It is not just the technology and not just the price which matters when lawyers are choosing a provider of eDisclosure services. Lawyers have moved beyond seeing eDisclosure as just things on screens, and appreciate the people who are doing … Continue reading
In case you wonder why this blog has fallen silent, it is because I am in Hong Kong for the 7th Sedona Conference Working Group 6 Cross-Border and Data Protection Programme. That is a fairly intensive programme – a packed … Continue reading
eDiscovery software and consulting company ZyLAB is producing a webinar today, 4 June, at 1:00pm ET, with the title Selecting the right eDiscovery solution for your company. The word “solution” in this context implies both the software selected for the … Continue reading
When I first got involved in eDiscovery / eDisclosure in the late 1980s, the components of the problem were relatively straightforward: lawyers needed to find evidence; they were required to comply with some civil procedure rules; they needed to make … Continue reading
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. It has recently been furthering the commitment implied by the word “International” in its name. This takes several forms, most notably the annual events in London and Hong Kong (I go to both … Continue reading
In January 2015, Huron Legal released its IMPACT Benchmarking Survey on Law Department legal spend. In this video, Bret Baccus, senior director at Huron Legal, talks about some of the main points which arose from the survey. No one factor, … Continue reading
Nuix is producing a webinar on 2 June with the title The state of Information Governance today. The speakers are Julie Colgan, Head of Information Governance Solutions at Nuix, James Arnold, Managing Director, US Forensic Technology Services at KPMG LLP and Barclay Blair, Founder & Executive … Continue reading
eDiscovery lawyers are constantly being told to watch out for new sources of discoverable data as platforms and data types multiply. Those who think only of email and word files are probably missing great deal of potential evidence. Audio discovery … Continue reading
I wrote recently about two scholarships being offered by ILTA in honour of the late Browning Marean, one for people living and working in the US and one for international applicants. My article Attend ILTA Conference 2015 in Las Vegas … Continue reading
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As I reached home after the second day of IQPC’s 10th eDiscovery and Information Governance Summit, cold, soaked through, and knackered after two days in which I had sat down only to eat or moderate panels, an email arrived…. I … Continue reading
ZyLAB is presenting a webinar today, 27 May, at 1:00pm ET with the title Dealing with the complexity of multinational litigation. These speakers are Gregory Bufithis, managing director of eTERA Consulting Europe, and Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB, … Continue reading
Navigant has global clients for a wide range of business functions including those which require electronic discovery and related services. In this video, Jonathan Marshall, a London-based director in Navigant’s Legal Technology Department, talks about Navigant’s new presence in Hong … Continue reading
LiST – The Litigation Support Technology Group – is a London-based think tank with international reach. It was originally formed in 2003 by a group of litigation support specialists with the aim of encouraging and developing a uniformity of approach … Continue reading
In advance of CEIC in Las Vegas, Guidance Software has released the results of its 2015 Second Annual eDiscovery Survey. As before, questions were put to in-house legal departments and eDiscovery service providers, nearly 100 of whom replied. The main … Continue reading
US lawyers are much more expressly focused on the ethics of litigation than we are in the UK. A cynical US lawyer once told me that that is because there is a paper on Ethics in law exams. My own … Continue reading
APT Search is a specialist recruiter whose focus is on eDiscovery / eDisclosure. Its founder is Amit Pandit and, so far as I can see, nearly everybody in the UK eDisclosure business values Amit’s advice whether they are an employer … Continue reading
If I were a technology investor, I would have put money into Neota Logic when I first heard about it. That would partly have reflected my faith in John Lord, the man who founded nMatrix, sold it to Epiq Systems … Continue reading
When in Hong Kong recently, I had the opportunity to talk to Major Baisden, President of Iris Data Services, about Iris’s growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Iris’s global clients are growing their businesses in AsiaPac, Major Baisden says, and … Continue reading
It is inevitable that most of the attention is paid to very big eDiscovery matters and to the tools and processes needed to manage them. Most disputes, however, do not have documents measured in millions. Legal teams must analyse collections … Continue reading
Recommind is running a series of presentations at major US cities at the beginning of June with the title Investigations at Warp Speed: Strategies for Hyper-Efficient Review. The agenda includes a presentation from Bennett Borden of Drinker Biddle & Reath … Continue reading
The idea behind the newly-created Singapore International Commercial Court is to expand the legal services sector and to make Singapore a centre for international dispute resolution. Sir Vivian Ramsey, well-known to anyone concerned with recent developments in civil procedural law … Continue reading
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. It works throughout the year, and in an increasing number of jurisdictions, to help lawyers make the best use of technology in their practices. Its main event of the year is a big … Continue reading
