Author Archives: Chris Dale

The 9th Annual IQPC / Legal IQ Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit takes place at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London on 13 to 15 May with speakers from Consilio, FTI Consulting and IRIS Data Systems as well as from GlaxoSmithKline, Barclays, RBS, Vodafone and the DoJ Continue reading →

FTI Consulting is running a three-part series of panel discussions on managing multinational discovery matters effectively. One webinar covers Latin America, another Europe, and the third Asia-Pacific. Continue reading →

I am taking part in a lunchtime discussion forum hosted by Huron Legal on Wednesday, 7 May at the Law Society with the title eDisclosure Costs: Risks and Opportunities for Litigation Lawyers. Continue reading →

Xerox has acquired eDiscovery service provider Smart Data to extend the reach of the Xerox Litigation Services eDiscovery software and services. Continue reading →

An article by Hal Marcus of Recommind called Pictures have a superiority complex (eDiscovery and simplicity – part two) looks at the value of visual presentations of data as opposed to its presentation in the rows and columns of an Excel-style table format Continue reading →

Epiq has now released Verison 1.2 of Epiq Analytics. It brings conceptual search, interactive report generation, data visualisation and analytic tools to those who need to make those early strategic decisions which inform internal discussions and negotiations with opponents of the court. Continue reading →

While I was away, Steven Whitaker resigned as Senior Master of the Senior Courts in the Queen’s Bench Division. Steven Whitaker’s skill lay in making procedure the servant of justice; the prevailing orthodoxy is that procedure is an end in … Continue reading →

Paul Starrett, who presently leads UBIC North America’s Global Legal Risk Management Groups, has been given the additional title of Corporate Officer. Continue reading →

NightOwl Discovery has produced a useful paper called The Evolution of Data Migration: from eDiscovery challenge to a comprehensive business process. Its purpose is implied by its title – why does one need to migrate data, what challenges arise and what processes, skills and technology are required to achieve a migration which serves the business in its day-to-day work whilst remaining compliant with regulatory requirements and ready for the next eDiscovery challenge. Continue reading →

We see an interesting range of technology approaches to eDiscovery in two recent articles by or about Eddie Sheehy, Global CEO of Nuix. Meanwhile, another Nuix article looks at the benefits for lawyers in acquiring eDiscovery skills. His article I … Continue reading →

kCura is holding a Relativity Spring Launch event in London on 8 May. As last year kCura will invite a wide audience of hosting partners, law firms, corporate and government representatives. This year’s event will include a keynote presentation from CEO Andrew Sieja highlighting the new features of Relativity 8.2. Continue reading →

Huron Legal managing director Ronke Ekwensi was formerly vice president for eDiscovery at a major corporation. She has written a paper called Planning for the unexpected: changing eDiscovery providers on short notice which describes the lessons which she learnt in managing providers and in moving into a new one. Continue reading →

Guidance Software’s big (and ever bigger) annual event, CEIC. CEIC 2014 takes place in Las Vegas between May 19 and 22. As always, the CEIC programme consists of a mixture of hands-on technical learning and sessions devoted to the security and eDiscovery context in which those skills are used. Continue reading →

Decisions about what to collect, and how much social media to collect, must include some understanding of what is involved in doing so and in reviewing it in due course. FTI Technology is good at this and has come up with a video which explains how social media data can be collected, processed and loaded into Ringtail.. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems have an on-demand webcast with the title Information governance and security update: new realities for 2014. Its purpose is to address those things which legal and corporate information teams should be dealing with proactively at an enterprise level Continue reading →

AccessData’s user conference, ADUC 2014, takes place in Las Vegas from May 14 to May 16. Howard Schmidt, former cyber adviser to Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, is to be the keynote speaker, reflecting the growing significance of cyber security as a concern of corporations. Continue reading →

The draft amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure attracted over 2000 comments leading, as one would hope, to some amendments. Two rules in particular have been heavily modified – Rule 37(e) relating to sanctions for failure to preserve … Continue reading →

kCura is conducting a series of interviews and webinars about the use of Relativity. Constantine Pappas has interviewed Paul Laven of Merrill Corporation on his experience as a user of Relativity Analytics Continue reading →

One of the strengths of iCONECT’s XERA platform is its ability to handle a range of languages, both for search and processing and for the user interface. iCONECT has now released a Japanese version of XERA, part of a growing range of languages which the software can accommodate. Continue reading →

A White Paper by Guidance Software identifies seven best practice considerations which will help establish the complete eDiscovery process for the preservation of electronically stored information for litigation and investigation Continue reading →

