Author Archives: Chris Dale

FTI Ringtail training videos help users and potential users understand how their software works. Continue reading →

A survey by Epiq Systems identifies trends relating to electronic disclosure and document review. The survey reveals a gap between corporations’ confidence in their ability to find key data for litigation or investigations and their monitoring and updating practices. Continue reading →

Huron Consulting Group has announced the opening of Huron Legal’s new discovery centre in San Francisco to support law departments and law firms on the US West Coast and in Asia. Continue reading →

Part of Equivio’s strong commitment to education lies in its well-regarded webinar series called Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. Many lawyers face a conflict when considering the use of analytical software. On the one hand, they seek evidence-based confirmation that … Continue reading →

I do not usually turn to BuzzFeed as a source of eDiscovery learning, but I was interested to see a post about pictures posted to his Instagram account by a Russian soldier apparently operating in Ukraine. Its title Does This … Continue reading →

Daniel Gold has recently joined Iris Data Services as Sales Engineer Director. Continue reading →

The UK Human Rights Blog is maintained by barristers at 1 Crown Office Row including Adam Wagner Continue reading →

An article on Mail Online includes panoramic photographs taken by British cameramen during the Great War. Their primary purpose was to give both the staff and the front-line officers a broad picture of the positions opposite British trenches. There are … Continue reading →

Nuix webinar on 30 July: Building the Business Case for Information Governance Continue reading →

Cross-border discovery was a minority interest when I started talking about it several years ago. It has now become a dominant subject as ai growing number of jurisdictions adopt data protection and privacy laws, as international trade increases, as more … Continue reading →

Nick Patience of Recommind asked Chris Dale some questions about UK eDisclosure, Mitchell, and comparisons between UK eDisclosure and US eDiscovery Continue reading →

The Summation Appliance brings the power and functionality of AccessData’s Summation in a ready-to-use package. Alternatively, AccessData offers the Managed, In-House eDiscovery Appliance, a customised and preconfigured server running AccessData’s eDiscovery solution, including legal hold management, data identification and preservation, collections of structured and unstructured sources and web-based early case assessment, as well as Summation for review. Continue reading →

Equivio Zoom is a package of data tools which embraces several of Equivio’s free-standing technology tools. Near-duplicate detection, email threading and, not least, Equivio’s Relevance predictive coding tool are bundled together in a single suite whose purpose is to suppress redundant data and bring forward the things which matter. Continue reading →

An article by Barclay Blair called Pulling out the red pencil: one more last time on the definition of Information Governance? It is The activities and technologies that organisations employ to maximise the value of their information while minimising associated risks and costs. Continue reading →

HP Autonomy is giving a web event on 23 July 9:30am PDT at which HP President and CEO Meg Whitman will lead a discussion and Q&A about how Big Data is changing the future of business. The other speaker is … Continue reading →

Guidance Software is presenting a webinar on 16 July which considers the balancing act between privacy, security and eDiscovery, not least because data breaches another security failures give rise to criminal sanctions and civil litigation. Continue reading →

FTI Technology has assembled an FCPA Toolkit which covers, amongst other things, the best ways to handle discovery in an FCPA context Continue reading →

Epiq Systems have a webinar on Wednesday 9 July at 10.00am PDT with the title Four steps to successfully migrating legal hold systems. The speakers are David Rohde, Senior Director, Consulting Services at Epiq Systems and James FitzGerald, Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships at Exterro. The moderator is Ed Burke, Senior Vice President, Document Review Services of Epiq Systems. Continue reading →

One of the sessions which stood out at the InnoXcell Legal Big Data Symposium 2014 Hong Kong was a demonstration by Epiq Systems of its ability to handle audio eDiscovery in multiple languages. Continue reading →

The focus on eDiscovery process in recent years has somehow obscured the fact that the purpose of electronic discovery / eDisclosure is to find the facts which will determine the strategy and tactics of a case as well as its … Continue reading →

