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Author Archives: Chris Dale
FRONTEO appoints Craig Carpenter as CEO
One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet the senior people at the major companies in the eDiscovery markets. Quite apart from their influential position in the eDiscovery industry on which I comment, they … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Jimenez, Craig Carpenter
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Jake Frazier of FTI on the importance of information governance
Jake Frazier is one of the most eloquent advocates of the idea that organisations need to have in place a robust information governance programme which brings together the various departments, including IT and legal, who have an interest in managing … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, FTI Technology, GDPR, Information Governance
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Interview: Jill Brock of FRONTEO talks about FRONTEO’s ROI Analyser
Jill Brock is Director of Marketing at discovery and analytics provider FRONTEO. I caught up with her at Legaltech and asked her to tell me about FRONTEO’s ROI Analyzer which was launched at the end of 2016. The ROI analyser is … Continue reading
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Getting informed about choosing to work differently at the British Legal Technology Forum ’17
I have not been before to the British Legal Technology Forum. Most of the events I attend have eDiscovery / eDisclosure at their heart, and I had sensed (perhaps wrongly) that most of the exhibitors and the talks have been … Continue reading
In government as in business, having no institutional memory means waste and lost opportunity
A Twitter thread from George Peretz QC draws attention to an article from the Institute for Government called Policy reinvention leads to huge waste and little progress. In a series of tweets, Peretz laments the lack of institutional memory in … Continue reading
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OpenText on using discovery analytics to solve GDPR challenges
In talking about the pending General Data Protection Regulation, I always take the opportunity to suggest that GDPR requirements might be the spur to the amorphous concept of information governance, providing the return on investment which companies have hitherto sought … Continue reading
Posted in Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, GDPR, Information Governance, OpenText
Tagged Adam Kuhn
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Cautionary tales of boilerplate and specificity
A US case brings us some RTFR (Read the F* Rules), a difference of emphasis between US rules and those of England and Wales, an opportunity to ask what “boilerplate” means, and a word to avoid if possible when speaking. In … Continue reading
Posted in Court Rules, CPR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Judge Peck, Ralph Losey
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Giving a sense-check to data from sentiment analysis and other analytical tools
An interesting article called The sentiment at Legalweek 2017 by Angela Bunting, Director of eDiscovery at Nuix, considers the value of sentiment analysis tools. Angela Bunting took data relating to Legaltech – tweets with relevant hashtags and blog posts – … Continue reading
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Data in unlikely places: measuring effort and performance – and not just for discovery
I have published articles recently on the prevalence of data in the increasingly wide range of devices which people use every day, perhaps without much thought. That lack of thought becomes significant when the data may be relevant for discovery purposes. … Continue reading
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Graphical illustration from FTI on data from mobile devices
Although I have recently mentioned mobile data in a different context, there is no harm in rubbing the point home with a second reference. FTI’s webpage headed Mobile device eDiscovery and investigations has an infographic which, as these things are meant to … Continue reading
ACEDS London panel – get a DPO and do some IG before the ICO enforces the GDPR against YOU
Last year I moderated the panel which launched the ACEDS UK Chapter. Our subject was predictive coding, and the combination of the subject-matter and the organising skill of the ACEDS UK committee got us a large audience by London standards. … Continue reading
Interview: Richard Dilgren of FRONTEO talks about RelativityOne
Richard Dilgren is International Director, Data Science and Strategy, at eDiscovery and analytics company FRONTEO. On the day I interviewed him at Legaltech, FRONTEO and kCura announced that FRONTEO had become a RelativityOne Certified Partner – the press release is here … Continue reading
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Tagged Richard Dilgren
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Tchenguiz v Grant Thornton – proper use of the disclosure “menu” and the overriding objective
Nothing new emerges from the judgment of Mr Justice Knowles in Tchenguiz & Anor v Grant Thornton UK LLP & Ors [2017] EWHC 310 (Comm) (22 February 2017), but it restates an important point relating to disclosure of documents in England … Continue reading
Posted in CPR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Gordon Exall
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Interview: Craig Earnshaw of FTI Consulting on changes in eDiscovery over his long career
Craig Earnshaw, Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, has been working in FTI’s Technology segment for 10 years and had already spent ten years in the then-nascent eDiscovery and Computer Forensics world before that. I thought it would be interesting … Continue reading
Nuix Insider Conference in London on 23 March
The annual Nuix Insider Conference takes place in London on 23 March. It is a one-day educational event designed to help users improve their practical knowledge of Nuix, to see the latest features, and to find new ways to use Nuix … Continue reading
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Two kCura summaries from Legaltech
kCura is very good at producing summaries of discussions and events both as they occur (usually by tweets from David Horrigan) and by collecting and publishing that instant output in summary form. If I pick two of kCura’s summaries from Legaltech, it … Continue reading
A good launch for Conduent Legal and Compliance Solutions
If the hardest thing in marketing is to launch an entirely new start-up business, perhaps the second is to launch a new name and brand for a long-established business. That was the task of Beth Fritts, SVP and Managing Director … Continue reading
Looking forward to the British Legal Technology Forum ’17 on 14 March
The British Legal Technology Forum ’17 brings together people from the legal and commercial technology sectors to discuss the systems, strategies, processes and platforms which will be relevant to law firms and legal businesses in the near future. Its agenda … Continue reading
ACEDS panel in London on 2 March: Is the GDPR Europe’s wall?
