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- Ireland’s Legal Tech Conference 2022 on 29 November in Dublin
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The illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation
You may have come across the quotation attributed to Gaius Petronius Arbiter who, in Nero’s time, apparently wrote: We trained hard . . . but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Continue reading
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Nigel Murray jumps for Help for Heroes
Nigel Murray is Managing Director at Huron Legal in London. Those who have known him for years as the exemplar of practice development sociability (with all that that entails in food and drink) were rather surprised when, a few years ago, he announced his intention of cycling several hundred miles across France in support of the wounded servicemen’s charity Help for Heroes. Continue reading
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Guidance Software webinar: Top Five eDiscovery Recommendations for 2013
Guidance Software is giving a webinar on 11 December at 11am PST with the title Top Five eDiscovery Recommendations for 2013. The presenters are Daniel Lim, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software and Bryant Bell, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Guidance Software. Continue reading
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Christmas Tweeting Legals evening drinks on 12 December at the Knights Templar on Chancery Lane
Legal tweeters are invited (the invitation is here) to gather at the Knights Templar on Chancery Lane at 7pm on Wednesday December for “drinks and good company” and an opportunity to “practice those social skills people keep telling us we need”. Continue reading
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Chief US Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm becomes US District Judge Grimm
It is a very great pleasure to be able to use the first post on this new blog to congratulate former Chief US Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm on his confirmation by the Senate as a District Judge. Continue reading
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Barry Murphy of eDJ Group – Defensible Deletion Gaining Steam
Everyone is talking about defensible deletion, but is anyone actually doing it? That is the question posed by Barry Murphy in his eDiscovery Journal article Defensible Deletion Gaining Steam. Continue reading
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Adobe GC: Things I Wish I Learnt in Law School
One of the continuing themes in legal practice is that the law schools are failing in their duty to produce the next generation of lawyers armed with the skills needed for the world in which they will (if they are lucky) work. We come across this specifically in the context of electronic discovery / eDisclosure, which is barely talked about all, even in US law schools. Continue reading
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AccessData Summation Roadshow reaches Charlotte on 6 December
Since its complete revamp of its Summation litigation applications, AccessData has been touring the world, literally, to introduce the new product – and it is entirely new – to existing and new users. On 6 December, the roadshow reaches Charlotte in North Carolina. The details are here. Continue reading
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New Blog for eDiscovery Updates
My main output is a blog at http:chrisdale.wordpress.com which has carried commentary on eDisclosure / eDiscovery around the world since 2007. Some time ago, I started using a Google Plus page for shorter articles – promoting webinars, drawing attention to articles by others, reporting on new releases or industry appointments – which were no less important than my own commentary but which were of a different kind. Continue reading
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Around the eDiscovery world in 35 days
You may have noticed a certain sporadic element in my written output recently, with patches of silence interspersed with blocks of posts. That pattern will continue through the rest of November, thanks to a conjunction of events in the UK … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 27 October 2012
This is a summary of the posts about eDiscovery / eDisclosure on my Google Plus page between 21 and 28 October 2012. Those which relate to webinars etc which have now passed may lead to blind links. Where I know … Continue reading
The main messages from eDiscovery Ireland 2012 in Dublin
I have written an introductory piece which gave a context to the excellent eDiscovery Ireland 2012 conference which took place last week in Dublin – see eDiscovery in Ireland – coming from behind gives opportunities to get it right. The overall … Continue reading
Judicial activism: Delaware judge orders both sides to use predictive coding
I am all for judicial activism, and certainly for judicial endorsement of the informed (and preferably consensual) use by litigation parties of a range of technology tools which have been developed to manage the time and costs of litigation discovery. … Continue reading
The use of technology in regulatory investigations
Hobs Legal Docs was the sponsor of an interesting article in The Lawyer recently which emphasised the need to use technology to respond quickly to regulatory demands. Those who find themselves overwhelmed by the timetables for eDisclosure / eDiscovery in … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 20 October
Here is a summary of the (relatively few) eDiscovery updates posted on my Google Plus page between 14 and 20 October. ______________________________ Xerox adds streamlined redaction to its upgraded Omnix 5.4 discovery platform The headline feature in the new release … Continue reading
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7th eDisclosure Forum in London on 15 November. Are you ready to benefit from the new eDisclosure rules?
