Technology is not boilerplate. In litigation computing, there is no one way to do it right every time. The less conventional we are in the way we use technology, the more advantage there is to gain competing against those lawyers who think they can buy their way, instead of think their way, into computing virtuosity. No two cases and no two clients are ever alike. Once a case strategy is in place, the litigation support and technology plans necessary to execute it will flow from the decisions made about how to try the case.
Information management is the DNA of trial advocacy.
You have to know from experience what you are likely to reap before you sow it. What you can accomplish at trial is predetermined by how well you design your analysis of all the information you draw upon in court. Let the technology you use be the technology you use before the jury. There is the notion among lawyers that they must have one set of programs to use everyday and another to use in court. They think that the technology a lawyer uses to understand a case is different from what a juror needs to understand a case.