ACEDS UK chapter is organising a panel discussion in London on 2 March called Is the GDPR Europe’s wall? The speakers are Susan Knox of Mayer Brown, Daniel Cooper of Covington and William Wilkinson of Yerra Solutions. I will be … Continue reading
Data protection, TAR and data security dominate my corner of Legaltech
I have already written short holding post about Legaltech (Not yet my Legaltech report) which includes links to posts by others. This article focuses on my own small corner of this vast event. Oh, and yes, I know it was … Continue reading
Posted in Alvarez & Marsal, Brainspace, Brexit, Conduent, Consilio, Cross-border eDiscovery, Cyber security, Data privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Everlaw, GDPR, Information Governance, KCura, LegalTech, Neota Logic, NightOwl Discovery, Nuix, OpenText, Predictive Coding, Recommind, Technology Assisted Review
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Not yet my Legaltech report (but links to those of others)
You will have noticed (well, I hope you have noticed) that I have fallen silent on this blog for some days. I have similarly been uncharacteristically quiet on Twitter. The reason, of course, lies in my annual trip to Legaltech … Continue reading
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Interview: Hal Marcus talks about the benefits of OpenText’s acquisition of Recommind
Towards the end of last year, I interviewed Hal Marcus, Director of Product Marketing at Recommind, an OpenText company, and asked him to explain the benefits of OpenText’s acquisition of Recommind earlier last year. Hal Marcus said that the acquisition … Continue reading
Off to Legaltech New York for the eleventh time
Some of what I say here will be familiar to long-term readers, but it seems worth recapitulating my reasons for going to Legaltech (as we will all persist in calling it) and why it is interesting and important. Some pictures from past … Continue reading
A personal note as Eddie Sheehy leaves Nuix
The earliest picture I have of Eddie Sheehy, taken at an eDiscovery conference in Singapore in 2010 on a panel which I moderated. It’s an odd beast the eDiscovery world. Now a multibillion-dollar industry and growing, it somehow retains a … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber security, Data Security, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, LegalTech, Nuix
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Elizabeth Denham, UK Information Commissioner, talks about GDPR and accountability
Shortly after I published my article Information Commissioner’s Office update: GDPR guidance in 2017, I came across the text of a lecture called GDPR and accountability delivered on 17 January by Elizabeth Denham, the UK Information Commissioner, delivered to the Institute of … Continue reading
Posted in Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDiscovery
Tagged Elizabeth Denham, ICO, Information Commissioner
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Interview: Nick Robertson of kCura about user input into Relativity design and about the use of analytics
Nick Robertson is Chief Operating Officer at kCura. In this interview, I ask him about the input of users into the design of Relativity and about the increased use of analytics. https://vimeo.com/189960398 Nick Robertson identified some of the things … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Litigation, Regulatory investigation, Relativity
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Information Commissioner’s Office update: GDPR Guidance in 2017
The Information Commissioner’s Office is the UK member of the Article 29 Working Party, the EU body charged with implementing and enforcing data protection across the EU. The ICO gave significant input into the development of the General Data Protection … Continue reading
Recommind webinar today: analysing emails in three easy steps
Recommind (now OpenText) is presenting a 30 minute webinar today, 18 January, at 10am PST / 1:00pm EST to show the use of its Axcelerate discovery programme to analyse emails in three key steps. The speakers are Alexis Mitchell, Principal Data … Continue reading
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Supporting witness memory with the electronic evidence trail
Oh Lord, you will say. He’s only just given us one of his periodic lectures on the importance of understanding the trail of electronic evidence we all leave behind us. Can’t he give us a break for a few weeks? … Continue reading
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Ralph Losey: the top 22 most interesting [US] eDiscovery opinions of 2016
As I sit contemplating collecting together the 2016 eDisclosure-related judgments from England and Wales, I have to admire Ralph Losey who kicked off the year with a 30,000+ word essay on the Top 22 most interesting US eDiscovery cases of … Continue reading
Interview: Jeffrey Seymour of Morae Legal talks about RelativityOne and corporate cloud adoption
While I was at Relativity Fest, kCura introduced me to Jeffrey Seymour of Morae Legal, and I talked to him about Morae Legal’s work with corporate legal departments and about kCura’s RelativityOne and corporate cloud adoption. https://vimeo.com/188855718 Jeffrey Seymour says … Continue reading
Finding the evidence for hot tub murder and the red-headed children of Greendale