Cicayda continues to promote itself, its software and its thinking in the way it began, with a continual flow of news and commentary. It is the informed commentary which will bring in the prospective clients – few will seek out … Continue reading →

I am just back from the San Francisco instance of the Today’s General Counsel eDiscovery series. Next up is the London version, which takes place at the Brewery in Chiswell Street on 8 to 9 April. Continue reading →

A good workflow needs to bring consistency whilst allowing for flexibility to adapt to different jobs and client needs. Nuix has a webinar on 2 April which is relevant both of those who design workflows and to those who will be the users. Continue reading →

Equivio is extending its commitment to objective user education with the seventh in its highly regarded webinar series Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. This one is called The Essential Guide to Managing a Predictive Coding Project. Continue reading →

ZyLAB webinar today: Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure at final stages. Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB and Thomas Y. Allman Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law will discuss the mot likely changes Continue reading →

Autonomy UK workshop – eDisclosure: the new frontier for defensibility for risk management Continue reading →

The ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference 12-14 March Continue reading →

An article called Can structured and unstructured data marry? by Eddie Sheehy, Global CEO of Nuix, makes an interesting point about the differences between structured and unstructured data at a level which goes beyond obvious physical differences. Continue reading →

kCura webinar on 11 March: proportionality and computer-assisted review Continue reading →

iCONECT has announced a series of four new webinars highlighting the benefits of IVIEW, the custom visualisation engine which is built into iCONECT’s XERA review platform. The webinars are aimed at project managers, lawyers and plaintiff firms Continue reading →

UBIC , the eDiscovery software and services provider with specialist skill in Asian languages, continues to develop what it calls behavioural informatics technology with the launch of Email Auditor, an application which monitors email correspondence to identify questionable behaviour. Continue reading →

FTI archived webinar: social media and eDiscovery or: how I learned to stop worrying and love digital ephemera Continue reading →

Recommind is giving a live webinar with Q&A on Thursday 6 March at 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST. Its purpose is to demonstrate the features of Recommind’s Axcelerate 5, the latest iteration of its on-demand review and analysis platform. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems focuses on Europe with the appointment of Richard Seabrook as Vice President and General Manager, eDiscovery Europe, and an article on cross-border litigation and investigations by Deborah Blaxell Continue reading →

Masahiro Morimoto, Chairman and CEO of eDiscovery software and consulting company UBIC, has written a book intended to inform Japanese corporate and legal officers about the implications of US eDiscovery. The book is called eDiscovery Japan – a pathway for US attorneys to do business with Asian corporations. US lawyers need to understand the Japanese point of view as much as Japanese companies need to understand the US. Continue reading →

Ronke Ekwensi appointed a Managing Director at Huron Legal advising lawyers on information governance and eDiscovery Continue reading →

To what extent is it possible for a common approach to develop for managing eDiscovery? The court rules or the demands of a regulator impose certain constraints and practices, but it is open to any company and its lawyers to … Continue reading →

AccessData has launched InSight™ Platform which speeds up both the identification of threats and the resolution of incidents. It is a cybersecurity system which enables companies to manage the data incidents caused by cyber-attacks, mobile risk, GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) and eDiscovery requests and get employees back to work as quickly as possible. Continue reading →

CY4OR is a UK-based eDisclosure and forensics company which offers eDisclosure services using software from Nuix and Symantec-Clearwell. An article called Inside eDisclosure: Dispelling the price myth by Tom Hall on the CY4OR eDisclosure blog reminds lawyers that they are now required to prepare an estimate of costs of disclosure Continue reading →

Recommind’s Axcelerate 5, which, after two years of work and 300 new features, justifies the claim to newness. Apart from improved technology, the focus is on making it easier to use – indeed, the ambition is to that the users should find it positively pleasurable. Continue reading →

Audio evidence and financial institutions – a discussion led by Epiq Systems in London on 27 February Continue reading →

UBIC is hosting a webcast on Wednesday, 19 February at 1:00 PM EST about the challenges of applying data analytics to legal discovery and to other investigations involving large volumes of changing data. Continue reading →

The Nuix party at LegalTech 2014 included learned entertainment from The centrepiece was The Great Debate with legal luminaries including US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck, US Magistrate Judge James Francis, Jason Baron and Bennett Borden of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Laura Kibbe of Epiq Systems, Conor Crowley of the Crowley Law Office and Nuix’s own Deborah Baron among others Continue reading →

