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Huron Legal kicks off LegalTech with the Commonwealth Brunch
For several years now, Nigel Murray, MD of Huron Legal in London, has organised what used to be called the British Brunch, now the Commonwealth Brunch. For many of us, it marks the opening of LegalTech. What marks it out … Continue reading
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Recommind keeps the good news coming
It is barely a fortnight since I reported on Recommind‘s coup in appointing Nick Patience as Director of Product Marketing and Strategy. Since then, Recommind’s name has turned up more often than I can keep pace with. I put it … Continue reading
AccessData releases all-new version of Summation
AccessData was not in a hurry to bring out its all-new version of the Summation line of eDiscovery products. The company already had a 20-year history in digital investigations when it bought Summation iBlaze, Enterprise and CaseVantage towards the end … Continue reading
Information Governance, UK eDisclosure and International Discovery in three days
In an ideal world, I would keep the week before LegalTech free. Product announcements pour out with accompanying (and welcome) invitations in advance to find out about the new developments (that is preferable, incidentally, to those who make big announcements and assume … Continue reading
Nuix Webinar: The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance
I am moderating an Inside Counsel live webinar for Nuix with the title The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance on Tuesday 24 January at 1pm to 2pm EST / 10am to 11am PT / 6:00pm to 7:00pm GMT. The … Continue reading
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Revival of UK Litigation Support Technology Group – LiST – with meeting on 24 January
There is a meeting of LiST – the Litigation Support Technology Group – at Allen & Overy at 5:00pm tomorrow, Tuesday 24 January. This is a welcome revival. The Litigation Support Technology Group is a UK think tank, formed in … Continue reading
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Herb Roitblat on Ralph Losey on Search
Articles on search by OrcaTec’s Herb Roitblat are rare, but worth waiting for. I would much rather point you to his article, and to the articles by Ralph Losey to which they refer, than try and write them myself. I … Continue reading
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Welcome to Millnet as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
It is a particular pleasure to welcome London-based eDiscovery / eDisclosure provider Millnet as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project. It is a company with which I have long-standing links and which has turned up in these pages from … Continue reading
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A further reminder about my Google Plus site
I have yet to do the necessary cross-linking between the various places in which I put eDiscovery information. At the moment, it makes more sense to push the stuff out there and worry in due course about making a cohesive … Continue reading
Delay for Draconian Data Protection Regulation
The term “displacement activity” has a technical meaning in animal biology, something I am happy to leave to the animal biologists. The lay use of the term connotes some activity undertaken in order to avoid having to do something else … Continue reading
Judge Peck and Mallesons in LTN Legal Technology Innovation Awards
Legal Technology News annually presents its LTN Innovation Awards for Outstanding Achievement by Legal Professionals in their Use of Technology. This year’s awards, to be presented on the first day of LegalTech, includes one to US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck … Continue reading
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Guidance Software Webinar – Migrating to the Cloud: Navigating the E-Discovery Challenges
Guidance Software has provided a link to a recording of a live webinar which went out to a large audience – perhaps not surprisingly given the subject-matter and the participants. Its self-explanatory title is Migrating to the Cloud: Navigating the … Continue reading
Recommind names Nick Patience as Director of Product Marketing and Strategy
I have just written an article which, amongst other things, referred to the difficulty which eDiscovery / eDisclosure providers face in recruiting appropriately skilled and experienced talent for what is, for many of them, a market which grows almost weekly. … Continue reading
Nuix snaps up Jim Kent as MD for Europe as 7Safe falls to PA Consulting
Looking at my headline for this article, I see that its necessary brevity includes two implied assumptions, neither of which is necessarily accurate. The “as” which connects the two halves of the headline (“Nuix snaps up… as 7Safe falls”) implies … Continue reading
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Forbes article: Technology assisted eDiscovery and the role of humans
I bring a fairly jaundiced eye to some of the marketing by those who sell technology solutions to lawyers. This is not so much to do with the quality of the marketing materials themselves but more to do with their … Continue reading
CY4OR buys eOrigin and takes Nick Pollard to lead its eDisclosure department
I am not generally much bothered about capturing breaking news, preferring to let it simmer a while before I pass it on. Yesterday’s announcement that CY4OR has acquired eOrigin and taken founder Nick Pollard onto its management team to manage … Continue reading
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Lord Justice Jackson to give the SCL Annual Lecture – Reforming the Civil Justice System
On 26 March, Lord Justice Jackson will give the SCL Annual Lecture 2012 with the title “Reforming the Civil Justice System“. The venue is the offices of Allen & Overy at One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD, and the event … Continue reading
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FTI’s take on 2012 – fewer eDiscovery suppliers per company and more people with “Discovery” in their job title
I talked on Friday to FTI Technology’s Mike Kinnaman, to catch up with FTI’s view of the eDiscovery market in the coming year. FTI takes what you might call an evidence-based approach to prediction each year, asking Ari Kaplan to … Continue reading