A murder case in which a voice-activated device may hold the vital clue prompts one of my periodic reminders that potentially-discoverable data lurks in an increasing number of devices and databases, often without our realising it. And just how long … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Internet of Things
Tagged Craig Ball, David Horrigan
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From pillar to post – the eDiscovery conferences at the end of 2016
If I did not write up each of the conferences and events of the closing months of 2016 as they happened, that is only partly because the end of each one seemed merely to herald the preparations for the next. Aggregating … Continue reading
Posted in ACEDS, Brexit, Cross-border eDiscovery, Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq, GDPR, KCura, Predictive Coding, QuisLex, Relativity, Relativity Fest, Technology Assisted Review
Tagged Adi Elliott, Dan Wyatt, David Horrigan, Ed Spencer, Judge Laporte, Judge Peck, Karyn Harty, Steven Whitaker, Vince Neicho
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Interview: Richard Dilgren of FRONTEO talks about the increase in applying analytics to eDiscovery
Richard Dilgren is VP Data Science and Strategy at eDiscovery provider FRONTEO. I talked to him at Relativity Fest about the use of applied analytics in eDiscovery (the interview is below). Email threading, he says, has become “ubiquitous” on large … Continue reading
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Xerox Business Services becomes Conduent
With effect from today, Xerox Business Services completes its separation from Xerox and becomes Conduent, an independent public company trading on the New York Stock Exchange. The announcement is here and there is a video here. Conduent offers business process … Continue reading
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Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year
Time to draw stumps for the year, not because I don’t have more to write, but because I doubt there are many people around to read it if I did. This is “our” robin, known for obvious reasons as “Fat Robs”, … Continue reading
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My SCL predictions for 2017 – the snarling of a cynical old hack
Computers & Law, the online presence of the Society for Computers & Law, asks every year for our predictions for the following year. Most people, quite properly, use this opportunity to give straight-up-and-down ideas of where we are going and … Continue reading
FTI stored webinar: Predictive Coding, Building User Confidence
That long empty period between Christmas and New Year is a good time to catch up on webinars and other things which take time you may not have during the rest of the year. I have the answer for you. FTI Technology … Continue reading
Patrick Burke of Seyfarth Shaw on corporate readiness for the GDPR and Privacy Shield
Patrick Burke and I have been speaking together about privacy and data protection since back in the days when US corporations and lawyers saw these subjects merely as irritations. Patrick is now eDiscovery Counsel at Seyfarth Shaw and things have … Continue reading
Interview: Scott Berger of Epiq on tailoring managed services to client needs
Scott Berger is Senior Director at Epiq. In this interview I asked him to explain what Epiq means by “managed services” and to give me an example of an implementation which worked for the benefit of the client. There are … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq, Epiq Systems, Managed Services
Tagged Scott Berger
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Guidance Software’s Enfuse 2017 – Early Bird Discount closes on 6 January
Guidance Software’s Enfuse Conference takes place in Las Vegas from 22 to 25 May 2017. Enfuse covers all aspects of security and digital investigations across three days. I have been going for many years (I did three panels there last … Continue reading
FRONTEO plans expansion into the Chinese market
FRONTEO, which specialises in global eDiscovery and big data analysis services using AI, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Idea Capital Group in order to expand FRONTEO’s eDiscovery services in China. There is a press release about this here. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Ahrens
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Xerox Legal Business Services brings oversight and platform choices to corporate eDiscovery
This is the time of year when we are all asked to say what were the important developments of 2016 and to look forward to 2017. In a year which has brought further judicial approval of predictive coding, the beginnings … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth Fritz
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Doing a keynote with Judge Peck at the AccessData 2017 User Summit in San Diego
There is of course much more to the AccessData 2017 User Summit than the keynote referred to in my heading, but that is what I am chiefly going there for, so I will put it at the top. The AccessData … Continue reading
Posted in AccessData, Cross-border eDiscovery, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Judge Peck
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Recommind: a confident tone as the OpenText acquisition beds down
In October I interviewed Simon Price, UK managing director of Recommind, when he sounded a confident note both about the benefits of Recommind’s acquisition by OpenText and about the wider context of cloud adoption of software for eDiscovery and for … Continue reading
