Author Archives: Chris Dale

I am off at the end of the week for the Third Lawtech Europe Congress. It is billed as covering electronic evidence, computer forensics, cyber security and legal technology and runs from Sunday evening until the middle of Tuesday. Continue reading →

I was not able to take part in the Twitter chat led by Julie Colgan and Brian Tuemmler of Nuix on 15 October. Fortunately, the discussion was captured in a Storify which you can find here.

Guidance Software is organising a session in Atlanta 21st of October with the title Cloud, Mobile and Social Media in Litigation. These three concepts – cloud, mobile and social media – overlap in that most social media is generated on mobile devices and stored in the cloud. Continue reading →

Consilio has launched a solution which streamlines the review of Instant Bloomberg archives. It augments data for better searching and discovery workflow purposes and introduces a real-time, dynamic filter to accelerate reviews, reduce costs and give increased accuracy. Instant Bloomberg is … Continue reading →

eDiscovery software developer Cicayda appeared apparently from nowhere and quickly established itself as a contender in a very competitive market. This defied the predictions of many commentators (including me) who did not think that we would see any new developer … Continue reading →

AccessData’s software range covers everything from identification and collection and all the other eDiscovery processes through to review, as well as computer forensics (which is where AccessData began) and cybersecurity. AccessData has developed a particular expertise in the extraction of … Continue reading →

HP Autonomy is giving a webinar on 22 October at 15.00 BST with the title Trends, pain-points and solutions in UK disclosure. I am one of the participants; Matthew Davis, Litigation Support Lawyer at Hogan Lovells is another; the moderator … Continue reading →

eDisclosure recruitment specialist APT Search is looking for an experienced project manager for a top-tier eDiscovery consultancy. Continue reading →

An article by Roe Frazer, CEO of eDiscovery software provider Cicayda, is called Social media content can tip the litigation scales. It reminds us that the purpose of discovery / disclosure is not just compliance with rules and adherence to processes but finding evidence. Continue reading →

ZyLAB is presenting a webinar on Monday 13 October at 1:00pm EST called Practical considerations on how to buy eDiscovery software. It seems that many companies never add up what they spend on electronic discovery during the year, perhaps lumping the … Continue reading →

I have referred before to a Nuix webinar called Getting started with Nuix Web Review and Analytics. Nuix has now followed that with one called Advanced Investigative Workflows which looks at what the latest release of Nuix Web Review and … Continue reading →

One of my recurring themes is that lawyers ought at least to understand what eDiscovery tools exist and what they do. You do not need the express obligations imposed by professional and court rules to feel obliged to know something … Continue reading →

Guidance Software is presenting a webinar on 20 October at 2:00 pm edt with the title A Day in the Life of a Procter & Gamble E-Discovery Manager. The speaker is Scott Van Nice, E-Discovery Manager Procter & Gamble ,who will talk about his role and how a two-person team is able to handle ediscovery for a large company. Continue reading →

FTI Technology runs a comprehensive series of webcasts. Some of them are technical in nature and aimed at those who are users of FTU Ringtail and other FTI products or might become so; others cover the law and practice of eDiscovery in all its forms. Amongst them is FTI’s recent series on Global eDiscovery in which I have a particular interest since I participated in two of them. Continue reading →

An article by Jon Kessler, Director, Epiq Systems Forensic Consulting Group, has the title Document Storage Tips: Inside the Email Vault. its main focus is to explain to lawyers, whether in-house lawyers or external ones, how such systems work, what their benefits and possible limitations are, and, crucially, what factors arise when planning to give discovery from them. Continue reading →

An article by Daniel Gold on the Iris blog called How to change the way your firm thinks about eDiscovery promotes the benefits of managed services for eDiscovery Continue reading →

The Japanese Patent Office has granted UBIC a new patent related to their implementation of predictive coding. Continue reading →

