One brave turns to the other and says: “It says that someone has hacked into my emails!” Matt’s cartoons for… Read More »
In two recent blog posts at the tail end of last year Vox Stellarum and Waking the Dead and in case notes in our resources section I highlighted the US case of McMillen v Hummingbird Speedway Inc. To refresh your memory the case decided that log ins and passwords to social networking sites such as Facebook… Read More »
Why are there seven days in a week? The Biblical answer I suppose is that Genesis tells us that God created the earth and all that is in it in six days and on the seventh day he rested. The Babylonians had seven days in their calendar and the lunar rotation takes 28 days and the… Read More »
What have the following in common? A 1987 album track by George Harrison A song by Bryan Adams A 1969 album by the Temptations Battlestar Galactica A mobile phone company based in the Isle of Man A crime novel by James M Cain A skyscraper and shopping mall in Shanghai The answer is that all… Read More »
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is a concept with which most people are familiar, even if they do not know its origin. The concept appears in the Old Testament, the Koran and the Talmud and probably elsewhere as well. It is even referred to by Jesus in the Sermon… Read More »