This post summarises the posts on my Google Plus page during November 2012. I gave up on Google Plus after that for reasons given in my post here, and set up a new updates blog. A different form of index will be provided in due course for posts from 1 December.
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Huron Legal adds Integrated Analytics to its eDiscovery resources
Huron Legal has added to the resources available to its clients with the introduction of what it calls Integrated Analytics. The ambition is the elimination of up to 70% of irrelevant eDiscovery data right from the start and a resulting focus on responsive documents at an early stage.
Published: 1 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Huron Legal
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No outside provocation in Delaware predictive coding case
I have already mentioned on my blog the Delaware Chancery case in which Vice Chancellor J Travis Laster required both parties to use predictive coding. I give the link below to the article on the same subject from K&L Gates for two reasons. One is that it gives you the case reference.
The other is the dry reference to the judge’s unexpected plunge into deep waters. He addressed the issue of predictive coding, the commentator says, “apparently without outside provocation” – a nice way to put it.
Published: 2 November 2012
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Xerox OmniX review platform now on all platforms including mobile
Xerox Litigation Services has announced that its proprietary document review platform OmniX will now run on any operating system or browser including Mac OS and Linux and on tablets and mobile devices such as the iPod, iPhone and Android.
Published: 2 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Xerox XLS
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UK Parliamentary Justice Committee comments on the EU draft data protection regulation
The attached opinion from the UK Commons Select Committee responsible for oversight of justice reveals an ambivalent attitude to the European Commission’s detailed legislative proposals for European reform of data protection.
The committee accepts that change is needed, partly to take account of technological developments…
Published: 2 November 2012
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Praise from sponsors and delegates for Legal IQ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange
I have written in enthusiastic terms about Legal IQ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange which took place in Washington in September. The views of those of us who participate in the panels are of rather less importance than the views of those who pay to sponsor the events and to attend them.
This set of video interviews will leave you in no doubt that this event was extremely successful and seen as beneficial by those whose opinion matters. I hope that the London-based team responsible for it will be encouraged to venture further into the US conference scene next year.
Published: 2 November 2012
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First Advantage Litigation Consulting expands London document review centre
Barely a week goes by, it seems, without an announcement from First Advantage Litigation Consulting. The acquisition of DLR Legal earlier this year was the first in a spate of announcements including new offices in Switzerland and Germany and expansion in the US.
The latest announcement is of the expansion of FADV’s document …
Published: 2 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | First Advantage Litigation Consulting
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Xerox Litigation Services to offer managed document review
I have written separately about the support for mobile devices which Xerox Litigation Services has added to its OmniX eDiscovery software. In his report on the same subject, Evan Koblentz at Law Technology News tells of yet another development from a company which seems to be making new announcements every month.
Published: 2 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Xerox XLS
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FTI webinar on 14 November – How intelligent reuse of data improves document review
One of the many interesting features of FTI Technology’s Ringtail 8 document analysis and review platform is the ability to re-use lawyer work product and information between matters. It does not automatically follow that a coding decision made for one case will hold good in the next, but there is a high probability…
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | FTI Technology
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Epiq Systems Q3 results show 20% operating revenue growth
My main interest in the results of eDiscovery providers lies in the conclusions one might draw is to the health of the eDiscovery market. Epiq Systems draws its revenue from three segments, eDiscovery, Bankruptcy and Settlement Administration. The figures are shown in the attached press release and my focus is on the 39% increase in the operating revenue of the eDiscovery segment as against the third quarter of last year. The year to date increase as against last year is 48%.
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Epiq Systems
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Guidance Software Q3 2012 financial results show interesting activity as well as good figures
I do not pretend to be familiar with the terminology of US corporate accounts, but Guidance Software’s Q3 2012 results (see link below) show all the numbers going up compared with the same quarter in 2011. President and CEO Victor Limongelli refers to “another period of strong growth for Guidance Software,…
Published: 2 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Guidance Software
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Epiq Systems interview at MCC – Predictive coding: transparency, metrics and ease-of-use
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel interviewed Ed Burke, Senior Vice President, and Mary Ann Benson, Director of Consulting Services at Epiq Systems. The resulting article is attached.
The focus of the article is on predictive coding. As Mary Ann Benson says, Epiq was an early adopter of Equivio’s predictive coding application Relevance which forms part of the mixture of technology and processes which make up Epiq’s Legal IQ.
