John K Waters

April 17, 2007 | Legaltech News

Most law firms would prefer a relatively easy electronic discovery process so they could keep their focus on law. Enter Exterro Fusion, a portal for controlling the discovery process. John K. Waters draws on industry experts and law firms using Fusion to see if the product meets its promise.

By John K. Waters

8 minute read

February 01, 2006 | Legaltech News

Information retention and discovery management vendor Zantaz today announced a new product, First Discovery, designed to give companies greater control over the collection and search of their organization's e-mails and associated files. The benefits of solutions that effectively capture, preserve and access unstructured data are hard to overstate, says e-discovery consultant George Socha of Socha Consulting. The key to making them practical and genuinely productivity-enhancing, he says, is automation.

By John K. Waters

3 minute read

October 10, 2006 | Legaltech News

Mashups join content and services from distinct Web sites to create new services. Synaptec Software lays claim to the first commercial mashup in legal tech: a hybrid of LawBase software and Google Maps that provides a fresh view of a case. John K. Waters details its impact on the legal market.

By John K. Waters

9 minute read

August 01, 2006 | Legaltech News

Commentator John K. Waters says legal tech vendor consolidation is in its teething phase, and LexisNexis' deals with Dataflight Software and CaseSoft were the first big bite. But some insiders worry that behind LexisNexis' improving litigation software lurks a Microsoftesque monoculture.

By John K. Waters

7 minute read

September 25, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Figuring out who owns the code in an organization can be an enormous and vexing challenge, thanks in no small part to the widespread acceptance of open-source software. The advent of the still fuzzily defined Web 2.0 � which seems to encompass everything from Web services, Ajax and service syndication, to wikis, mash-ups, podcasts and even blogs � promises to add significant complexity to that challenge.

By John K. Waters

8 minute read

November 19, 2009 | Legaltech News

Nuance PaperPort has evolved from the simple document scanning application into a suite of technologies that provide a feature-rich, desktop-based electronic document management environment. Consultant John K. Waters takes a look at some head-turning enhancements in version 12 for the law office.

By John K. Waters

8 minute read

February 22, 2010 | Legaltech News

Now in beta and available for download, Microsoft Office 2010 comes with a number of enhancements to its suite, including an expansion of its Ribbon architecture, and the first ever web-based versions of its most popular applications. John K. Waters takes a walk through the new Office.

By John K. Waters

8 minute read

January 28, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

This web-based application allows members of legal teams to work together with accountability for everyone's actions.

By John K. Waters

6 minute read

April 04, 2006 | Law.com

What if the file formats we use to save documents aren't supported by future products? Could that cause a kind of corporate Alzheimer's, threatening our ability to recall critical documents? Commentator John K. Waters says the question of how to guarantee long-term access to data, free of the restrictions of proprietary software or the limitations of outdated technologies, is at the heart of a debate over open file formats being offered as a cure for a debilitating information-age malady.

By John K. Waters

8 minute read