Monthly Archives: March 2011

Back from New York and competing with a cobra

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Chris Dale

Before I get any more queries of the “Why no new posts?” variety, I have been in New York for a week, primarily for a panel on blogging, tweeting and friending, and for a webinar. It was the week that … Continue reading →

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LDM Global Breakfast Briefing on 7 April – The UK Bribery Act: an International Perspective

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris Dale

LDM Global is hosting a complimentary breakfast briefing on the UK Bribery Act on Thursday 7 April at 8:30am. The venue is the IoD Hub at 35 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1NH. The theme is the international perspective. The … Continue reading →

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ZyLAB half-day seminar on 6 April: the UK Bribery Act – controlling the impact on your organisation

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris Dale

E-discovery and information management software provider ZyLAB is hosting a half-day seminar on the UK Bribery Act in Middle Temple Hall on 6 April starting at 9:30am. ZyLAB’s applications stretch from the long-term information management requirements of companies through to … Continue reading →

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Lawyers replaced by computers for ediscovery search – a retrospective

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Chris Dale

The dust is settling on the debate aroused by the John Markoff article in the New York Times of 4 March headed Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software. We can’t have that, so I thought I would keep … Continue reading →

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ILTA Insight in London on 5 April

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Chris Dale

ILTA, the International Legal Technology Association, holds a one-day conference in London each spring called ILTA Insight. This year it is on 5 April at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel which, as its name implies, is centrally and conveniently located. … Continue reading →

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E-disclosure Great Debate at The Lawyer

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Chris Dale

The Lawyer today carries a report by editor Catrin Griffiths of an edisclosure  panel last week hosted by The Lawyer as part of a series of such debates. The panel included Senior Master Whitaker, Phil Beckett of Navigant, and senior … Continue reading →

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Virgin nearly screws up my webinar

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Chris Dale

My apologies if my title has brought you here under a misapprehension as to its subject-matter. It has been that kind of day. “Virgin” is Virgin Media, supplier of telecommunications services which generally work, albeit not at the speeds advertised. … Continue reading →

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Aggressive Transparency and Strategic Cooperation in Electronic Disclosure

Posted on March 16, 2011 by Chris Dale

Lieutenant Schrank: You hoodlums don’t own these streets. And I’ve had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain’t gonna do it on my beat. … … Continue reading →

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Risk, Processes, Proportionality and Objectives in Bribery and eDisclosure

Posted on March 11, 2011 by Chris Dale

This post is actually about a talk given jointly by me and Barry Vitou of Pinsent Masons and of thebriberyact.com to an audience invited by Iron Mountain in Westminster this week about the Bribery Act and developments in e-Disclosure. I … Continue reading →

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Digital Reef, kCura and Foley & Lardner Webinar on 9 March

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Chris Dale

I do not catch all the webinar notices which fly by, and get to mention only a fraction of those. That implies no lack of support for the format or for those who put them on, but it is only … Continue reading →

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King Ludd and the Lawyers – e-Discovery and the Luddite Fallacy

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Chris Dale

Since I am about to refer you to three weighty articles by others, I will keep my own comment to a minimum. The context is the ability of modern litigation software to analyse documents more quickly and more cheaply than … Continue reading →

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The relevance of a computer called ‘Watson’ and a television game show to electronic disclosure

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Chris Dale

A computer with a homely name like ‘Watson’ and a US quiz show may sound like trivialisation of the serious subject of electronic discovery / eDisclosure. Equally, a reference to ‘Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing” sounds way over the top for … Continue reading →

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Phlogging IQPC with Dominic Regan and ipadio

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Chris Dale

Let us deconstruct my title in stages, taking the easy bits first. IQPC is a well-known conference organiser whose Information Retention and E-Disclosure Summit is generally recognised as the best of the London conferences on information management and the use … Continue reading →

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UK Government abandons Henry VIII powers to by-pass Parliament

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Chris Dale

The UK government is abandoning its attempt to give itself new powers to act without parliamentary scrutiny. That is interesting in itself, but also encourages observations on the rise of informed blogging on legal matters in opinion-forming. My January article … Continue reading →

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The Bribery Act and e-Disclosure – Iron Mountain breakfast seminar on 8 March

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Chris Dale

Registration is now open for the Iron Mountain Breakfast Seminar on Electronic Disclosure and the new UK Bribery Act which takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 8.30am at Altitude 360, Millbank Tower, London. The registration form is here. The … Continue reading →

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AccessData conference carries electronic discovery message to Germany

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Chris Dale

I am very much looking forward to moderating an electronic discovery conference in Frankfurt on 22 March. The hosts are AccessData and the speakers are drawn from a broad range of legal, technical and compliance backgrounds, and from well-known firms … Continue reading →

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