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Articles or studies written by Joe Howie:

"The Ethics and Effectiveness of Contract Attorney Review, EDDUpdate.com, August 8, 2011, about J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc. v. McDermott Will & Emery, see resource page.

"Make Mine Minie," Law Technology News, August 1, 2011.

"The Low-Tech 5x5 Solution to E-Discovery Cost Control," InsideCounsel, published April 18, 2011.

"Crafting Effective E-Mail Disclaimers," Law Technology News, March 2, 2011.

" E-Discovery Burden, The Judges's Guide, and an Alternative to AFAs", InsideCounsel, January 20, 2011.

Judges' Guide to Cost-Effective E-Discovery, with Anne Kershaw, foreword by Hon. James C. Francis IV, US Magistrate Judge, SD NY, published by the eDiscovery Institute, October 1, 2010

Cut Legal Review Bills in Half with Predictive Coding," InsideCounsel, October 20, 2010.

"Crash or Soar? Will the legal community accept 'predictive coding'?, with Anne Kershaw, Law Technology News, October 1, 2010.

EDI Survey on Predictive Coding, with Anne Kershaw, October 1, 2010, published by the eDiscovery Intitute.

"Navigating an E-Discovery Fee Dispute, A mock e-discovery fee dispute takes aim at who has the responsibility for ensuring cost effective processes," Inside Counsel, July 19, 2010.

Quoted extensively in "The Modern Office," in Inside Counsel, May, 2010, by Inside Counsel managing editor Melissa Maleske.

"Pressure Points for Achieving E-Discovery Cost Effectiveness," InsideTech column for Inside Counsel, April 19, 2010.

First Annual Paper Tiger Worst Practices Award, March, 2010.

Guest blogger, DRI's For The Defense, "ACC and Technical Competency: Hear the Drumbeat," February 23, 2010.

"Ethics and EDiscovery Review," with Patrick Oot and Anne Kershaw, ACC Docket Vol. 28, Issue 1 (Jan/Feb 2010): Pages 46-57, considers ethical implications of failing to consolidate duplicate electronic records from the standpoint of obligations to clients, the courts, and opposing parties.

"Exposing Context: Email threads reveal the fabric of conversations," with Anne Kershaw, January, 2010, Law Technology News.

Report on Kershaw-Howie Survey of E-Discovery Providers Pertaining to Email Threading, with Anne Kershaw, published by the eDiscovery Institute.

"EDD Showcase: Highway Robbery?" with Anne Kershaw, Law Technology News, August, 2009 (about the ethics of, in essence,  double-billing for duplicative attorney review of e-discovery that can take place without deduping across custodians).

Report on Kershaw-Howie Survey of E-Discovery Providers Pertaining to Deduping Strategies,with Anne Kershaw (also available on the website www.EDiscoveryInstitute.org).

"Green Law: Exorcise Your Phantoms," Law Technology News, May, 2009.

"Legal Tech New York: No Excuses," Law Technology News, March, 2009 (about the ethical imperative to use technology).

"Green Law: High Noon?," Law Technology News, Nov. 2008.

"Impact of State Licensing of Private Investigators on Digital Forensics," Law Technology Today, an e-zine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, June, 2008.

Articles appearing in Update,  the electronic newsletter published monthly by the Association of Litigation Support Professionals:

December, 2009

• Implications of Law Firm Rankings

• More than You May Care to Know About Billing Codes and Invoices

November, 2009

• Trends and Surveys

October, 2009

• Non-Litigation Support Deduping

July, 2009

• "eDiscovery: Thousand-Day Competency Countdown"

June, 2009

• "Legal TREC: An In-depth Examination of Text Retrieval"

April, 2009:

• "Cutting-Edge e-Discovery Research, An Interview with Anne Kershaw and Patrick Oot"

• "Judge Peck's Wake Up Call on Producing ESI"

March, 2009

• "Case Law Restrictions on the Use of Full Text Searching"

• "Wisdom, Irrationality, Blink, Long Tail and Kindle"

• "Being Good for Nothing"

February, 2009

• "Two Decades and Counting: An Interview with Jim King of IPRO"

January, 2009

• "Privilege Review Strategies, an Interview with DiscoverReady's Jim Wagner"

• "Industry Consolidation," with Michael Potters

• "Implications of Study Showing that Best Employees Join Associations"

November 2008

• "Reviewing and Producing Digital Voice Files"

• "Sedona Guidance on ESI That is'Not Reasonably Accessible'"

October 2008

• "Will New Federal Rule of Evidence 502 Lower the Efforts Expended for Privilege Review?"