Recommind webinar on 9 October: Switching horses midstream: the case (law?) for prioritised review Continue reading →

Nuix is presenting a webinar on 16 October at 1:00pm Central in conjunction with EDRM called End-to-End eDiscovery with Nuix. Continue reading →

I wrote recently about the data hosting and review centre opened by NightOwl Discovery in Dublin. Nightowl has now appointed Simon Collins, formerly of EY in Dublin, as Director of Discovery, EU. Continue reading →

eDiscovery recruitment specialist APT Search is looking for a Junior Project Manager for an eDiscovery consulting company. The job is based in London. Continue reading →

Recommind has announced that its eDiscovery and text analytics platform Axcelerate now integrates with EMC’s SourceOne. SourceOne archives documents, emails and SharePoint content, and Axcelerate can now collect custodian information and content for internal audits, investigations and litigation. Continue reading →

Getting ready for the Equivio TAR 201 webinar on 23 September Continue reading →

On Virtual LegalTech today at 4:45 PM, kCura has a session called Intelligent collection – the keystone to efficient eDiscovery: how to streamline eDiscovery investigations by empowering legal and business teams during the collection stage. Continue reading →

At 1:00pm ET on today’s Virtual LegalTech, AccessData brings us one called Dropping the “Hammer” on security threats with rapid detection and resolution. Many security threats and breaches are not discovered until they have happened; by that stage, it is … Continue reading →

Predictive coding and TAR is gaining ground, but misconceptions remain about what it is, when it should be used, and how to incorporated it into a discovery workflow. A webinar given by Recommind on 30 September addresses these points. Continue reading →

Huron Consulting named among the best firms to work for Continue reading →

The use of Technology-Assisted Review is gaining acceptance as more lawyers accept that the savings of time and cost cannot be ignored. It poses technical challenges and it also raises legal and ethical issues. In the UK, the ethical concepts … Continue reading →

UBIC is presenting another of its Signature Seminars in New York on 19 September at which the speakers will explore how evolving Big Data can enable Information Governance opportunities. I took part in one of these seminars last year in … Continue reading →

Nuix has recently launched Nuix Web Review and Analytics. In support of that, Nuix is giving a webinar on 30 September at 10am PT / 1pm ET / 6pm BST called Is Analytics the Answer? Continue reading →

Nick Rich, Lead Solutions Adviser at Epiq Systems, has written about the US court order against Microsoft requiring it to hand over emails on its Dublin servers. He explains that it makes sense to review data kept on foreign servers as a matter of litigation readiness Continue reading →

eDiscovery provider Consilio has substantially expanded its facility in Frankfurt for document review, processing and hosting. It also has an office in Munich. Continue reading →

An article by Rob Hellewell of Xerox Litigation Services and Michelle Mattei of Eisai, Inc. called Behind the Great Firewall of eDiscovery in Asia surveys the issues faced by those engaged in eDiscovery in AsiaPac Continue reading →

This is one of a set of posts about the content and the discussion at ILTA 2014 in Nashville. Originally intended as a single post, the result was too long for that and I decided to split them up. See also ILTA … Continue reading →

ZyLAB is a charter supporter of the Information Governance Initiative and I wrote recently about a webinar in which ZyLAB’s Enterprise Technology Counsel, Mary Mack, interviewed Barclay Blair of the IGI. The same team now brings us a second webinar called Information Governance: 10 things you can do to get started. Continue reading →

Although my primary focus is on electronic discovery / electronic disclosure and the increasing number of subjects which relate to it, the wider subject of legal department efficiency attracts my attention, particularly when it involves one of the sponsors of … Continue reading →

Iris has now added a set of reporting and administrative enhancements to Iris Arc which allow law firms and corporations to manage their storage allocation on individual matter basis. Continue reading →

Equivio has been running a series of webinars with the general title Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. They now move on from that with one called TAR 201: advanced topics in predictive coding Continue reading →