CEIC is the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference, run every May by Guidance Software, and this year once again at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It takes place from 18-21 May and I will be there, as I have been for many … Continue reading
This year sees the 10th anniversary of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit, to be held at the Waldorf Hilton in London between 12 and 14 May. This event is, by a wide margin, the biggest event in the UK … Continue reading
What connects a law school course run by a Nashville-based eDiscovery software company and a legal expert systems company with a UK report on access to justice? And what has any of these to do with the recruitment of young people … Continue reading
The thing about Nuix, from a commentator’s point of view, is that it has always got something new to say, across multiple fronts and in many jurisdictions at once. If, as I just have, you have a run of events … Continue reading
I was one of around 350 guests at kCura’s Relativity Spring Launch in London last week. Before saying anything about the event or the product, I should note that an assembly of this size with a sole focus on eDiscovery / eDisclosure (never … Continue reading
Litigation is a project in which the prime lawyer input of strategy, tactics and advocacy is only a part of the set of factors which must be marshalled and controlled to bring a case to a successful conclusion on time and … Continue reading
APT Search, which specialises in recruitment for eDiscovery / eDisclosure, is looking on behalf of a client for a product specialist to work as part of “client support services”. The person they are seeking will be used to working directly with … Continue reading
FTI Technology is sponsoring an EDRM webinar on 23 April (that’s today) called Using FTI Ringtail to Modernise Keyword Search for Efficiency and Better Discovery Outcomes. The presenters are JR Jenkins, senior director of FTI Consulting and Jason Ray, Managing … Continue reading
I was away last week, which is why there were no posts, no updates to my Rebelmouse news pages, and few tweets. We were at the far end of Worcestershire, in a large house which had been taken by a … Continue reading
Although I cannot claim to have predicted that Epiq Systems would buy Iris Data Services, it is one of those acquisitions whose logic seems entirely obvious as soon as it is reported. Epiq has long shown inventiveness and consistency in … Continue reading
The Spring edition of Ethical Boardroom carries an article by me called Electronic Discovery: The in-housers take charge. You will find it at page 135 here I do not usually write for other publications. I have to produce quite enough … Continue reading
kCura’s Relativity Fest takes place this year between 11 and 14 October in Chicago. kCura has announced the 2015 competition for the Relativity Innovation Awards, open to customers who are building outstanding applications and integrations on top of the Relativity … Continue reading
The Singapore Academy of Law is organising a conference to take place in Singapore on 29 and 30 June. It is called Technology Law Conference 2015: the Future of Money and Data. Its theme is that technology offers both utopian … Continue reading
ILTA’s big show took place at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville in August 2014. Somewhat belatedly, here are some of the pictures which I took then, partly as encouragement to those who might want to go … Continue reading
I like to look in on Epiq Systems when I am in Hong Kong to catch up with what is going on, and I had a meeting on my recent trip with Celeste Kemper, Director of Document Review Services, Asia, … Continue reading
CEIC, the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference is run by Guidance Software. This year’s CEIC takes place from 18-21 May and is again at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I will be there. Here are some of the photographs which I took … Continue reading
If you read my article TAR-red with the same brush in the US and Ireland, you will have concluded that I had a copy of the judgment in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Ltd v Sean Quinn and ors about the … Continue reading
My recent post, Taking a breather from eDiscovery events, did not intend to give the impression, as it did to at least one person, that I am knocking off for a bit. That’s a nice thought, but the only thing … Continue reading
Apart from a couple of webinars and the occasional lunchtime event in London, I am gratefully back at my desk for most of the time between now and mid-May. That is deliberate, and I need it, not just to keep … Continue reading
ZyLAB is sponsoring a webinar on 2 April with the title Bridging the gap between legal and IT to increase efficiency and reduce risk. I am one of the participants; the other is Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB. Continue reading
UBIC has been conducting joint research with the NTT medical centre in Tokyo on a project whose purpose is to assess the risk that patients will fall over. Continue reading
Nuix has launched Sensitive Data Finder, a new tool designed to aid compliance with privacy laws and data protection regulations amongst other things. Its secret is the ability to identify high-risk and high-value information very quickly. Continue reading
Inevitably, there has been a great deal of comment on the recent Opinion delivered by US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck in the Rio Tinto case. I wrote about it, in tandem with a summary of an Irish judgment of the same week, in an article called TAR-red with the same brush in the US and Ireland. One of the most succinct summaries comes from Constantine Pappas at kCura, in an article called More Da Silva: 3 Takeaways from Judge Peck’s Rio Tinto Opinion. Continue reading
Iris Data Services, the ever-growing provider of eDiscovery managed services, has launched a new online service called Lawyer | Nonprofit Connect, whose purpose is to help lawyers and non-profit organisations find each other. Continue reading