September 2008

• "Opposition to State PI Board Regulation of Digital Forensics Increases"

June 2008

• “Furninzics for Food”

• “Non-Lawyer Legal Standards and Certifications in the UK, an Interview with James O’Connell of the UK-based Institute of Paralegals”

• “Just Passed: Four-Year Prison Term for Unlicensed Computer Forensics in Michigan”

May 2008

• “LiST – UK e-Disclosure and Legal Technology, an interview with Jonathan Maas of DLA Piper UK LLP”

• “Pro Bono Litigation Support as a Marketing Tool” (interview of Tom Tigh of Superior Glacier)

• “Digital Forensic Certification and Training”

April 2008

• “Great Resources and Contacts: ARMA International”

• “Regulation of Forensic Computing: North Carolina,” reprinted in Law Technology Today, the e-zine of the ABA Law Practice Management Section, March/April 2008

• “Technology of Review: New Tape Indexing Technology May Impact e-Discovery Cost Shifting”

March 2008

• “PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification, An Interview with Monica Paskvan, PMP” (Monica is VP of professional services with Catalyst Repository Systems in Denver)

• “State Rules of Civil Procedure Governing e-Discovery”

• “e-Discovery and State Regulation of Private Investigators”

February 2008

• “Managing Transcripts: Procedure and Technology”

• “Be Aware of State Laws Pertaining to Private Investigators”

January, 2008

• “Australian Law, Litigation Support and e-Discovery” (interview with Michele Mahoney of Australia’s Mallesons Stephen Jaques)

• “Interview with Monica Bay: Law Technology News Editor, Blogger, Yankees Fanatic”

• “Origins: Bates Numbers, Greenwich Mean Time and Document Coding”

• “Charter Sponsor Profile: Merrill Corporation” (interviews with Merrill’s Jason Valesco and Lextranet co-founder Neil Aresty)

December 2007

• “Canadian Legal System and e-Discovery” (interview with Martin Felsky, CEO of Commonwealth Legal)

• “Duane Lites: Owner and Moderator of the LitSupport Listserve”

• “The Founding of Women in e-Discovery”

November 2007

• “Cohasset Survey Suggests Potential Spoliation”

• “Conversation with a Litigation Support Headhunter” (interview with Sarah Woodruff of The Glenmont Group)

• “Proposed Federal Rule of Evidence Could Minimize Trap for the Unwary”

“Federal Rules Governing E-Discovery, Changes Are Afoot,” Litigation Support, Facing New Challenges, ILTA, May 2005, pp. 7-10, updated in “Update on New E-Discovery Rules,” Litigation Support,  ILTA, March 2006 pp 12-13.

“Deduping Records & Other Strategies to Reduce Litigation Cost,” AIIM E-DOC Magazine, May/June 2005.

“Duplicates: Going Beyond Hash Values,” e-Discovery Law & Strategy, March, 2005, p 1, 2-4.

“High-Tech Blocking and Tackling,” For The Defense, Defense Research Institute, April 2004, pp. 14-15, 56-57.

“E-mail Spoliation: Finding or Avoiding It Through Linguistic pattern Matching and Database Techniques,” Digital Discovery & E-Evidence, Vol. 4, No. 3, March 2004, pp. 7-8.

"DSR Produces Indexed Databases of Documents," National Law Journal, vol. 20, No. 46, July 13, 1998, p. B8.

Editor, Litigation Applications Newsletter, published by the American Bar Association, Law Practice Management Section (1988-1992).

Section Editor, Winning with Computers: Trial Practice in the Twenty-first Century, American Bar Association (1991).