LexisNexis sells Applied Discovery to Siris Capital
I noticed at the end of last year that Applied Discovery’s avatar on Twitter had changed, the big red ball of its LexisNexis owner being replaced by a parallelogram with an @ symbol in it. The same symbol appeared at … Continue reading
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Equivio near duplicate and e-mail threads integrated into Relativity
Equivio and kCura have got in ahead of the LegalTech announcements flurry by launching an Equivio tab In Relativity. “Integration” means just that – Relativity users access Equivio’s analytic functionality without either they or the data leaving Relativity. The words … Continue reading
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ILTA Insight in London 8 to 9 May 2012
ILTA, the International Legal Technology Association, works throughout the year to advance and share knowledge of legal technology developments, priding itself rightly on its peer to peer relationships between members. It has a major conference in the US each year … Continue reading
A proper welcome to Xerox XLS as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
The logo of Xerox Litigation Services – XLS appeared here shortly before I set off on last October’s race from continent to continent. I wrote a brief welcome at the time but wanted to find out more about the company’s … Continue reading
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EDisclosure Seminar in Manchester with Hobs Legal Docs on 25 January
I am pleased to be taking part in an eDisclosure seminar called eDisclosure after Goodale and the Practice Direction in the company of Terry Harrison of Hobs Legal Docs in Manchester on 25 January. The event runs from 6:00pm to … Continue reading
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European Data Protection: Coming of Age – Brussels 25–27 January 2012
The Fifth International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference takes place in Brussels between 25 and 27 January 2012 under the title European Data Protection: Coming of Age. Monique Altheim of The Law Office of Monique Altheim is organising and … Continue reading
Information Governance and eDiscovery for Energy – IQPC in London 17-19 January
This event has now been moved to 17-18 May 2012 IQPC has a three-day conference aimed specifically at the energy industry and those who advise it. Its strong list of speakers include three judges – Senior Master Whitaker from England … Continue reading
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2011 – My Year in Pictures
You can skip the words and go straight to the pictures. Click on 2011 – A Year in pictures by Chris Dale for the Google+ display I begin to think that I will not be able to sort out my … Continue reading
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Oxford tramples on privacy with CCTV in taxis
Given that privacy is one of my professional subjects, it is interesting that my home city, Oxford, should be blazing a trail in trampling on privacy rights, with a compulsory scheme requiring taxis to make video and sound recordings of … Continue reading
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Gartner’s Debra Logan and others at ZyLAB Universe 2011
If you cannot actually attend a conference, the next best thing is to read Project Counsel’s live tweets of the event and their subsequent reports. I was not able to attend ZyLAB Universe 2011 in Amsterdam on 24 November, but … Continue reading
Epiq Systems acquires De Novo Legal to expand its Managed Review Services
It is only eight months since Epiq Systems significantly increased its legal technology reach by the acquisition of Encore eDiscovery. It has ended the year by acquiring De Novo Legal LLC, whose particular strength is managed review services. The acquisition … Continue reading
You can find eDiscovery parallels everywhere if you look hard enough
What is the proper etiquette when someone else devotes half a blog post to writing about you? if they are simply polite, then a brief acknowledgment is all that is is required. It is easy if they are rude or … Continue reading
The eDisclosure Information Project in 2011
Ever keen to be up with the trends, I seize on the alleged imminent death of e-mail as one excuse for not sending Christmas messages this year. Other excuses include the deficiencies of Outlook as a mailer (“there is a … Continue reading
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Twitter and Technology-Assisted Document Review – the downside of uninformed prejudice
A report on the future of document review reaches me via Twitter. The spirit which ignores or condemns social media as a business tool matches the spirit which many lawyers show towards modern methods of document review. I yield to … Continue reading
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Trans-Atlantic video panel: The differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe
The American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law organised a lunchtime panel session in Washington last week. Its topic was the differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe and how those differences might affect … Continue reading
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An eDisclosure evening at Lord’s with Clearwell
It is quite hard to find suitable and accessible venues for what is, essentially, a talking session. The location, and any side attractions, must be interesting enough to be part of the draw, but you do not want them to … Continue reading
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LDM Global launches processing and hosting managed services
LDM Global is offering legal discovery processing, hosting and support services in fixed-price blocks payable by monthly, quarterly or annual subscriptions. The press release is here. The scheme allows access to LDM Global’s processing, storage, and backup, together with project … Continue reading
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Two predictive coding case studies emphasise time and cost savings
I referred a while back to two case studies about the use of the technology known variously as “predictive coding”, “computer-assisted coding” or, more recently, “technology assisted review” or TAR. One of them involved Epiq Systems and the other Millnet. … Continue reading
Who explains eDisclosure sources to the lawyers and the court?