The reforms consequent on Lord Justice Jackson’s recommendations will take effect in April 2013. A conference taking place in London on 15 November will focus on those which relate to eDisclosure, stressing the benefits which will flow to lawyers and … Continue reading
eDiscovery in Ireland – coming from behind gives opportunities to get it right
There is a long-running quiz in the Sunday Times called Where Was I? Geographical, historical and literary information is given and two questions are asked, one of which is usually “Where was I?”. Let’s try the same with the conference … Continue reading
What is legal when collecting and processing personal data?
As with so many subjects, cross-border discovery has many aspects to cover, and it is sometimes helpful to pull out a sub-set and look at it on its own. A helpful page on the European Commission Justice website called Collecting … Continue reading
What exactly is defensible deletion?
Philip Favro of Symantec, in an article called Defensible Deletion: The Cornerstone of Intelligent Information Governance on the eDiscovery 2.0 blog, defines defensible deletion as “a comprehensive approach that companies implement to reduce the storage costs and legal risks associated with the … Continue reading
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Regional and personal data privacy controls in the local cloud from Bloomberg Vault
Compliance with data privacy controls is much more than an eDiscovery / eDisclosure problem. Those whose primary focus is eDiscovery tend to see data privacy compliance as an obstacle which stands in the way and complicates data collection for litigation … Continue reading
Hobs Legal Docs and Relativity maximise the value of the clients’ own eDisclosure review
How much work should the clients put into their own eDisclosure / eDiscovery? We express caution at the idea that the clients should collect their own data, largely because of the risk that they will damage its integrity in the … Continue reading
Guidance Software webinar today: Five best practices in eDiscovery readiness
There is a webinar today at 2:00pm EDT given by Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software, and me, with the title Five Best Practices in eDiscovery Readiness. Corporations of any size face litigation, regulatory requests, or the need to … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 13 October
Most of these updates on my Google Plus site are from the week ending 6 October. After that, I was at the Masters Conference in Washington and at an event given by Symantec-Clearwell at Tower Bridge, with no time to write. … Continue reading
Legal IQ in Washington – covering every eDiscovery subject in one place
In a previous article, Legal IQ makes a success of their Washington eDiscovery Exchange, I gave the background to Legal IQ’s recent Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange, together with a little local colour. The latter, incidentally, is more than … Continue reading
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Xerox Litigation Services Webinar with Senior Master Whitaker on 15 October – Preparing for the Jackson reforms
Xerox XLS is organising a webinar called Preparing for the Jackson Reforms to take place on Monday 15 October at 4 PM BST. The participants are Senior Master Steven Whitaker, U.K. Royal Courts of Justice, Robert D. Brownstone, Esq., Technology … Continue reading
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Video promotion for Prague eDiscovery conference on 12 November
I have already expressed my respect for the way in which Fred Gyebi-Ababio has brought his new LawTech Europe Congress from a standing start to an impressive-looking program. The conference home page now sports a video which reinforces my impression … Continue reading
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UK-based Legal IQ makes a success of their Washington eDiscovery Exchange
There is much more to organising a conference than the mechanics of bookings, venues and other practical things. It requires a good understanding of the industry to which the conference is addressed, a wide range of connections in that industry, … Continue reading
TransPerfect acquires Digital Reef for fast processing and ECA tools
In my recent article ILTA 2012 Part 3 – Some market observations I said this: There are rumours of at least one significant acquisition – by “significant”, I mean that a major player will buy a strong but smaller niche … Continue reading
Perhaps a lull before the storm as SFO revises Bribery Act guidance
A few days ago, thebriberyact.com drew attention to changes on the Serious Fraud Office web site pages about facilitation payments and corporate hospitality. The changes consisted merely of a statement that the area was “currently under revision”. The thebriberyact.com’s latest … Continue reading
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ILTA 2012 Part 5 – Future ILTA events
This is the last of my series of articles about the ILTA conference in Washington in August. What else is ILTA doing around the world? ILTA has recently partnered with ALM, the owners of LegalTech. Apart from LegalTech itself, the next of … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 29 September
I was at a Washington conference for much of the week ending 22 September and the updates for that week are correspondingly reduced in number. This selection covers two weeks’ of my Google+ updates. Some of them relate to webinars … Continue reading