Jonathan Maas has been appointed Senior Director of UK Client Services for Huron Legal in London. At the same time, Serge Poldi has been appointed Director of UK Discovery Operations. Serge Poldi’s role is the management of daily technology operations and technical leadership. Jonathan Maas will oversee discovery services in the UK and in Europe. Continue reading →

I am the moderator of a Guidance Software /  Inside Counsel webinar taking place today at 2.00pm ET / 11.00pm PT / 19.00 BST with the title International eDiscovery: data protection, privacy and cross-border issues. I will be joined by Patrick … Continue reading →

a webinar to be given by AccessData today called MPE+ Overview. Kevin DeLong, Director of Computer Forensics Training at AccessData will demonstrate the latest and most popular features of Mobile Phone Examiner Plus from the basics through to the extreme. Continue reading →

Much of the talk at Techno Security in Myrtle Beach was about the new Web Review and Analytics tool from Nuix which allows investigators, lawyers, subject matter experts and anyone else who needs it to have secure and compartmentalised access to case data through a web browser. Continue reading →

Two press releases from UBIC emphasise its commitment to easing the path of those engaged in US eDiscovery and investigations. The first is aimed at law enforcement investigators in Japan and involves training in the use of UBIC’s Lit i … Continue reading →

Nuix is running a series of webinars about Information Governance. The first was called The real story of what IG is and why you should be doing it. The others are called Breaking IG down to enable action, Building the case for IG and Operationalising IG Continue reading →

eDiscovery software providers are increasingly recognising, and publicly, the role which their partners play in giving technical support and other benefits to the users of their software. I have mentioned Equivio and kCura recently in this context, both of whom … Continue reading →

Neil Etheridge and Hal Marcus of Recommind are giving a webinar about Axcelerate 5 on 19 June at 2:30pm BST / 3:30pm CEST called Power & Simplicity in Action. Recommind also has a new blog Continue reading →

Iris Data Services has opened an office in Chicago and acquired Clarity Litigation Support in New Orleans. It has Relativity Orange Best in Service designation and has written about Relativity 8.2 Continue reading →

The next in UBIC’s Signature Seminar series will be held in Washington on 20 June. It is called A Predictive Analytic Approach to Investigations and Regulatory Disputes through Artificial Intelligence – How Sophisticated Software Coupled with Proactive Risk Management Can Identify Hidden Risks and Warn of a Potential Crisis Continue reading →

Xerox Litigation Services has followed its acquisition of Smart Data with the launch of a new all-in-one pricing model which allows companies and law firms to mix and match the use of Viewpoint software and related services with maximum flexibility. Continue reading →

KCura has announced the launch of Relativity 8.2, the latest iteration of its extremely successful review and analytics software. As always with kCura, the website sets out clearly what functions justify the tagline “From hold to production and everything in between”, with an overview video and easily-navigable subsections for legal hold, collection, processing, review, analytics and its mobile Binders, as well as information about the platform. Continue reading →

I wrote a while back about the launch of Epiq Systems’ eDiscovery review facility in Toronto. Epiq has now followed that with the addition of a processing and hosting facility to meet the growing demand for their software and their technical … Continue reading →

UBIC’s AI-based technology underlies much of this including its Virtual Data Scientist software and other data analysis tools integrated into its Lit i View® data management and analysis platform. It has recently been granted a patent for this technology in Japan. Continue reading →

Lee Reiber is taking part in a webinar sponsored by AccessData on 30 May. Called The Time, Man-Power and Logistical Solution to a Mobile Forensic World, the webinar explains what is involved when data must be captured from hundreds of devices all over the world. Continue reading →

Nuix is host sponsor of Techno Security which takes place in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Jim Kent is Global Head of Investigations and Security for Nuix. In this brief video, Jim Kent talks about Techno Security, about Nuix’s achievements over the past year, and about training courses available at Myrtle Beach Continue reading →

Recommind are giving a webinar on Wednesday 28 May at 1.00 EST at which they will describe the intelligent redaction tools built into its Axcelerate 5 and other analytical tools designed to ease the review process and speed it up. Continue reading →

Guidance Software presents a webinar on 28 May which considers how smaller and medium-sized organisations can manage eDiscovery in-house Continue reading →