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Tagged Simon Price
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Interview: Karyn Harty of McCann FitzGerald on the Brexit implications for Ireland
I did a predictive coding panel with Karyn Harty of Dublin-based firm McCann FitzGerald while we were at Lawtech Europe Congress in Brussels recently. It seemed an appropriate place to ask Karyn Harty for her view on the implications of Brexit … Continue reading
Interview: Meribeth Banaschik of Noerr talks about setting up an in-house legal team
Meribeth Banaschik is a US attorney at Noerr LLP in Düsseldorf, Germany. She is also qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, so she has a wider range of qualifications than most. I interviewed her at kCura’s Relativity Fest in … Continue reading
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Tagged Meribeth Banaschik, Noerr
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William Butterfield dies: eDiscovery education will miss him
I am sorry to see that Bill Butterfield has died, depriving his firm, Hausfeld LLP, and the wider eDiscovery world, of a highly-respected and well-liked speaker and educator. I did not know him well, but he is one of those … Continue reading
FTI webinar today: International data privacy – litigation and investigations in 2017 and beyond
I must have missed earlier announcements about this webinar, but it looks interesting and it is today, so I hasten to direct your attention. FTI Consulting has joined forces with Bloomberg to produce a webinar called The changing international data … Continue reading
Technology-assisted review in Australia – two cases and a Practice Note all worth considering elsewhere
Australia has now joined the common law jurisdictions in which courts have permitted the use of technology-assisted review and got involved in prescribing the mechanics. In one case it was the judge who was the first to raise the subject. The courts … Continue reading
Corporate Counsel Round Table 2017 on 30 January in New York
For the last two years I have taken part in a Corporate Counsel Round Table developed and run by William Belt, now at CDS. I am very pleased to have been asked to do it again in January in the … Continue reading
Lawrie Hall of CYFOR talks about using technology to help meet deadlines in eDiscovery
Disclosure failures in the courts fall into two main categories – either someone has failed to read the rules properly or a deadline has been missed, usually because the work involved was underestimated. In this short video, one of a … Continue reading
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Fronteo acquires Essential Discovery, Inc. and produces a new ROI Analyser
Fronteo has been busy while I have been away at the autumn’s events, not least with a client testimonial video called Great Achievements filmed with Time Warner Cable during the summer. Fronteo has acquired Essential Discovery, Inc., a boutique discovery company specialising … Continue reading
Interview: Phil Favro talks about CTRL’s initiatives on TAR and Information Governance
CTRL is an industry forum dedicated to advancing the discussion on the use of technology and analytics in the practice of law. Its sponsors include Relativity and Recommind (now OpenText) At Relativity Fest I interviewed Philip Favro of both eDiscovery … Continue reading
Epiq and DTI: better together
I reported in August that Epiq had been acquired by OMERS Private Equity and Harvest Partners and that it was to be brought together with DTI to make a new and very large technology and services provider. The extent of … Continue reading
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Eaglesham v MoD attracts US attention in Seyfarth Shaw’s blog
The US has not hitherto taken very much notice of eDiscovery / eDisclosure developments outside the US, but that is beginning to change. That is partly because of the predictive coding decisions – the Irish Bank Resolution case from Ireland, … Continue reading
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Tagged Patrick Burke, Seyfarth Shaw
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The Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection – 20-21 June 2017 in Dublin
One of the most useful events which I attend every year is The Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection Laws. Last year Sedona Working Group 6 met in Berlin, an appropriate setting partly because of Germany’s … Continue reading
Interview: Kelly Atherton of NightOwl Discovery talks about increasing client interest in analytics for eDiscovery
Kelly Atherton is Senior Analytics Review Manager at NightOwl Discovery. I interviewed her at Relativity Fest about her work and about the trends which she is seeing. The interview appears below. Kelly Atherton’s role includes helping to integrate workflows and … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, NightOwl Discovery, Relativity
Tagged Kelly Atherton
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Interview: Ed Spencer of Taylor Wessing on choosing and getting approval for the use of technology
Ed Spencer is the associate at Taylor Wessing who took the initiative in proposing the use of predictive coding in the Pyrrho case. He took part in a panel which I moderated at Relativity Fest in Chicago, and I took the … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Relativity, Relativity Fest