New data sources drive innovative eDiscovery forensics at Millnet
The appointment of Stuart Clarke to head a new forensics function at Millnet gives me an opportunity to set out here something which I cover in some of my eDisclosure / eDiscovery talks. The general theme there is that, important … Continue reading
Changes coming in the litigation and eDisclosure landscape
Justice requires full disclosure of all potentially relevant electronic documents. Lawyers will always take the lead in managing electronic disclosure / eDiscovery. It is impossible to budget for the costs of litigation. Judges making disclosure orders just tick default boxes … Continue reading
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Short eDiscovery Updates to 9 September 2012
This adopts my experimental new format which bundles my Google Plus posts for a period (not necessarily a fixed period) and makes their text available here, together with links to the G+ posts, to the source and to some of … Continue reading
ILTA 2012 Part 4 – The end of the show: the ILTA awards dinner
This is the fourth of five articles about ILTA 2012. Whatever may happen at other awards dinners, this one celebrates the people who lead by an example in an industry which needs them. ILTA ends with a big dinner, with … Continue reading
ILTA 2012 Part 3 – Some market observations
This is the third of five posts about ILTA 2013. The preceding one ended with the observation that there was much to gain from just talking with people. That may include application-specific tips, ideas about department organisation or training, and … Continue reading
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ILTA 2012 Part 2 – My own ILTA Conference
This is the second of five posts about ILTA 2012. In other posts I talk generally about the benefits of going to ILTA’s big conference, about some of the themes which emerged and about the ILTA Peer awards. This one … Continue reading
No disclosure in New South Wales Equity Division without exceptional circumstances
I have referred before to Practice Note SC EQ 11 in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Its key paragraph reads as follows: The Court will not make an order for disclosure of documents (disclosure) … Continue reading
ILTA 2012 Part 1 – Why you might want to go to ILTA next year
This is the first of five articles about ILTA 2012 in Washington D.C. Why do we go, what is it like, what conclusions can one draw about the market? The main aim is to encourage you to go next year, … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 28 August 2012
I am increasingly using Google Plus to supplement the main articles in this blog. This allows me to cover a wider range of topics, mainly links to articles by others, to webinar announcements and to other things which would otherwise … Continue reading
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LawTech Europe Congress in Prague on 12 November
My series of articles on future eDisclosure/eDiscovery conferences keeps being interrupted by my attendance at current conferences, most recently by a week at ILTA 2012 in Washington D.C. The conference season now seems to last all year, at least for … Continue reading
Proportionality and a choice of technology from Hobs Legal Docs
Recent posts by Hobs Legal Docs remind us that the problems raised by e-Disclosure are resolved by adherence to principles like proportionality as well as by the selection of appropriate technology. You don’t need scientific proof (though it exists, apparently) … Continue reading
The Masters Conference for Legal Professionals – Washington 8-10 October
I usually come only once to Washington in a year, with the Masters Conference as an annual fixture. This year, I will be in Washington three times within a few weeks, but that does nothing to diminish my appreciation of … Continue reading
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London conference: Information Governance and eDiscovery for Financial Services on 10-12 September
IQPC is running an event called Information Governance and eDiscovery for Financial Services at Canary Wharf between 10 and 12 September 2012. Recent events in the banking industry suggest that those who work in financial services, and those who advise them, … Continue reading
IQPC Washington Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange
My next trip to Washington DC (I am there as I write, at ILTA) is for IQPC’s Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange which runs from 19 to 21 September at the Marriot Fairview Park. This event is organised by … Continue reading
Taking time to think about Proportionality and Preservation in eDiscovery
The demos, the cases and the formal meetings are an important part of gathering information, but it is good, occasionally, to lift one’s head from the hard-edged material which flows around you and just kick ideas around without an agenda. … Continue reading
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Gauging interest in eDiscovery Ireland in 2012
Online evidence and investigations specialist Cernam, who organised the extremely successful e-Discovery Ireland 2011 conference, are thinking of running it again. They are sensibly trying to gauge interest before committing to it, and have set up a web page to solicit … Continue reading
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FTI Predictive Coding webinar today – what does counsel really think about predictive coding?