AccessData joins forces with George Socha and Tom Gelbmann of EDRM to present a webinar whose focus is on the rapid detection and resolution of cyberthreats and breaches. The webinar is called Dropping the hammer on security threats with rapid detection and resolution and will be broadcast on 10 September at 1:00pm Central. Continue reading →

Guidance Software is giving a webinar on 9 September at 11am PDT called Analytics for the Government: adding depth with contextual data which considers how to use EnCase Analytics to enhance collections with contextual information about, for example, machines, users and processes. Continue reading →

AccessData partners with Druva for endpoint eDiscovery. It allows the collection of mobile data, stuff created on smartphones, tablets and other devices which create and collect data outside the company’s perimeter fence. Continue reading →

Webinar from Exterro and Epiq TODAY: Optimising E-Discovery in a Multi-Vendor Environment Continue reading →

Nuix is giving a webinar on 4 September at 3pm BST (that’s TODAY) with the title Getting started with Nuix Web Review and Analytics. The presenters are Paul Slater and Carl Barron, and their purpose is to show how the basic functions of Nuix Web Review Review and Analytics can be used alongside Nuix Investigator Workbench. Continue reading →

I will not be at kCura’s Relativity Fest this year, thanks to a collision of activities on my own side of the Atlantic. One of the specifically-identifiable attractions this year is the involvement of David Cohen, the practice group leader … Continue reading →

eDiscovery software company Cicayda opens new discovery Institute and review centre at Cumberland School of Law Continue reading →

AccessData is giving a webinar on 17 September at 7:00am Pacific with the title So Much Data. Too Little Time. Its subtitle is Save valuable hours with simple on-scene mobile device collections, something AccessData is good at with its Mobile … Continue reading →

UBIC has recently announced the acquisition of TechLaw Solutions, Inc. to accelerate its US growth. Continue reading →

Philip Favro of Recommind interviews Judge Derek Pullan of Utah on proportionality in civil litigation Continue reading →

I understand that Browning Marean’s Celebration of Life service will be on Saturday, 20 September at 2:00 pm at the Westminster Presbyterian Church of Escondido, 1500 S. Juniper St., Escondido, CA 92025. Although I pass this on as coming from … Continue reading →

Recommind’s new Axcelerate 5.2 includes Mission Control, a central operations centre giving case managers control of their review processes. Recommind is giving a webinar about Axcelerate 5.2 on 27 August Continue reading →

The Information Governance Conference, or InfoGovCon, takes place in Hartford, Connecticut from 8 to 10 September 2014. The Information Governance Initiative is offering a practical workshop on information governance on the second day of InfoGovCon Continue reading →

ILTA 2014 has started here in Nashville. Here are a few photographs. This packed room is the Speaker Meet and Greet and Conference Orientation at an event which expects more that 3,000 people over the next few days: ILTA depends … Continue reading →

kCura has updated Relativity’s legal hold and collection features Continue reading →

Huron Legal has launched a new cyber security incident response service to help companies which have suffered from network data breaches. The service helps the incident investigation, identifies compromised data and undertakes remediation steps. Continue reading →

Earlier this year, Epiq Systems presented a live display of their foreign language capability at the InnoXcell Big Data Symposium in Hong Kong. Afterwards, I interviewed Celeste Kemper, Nick Rich and Jennifer Qian, the latter in her native Mandarin. Continue reading →

I am taking part in a panel session run by UBIC on Tuesday 19 August at 9.00am at ILTA in Nashville Its full title is Advanced analytics for the legal profession – big data challenges, analytic solutions and thoughts for … Continue reading →

Nuix is presenting a webinar called Sharing intelligence in forensic investigations on Wednesday 20 August Continue reading →

Recommind has announced major enhancements to Axcelerate, its cloud-based eDiscovery review and analysis platform. The main addition is Mission Control, an operations centre for review and analysis, designed to give case managers more control than before. Continue reading →

