Legal Commentary

Value Tip Of The Day: No. 2--Avoid Litigation By Outlook Syndrome

By Patrick J. Lamb

You start a new matter and the emails fly in. So you open a folder in Outlook for the ABC Matter. Eventually, you get around to creating some sub-folders. Six months later, an issue arises and you have this nagging thought in the back of your mind that you have seen something about that issue before. Where to start? Well, there is no specific Outlook subfolder under the ABC Matter on this issue. So you start searching and hope you find what you were looking for. Hit and miss litigation is never good. Outlook was not designed to be a litigation support feature or an organizational tool. Wikis are a far superior tool for organizing information, but they don't necessarily have all the tools needed for true collaboration across the spectrum of a lawsuit.

has designed SecureRamps as a tool to meet this need. But whether it is an LOR SecureRamp or some other tool, use the right tool for the job--and Outlook is not it.

Full post as published by In Search of Perfect Client Service on June 30, 2010 (boomark / email).