FTI Technology is putting on a series of webcasts about predictive coding. The first of them is TODAY at 13.00 ET with the title Survey Results: What Does Counsel Really Think About Predictive Coding? The speakers are Ari Kaplan, Joe Looby of … Continue reading
eDiscovery conferences coming up all over the place
I have updated the list of pending conferences on my web site, adding new ones and correcting dates, venues and URLs of those which have changed. I have included some which I am not going to – the EDI Leadership … Continue reading
Time spent telling judges about their use of social media could be better spent on eDisclosure
Recent guidance from the UK’s Senior Presiding Judge and the Senior President of Tribunals fired a warning shot over the bows of judges who blog, a term which they helpfully define as being “derived from the term ‘web log’”. The … Continue reading
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My Google Plus eDiscovery posts to 14 August
A longer list than usual, partly because many interesting things came along and partly because I was called away for over a week before I had the chance to list them. Law Society Gazette – No replacement yet for £10m … Continue reading
Unexpectedly out of the loop as mother gives robust reply to hospital risk-assessment
A kind reader drops me a line to observe that more than a week has gone by without an article from me. The intermission is nothing to do with a lack of raw material – I still have the Carmel … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems: document review in Hong Kong, Zoom from Equivio and covered in eDJ
eDiscovery provider Epiq Systems seems to be popping up all over the place at the moment. Grouping the various sources together has the benefit, for me as well as for them, that those new to this subject can see how … Continue reading
Recommind predictive coding webinar: I interview Senior Master Whitaker
A reminder of my recent interview, organised by Recommind and filmed at the top of the Gherkin, with Senior Master Whitaker. Our subject was the acceptability of predictive coding in UK litigation. Master Whitaker knows more about this than any … Continue reading
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First Advantage: “Seek and you shall find” applies as much to your provider as to your data
The actual process of looking for documents and data is secondary to the decision about how you are going to tackle the task. Much of the procedural focus in the UK at the moment – with costs budgeting and Lord Justice Jackson’s … Continue reading
Dean Gonsowski of Symantec on the eDiscovery maturity model
An interesting article on InsideCounsel by Dean Gonsowski of Symantec-Clearwell called The e-Discovery Maturity Model considers the stages through which an organisation goes through in reaching a level of skill and competence appropriate to the issues which it faces. Picking up on a … Continue reading
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What does your phone say about you? AccessData’s Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+)
I do not know whether it is shrewd marketing on the part of AccessData or a coincidence, but the press announcement of their Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) came to my attention on the same day as an article on … Continue reading
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Recommind and Fulbright panel debunks predictive coding myths
I have already linked once to Monica Bay’s article Panel Debunks Predictive Coding Myths reporting on a panel discussion between Howard Sklar of Recommind and David Kessler of Fulbright & Jaworski. Both of them were discussing similar points at the Carmel … Continue reading
Knowledge workers and project managers in eDiscovery
Mark Yacano and Cat Casey of Hudson Legal have published the third and final of their InsideCounsel series on the role of knowledge workers and project managers in eDiscovery. Their theme is the changing role of those who both undertake … Continue reading
Recent posts on Google+ on eDiscovery and other legal subjects
Being away, and with only random access to the Internet, focuses one’s mind on the most efficient way of capturing interesting articles as Twitter (my main source) dishes them up. Whatever its other virtues, Twitter is no good as an … Continue reading
Manslaughter (not), brand protection, Twitter censorship and crass Olympic coverage
I am back from nearly three weeks in the US and catching up slowly. Changing time zones does not bother me much, but it is tiresome how the world declines to stand still when one is away. I have already … Continue reading
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A holiday interval in California
As you may have gathered from my relative silence in these pages, I am on holiday. The primary reason for being in California is to attend the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat which has moved from the place which gave it … Continue reading
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Predictive coding on the move
“The move” in my article’s title maybe taken to refer to the advances in the take-up of predictive coding in the last few months. In fact it is me who is moving– I am on a California road trip with … Continue reading
Huron opens document review facility in India
