Author Archives: Chris Dale

Equivio continues its series of educational webinars with the global title Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. The sixth webinar in the series is called Advanced document clustering for eDiscovery and takes place on 16 December at 12:00pm ET. Continue reading →

Nuix is presenting a webinar on December at 1.00pm ET. Its title is Information transparency the cure for information governance analysis paralysis. The panel members are Barclay Blair, Bennett Borden, Leigh Isaacs, and Brian Tuemmler and the moderator is Julie Colgan Continue reading →

Hobs Legal Docs has appointed Rob Crowley, formerly of Recommind, as General Manager and Director and Jonathan Chan, formerly of Ernst & Young, who becomes Director of Technical Services at Hobs. Continue reading →

iCONECT has provided copies of its XERA review platform as a learning tool on the Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence graduate course curriculum at the University of Texas School of Law Continue reading →

Epiq Systems recruits Wendy Cole as Director of Document Review Services in Toronto Continue reading →

Two main factors distinguish information management and eDiscovery provider ZyLAB from most of its competitors. One is the exceptional range of its activities, from enterprise information management through to every eDiscovery function. The other is that, whilst having a substantial … Continue reading →

Behaviour informatics and eDiscovery company UBIC is running a big data and information governance seminar in Washington on Friday 6 December. It takes place at the National Press Club and starts at 8.00am. Speakers include US Magistrate Judge John Facciola … Continue reading →

What challenges face legal teams in the coming year? This is the subject to be addressed by Daniel Lim, Deputy General Counsel at Guidance Software, in a webinar to be broadcast on 5 December at 11am PST / 2pm EST … Continue reading →

A quick one this, because I have only just found out about it. I don’t need to say much, just refer you to this page which tells you all about it. Prospective lawyers – baby lawyers and students – are … Continue reading →

Dean Gonsowski, Global Head of Information Governance at Recommind, writes about Predictive Coding Cost Savings and Return on Investment Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has appointed Dianne Drummond as Senior Director of Client Services, based in London to manage the client services team, to oversee project management and client relationships, to ensure delivery of projects within budget and on time, and take the lead with new clients and projects. Continue reading →

The latest amendments to HIPAA substantially increase the obligations placed on companies, their law firms and their eDiscovery providers in relation to patient data, including data handling, data access, the policies and procedures which must be followed and obligations of … Continue reading →

Guidance Software has partnered with Box to ease eDiscovery collections from Box cloud users. The business of Box is the provision of cloud hosting and services. It is much more than a cloud repository, offering features, Apps and access for … Continue reading →

Litigation support company UBIC, has supplemented its litigation support software and services offerings with a team of certified investigators in Asia and North America under the name Global Forensics Services using comprehensive forensics laboratories in California and in Asia. Continue reading →

The Nuix software covers forensics, eDiscovery and information governance. A series of forensic appointemnts and a paper by Dr James Kent emphasise the commitment to forensic investigations Continue reading →

kCura has this week announced the release of Relativity 8.1, the newest version of its web-based eDiscovery platform. The press release here and the information page here highlight the main enhancements to workflow, assisted review and analytics, processing and performance. The information page includes a short video which gives a quick guide to the new features in a form which is easily assimilated. Continue reading →

eDiscovery software provider iCONECT seems to be everywhere at the moment, including Japan – see Japanese Doc Review Strengthens Client Services with iCONECT’s XERA – and in the Cloud – see XERA Now in the Cloud. Continue reading →

AccessData has opened registration for its user conference ADUC 2014, to be held at the Aria in Las Vegas from 13 to 16 May 2014. The conference brings together the elements of cyber security, computer forensics and eDiscovery litigation support under one roof Continue reading →

James Michalowicz has joined Huron Legal as a managing director with a focus on cost control and metrics in law firms and legal departments. Continue reading →

In Equivio’s 5th webinar in their series Predictive Coding without the hype Stephen Goldstein, Director of Practice Support at Squire Sanders and Tom Groom, VP, Discovery Engineering at D4 talk about their practical experience of using predictive coding Continue reading →