Tagged Ed Spencer, Taylor Wessing
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One more conference and I can get back to some work
You may have noticed an increase in the number of posts on here recently. That is not entirely to do with the frequency of things to write about (although a couple of UK cases this week were a bonus); it … Continue reading
Guidance Software webinar on 30 November – 3 Ways To Accelerate Remote Digital Investigations
Guidance Software is producing a webinar tomorrow, 30 November, with the title 3 Ways To Accelerate Remote Digital Investigations. It is based around the capabilities of Guidance Software’s EnCase Endpoint Investigator and deals with the issues which arise when the … Continue reading
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Nuix webinar on 1 December: the tipping point of new technology in discovery
New technology for collaboration, communication and productivity turns up at both ends of the discovery process – not just in the ever more sophisticated tools for managing discovery documents but in the proliferation of new tools, data sources and data … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Nuix
Tagged Angela Bunting, Craig Ball, Scott Cohen, Xavier Rodrigues
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Application for early specific disclosure was driven by hope of tactical advantage
For the second time in a week I am obliged to Gordon Exall of the Civil Litigation Brief for a link to a new disclosure case. The case is GEM Environmental Building Services Ltd v London Borough of Tower Hamlets & … Continue reading
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Interview: Karyn Harty of McCann FitzGerald on the differing tests for discovery completeness
Karyn Harty is the partner at McCann FitzGerald in Dublin who fought successfully for the use of predicting coding in Irish Bank Resolution v Quinn. She was one of the participants in a panel which I moderated at kCura’s Relativity … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Relativity
Tagged Karyn Harty, McCann Fitzgerald
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Eaglesham v The Ministry of Defence – defence struck out for disclosure failures
I am fortunate that both Gordon Exall, in his excellent Civil Litigation Brief, and Professor Dominic Regan (his training website is here), tip me off about cases which are either about disclosure or which (harder to spot) have a disclosure … Continue reading
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Interview: Benjamin Kennedy of NuLegal – Nuix and machine learning in the cloud
While I was at ILTA, Angela Bunting, VP eDiscovery at Nuix, introduced me to Benjamin Kennedy of Australian services provider NuLegal. NuLegal have made interesting use of Nuix entirely in the cloud and I asked Benjamin Kennedy to tell me … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Kennedy, NuLegal
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Interview: Dan Wyatt of RPC on cooperation in the Pyrrho predictive coding case
At Relativity Fest, I moderated a panel on predictive coding whose members included two of the lawyers on opposite sides in the Pyrrho litigation. The parties to Pyrrho had first debated whether or not to use predictive coding and, then, … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Predictive Coding, Relativity, Relativity Fest
Tagged Dan Wyatt, RPC
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Interview: Loren Harper of Simmons & Simmons on the firm’s use of Relativity
Loren Harper is Head of eDiscovery Solutions at Simmons & Simmons. Simmons was the first law firm outside the US to take Relativity in house and I was interested to hear from Loren Harper about how the firm was using … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Relativity
Tagged Loren Harper, Simmons & Simmons
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Beth Patterson of Allens talks about the applications, teams and pricing models which Allens is developing
Beth Patterson is Chief Legal & Technology Services Office at Allens. When I saw her at ILTA in Washington, Allens had just won the Janders Dean Lexis Nexis Innovation Award for its use of technology to support its lawyers and … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDiscovery, Legal IT, Legal Technology, Litigation Support
Tagged Allens, Beth Patterson
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eDiscovery conference in Dublin on 2 December
On 2 December I will be taking part in eDiscovery 2016, the largest annual gathering in Ireland of those whose work involves some aspect of eDiscovery. US Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte, always a welcome addition to eDiscovery conferences, will bring … Continue reading
Posted in Court Rules, CYFOR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Dan Wyatt, Ed Spencer, Karyn Harty
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Interview: Scott Cohen of Winston & Strawn and Angela Bunting of Nuix on the discovery difficulties of dealing with new data types
I wrote recently about a paper called Collaborating in the Cloud: eDiscovery Risks and Opportunities by Angela Bunting, VP eDiscovery at Nuix and Scott Cohen, Director of E-Discovery Support Services at Winston & Strawn. A while back, I interviewed the pair of them about some … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Bunting, Scott Cohen
