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Monthly Archives: May 2010
International eDiscovery Panel at CEIC
There is one major difference between the general run of discovery problems and those relating to international and cross-border discovery. The former are soluble – competence and co-operation coupled with judicial management would fix most ediscovery problems tomorrow; the trans-jurisdictional … Continue reading
Judicial ediscovery comparisons at CEIC
I did a short summary piece about two of the sessions which I attended at CEIC in Las Vegas (see CEIC comes to an end), promising to expand on them when I got home. I am not quite home, sitting … Continue reading
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CEIC 2010 comes to an end
CEIC 2010 is winding down here in Las Vegas. Whatever measure you take – the quality of the sessions, the opportunity to catch up with people and meet new ones, the sheer numbers of people attending (1,300 or so), the … Continue reading
Missing my Dragon
Jonathan Maas of Ernst & Young says that I missed a trick in my account of the laptop which died en route to Las Vegas and which I had to replace and set up in order to do a webinar … Continue reading
Party with a purpose at the poolside
I am told that there is record attendance at CEIC 2010 here in Las Vegas. Putting it like that implies no doubt on my part that the claim is correct, but this place is so vast that you could lose … Continue reading
Manual discovery is like herding steers down the Strip
I hope I never tire of the wonders of all this technology or cease to be amazed by what one can do with it. It is more than 100 years since the Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk, and I travel … Continue reading
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Keeping at work in the Cloud from Las Vegas
I have been here in Las Vegas a little over 24 hours. So far I have been asked by a cop if I have been arrested before, and been blatantly short-changed in Starbucks; I have been to one tourist attraction … Continue reading
IQPC the best London e-disclosure conference again
The three-day IQPC Information Retention and eDisclosure Management Summit is over for another year. It is the biggest and best conference in the London calendar and one which genuinely aspires to do better each year. Everyone I spoke to seemed … Continue reading
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IQPC: I heard your judges’ panel blew the doors off the joint
The quotation in my heading just came in from Gregory Bufithis of The Posse List. The reference is to the judicial panel yesterday at IQPC in London comprising (alphabetically) His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, US Magistrate Judge John Facciola, … Continue reading
Nigel Murray cycles to Trilantic’s new Dubai office
There is a photograph on Nigel Murray’s blog which appears to show that he has been cycling to work. Given the present state of air travel, this may be the most sensible method, even if you live in England and … Continue reading
A week of change in e-Disclosure as well as in politics
It is not often that you look back over a week or so and know that you will always remember it. Eight days ago, we had the same government as we had had for 13 years; now, not only the … Continue reading
Court of Appeal declines to overturn specific disclosure judgment in Fiddes v Channel 4
Those interested in judicial management of disclosure might like to look at the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Fiddes v Channel 4, delivered on 24 March but published on BAILII only on Friday. The case is interesting for … Continue reading
FTI Consulting partnership makes Late Shift possible for National Portrait Gallery
It is not just e-Disclosure which needs to find wider audiences. Institutions like the National Portrait Gallery also have to make their displays more accessible. The word “accessible” acquired politically correct connotations in the New Labour years, with public funds … Continue reading
Video illustration of forensic collections tool
I am always looking out for new ways of getting to wider audiences. Although you cannot beat actually talking to people, the Internet offers other ways conveying information. Forensics collection experts 7Safe have produced a video about their data collection … Continue reading
Imminent reform in prospect for Australian discovery process
Reform of the discovery process in Australia is said to be “imminent”, according to an article in the New Lawyer. The article says that the Attorney General has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to explore options to promote the … Continue reading
Recommind webinar: Technology is Changing the Economics of e-Disclosure, Are You Prepared?
My title is the name of a webinar which I am doing with Jason Robman of Recommind on 25 May. Its description reads as follows: The enormous costs and time associated with the e-Disclosure process are staggering, with the document … Continue reading
E-Disclosure law, practice and technology in one educational package
The first of the E-disclosure seminars organised jointly by Professor Dominic Regan and me took place yesterday at Ely Place Chambers. Dominic and I were joined by Senior Master Whitaker and by speakers from three technology providers, 7Safe, Legal Inc … Continue reading
Reminder: Dominic Regan and Chris Dale on e-Disclosure at Ely Place Chambers on 12 May
Professor Dominic Regan and I will be leading a seminar from 2.00 until 5.15 on Wednesday 12th May at Ely Place Chambers on the subject of electronic disclosure of documents. Lord Justice Jackson’s only recommendation in relation to e-disclosure was … Continue reading
Women in eDiscovery at IQPC on 18 May
It is not too late to sign up for the women in e-Discovery session at IQPC’s Information Retention and e-Disclosure Summit on Wednesday 18 May. The conference itself runs from Monday 17 May and the Women in eDiscovery session takes … Continue reading
Late disclosure of e-mails ends BA price-fixing trial
The government and its agencies have come unstuck yet again over failure to disclose electronic documents. A Reuters article British Airways price fixing trial collapses, published today, reports that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) had failed to disclose relevant … Continue reading
ILTA 2010 Nashville venue under water
ILTA 2010, due to take place at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville Tennessee on August 22-26, is confident that it will find another venue after the waters from the Tennessee floods severely damaged the hotel. This video gives you … Continue reading
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Singapore e-Discovery judgment shows international commonality and active management
A judgment by Senior Assistant Registrar Yeong Zee Kin in the Singapore High Court last week shows the commonality in court-led management of e-Discovery between common law jurisdictions. The case is Deutsche Bank AG v Chang Tse Wen and others … Continue reading
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Listening to myself talking about e-Disclosure for the IQPC Information Retention and E-Disclosure Summit
I have been listening to a podcast which I made recently for IQPC as part of the run-up to their Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit in London on 17-19 May 2010. It can be accessed from the Summit’s home … Continue reading
The 2010 Duke Conference on US Civil Litigation
No one with any interest in the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure could be unaware of the debates which have been going on about the costs of civil litigation and, in particular, of discovery. A conference is being held … Continue reading
Government cannot keep documents secret in Guantanamo civil claim for damages
The Court of Appeal has held in Al Rawi and Others v The Security Service and Others that it is not open to a court in England and Wales, in the absence of statutory authority, to order a closed material … Continue reading
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Recommind research shows UK companies not ready for e-Disclosure
I spent much of today digging out quotations from judgments whose theme was inexcusable e-Disclosure failures, which I need for a paper which I am writing. We have had a run of cases in the UK where significant costs have … Continue reading
Search technology: an intelligent adjunct to the lawyer’s skills, not a black box
An article by H5 on the professionalization of search ties in with my recent suggestion that lawyers and search experts have parallel roles in e-Discovery and that clients, rather than the lawyers, will manage the process. The UK courts have … Continue reading
The Franco-British Lawyers Society on cross-border e-Disclosure 17th of May 2010
The Franco British Lawyers Society have organised an evening session called Searching for evidence: a panel discussion on cross-border e-Disclosure from an English and French perspective. The event takes place on Monday, 17 May at 6 pm at Pinsent Masons, … Continue reading
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EDiscoveryMap helps navigate cross-border issues
Monique Altheim, a New York qualified lawyer, has quickly established her blog, EDiscoveryMap, as a mine of information on matters of personal data, privacy, data transfer and cross-border transfers. I follow her on Twitter as EUDiscovery and EDiscoveryMap which keep … Continue reading
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