"An Rx for Computer Security," Optometric Economics, Vol. 6, No. 3, Summer, 1996, pp. 42-47 (published by the American Optometric Association).

"Road Warrior Notes (With Competitive Impact Analysis)," Law Practice Management, Vol. 21, No. 4, May-June, 1995, pp. 40-43 (published by the American Bar Association).

"5 Easy Steps to Computer Security", Trial, Vol. 31, No. 1, January, 1995, pp. 60-5 (published by the American Trial Lawyers Association).

"Document Imaging, The Promise and the Reality," Law Practice Management, March, 1994, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 28-35.

"Electronic Media Discovery, Hunting for Treasure," with Deborah Solomon Miller, Trial, Vol. 20, No. 3, March, 1994, pp. 54 - 64.

"Electronic Media Discovery: What You Can't See Can Help (or Hurt) You," Trial, January, 1993, pp. 70-73; reprinted in The Bottom Line, published by the Law Practice Management Section, State Bar of California, June, 1993, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 61, 63-65.

"Preserving the Attorney Work Product Protection for Litigation Support Databases," Winning with Computers, supra., pp. 211-212.

"Quality Control for Subjective Issue Coding," Winning with Computers, supra, p. 268.

"The Litigation Weapon of the '90s, Electronic Media Discovery," Winning with Computers, supra, pp. 298-301, reprinted from California Lawyer, Vol. 9, No. 10, October, 1989, pp. 63-5.

"Resisting EMD Premises Inspections," Winning with Computers, supra, pp. 302-304.

"The Future District Court, Anywhere, USA, 2001," Winning with Computers, supra, pp. 384-386.

"Tips for Designing Full-Text and Surrogate Data Bases," Law Office Computing, Winter 1991 (Premier Issue), pp. 44-51.

"Recovering Lost Files, Utilities software can help you raise files from the dead," California Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 1990, pp. 44-47.

"The Impact of Image-Based Litigation Support on Legal Assistant Managers," The LAMA Manager, Spring, 1990, pp. 6-7, 20 (published by Legal Assistant Managers Association). 

"Money in the Memory Bank, Using litigation-support software to organize and retrieve documents can save time and generate profits," California Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 4, April 1990, pp. 46, 49.

"Law Firm Profitability: The Impact of Litigation Support," Legal Professional, March/April, 1990, pp. 29-31.

"When Disaster Strikes," California Lawyer, Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1990, pp. 69-70.

"Imaging Technology Made Easy," National Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 12, Dec. 4, 1989, pp. 19, 26-27.

"Trial Preparation: Organizational and Technological Options for Corporate Counsel," ACCA Docket, Vol. 7, No. 4, Fall, 1989, pp. 23-30 (Published by the American Corporate Counsel Association).

"Protecting Attorney Work Product, The Attorney Work Product Doctrine Can Safeguard Your Databases," California Lawyer, Vol. 9, No. 2, February, 1989, pp. 57-61.

"Validating the Use of Issue Codes in Automated Litigation Support Systems," Litigation Applications Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2, Winter, 1989, pp. 9-10.

"Automated Litigation Support Systems," The Docket, Nov. Dec., 1988, pp. 8-12 (cover article), published by National Association of Legal Secretaries.

"Automated Litigation Support Comes of Age," De Novo, Nov. 1988, pp. 1-2 (published by Washington State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division).

"How to Be a Hero in Your Firm -- Automated Litigation Support Systems," Legal Administrator,  September/October, 1988, pp. 46-48 (now Legal Management) (published by Association of Legal Administrators).

"Why Trial Layers Computerize -- To Win Cases, Make Money & Avoid Malpractice," Lawyers' Microcomputer Users Group ("LAW MUG"), Summer 1988, pp. 3-6.

"Automating the Corporate Legal Department," Legal Administrator, November/December, 1987, pp. 23-32 (now Legal Management); reprinted in Law Department Management, June 30, 1989, pp. 275.54 to .63, Business Laws, Inc.

"The Partners Look at Computerization," with M. Matthew Starcevich, Ph.D., Legal Administrator, Fall 1986, pp. 38-40, (now Legal Management).