An article by US lawyer and eDiscovery expert Jon Resnick of Applied Discovery has application in UK proceedings as well as in the US. Who on your side actually understands where the client’s data is and what is involved in … Continue reading
CY4OR signs partnership agreement with Guidance Software for EnCase Enterprise
UK-based forensics company CY4OR has reached an agreement with Guidance Software under which CY4OR will offer and support Guidance Software’s EnCase Enterprise Platform. This is a logical development for CY4OR, building on their nine-year history of forensic investigations and collections … Continue reading
2012 eDisclosure and eDiscovery Predictions
SCL, the website of the Society for Computers & Law, has kindly published my predictions for eDisclosure / eDiscovery for 2012. Every year, Editor Laurence Eastham collects predictions across a wide range of the subjects where technology meets the law, … Continue reading
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Shortened version of Epiq white paper published by New Law Journal
A recent post of mine, called Epiq Systems White Paper: from start to finish – what actually happens to my clients data? referred to a white paper which I wrote with Deborah Blaxell of Epiq. The paper has now been … Continue reading
Big 4 a reason – a GC’s Eye View of professional service client relationships
Tom Kilroy is General Counsel at a publicly quoted company, leading a team of around 35 people. His blog, GC’s Eye View, is sub-titled Thoughts on law and business from a General Counsel at a publicly traded company. Those who … Continue reading
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Pedigree suggests that Hobs Legal Docs will keep on growing in eDisclosure
I have been trying to work out when I first heard of Hobs Legal Docs or came across its managing director, Terry Harrison. I have been in the UK litigation support business since 1993, and can generally recall the context … Continue reading
Prosecution lawyers don’t want to take the CPS tablets
An article of last week on my Google+ site (Norwich CPS tests tablet computers as a step towards paperless courts) sounded a cautious welcome for the plan by the Crown Prosecution Service to send out all the documents for criminal … Continue reading
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You do want to know what eDiscovery / eDisclosure is costing you, surely?
You will doubtless recall from your Latin lessons at school that the Romans drew a useful distinction between questions which expect the answer “Yes” and those to which the presumed reply is “No”, the former generally beginning with “Nonne” and … Continue reading
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Wilmer Hale sets new standards for law firm eDiscovery web sites
Take a look at Wilmer Hale’s eDiscovery Solutions website. When I first saw it I put up a tweet to the effect that any litigation law firm not doing something like this would be dead within two years. The website … Continue reading
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UK relevance in a Practitioner Guide to eDiscovery from the New York State Bar Association
My thanks to Matthew Davis at Hogan Lovells for drawing my attention to a straightforward guide to eDiscovery which has been published by the New York State Bar Association. It inevitably has a US focus, but it is full of … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on Jackson and costs at the Epiq Showcase
I wrote a post in anticipation of Epiq Systems London Showcase on 8 November, focusing mainly on the scope and depth of the consultancy services and software options which are available to lawyers and their clients from broadly-based providers like … Continue reading
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Huron Legal adds digital evidence services to its eDiscovery offerings
Huron Legal is primarily a consulting company working with law firms and corporate legal departments to bring both strategic advice and appropriate resources to their businesses, including eDiscovery problems. That includes pre-emptive advice in anticipation of prospective eDiscovery demands, and … Continue reading
CY4OR highlights IT security risk posed by employees
Forensics and eDiscovery company CY4OR has a timely article on its blog reminding us that a company’s employees are often the weak spot in its security systems. The article, Employees are the largest risk to an organisation’s IT security, refers … Continue reading
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Indemnity costs awarded where unnecessary costs were incurred
Have a look at the judgment of HHJ Simon Brown QC in Mortgage Agency Services Number Four Limited v Alomo Solicitors. A few lines chosen from the end of the judgment (from paragraph 30) should give you enough the flavour … Continue reading
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The Tyranny of the Outlier in shaping eDiscovery disputes – a US article with UK messages
An article about US eDiscovery has messages for UK eDisclosure. The Electronic Documents Questionnaire should be used to reduce unnecessary costs both of the disclosure itself and any disputes about it. I don’t know what US forensic expert Craig Ball … Continue reading
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You say eDisclosure, I say…..whatever is right for the context