Equivio has launched a major product release with Equivio Zoom v4.0 and Zoom Tab for Relativity V3.0. Zoom is Equivio’s eDiscovery platform, combining predictive coding and analytics including thematic analysis, near-duping, email threading, batching and language detection. Continue reading
APT Search is seeking a Business Development Consultant for an international legal services company in its London office. Experience in sales is an obvious prerequisite, including international sales in Europe and Asia. Continue reading
Xerox Litigation Services‘ increasing interest in the Asia-Pacific region appeared in an interesting article on the Xerox E-Discovery Talk blog last year by Rachel Teisch about the new Hong Kong eDiscovery practice direction. It was called A Game-Changer for E-Discovery in Hong … Continue reading
The latest release of Recommind’s Axcelerate 5 introduces interactive, customisable dashboards with visualise analytics about eDiscovery productivity and review. This is the subject of a webinar to the presented by Neil Etheridge and David Nicholls of Recommind on 25th March at 5:00pm GMT. Continue reading
FTI Technology has published a helpful paper called eDiscovery in Asia as a guide to the practical, legal and cultural issues which arise when eDiscovery demands (mainly but not always from the US) are made in Asia. It can be … Continue reading
Nuix is offering eDiscovery specialist training courses in London on 25 and 26 March consisting of two days of specialised workflow training. Those who attend will work through a complete eDiscovery project, from ingestion ingestion of unstructured data through to … Continue reading
Although I come across Epiq Systems mainly in relation to its worldwide eDiscovery services, it offers a much wider range of integrated technology solutions for the legal profession, including a group specialising in data breach solutions. Epiq has now appointed … Continue reading
As part of my record of the year 2014, I am publishing belatedly the photograph sets from some of the events which I attended in 2014. Among them was the Asia Technology Summit in Hong Kong in March 2014. We have had the … Continue reading
As we get ready for the 10th Annual Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit, the biggest event in the London calendar, here are a few photographs from last year’s event, starting with a couple of Sanjay Bhandari of EY who was, … Continue reading
The long-standing UK eDiscovery and digital forensics provider formerly known as CY4OR has recently rebranded itself as CYFOR, with a new website which emphasises that it has long since moved beyond its roots as a digital forensics company and added eDisclosure and cybersecurity skills and technology, among other things, to its services. Continue reading
LawTech NZ, the 3rd annual New Zealand Law and Technology Conference, is taking place in Auckland on 18 March. Continue reading
Guidance Software is organising a webinar on Wednesday 18 March at 11:00am PST in conjunction with its EnCase App Central partner Belkasoft. The webinar is called Enhancing Digital Investigations with Belkasoft, and covers evidence found in social media which can help make a case for digital investigators. Continue reading
APT Search has have a post for a project manager based in London as part of the practice support group litigation department of a client. The role include liaison, consulting and the provision of technical services to the company’s lawyers Continue reading
The last few days have brought us significant court rulings in the US and in Dublin about the use of technology which is variously called predictive coding, technology-assisted review, computer-assisted review, and other names indicative of the joint application of … Continue reading
kCura held its Spring Launch party in London in May 2014. CEO Andrew Sieja took us through the new features of Relativity 8.2, demo stations allowed visual explanations, and there was a good party. I wrote about it here. Below … Continue reading
For the last two years, kCura has had a Spring Roadshow in London. This has had two primary purposes – a specific one in that new products have been announced there, and a more general one reflecting the importance of … Continue reading
Recommind is holding its inaugural London eDiscovery Professionals Symposium in London on 16 March. The programme, which runs from tea at 15:30 through to drinks at 18:00, has a mixture of discussion about eDiscovery and Information Governance and updates on Recommind Axcelerate 5.3. Continue reading
I have published photographs from the InnoXcell 2014 Big Data Symposium here and here. We also took the opportunity to do video interviews, some of which have lasting value. Judge David Harvey of New Zealand talks about courts, lawyers and … Continue reading
I have made my excuses in an earlier article for waiting so long to publish these photographs of an event which took place so many months ago. By this stage, their significance, if any, is historic, part of the record of … Continue reading
These photographs below were taken at the InnoXcell Big Data Symposium in Hong Kong in April 2014. It is, I appreciate, a little late to be publishing photographs of an event which took place so long ago. My excuse, if … Continue reading
There is a webinar taking place today at 1:00pm Central with the title Getting Cloud Data from the New Big Three: Google, iCloud & MS Office 365. Continue reading
AccessData is offering a test drive demo to allow prospective users the opportunity to try its full products for 20 days. The offer applies to MPE plus and (shortly) to FTK and MPE+ nField. Continue reading
Corporate Knowledge Strategies, known as CKS, is a forum for communities of practice for those concerned with corporate information and the issues surrounding its creation, its safekeeping and its use. I took part in an event which CKS ran New … Continue reading
The third Legaltech Hong Kong takes place on 2 March at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong. As always, the agenda is broad, running across a wide range of the challenges which face lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region. I recently bumped … Continue reading
CEIC 2015 takes place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 18 to 21 May. Its agenda is now live online and ready to be explored. Continue reading
UBIC is the sponsor of an EDRM / Apersee webinar called Cross-border issues in eDiscovery to be broadcast on 18 February, at 1:00pm Central / 7:00pm GMT. The broad issues arising in this context are reasonably clear, deriving not merely … Continue reading
kCura is participating in a webinar today, 17 February, called Text Analytics in Action: Finding the “Killer Patent”. Ryan Hynes and Evan McAlpine of kCura are the main participants, and the webinar is moderated by Andy Moore, Publisher of KMWorld. Continue reading
Professor Richard Susskind has been a long-time and eloquent proponent of alternative ways of settling disputes through the use of both technology and procedural amendments. His picture of arguments being resolved by people in fancy dress in wooden-walled courts has … Continue reading
You will be wondering, no doubt, at the near-silence on my part on my blogs and Twitter for the last two weeks or so. I don’t suppose you’d noticed at all in fact, but I will tell you anyway. The first … Continue reading
Xerox Litigation Services on the Big Data Analytics Track at LegalTech Continue reading
Roe Frazer is CEO of Nashville-based eDiscovery software company Cicayda. Cicayda is proud to be different from its competitors in everything from the development tools which it uses to its marketing style. Continue reading
Nuix and iCONECT have completed delivery of “Direct to Database” (D2D) integration between Nuix eDiscovery and iCONECT-XERA®. Nuix users can now automatically create an iCONECT-XERA database and transfer extracted document data for review from within Nuix eDiscovery Workbench. Continue reading
HP has a series of panel sessions at LegalTech on the related themes of information governance and eDiscovery. Titles include Information Management in the Age of the New Attorney, Counsel’s Secret Weapon in the Information Wars: Governance Strategies and Tactics and How to Take Advantage of the Cloud for eDiscovery. Continue reading
Recommind has added new functionality to Axcelerate 5 which gives visibility into the time, cost and quality of document review, showing everything from project expenses to staffing levels and performance, resource allocation and other factors fundamental to business decision-making. Continue reading
Iram Arras of iCONECT is to lead a presentation at LegalTech called Seeing is believing: machine learning powered content visualisation for the enterprise on 4 February at 3:45 PM Continue reading
Huron Legal is sponsoring the Day 2 track at LegalTech called Cost control and using analytics to proactively manage. There are three sessions, Analytics and information governance, Analytics to enhance litigation and discovery strategy, and Analytics for progressive law department management. Continue reading
Epiq Systems announce global partnership with Contoural to deliver information governance solutions Continue reading
Cicayda is unifying all these applications and its search engine into one platform, called Reprise which embraces its cloud-based review software and workflow engine, search and analytics and other functions. Cicayda emphasises that it has developed all these tools itself and that there are no extra charges for the advanced analytics. Continue reading
This is personal – it is about what I go to LegalTech for. As I make clear below, if you are a potential buyer of software, then LegalTech is the perfect place to see demos of everything relevant under one … Continue reading
ZyLAB, which specialises in eDiscovery and information governance solutions, has launched a Channel Partner Program and is looking for technology companies, systems integrators and service providers to help bring ZyLAB’s eDiscovery production solution to its end customers in the US. … Continue reading
kCura is organising or taking part in a series of events at LegalTech, covering remediation in information governance, working whilst mobile using Relativity Binders and the use of Relativity Analytics. kCura is also offering the opportunity to register for exams … Continue reading
I rather like some videos released recently by EY aimed primarily at encouraging people to join, and aspire to partnership at, EY. You can find them here. I watched the one about Sanjay Bhandari, a partner in the fraud investigation … Continue reading
I offer you this video from Riverview Law for two reasons: the first is the reason for which they made it – to draw attention to their own willingness to offer fixed price fees and other alternative fee arrangements to … Continue reading
Every month seems to bring us a new example of an eDiscovery services provider integrating Nuix into its client offerings. The most recent of these is Lighthouse eDiscovery which has incorporated Nuix Web Review and Analytics into Lighthouse ECA. Lighthouse … Continue reading
iCONECT offers transcript management with Opus 2 Magnum Continue reading
Resolution1 is the cybersecurity specialist company recently spun out of AccessData. It has recently published a paper about the use of its cyber incident response by a UK-based global bank. Continue reading
Consilio, which has a global presence as a provider of eDiscovery services, is looking for a marketing manager based in Washington DC. Continue reading
AccessData at LegalTech: FTK+Summation – the convergence of digital investigations, big data, mobile data, and eDiscovery Continue reading
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