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UK government confirms it will implement the GDPR
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation will take effect in May 2018. Some people seem to assume that the UK’s pending departure from the EU, known as Brexit, will mean that the UK need not comply with the terms of … Continue reading
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Interview with Simon Price of Recommind: the benefits of cloud adoption for eDiscovery
eDiscovery providers are increasingly putting clients’ data in the cloud. I went to see Simon Price, UK Managing Director of Recommind, an OpenText company, to ask him to summarise the benefits of cloud adoption for clients and their lawyers. Simon … Continue reading
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Xerox Business Services: Fighting regulators’ data with corporate data analytics
I wrote in June about Analytics Hub – Analytics-As-A-Service from Xerox Legal Business Services. This is a new service which, as Xerox’s Rachel Teisch put it, allows you to consolidate masses of data across legal cases and assess up to … Continue reading
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ILTA Insight in London on 17 November
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association whose role is to encourage the understanding and take-up of technology solutions in the business of running a law firm or a legal Department. ILTA does this by a mixture of written resources, … Continue reading
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INsig2 LawTech Europe Congress in Brussels on 7-8 November
I am looking forward to taking part once again in the INsig2 LawTech Europe Congress on 7-8 November 2016. This event, originally set up in Prague by the engaging Frederick Gyebi-Ababio, is taking place in Brussels for the second year … Continue reading
Panama Papers and Data Protection at the Nuix User Exchange
There are people, I know, who can bash out a 1,400 word report about an event in the cab on the way back to the airport, but I am not one of them. I have done four other events since … Continue reading
Posted in Data privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Nuix
Tagged Eddie Sheehy, Gerard Ryle, Stephen Stewart
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FRONTEO managed review roadshow in three US cities
FRONTEO (formerly known as UBIC, Inc.) is organising a series of client-facing events in US cities focusing on managed review and staffing. The speakers, who include customers, industry authorities, and FRONTEO experts, will talk about best practices in a range … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Fronteo, Managed Review
Tagged Richard Dilgren
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Interview: Judge Peck on the potential increase in the take-up of technology-assisted review
ILTA at the beginning of September gave me a good opportunity to interview US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck about the growing use of technology-assisted review in litigation. Judge Peck had recently given his opinion in the Hyles case to the … Continue reading
Photographs and their metadata help scuttle a shipping insurance claim
Gordon Exall, author of the authoritative Civil Litigation Brief, is always kind enough to draw my attention to judgments which involve any aspect of eDisclosure. Without his tip-off, I do not think that I would have followed up his recent … Continue reading
Angela Bunting of Nuix talks about eDiscovery risks and opportunities from collaborating in the cloud
Angela Bunting is VP, eDiscovery at Nuix. She has just written a paper for Nuix called Collaborating in the Cloud: eDiscovery risks and opportunities. I caught up with her at ILTA and asked about some of the subjects covered by … Continue reading
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Lawrie Hall of CYFOR talks about the benefits of online review systems
Lawrie Hall is Head of Case Management at CYFOR. In this video he discusses the benefits of using an online review platform for conducting eDisclosure exercises. He begins by asking “What if you did not have a review platform?”. It … Continue reading
Posted in CY4OR, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Lawrie Hall
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Coming in to land at my desk shortly
Tired after a series of long flights for short events, I recently suggested to my wife that I might not attend one of the big annual US eDiscovery events. “But they’ll all think you’re dead or retired”, she said. She … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, ILTA, KCura, Nuix
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Interview: David Horrigan of kCura on predictive coding, GDPR and other Relativity Fest attractions
I caught up with David Horrigan at ILTA. He is eDiscovery Counsel and Legal Content Director at kCura and gets involved in that capacity in planning for the legal practice sessions at Relativity Fest. This interview is about those sessions. … Continue reading
CGOC in London on 4 October: Understanding critical assets in a shifting global economy
CGOC is the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council, a forum of over 3000 legal, IT, records, and information management professionals from corporations and government agencies. