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This week: Court digitization - the future is here; the evolving requirements of a law firm's website - why a website is more important than ever; and it's raining cats and dogs in residential complexes.
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The proliferation of electronic documents makes electronic discovery imperative for the legal and corporate world, and mishandling such documents could spell danger for the success of your case.This was the overarching sentiment shared during the virtual launch on 30 March 2021 of Africa’s first legal text on eDiscovery, entitled A Guide to eDiscovery in South Africa.
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Reliable legal resources key for facing an uncertain future
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This week: Justice Accelerator to grant EUR 10,000 to technology-driven finalists to grow their business; law firms complacent about sharing technology; and survey shows billions lost in investment due to erratic heritage application process.
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The world is awash with data and has officially entered the Zettabyte era[1]. Hundreds of billions of emails are sent/received on a daily basis and it has been calculated that more than 97% of business documents are created electronically. South Africa is not immune nor exempt from the digital revolution. In short, the very nature of what constitutes information and documentary evidence, types and sources, and how they are dealt with has changed.
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Legal research and case preparation ordinarily consume a large part of the legal practitioner’s day and energy, because – as complicated and time consuming as the process can be – there is no more effective way to strengthen an argument in court than with sound case and precedent referencing.
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Increased user and usage statistics of free Wi-Fi provided by LexisNexis South Africa in 16 Courts across the country show an uptake in the use of technology in the legal space.
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One of the key findings in this year’s LexisNexis SA and the Law Society of South Africa’s (LSSA’s) Legal Tech survey into the legal profession, shows a small increase in black legal professionals, while a lack of BEE credentials is a worry for smaller legal firms.
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As we well know, the volume of data being generated is growing rapidly. eDiscovery involves almost all information capable of being stored electronically, across multiple formats. It is not limited to conventional formats such as Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and email. It includes text messages, social media interactions on WhatsApp, Twitter, Skype and Zoom meetings. Add in LinkedIn, FaceBook and Google searches. In short it is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in a litigation case or investigation.
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The practice of law is being transformed by Artificial Intelligence (AI). In many ways they are congruent as both the practice of law and AI look to historical examples in order to infer rules to apply to new situations.