The SCL website is again collecting predictions for the coming year. There is always a good crop relating to eDisclosure / eDiscovery – mine usually arrive just after the print edition has gone to press, and I suspect that will … Continue reading
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Proof Finder: 1,000 Nuix licenses at $100 for charity – you learn eDiscovery while others learn to read
EDiscovery software provider Nuix has come up with an imaginative plan which simultaneously provides lawyers and others with hands-on opportunities to develop technical eDiscovery skills and helps increase literacy skills to children in developing countries. Like so many imaginative plans, … Continue reading
UK accountancy firm BDO LLP selects Digital Reef for its eDiscovery work
The London member of business and advisory firm BDO International has taken Digital Reef to support its eDiscovery work. The selection was made through Digital Reef’s UK partner e-Origin. William Wilkinson, Head of Technology Forensics Services at BDO, said “by … Continue reading
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The FBI buys Clearwell eDiscovery Platform
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has chosen Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform for its eDiscovery investigations. There is a press release about the deal here. Criminal investigators have much the same requirements as those in the civil fields – and … Continue reading
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Huron Legal’s Nigel Murray to take part in CEO Fast for Famine
LexisNexis Australia has been rounding up CEOs to take part in CEO Fast for Famine, an initiative led by UNICEF to raise money for its emergency relief program. The countries chiefly affected are Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. LexisNexis asked … Continue reading
A reminder that the blog now has a sister site
For those who missed my original post about this or who do not follow me on Twitter, I have set up a page on Google+ for short notes, mainly about eDiscovery/eDisclosure . These lie part-way between blog posts and tweets, … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems White Paper: From Start to Finish – what actually happens to my clients’ data?
Anyone describing their services to a prospective client has a limited bandwidth (measured in time, concentration and the amount of detail which can be imparted and absorbed) available to them and, in focusing on the primary features and benefits, often … Continue reading
The KPMG Preservation Order: it couldn’t happen here….I hope
In writing about the US case Pippins v KPMG (see KPMG Judge Kicks the Sisyphean Stone of Proportionality Back Down the Hill) I made a point of emphasising that “one must… be careful up to a point in commenting adversely … Continue reading
eDiscovery Predictions for 2012 from Symantec and Clearwell
This is the time of year for predictions about the next twelve months. I tend to make mine aspirational, that is, I hope to encourage movement in the general direction of my predictions without necessarily being optimistic that they will … Continue reading
New eDisclosure Information Project page on Google+ for short eDiscovery posts
Google has just launched Google+ Business Pages which, unlike the ordinary Google+ pages, allow you to have an identity as a business rather than only as an individual. That distinction on its own is in fact fairly meaningless in my … Continue reading
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ZyLAB White Paper and Webinar: Bridging the Gap between Legal and IT
ZyLAB has published a white paper which I wrote with them called Bridging the Gap between Legal and IT. It is to be followed by a webinar on 1 December when I will discuss the issues raised in the paper … Continue reading
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More on risk appetite as US and UK eDiscovery are compared
Recommind’s Howard Sklar was kind enough to comment on my blog post Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it in his post Risk Appetite: no thanks, I’m full on the InfoRiskAwareness site.. My article drew parallels between attitudes to … Continue reading
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Equivio adds Applied Discovery, LDM Global and others to a growing list
It can be quite difficult keeping up with those who sponsor the eDisclosure Information Project, quite apart from the wider eDiscovery/eDisclosure market. Some of them seem to assume that I pick up news by some magical process; others broadcast little … Continue reading
Fundamentalist adherence to Health and Safety in Strathclyde allows woman to die
There is no eDiscovery in this post, although it picks up on my article of 21 October called Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it. That drew parallels between attitudes to public safety in the UK and to eDiscovery … Continue reading
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Tactical Swearing to Close Down Pointless Discussion
I am always happy to get involved in debates about the best way of dealing with eDiscovery problems. The following tips may be helpful: Pretty well every supplier in this market has something less than complimentary to say about pretty … Continue reading
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Guidance Software adds Data Reuse Feature to EnCase eDiscovery