My own article Washington and New York to Mitchell via privacy, Singapore and Lobachevsky has a discursive account of the last couple of weeks, some pictures of Washington and some fulminations about Mitchell, Grayling and the Ministry of Justice. It talks also about privacy, Singapore and plagiarism. Continue reading →

Equivio says “Good enough is not good enough” as it launches Equivio Zoom for Information Governance, expands its educational commitment and begins a Star Certification Program Continue reading →

Guidance Software is giving a webinar on 5 February at 11am PST / 2pm EST called The end of wipe and image as we know it. The title refers to a standard approach to security breaches where malware triggers a security breach and the company’s IT teams rush to deal with it by wiping the affected drives and restoring them from their image files. Continue reading →

iCONECT, makers of the XERA eDiscovery platform, has a launched a partnership awards program for itslegal service provider network of consulting firms, Big 4 consultancies, and eDiscovery / litigation support service providers around the world Continue reading →

EDRM and AccessData webinar on 30 January: Forensics and Mobile Device Discovery Techniques to Optimise eDiscovery with Caitlin Murphy of AccessData Continue reading →

Until now, OrcaTec data was exported into Relativity as an overlay. That process has now being made bi-directional, allowing users to jump back and forth between systems during the review, using whichever functionality is desirable for the stage in hand. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has expanded in New York by opening a new document review centre in downtown Manhattan offering document review services, staffing, managed review, technology assisted review and audio review. The press release is here. Epiq now has five review … Continue reading →

Nuix, makers of eDiscovery and information governance software, are joining forces with EDRM (the Electronic Document Reference Model) to present a webinar at 1:00pm Central on 23 January called Evolving eDiscovery Workflows for the Future. Continue reading →

Guidance Software, owner of the EnCase range of forensic, cybersecurity and eDiscovery products, is presenting a webinar on 29 January called Defensible eDiscovery Workflow: Four Real-World Scenarios Continue reading →

Consilio is presenting a webinar called Saving Dollars, Euros and Yen: understand and control discovery costs in cross-border litigation on 24 January at 1 PM EST. Continue reading →

Sedona Conference appointments and events Continue reading →

A webinar is taking place TODAY, 9 January at 1.00pm EST, with the title Emerging E-Discovery Challenges in Construction Cases: Tips, Tricks, Tweets and Texts. It is organised by the American Bar Association, and Albert Barsocchini, Head of Strategic Consulting at … Continue reading →

iCONECT webinar on 8 January: Accelerated Review with XERA to demonstrate the various review workflow enhancements in the latest release of XERA, including enhanced document compare, improved navigation, static column customization and targeted coding requirements. Continue reading →

Guidance Software webinar on 14 January: Transitioning from EnCase Forensic version v6 to v7 – Part 2 gives users and prospective users a guided tour of the new functionality. Continue reading →

ZyLAB has produced a paper called Breaking the Fraud Triangle: ZyLAB Fraud Prevention and Detection Program which concerns the use of big data analytical tools to identify activities which may involve fraud and/or breach of security and compliance policies. Continue reading →

A welcome new addition to the eDiscovery blogosphere (now that “blogosphere” has been mentioned in an English judgment, I suppose it is all right to use it) is one called Flipping the Gorilla by Marc Jenkins, VP Knowledge Strategy at … Continue reading →

New ideas and initiatives continue to pour out of information management provider ZyLAB aimed both at proactive intelligent governance programs and at urgent demands for information for disputes and investigations. One of these is an Intellectual Property Protection Program for … Continue reading →

Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, has published his 10 predictions (well, 11 actually, but who’s counting?) Relating to the management of unstructured data 2014. You can find them here. Most such sets of predictions (including mine) begin with statements of … Continue reading →

I do not generally involve myself in the mechanics of eDiscovery software. I am not a user and I do not get involved in system selection, and am accordingly keen to leave the analysis of functionality to others. I am … Continue reading →

Here are the pictures (my pictures as it happens) of the UBIC Washington event last week, together with a video of Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle delivering his keynote speech. Continue reading →

Investment bank Jefferies Group has taken Bloomberg Vault for to manage the enormous volumes of information which Jefferies must keep and make accessible, often at short notice. For many companies, information governance appears as optional, something for which time and … Continue reading →

Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer at ZyLAB, is joined in a webinar by Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath in a webinar on 17 December on requirements for long-term preservation or archiving Continue reading →

The US Federal Trade Commission has wide responsibilities which include the protection of customers’ data privacy rights. Matthew Nelson of Symantec and Katherine McCarron, an FTC attorney, discuss this in a webinar on 12 December Continue reading →