Johan T Widjaja

April 27, 2017 | The Legal Intelligencer

Wouldn't it be nice if firms could use technology to somehow use a sample of relevant documents to find more "like" documents out of 100,000 for document production? Wouldn't it be nice if law firms had document automation tools to efficiently help create ­appropriate documents and save the client money? Wouldn't it be nice if law firms could use artificial intelligence (AI) to help with analyzing contracts? While some of these ideas may have seemed like science fiction not too long ago, they are very much a reality in today's legal industry.

By Johan T. Widjaja

14 minute read

November 10, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

I think I'm considered a (younger) Generation X-er. I still remember why a pencil is relevant to a cassette tape. I've also felt the pain of lining up dot ­matrix printer paper, recognizing the sound of dial-up internet, and having to wait at least an hour for holiday pictures to develop. The horror! In the end, I was always kind and would indeed rewind. By the time I ­graduated from law school in 2004, technology was on a fast pace that would ­revolutionize the way we communicate and work. I feel I am lucky because my generation still remembers a world where things were a bit slower and less instantaneous, but because we have grown with the technology, we are pretty good at adapting to the latest devices and apps.

By Johan T. Widjaja

16 minute read

July 28, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

Information governance (IG), as a ­concept within the legal landscape and other industries has been around for some time now, and we are starting to see law firms and companies implement IG ­programs. On one end, some programs focus on IG related to pre-litigation data and information management with the objective to minimize e-discovery-related costs. By implementing policies to regulate and manage organizational data to know where the data is, who owns it and how long it should be retained until defensible disposition will help in properly defining a ­narrower corpus of data that might be relevant to a litigation. Although this focus of IG is important, it is only one layer of a collective ­enterprisewide framework.

By Johan T. Widjaja

12 minute read

January 28, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

There are many opportunities within law firms to use "small data" to make data-driven decisions.

By Johan T. Widjaja

6 minute read

October 22, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

"There's math and technology involved? Count me out, that's why I went to law school." The attorneys in the room nod at each other, smiling at this joke that more than a few of us have told at one point in our careers.

By Johan T. Widjaja

6 minute read

October 21, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

"There's math and technology involved? Count me out, that's why I went to law school." The attorneys in the room nod at each other, smiling at this joke that more than a few of us have told at one point in our careers.

By Johan T. Widjaja

6 minute read

April 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

There is a danger lurking in the dark within your firm. Nobody is monitoring this danger, and it is multiplying rampantly. Not only is this danger increasing rapidly, the number of different places where this danger is hiding is also spreading.

By Johan T. Widjaja

6 minute read

April 23, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

There is a danger lurking in the dark within your firm. Nobody is monitoring this danger, and it is multiplying rampantly. Not only is this danger increasing rapidly, the number of different places where this danger is hiding is also spreading.

By Johan T. Widjaja

6 minute read

January 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

I detest any physical mail I get in my mailbox, at home or at my firm. What is the point? I get most of my news online, use online or automated bill pay, and ignore promotional materials. I get important messages via email and manage them separately. Paper documents are clunky, they take up a lot of space to store and the information in them is hard to manage or share.

By Johan T. Widjaja

7 minute read

January 29, 2015 | The Legal Intelligencer

I detest any physical mail I get in my mailbox, at home or at my firm. What is the point? I get most of my news online, use online or automated bill pay, and ignore promotional materials. I get important messages via email and manage them separately. Paper documents are clunky, they take up a lot of space to store and the information in them is hard to manage or share.

By Johan T. Widjaja

7 minute read