FTI Consulting has published a paper by Ari Kaplan called Achieving and Maintaining eDiscovery Fitness. Its topics include information governance programmes, the repurposing of input between cases to reduce duplicated effort from case to case, analytics and predictive coding, eDiscovery costs, and international discovery. Continue reading →

UBIC has added a new litigation hold function to its Lit i View eDiscovery tool to ensure that users can safely manage litigation holds on multiple matters across the corporation. The legal hold tool supports complex Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has opened a document review centre in Canada, and expanded review services in London and other jurisdictions. Articles on TAR and big data and on regulatory co-operation point to a broad range of eDiscovery activity Continue reading →

The collection of documents from multiple jurisdictions raises all sorts of issues, not least the privacy and data protection regimes which might be encountered. The focus on this can sometimes obscure very practical difficulties which arise after that, including the … Continue reading →

Recommind is organising a breakfast briefing on 7 November at which the main topic is the location and management of mandatory data. Those of us who know Recommind largely through its predictive coding tools for eDiscovery purposes will not be … Continue reading →

Apersee continues its series of eDiscovery webinars. George Socha and Tom Gelbmann have one coming up on processing with Nuix and one on Summation 5 with AccessData Continue reading →

Equivio Relevance is part of the Intelligent Discovery Process developed by Squire Sanders which helped them to a place in the 2013 InformationWeek 500 – a list of the top technology innovators in the US Continue reading →

Joel Tobias, managing director of eDisclosure and forensics company CY4OR, is one of several eDisclosure / eDiscovery experts interviewed on video by Chris Dale Continue reading →

One of the problems in assessing the use of any one technology is that you rarely get the opportunity to compare one approach directly with another. iCONECT XERA was used to compare approaches done with and without the use of analytics Continue reading →

HTCIA is the High Technology Crime Investigation Association which runs an annual conference on high-tech crime forensics investigation techniques. Particpants include Consilio, Nuix, FTI Technology, Guidance Software and Epiq Systems Continue reading →

Chris Dale is back from Lawtech Europe Congress where he moderated sessions on eDiscovery Scope, Method and Budgets and on cross-border discovery Continue reading →

Pangea3, a provider of legal process outsourcing services and part of the Thomson Reuters empire, has joined forces with information governance and data management specialist Recommind to deliver a workflow and predictive coding solution for Fortune 500 corporations and law firms. Continue reading →

A short video from Symantec called Symantec Project Honeystick explains what happens when Symantec deliberately left cell phones lying around in public in various US cities. Although many of the finders made attempts to trace the owners, it appeared that … Continue reading →

Huron Legal has appointed Mark Williams and Jennifer Mendelsohn to senior roles in the eDiscovery side of Huron Legal’s business. Huron has also on the shortlist for Supplier of the Year at the Legal Week British Legal Awards 2013 Continue reading →

With its offices in Hong Kong, China and, most recently, Japan, Epiq Systems is as well qualified as any provider to talk about global data protection issues arising between the US and Asia. That expertise is to be applied to … Continue reading →

I am scrupulous to avoid suggesting that the products of any one of my sponsors are better than those of any other. Quite apart from the tact and diplomacy, I am not a user of software applications and have no … Continue reading →

Nuix Director provides template-driven, web-based eDiscovery workflow automation. It is built (of course) around the powerful Nuix engine, and allows development of automated workflows, processes and reports for all stages of the discovery process. Continue reading →

Brett Burney explains how predictive coding, including UBIC’s Lit i View, works, and describes the additional hoops added by the presence of CJK documents in a collection. Continue reading →

Bob Rowe of Huron Legal talks about the use of predictive coding and analytics in eDiscovery. Huron Legal has two new accreditations to add to its collection. Continue reading →

The big announcement at Guidance Software’s CEIC, which I attended in Las Vegas in May, was EnCase Analytics, a set of tools which allow early identification of previously unknown and difficult-to-detect threats through the use of “big data” analytical techniques. Continue reading →

