Justin Hectus, Director of Information for the Long Beach, Calif.-based law firm of Keesal, Young & Logan, has published an article entitled "Looking Outside the Firm for On-Point Work Product" in the December Issue of ALM's Legal Tech Newsletter. The opening of the article resides below:

"The value of a good lawyer is not proven in redrafting maps of familiar ports, but rather it is secured by successfully navigating uncharted waters. Sophisticated purchasers of legal services understand this, and they expect today's lawyers to quickly locate, validate, update and utilize past work product where it is prudent to do so. Forward-thinking firms now utilize tools to effectively mine their own documents, but I was recently introduced to an amazing concept: Why stop looking for precedent documents at your firewall, if you can just as easily access documents filed by your competitor? The ramifications of this new concept are astounding..."