Author Archives: Chris Dale

US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck yesterday denied the Da Silva Moore plaintiffs’ recusal motion in robust terms. The S.D.N.Y. Blog pulls out the best bits from the ruling and provides a link to it. The opinion is measured, analytical and, … Continue reading →

I wrote recently about a short podcast about predictive coding which I made with James Moeskops of Millnet.  We have now done another one, this time with Dominic Lacey and Jamie Tanner of Eversheds. The context was provided by an … Continue reading →

Although I made it clear in my article Scattershot innuendo and muck that I was indifferent to the outcome of the arguments on the merits in Da Silva Moore, that is no excuse for substituting the word “Plaintiffs” for “Defendants” … Continue reading →

I am inevitably interested in the ways in which ideas and information are passed to and by lawyers, since they are my target audience and I live by reaching them by whatever means come to hand. It is unsurprising that … Continue reading →

The next event in which I am involved is ILTA Insight in London on 8 and 9 May. This year it runs over two days and is produced in conjunction with LegalTech, a division of ALM. I am moderating a … Continue reading →

I wrote recently about the podcasts which IQPC have put on their website as tasters for their Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit which takes place in London between 14 and 16 May. You may be interested in another one which … Continue reading →

A two-day absence in a place where cellular data has yet to penetrate put me behind in the routine task of picking up useful articles and putting links to them on my Google Plus page. Google’s enthusiasm for rolling out … Continue reading →

Jim Shook of EMC takes us back to the stage before discovery. The advanced technology used for dealing reactively with discovery requests has its place at a much earlier stage in the process. Judge Peck’s opinion in Da silva Moore … Continue reading →

Patrick Oot of the Electronic Discovery Institute and the SEC is interviewed by Jim Vint of Navigant in a podcast which anticipates some of the subjects which will come up at IQPC’s London Summit between 14 and 16 May The … Continue reading →

The collision between US discovery requirements and EU privacy and data protection laws is a long-running story of mutual incomprehension on which the formal conflict of laws is merely an overlay. US courts and regulators expect every last document to … Continue reading →

Jack Bond, litigation support specialist at Dewey & LeBoeuf in London is organising a charity Quiz Night on 3 May in support of The Children’s Trust and in memory of his daughter, Sarah. He is getting together teams in tables … Continue reading →

My decision to stop reporting every additional layer of comment on Judge Peck’s Da Silva Moore Opinion (see Closing down the Da Silva Moore discussion for now) was made in part because of the diminishing returns we were getting from the focus … Continue reading →

One does not have to be obsessive about web rankings to be interested in the reach of one’s blog posts, particularly in an industry which constantly evolves – or, as recently, takes the occasional big jump. Can one be heard … Continue reading →

I am not going to try and compete with the Clearwell / Symantec writing team as it comments on developments in the Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe case, the first one in which the use of predictive coding, the … Continue reading →

Applied Discovery has a double interest in the Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe case which came before Judge Peck just before Valentines Day. As a software provider, it offers technology-assisted review (which it calls “predictive tagging”) powered by Equivio->Relevance … Continue reading →

The good-looking, self-confident male never does well in a Losey film. Don Giovanni is hurled down into Hell as Donna Anna has her revenge. Who can forget the handsome face of William (Michael York) as his girlfriend’s (another Anna as … Continue reading →