I hope you and those you celebrate with have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and good health in the New Year! I am so thankful for many things this past year (Concordance unicode support, HTML5, Adobe CS4…just kidding) and am looking forward to spending time over this holiday with family.

2010 will be a lightening year for a variety of technologies that impact our industry and related fields. I hope to be adding a lot of new functionality over the next several months and look forward to providing even more value to the thousands who stop by each month. Cheers!

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are enjoying this holiday weekend with family or friends. For most litigators, litigation support, IT professionals and vendors, our jobs and projects are rarely ever capable of being put totally on “hold.” Between checking your Blackberry or iPhone and carving the turkey, I hope you have the opportunity to relax and enjoy good food, company, football and a gentle start to the Winter months. This holiday season I am quite thankful for my wonderful, supportive and understanding family & close friends, co-workers, colleagues and the thousands who visit my blog each month. Happy Thanksgiving to you all and God bless!

Most of the articles on The Rung are geared toward improving upon a skill, educating on a topic or (hopefully) contributing to the ongoing discussions within litigation technology and legal IT. As we begin to shift into the holiday season, I wanted to write an article that is directed more toward how we can improve and enrich the lives of others. As an added perk, I believe that the ideas presented can also foster a sense of good will and teamwork within your organization which can extend beyond January 2010.

This article isn’t about holding hands, swaying with the music and putting a lighter in the air – it’s intended to demonstrate how simple modifications in regular or accepted practices, as well as maximizing resources for the the greater good, could positively impact the world we live in. As the pace of most litigation slows around the holidays, this can be the best time of the year to begin such important projects. Who knows – maybe doing something good for the world might turn out to be good for business, too. Read the rest of this entry »