Equivio continues its commitment to education with the 8th in its series of webinars with the master title Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. This next one is called Homage to Dr Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love … Continue reading →

One of the subjects which keeps me busy at the moment is cross-border electronic discovery. When I first started talking about it in the US about seven years ago, I was met with disbelief at the idea that people in … Continue reading →

Guidance Software’s annual big event, CEIC, takes place in Las Vegas from 19 to 22 May. As always, its agenda is packed with thought leadership sessions and hands-on training in cybersecurity, forensics and eDiscovery. The agenda is packed, with multiple … Continue reading →

The Techno Security and Forensics Investigations Conference takes place from 1 to 4 June at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Nuix is the host sponsor of that event for which more than 1500 delegates have already registered. Continue reading →

iCONECT is good at its product demonstrations and webinars, and there is one coming up on 21st May at 1:00pm EDT which will give an opportunity to see the new features as well as the existing ones. The new developments include drag-and-drop foldering and thumbnail view which allows users to preview multiple documents in image format together on the screen and then return to the grid to fine-tune the search results or finish the review. Continue reading →

I do not spend a lot of time looking at applications. This is not because I am not interested – I served my time as a litigation software developer and am fascinated by the leaps which have been made in … Continue reading →

AccessData has announced the sale of its Litigation Support Services division to OmniVere. Funds from the transaction will be used to invest in AccessData’s growing developments in the incident resolution market. AccessData retains ownership of its long-standing Summation eDiscovery software … Continue reading →

UBIC’s Lit i View ANALYZER, due for release in the US on 1 June, is built on UBIC’s technologies used in Lit i View® XAMINER, a forensic software program released in September. It combines UBIC’s predictive coding engine with its Central Linkage technology whose focus is on human communications within and between organisations. Continue reading →

Nuix has long had a relationship with Legal Hold Pro from Zapproved and joins with them to present a webinar on 28 May called Six pitfalls and opportunities from legal hold to the court room. Continue reading →

Audio discovery represents an increasingly significant component of many eDiscovery exercises. Whilst audio files are most prevalent in, for example, the regulated financial sector, all kinds of companies now create and keep audio files for various purposes; it is no … Continue reading →

The Information Governance Initiative was founded earlier this year to spread understanding about information governance and to suggest practical ways in which companies can change the way they manage information, assess the risks lying within it, and extract real value … Continue reading →

The issues raised by cross-border discovery remain a source of pain and expense to both to those who need to conduct such exercises and to those who face them. They bring all the complexity of any large discovery exercise, with … Continue reading →

Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel for ZyLAB, spoke at the ACEDS 2014 eDiscovery Conference on some of the myths about predictive coding Continue reading →

UBIC is presenting a seminar on 25th of April from 11:30am to 3:00pm in New York with the title Crossing the Pacific: conducting legal business in Japan and the rest of Asia. This is part of UBIC’s Signature series of seminars Continue reading →

The function of Recommind’s new Perceptiv derivatives contract analysis tool is to extract the key components of such documents and to store them as structured data, with links back to the source document both for reading purposes and to ensure that the most recent version are readily available. Continue reading →

A webinar from Nuix covers the key features, methodologies and use cases for the new release, Nuix 5.2. There are three separate editions of this webinar, for North America on 28 April, for EMEA on 30 April and for APAC on 1 May. Continue reading →

One of the big areas of growth in eDiscovery support is managed litigation services. Litigation departments, whether in law firms or companies, who do not want to buy and manage their own systems nor want to spend time outsourcing to … Continue reading →

It is not necessarily easy to evaluate the potential cost savings and the effectiveness of new technology. On the whole, eDiscovery exercises are done only once, and it is rarely possible to provide a side-by-side comparison between an exercise using … Continue reading →

I will be off shortly to Hong Kong, to take part in the InnoXcell eDiscovery Exchange 2014 on 29th and 30th April. There are speakers from Nuix, Symantec, FTI, Consilio, Epiq Systems, kCura and Thomson Reuters among others Continue reading →