I am off to Chicago at the weekend to join kCura’s Relativity Fest 2013 next week. I am taking part in the Assisted Review Panel on Tuesday. Its purpose is to discuss the development of best practices in this fast … Continue reading →

Recommind, with its specialist niche in unstructured data management, analysis and governance technology, is sponsoring the “Legal expertise: dispute resolution” category at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Continue reading →

The mid-year meeting of EDRM – the inventors of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and the leading standards organisation for the eDiscovery market – is holding its mid-year meeting in St Paul, Minnesota from 9 to 11 October. The meeting … Continue reading →

Global eDiscovery software and services provider Consilio has reached agreement with Business Intelligence Associates to bring BIA’s TotalDiscovery platform to Consilio’s clients. Consilio becomes a BIA Platinum Partner. Continue reading →

CEIC 2014 – the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference organised by Guidance Software – takes place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 19 to 22 May 2014. It brings together cybersecurity, eDiscovery, security intelligence and digital investigations in a comprehensive … Continue reading →

ZyLAB is now known well known as a provider of eDiscovery and information risk management tools used by corporations and their advisers to plough through very large volumes of data to get quickly and cost effectively to the information which … Continue reading →

I have known Sasha Hefler for a long time, having come across her at many of the higher end eDiscovery conferences which I attend in the US and elsewhere and where she usually seemed to be quietly – but ubiquitously … Continue reading →

The eDiscovery webinar Social communication: is there anything worth requesting? which I recorded last week with Ian Campbell of iCONECT and Thomas Barnett of Saito Sorenson LLP is now available online Continue reading →

Those who read my blog will know that I have been away for the last three weeks and that I turned up late for a rare holiday because I was in Hong Kong moderating an interesting panel in the company … Continue reading →

The senior judiciary is reviewing the Jackson Reforms. Meanwhile, we live with the rules and the cases as we find them. Birmingham Law Society is promoting a session called Essential Update on Jackson with Professor Dominic Regan and Ed Pepperall QC. Continue reading →

eDiscovery software and services company UBIC specialises in Asian language eDiscovery. The most recent version of its forensic software, Lit i View Xaminer™, is designed in Japan for Japanese police and other government agencies. Continue reading →

It was with mixed feelings that I heard that Craig Carpenter was leaving Recommind to become Chief Marketing Officer with AccessData. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Recommind, he was closely linked in my mind with the … Continue reading →

Guidance Software is presenting a webinar on 2 October at 11am PDT with the title Endpoint Security from A-Z with EnCase Technology. Continue reading →

The 4th webinar given by eDiscovery text analytics company Equivio in their series Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. It covers various use cases beyond the fulfilment of eDiscovery obligations Continue reading →

This is a reminder about a webinar called Introduction to Asian eDiscovery Challenges to be given on 20 September at 1:00pm EDT by eDiscovery Journal in association with Asian language eDiscovery software specialist UBIC. Continue reading →

The iCONECT Fall series of eDiscovery webinars on social communication includes discussions about sources of potentially discoverable material which might be overlooked Continue reading →

FTI Technology is giving a webinar on Wednesday 2 October at 2.00pm ET | 11.00am PT with the title eDiscovery Fitness Survey results – five steps for getting your program into better shape. By “eDiscovery fitness”, FTI refers to the … Continue reading →

Equivio Zoom appears as a tab in kCura’s eDiscovery / eDisclosure review application Relativity. Equivio Zoom 2.6 is now available for Relativity 8 Continue reading →

LTEC – the LawTech Europe Congress – takes place again in Prague in 2013 with a range of legal technology providers, including eDiscovery providers like Nuix, Guidance Software, Huron Legal and Navigant. Continue reading →

Nuix is running a series of courses aimed at people with different skill levels and objectives with self-explanatory titles like Nuix Fundamentals training, Nuix eDiscovery Specialist Training and Nuix Investigation Specialist Training. Continue reading →