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Epiq Systems
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Equivio Zoom offered by SFL Data
I came across eDiscovery service provider SFL Data at a conference last year and their name keeps turning up. The latest news to reach me is that they now offer Equivio Zoom to their clients along with other technology assisted review services and products.
Equivio Zoom is an integrated web platform for analytics and predictive coding, combining Equivio’s long-standing…
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Equivio
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The LitSavant Conformity Engine for Relativity by Mark Dingle
Amongst the many attractions of kCura’s Relativity is the ability to add business rules within Relativity workspaces. Mark Dingle of UK litigation support company LitSavant has produced the LitSavant Conformity Engine which allows complex, logical tests to be applied to data as it is entered.
The full list of benefits and potential applications…
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Relativity | LitSavant
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ZyLAB eDiscovery Bundle 3.1 – on video
I do not need to say much about ZyLAB’s new eDiscovery Bundle 3.1 because their video does it for me – it is linked to from the press release which is attached to this post.
I read an awful lot of product descriptions in a year, and it is not a criticism of marketing departments that each one seems much the same as the last one. The purpose of the software, and …
Published: 3 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | ZyLAB
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Guidance Software webinar on 20 November – Hunt or be Hunted: Exposing Undetected Threats on the Network
Anthony Di Bello, Senior Product Manager at Guidance Software, is the presenter of a webinar called Hunt or be Hunted: Exposing Undetected Threats taking place on 20 November. The registration page is given below.
The subject is graphically illustrated by a neat picture showing the old adage about little fish being eaten by bigger fish. The big fish, in this case, is made up of a host of small ones, an apt metaphor for the aggregate of minor security breaches which add up, when the attackers are ready, to a serious security breach.
Published: 19 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Guidance Software
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Philip Favro of Symantec – the erosion of Pension Committee eDiscovery standards
One of the fundamental differences between the courts of England and Wales and those of the US is that we favour reliance on the broad discretion of the court where US lawyers like bright line rules. Nothing illustrates this better than our respective approaches to the duty to preserve documents in anticipation of litigation…
Published: 19 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Symantec – Clearwell
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Epiq Systems webcast on 27 November – Technology-Assisted Review 102: Beyond the Basics
Epiq Systems are long-time users of Equivio’s Relevance predictive coding tool, making it available as part of their IQ Review service to clients long before the more recent debate developed about technology assisted review
In a webcast on 27 November at 2 PM PST Epiq will host a discussion covering:
• How to determine when and where to use TAR
• Best practices for employing TAR methodologies
• Risks involved, and how to avoid them
• Implementing case law in the real world
• How to get buy-in from others around you
Published: 19 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Epiq Systems
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Catalyst offers Equivio Zoom to bring tokenised predictive coding to Japanese market
Catalyst has long been a pioneer in the difficult Japanese eDiscovery market – difficult because Japanese, as with other languages in the region, does not lend itself well to search technologies developed for English and most other languages.
Published: 19 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Equivio
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AccessData Summation partnership with Canada’s Commonwealth Legal
eDiscovery software provider AccessData has been working hard to promote the all-new web-based Summation 4.1, a complete rewrite of the old Summation product set.
Canada is apparently the home of a large Summation user base. Leading evidence management company Commonwealth Legal has now entered a partnership with AccessData to bring the new Summation to that user base as well as to reach new users.
Published: 19 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | AccessData
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First Advantage opens document review facility at St Paul’s, London
I went to the launch party last week of the new document review facility opened by First Advantage Litigation Consulting at its offices overlooking St Paul’s Churchyard.
When I say “overlooking” I mean just that – the large room, newly fitted with reviewers’ computers, directly overlooks St Paul’s Churchyard.
Published: 20 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | First Advantage Litigation Consulting
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Millnet DocBuster seminar on printing and technology for lawyers
I picked this up rather late in the day, but Millnet are presenting a seminar TODAY at 5.45pm at the Law Society. The seminar offers a practical overview on topics including:
• Why the requirement to print electronic documents is growing
• Inside electronic documents – the hidden data you are missing
• Best practice and time saving tips
• Technology and how it is changing how lawyers work.
Published: 22 November 2012
G+ Post | Link to Source | Millnet
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