Huron Consulting Group has extended its global eDiscovery offerings by opening a document review centre and data operations team in India. As a result, Huron now has 1,500 review seats at nine locations in the US, the UK and India. … Continue reading
More about the Legal Hold and ECA Optimization Service from Guidance Software
I referred in a recent article to a new service offered by Guidance Software to users of its EnCase eDiscovery software. It sounded sufficiently interesting for me to schedule a call with Timothy Bailey, Senior Director of Professional Services at … Continue reading
Make another firm’s risk your competitive opportunity – a paper for CY4OR
CY4OR have published a paper written by me called Make another firm’s risk your competitive opportunity. CY4OR’s main business is electronic disclosure and litigation support, forensic data collection, and digital forensics for civil and criminal proceedings. It has wider interests, … Continue reading
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Da Silva Moore Plaintiffs File Objection to denial of recusal motion
Whatever else one might say about the lawyers for the Da Silva Moore plaintiffs, you can’t deny that they are good at volume – yards of words pour out at every opportunity, and while few of them seem to have … Continue reading
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Recent posts on my Google Plus page
I give below links to my recent posts on my Google Plus page. The last few weeks have been a particularly fruitful time in eDiscovery, both in the UK and elsewhere, and I have a stockpile of other articles and … Continue reading
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Susskind the practical futurist. For litigation at least, his future is here already.
Professor Richard Susskind was the keynote speaker at Lawtech Camp London. If his message was familiar to many of us, it bears repeating, certainly in relation to litigation, as the times catch up with his predictions. There is a good … Continue reading
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County Council sets modernisation example to the rest of us at LawTech Camp London
I must start with my usual proviso to the effect that generalisations which are critical of groups do not exclude the possibility that those groups contain many people who would shine anywhere, and vice versa. Whilst I am instinctively for … Continue reading
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Moving on the discussion and ways of presenting it at Lawtech Camp London
The advance publicity for Lawtech Camp London 2012 was perhaps not calculated to draw in lawyers of the conventional kind, even without the fact that the none of the possible meanings of “Camp” are exactly redolent of commercial activity. “What do … Continue reading
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Podcast: explaining present and future UK eDisclosure rules and practice
A podcast recorded with Symantec aimed at explaining UK discovery rules and procedures for a US audience is a helpful summary for UK lawyers and clients as well. When I first took on the role of explaining UK electronic disclosure, … Continue reading
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Xerox adds Viewpoint to its eDiscovery range by buying Lateral Data
Xerox’s acquisition of Lateral Data adds significantly to the range of solutions which Xerox Litigation Services can offer to its clients, and provides further evidence that the eDiscovery market is fast consolidating into fewer hands. The announcement is here and Legal … Continue reading
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The Nuix Information Governance Forum: a defensible deletion case study of massive proportions
This is a continuation of a series of posts about the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held in June at Palm Beach in Florida. This session was moderated by Carolyn Betts, marketing director at Nuix. The panel comprised Dan Regard of … Continue reading
Keeping up with developments at Guidance Software
New tools and initiatives keep arriving from Guidance Software, helping to support Guidance’s position in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for eDiscovery Software. That news broke whilst I was at CEIC 2012, Guidance Software’s growing (1500 delegates this … Continue reading
Debra Logan at the Nuix Information Governance Forum – why Information Governance fails and how to make it succeed
This is a continuation of a series of posts about the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held in June at Palm Beach in Florida. Debra Logan of Gartner was the keynote speaker. Her speech was all meat, and the only acceptable … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems London judicial panel points to future of technology-assisted review
The original invitation to Epiq Systems’ panel debate on judicial attitudes to technology assisted review said that the speakers would be Senior Master Whitaker and US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck. That was enough to have me book my place, but … Continue reading
The Nuix Information Governance Forum: Defining the IG Problem
Any attempt to write up the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held recently at Palm Beach in Florida, neatly illustrates the very point which was central to the discussions there – one ends up with an awful lot of data, in … Continue reading
Whither did the defendant take the witness stand?
