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Project Management
in 2019
B Y L E O N C A R N E Y
I
'm not a religious man. These days, people like
to call themselves spiritual instead of religious,
but I'm not sure how spiritual I am either. I do,
however, like keep an open mind and if I can draw
inspiration from the saints, I will. I believe it was
Saint Nicholas of Myra (aka Santa Claus) who made a
practice of making a list and checking it twice.
Do you need Salesforce to keep track of tickets
and make them client-facing? Probably. Should you
learn how make tables and link them in Access?
That would be smart. Is it a good idea to log data
into its smallest possible increment so that you can
slice and dice information into nuanced reporting?
Undoubtedly.
Multi-jurisdiction litigation especially requires
an ironclad process where an electronic file, (whether
that is scanned paper, an email, an iMessage
or a day's worth of Bloomberg chat data about
financing seasonal toy manufacturing) is collected
in a forensically sound manner, has a clear chain of
custody and a known custodian. That system needs
to allow for files to have multiple Bates numbers
applied to them, e.g. one set of Bates per Federal
jurisdiction, with the flexibility to add additional
Bates sets in the future. You need to understand
your own workflow, be able to articulate that
workflow and, most importantly, know you can rely
on your workflow 18 months from now when three
jurisdictions have settled, the database is archived,
a fourth jurisdiction has now made a new document
request concerning the same matter and a whole