There are two reasons for referring you to the latest additions to Guidance Software’s EnCase eDiscovery. The first is the addition of functionality to identify and reuse data which has already been collected, allowing searches of data collected for previous … Continue reading
KPMG Judge Kicks the Sisyphean Stone of Proportionality Back Down the Hill
Those of us who think that the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to preservation are utterly bonkers get powerful reinforcement from a case brought against KPMG in the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs are described as “entry-level auditors” … Continue reading
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First Advantage to speak at Litigation Summit in Frankfurt 23-24 November
By the end of next week, I will have spoken at four eDiscovery events in Germany during the year, a four-fold increase on any previous year. I do not take this personally, as it were – there is growing interest … Continue reading
Legal Support Network UK e-Discovery Briefing Paper collects expert views
The UK-based Legal Support Network has just published an interesting briefing paper about eDisclosure / eDiscovery, opening with an observation on the difference, or absence of difference, between those two terms, kick-started by Jonathan Maas of Ernst & Young. For … Continue reading
Supper in Singapore, breakfast in Berlin, luggage in Limbo
04:58am at Heathrow’s Terminal 3. All going to plan so far – the plan being to speak at InnoXcell’s eDiscovery conference in Singapore on Monday, to attend its closing party, and then to moderate a Tuesday session at EMC²’s Momentum … Continue reading
Digital Reef Panel at the Masters Conference – Early Case Assessment: is it working?
I was a member of a Masters Conference panel brought together by Digital Reef to discuss the question whether early case assessment is working as a way of saving time and money in litigation, as well as for improving its … Continue reading
Epiq Systems Solutions Showcase in London on 8 November
Epiq Systems is holding an E-Disclosure / E-Discovery Solutions Showcase at the Barbican in London at 4.30pm on 8 November. Its title is The Power of Options, which seems appropriate for an event which includes several leading software solutions as … Continue reading
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Compare and Contrast: US and UK attitudes to Preservation Sanctions
“My five year old can tell by page three of an Opinion that it is going to end in sanctions”. The best panel sessions leave you with a one-liner which summarises at least one of the viewpoints. The DoJ’s Allison … Continue reading
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Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it
The mediaeval heritage of Dunster in Somerset includes – or did until recently – cobbled streets and paths. These are now being ripped up because the highways officers and health and safety people from the local council are worried about … Continue reading
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I see you have done no blog updates….
As comments go “I checked this morning and saw that you have done no blog updates” ranks very much higher than “Oh, do you keep a blog?”. The observation came, however, from someone who was also attending the Nuix Exchange … Continue reading
E-Discovery from Washington to Dublin
I have been known to spend longer writing about a conference than I spent in attending it, but there is little chance of that at the moment when the gaps between conferences are shorter than the events themselves once the … Continue reading
Barristers, Berlin and Bribery Act – an eDiscovery Compendium Part 2
As my last article explained, I am setting off on a sort of eDiscovery world tour thanks to a coincidence of invitations, each of which was too interesting to turn down. I keep a running list of things which I … Continue reading
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Barristers, Berlin and the Bribery Act – an eDiscovery Compendium Part 1
The three words beginning with “B” in my title are a random selection from the top of my running list of things to write about. They all have a connection with eDisclosure / eDiscovery which is not necessarily obvious (barristers … Continue reading
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ECA with Digital Reef at the Masters Conference in Washington
The Masters Conference for Legal Professionals takes place in Washington on 3 to 5 October at the Ronald Regan Centre. I will be there, as always – this is one of my favourite events in the calendar, and often my … Continue reading
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kCura Relativity Ecosystem Apps and on-line User Support are good marketing
I spent part of the weekend wandering around the websites of various litigation software providers (we do have fun on Sundays here). I was actually in search of quotations to support (or undermine, as the case may be) a proposition … Continue reading
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Social Media Opportunities and Risks in the Workplace
A White Paper and webinar from ZyLAB draw attention to the marketing and network advantages, and to the corresponding discovery/disclosure risks, which come with the massive growth in social media use. I am fairly sparing with both adjectives and adverbs … Continue reading
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CY4OR and Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers Forensics Seminar