The Times has an entertaining column on Saturdays in which it fields complaints made by its readers about its manner of expression (as distinct from purely factual errors). Not infrequently, the complaints relate to the use of American terms in … Continue reading
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Content Obesity: an interesting parallel between human and corporate health problems
I have two reasons for referring you to an interesting pair of articles by IBM’s George Parapadakis on his personal blog For what it’s worth…. One is that they introduce an interesting parallel between growing data volumes and a medical … Continue reading
Notes from Hong Kong: comparative eDiscovery regimes
This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. Craig Carpenter of Recommind was the moderator of a panel comprising Browning Marean of DLA Piper, Jeff Lane, a partner at King … Continue reading
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Singapore seeks SaaS discovery solution as London barristers set up shop there
The two subjects which comprise my heading are not directly related to each other save that they both point to Singapore’s continuing consolidation as a dispute resolution centre. The Singapore Academy of Law is inviting proposals from companies able to … Continue reading
Seeing rather too much of London this week
Fate is usually kind enough to give me spaces between the big events and time enough to write them up before the next one. Fate has not been so kind this week: with two major events yet unreported (Hong Kong … Continue reading
Predictive Coding: video interview with Master Whitaker and an SCL article
Recommind has published a video in which I interview Senior Master Whitaker and Computers & Law has published a related article which I wrote to accompany the video. I try and keep a rough balance in these pages between subjects … Continue reading
Huron and Epiq expand managed review and legal staffing in Washington
Just as I pressed the Publish button on my article of last night (Discussing UK eDisclosure developments with Judge Brown and Huron Legal), which referred to Huron’s acquisition of Ascertus, a Huron press release came in about its next acquisition, … Continue reading
Notes from Hong Kong: Opening dialogue – Barry Murphy of eDJ Group and Craig Carpenter of Recommind
This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. And so to the conference itself, in two rooms overlooking the water. Many events like this take place in gloomy basements, … Continue reading
Far from the Black Box: explaining Equivio Relevance to Lawyers
The latest addition to Equivio‘s comprehensive set of resources on its smart new website is a paper by me called Far from the Black Box: explaining Equivio Relevance to Lawyers. I am developing a deep dislike of the expression “black … Continue reading
Discussing UK eDisclosure developments with Judge Brown and Huron Legal
You might easily get the impression at this time of year that I am spending more time abroad than in the UK. Statistically, that is not (quite) the case, though it is fair to say that I have spent an … Continue reading
Notes from Hong Kong: Dinner with Richard Kershaw of FTI Technology
This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. I have reported elsewhere that I heard a rumour of a senior appointment at FTI’s Hong Kong office, and deduced that they … Continue reading
Back from the Nuix Information Governance Forum in Palm Beach
The Nuix Information Governance Forum, which has just closed in Palm Beach, Florida, was a late entry into my calendar. Nuix CEO Eddie Sheehy mentioned it to me when we were in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago and it … Continue reading
NeverSeconds, Leveson and the Snoopers’ Charter add variety to the eDiscovery world
If you wonder why I spent Saturday pouring out articles, it is because Saturday was the only day last week which did not involve a plane, a train, a seminar or a recording of some kind. The rest of the … Continue reading
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CY4OR draws attention to the value of CCTV evidence
EDisclosure and forensics services provider CY4OR have an interesting article on their smart new web site about the use of CCTV to catch criminals in the act. Much of the article is about a CCTV network which has been established … Continue reading
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kCura White Paper: workflow for computer-assisted review in Relativity
kCura has released a short and clear white paper called Understanding the Components of Computer-Assisted Review and the Workflow that Ties Them Together. It has a short foreword from Katey Wood at ESG which takes as its starting point that … Continue reading
Third Millnet eDisclosure podcast on predictive coding
I have just recorded the third in a series of short podcasts with James Moeskops, managing director at London eDiscovery provider Millnet. It is available here, without any registration forms to complete. The first of these podcasts looked at what … Continue reading
Epiq Systems research on eDiscovery readiness at US and European companies
Epiq Systems, which provides managed technology services worldwide for lawyers and their clients, has commissioned a report about eDiscovery readiness at companies in the US, France, Germany and the UK. It is important, every so often, to get some metrics … Continue reading
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eDisclosure Information Project 