ARMA is hosting for a limited time a webinar which I recorded recently with UBIC on cross-border discovery. Its title is Issues and solutions related to finding, transferring and reviewing digital evidence. Paul Starrett of UBIC moderated it, and the … Continue reading →

OmniVere picks Lateral Data Viewpoint from Xerox as its eDiscovery platform Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has announced three senior appointments: Jig Patel as Vice President of Information Technology, Daisuke Nakajima who joins Epiq Systems as Manager of Business Development, eDiscovery Solutions, Japan, and Douglas Gaston to the board of directors Continue reading →

Adam Kuhn of Recommind adds to Recommind’s collection of lucid articles on all matters eDiscovery with an article called Bridgestone v. IBM Approves Predictive Coding Use, Rejects Progressive. Adam summarises the Bridgestone case thus: There are two key issues presented … Continue reading →

iCONECT, maker of the XERA eDiscovery platform, is running a webinar on 16 September at 1.00pm EDT which examines the apparently opposing approaches implicit in the expressions Best in Breed and End-to-End. One approach is premised on the idea that … Continue reading →

The Information Governance Initiative publishes its 2014 Annual Report Continue reading →

NightOwl Discovery points to an article by Zelle Hoffmann about the circumstances in which correspondence between insurers and reinsurers may become discoverable Continue reading →

Huron Legal has written about the release of legal holds in an article called Release the chokehold: the importance of discharging legal holds, part of Huron’s Eye on Discovery series Continue reading →

A paper by David Horrigan of 451 Research caught my eye called Information Governance is old news at Nuix. It is an informed and elegantly-written piece which combines a good overview of Nuix itself with a survey of the present state of the information governance wave Continue reading →

I am off to ILTA 2014 Imagine in Nashville next week. ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association, an organisation dedicated to encouraging the sharing of ideas and information between those involved at the crossroads of legal practice and technology. … Continue reading →

ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association, and its 37th Annual Educational Conference takes place in Nashville from 17 to 21 August. I will be there. A “Tweet Up” is a meeting in real life of those who generally communicate with each … Continue reading →

Thomson Reuters video: Elite – making the switch Continue reading →

This year’s Relativity Fest takes place between 12 and 15 October, again in Chicago. 800 kCura Relativity specialists, users and would-be users gather in Chicago every year. Continue reading →

There is an article on the Asia Law Portal about a new book called A Comprehensive Guide to the Asia-Pacific Legal Markets, written by John Grimley and published by Ark Group. The book ranges from broad overview to in-depth analysis … Continue reading →

EnCase Portable is a forensic data collection device from Guidance Software contained on a USB key. It can be used on-site either by a forensically trained investigator who can configure it as required or by an unskilled user who has been sent a pre-configured one. Continue reading →

Barristers and solicitors warned about data breaches by the Uk Information Commissioner’s Office Continue reading →

An article by Marc Jenkins of Cicayda reminds us that electronic discovery has moved beyond Word files and emails, past smartphones and tablets, past even the Internet of things. What we face now is the industrial internet Continue reading →

AccessData on point-of-sale hackers, RAM scrapers and keystroke recorders Continue reading →

Recommind brings eDiscovery and data analytics to cloud content on Box with connectors from Axcelerate Continue reading →

UBIC has announced the opening of a Los Angeles office of UBIC North America. The new office aims to provide a faster service and extended operations to existing clients in the Los Angeles region and to help develop new client … Continue reading →

iCONECT and Avansic have produced a white paper which covers six common production issues and how to fix them. Ian Campbell of iCONECT and Gavin Maines of Avansic cover the same points in a webinar on 9 September at 1:00pm EDT. Continue reading →

Guidance Software webinar on 6 August: Designing a defensible eDiscovery Process Continue reading →

FTI Consulting has joined with experts from the University of Chicago Law School and Norton Rose Fulbright to review recent research into corporate litigation spending. Continue reading →