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18 facilitate rapid application development makes it possible to quickly access and organize all of this information and use it for better decision- making on future matters. Manage custodian interviews. When litigation commences, multiple parties need to be interviewed. Let's say Party A sues Firm B for breach of contract. Attorneys will want to interview employees who may be involved. They will ask each of them for information that is relevant to the litigation, and each interviewee will be asked to provide a list of electronic devices they use, including computers, laptops, tablets, phones, etc. All of the devices will need to be listed, and interviews will commence. Meanwhile, a forensics investigator has been hired to collect the data from all devices. Ideally, all this documentation, including lists and dates and names and other key information could be kept in a centrally accessible location and organized in a coherent way. A custom application could be created to facilitate the process, so all of the attorneys who conduct the interviews store their interview notes in the same location or workspace. Forensic examiners would be able to log in and submit their information and notes in the same location. In turn, the case team would be able to monitor in real time which interviews have been completed and which still need to be done, and the litigation support team would be able to generate reports to provide the case team with an overview of progress. Manage legal holds. A customized legal hold application could be created to integrate legal hold functions with a corporation's identity management system to more efficiently identify employees who should receive a legal hold notice. The application would automatically generate an email to each of these employees and provide a hyperlink for them to click on to confirm they understand their obligation to preserve their data. The relevant legal team would be able to track to whom a notice was sent, which individuals actually received the notice, whether they read it and whether they affirmatively agreed to its provisions. Then the IT team would use the application to determine where to collect data. Whereas in the past legal organizations would be required to purchase individual applications from different vendors to address use cases like these, in the very near future they will be able to consolidate technolo for the full range of legal and operational workflows on a single platform and quickly create custom applications that more closely meet their specific requirements. Advanced technolo platforms for legal organizations are poised to blur the line that separates IT professionals from legal professionals. Legal teams are now more aware of the potential of the cross-functional synergies that are possible when data from diverse applications is accessible on the same platform. Lawyers and their staff often have ideas for applications that can instantly enable efficiencies on specific matters or projects or for processes that extend across specific matters or workflows. Even if many of these individuals will not necessarily want to do the development work themselves, the consolidation of data and technolo on a single flexible platform will make it possible for them to explain to an IT professional what they want applications to do and then have the IT team quickly create what they are looking for. Platforms that are accessible to both constituencies – and can support such applications from within a central and comprehensive data repository and accommodate a rapid create-and-deploy development process – will soon replace the fragmented IT environments that are so common in legal organizations today. ILTA David Carns David Carns is the Chief Revenue Officer of Casepoint. He joined Casepoint as a Director of Client Services in 2010, rose the ranks to Chief Strategy Officer until his most recent promotion in 2019. In addition to being a recovering attorney, David possesses a lifelong passion for technology and its advancements. His career has always found him at the intersection of technology and the legal field given his intimate knowledge of both. Today, David leads Casepoint in its global sales and marketing strategy with foresight. In addition to business development strategy, David is very well-versed in Casepoint's solution and technological prowess. David is attuned with the Casepoint application and its development since inception. He has also been on the client-side of the Casepoint application in his previous positions. Prior to joining Casepoint, David Carns' positions included Director of Practice Technology at a premier global law firm, Technology Consultant, and Director of Technology. Carns holds a Juris Doctorate from The John Marshall Law School and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from DePauw University.

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