In the nick of time, I note that forensics and eDisclosure experts CY4OR are joining forces with Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers for an evening of presentations and discussions about digital evidence, starting at 5:30pm on 29 September – that is, … Continue reading
Late eDisclosure application tacked on to pre-trial review at a cost of £47,000
Court decisions about procedural hearings rarely tell the full story. There may be all sorts of reasons why two good firms of solicitors should find themselves, three months before a 10-day trial, at a pre-trial review onto which had been tacked a … Continue reading
More on Software-Assisted Review as Applied Discovery and KMPG add Equivio>Relevance
Electronic discovery company Applied Discovery and KPMG are amongst those who have recently partnered with Equivio to integrate Equivio>Relevance into their existing eDiscovery applications. These two recent announcements give me an opportunity to return to the subject of software-assisted document review … Continue reading
Costs Management Panel at the Legal Week Commercial Litigation Forum
A parallel emerges between the management of Britain’s railways and the way the civil justice system is run. In both of them, the occasional star project cannot hide the fact that the rest is run-down, neglected by government and inadequate … Continue reading
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Some Recent Articles on Social Media Use in Companies
This post collects together a few articles which appeared at about the same time as Tim Bratton’s talk Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Europe last week. These articles cover the marketing, the practical and … Continue reading
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Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? Serious Entertainment at the Corporate Counsel Forum Europe
The most enjoyable session at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Europe at Luton Hoo last week had the title Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? – Lessons Learnt and Opportunities Found. It came between the information management session in … Continue reading
The Information Management Panel at the Corporate Counsel Europe Forum
My introductory post about Legal Week’s Corporate Counsel Europe Forum was called Drowning in Regulation, and covered what its title implied. Apart from the panel which I was on, which was dedicated to the subject, there was little reference to information management … Continue reading
The International Association of Women Judges London Conference 2012
The International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization of more than 4,000 members at all judicial levels in more than 102 nations. Formed in 1991, the IAWJ has united women judges from diverse legal-judicial systems who … Continue reading
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Drowning in Regulation – a day at the Corporate Counsel Europe Forum
Despite its title, this is “about” Legal Week’s Corporate Counsel Europe Forum, held at Luton Hoo, last week, in only the loosest sense, consisting more of random reflections derived from listening to first-rate speakers with in-house responsibility for legal and … Continue reading
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Moderating a video discussion with Digital Reef: Preparing eDiscovery Data for Review
Whilst I was at ILTA in Nashville in August, I moderated an eDiscovery discussion with Steve Akers, CTO of Digital Reef and Peter Mansmann, CEO of Precise Litigation Technologies. Digital Reef has now edited our discussion down into three short … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems webinar: the Challenges of Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations on 21 September
One keeps hearing of “Bribery Act fatigue”, with the implication that companies and their lawyers either think that the subject was oversold or that the absence of a headline prosecution implies that we can all relax. The sense of urgency … Continue reading
The Needle on the Broken Record – why UK Law Firms should go to US Legal Conferences
My annual suggestion, already made in recent posts, that UK law firms ought to attend US conferences about litigation practice, gets a last outing for 2011 just as the traditional law firm model is given five years to live. A … Continue reading
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Huron Legal: Cross-Border eDiscovery Breakfast in New York on 21 September
The US is considering possible rule changes in relation to preservation. The UK is tackling case management and costs management. Australia is chewing over the recent report on electronic discovery. New Zealand has a new ediscovery practice direction coming shortly. … Continue reading
Keywords and Cooking: an eDiscovery Parallel
There are not many things which we can all agree on in eDiscovery / eDisclosure. You would probably get near-unanimity as to what the rules say in any jurisdiction (at least from those who have read them), and most people … Continue reading
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The Emerging Technologies Panel at ILTA 2011: remote collections and predictive coding
It would be fair to say that, more than two weeks on, my notes of the Emerging Technologies panel at ILTA are less decipherable than I might have hoped. That is in fact a tribute to Daniel Lim of Guidance … Continue reading
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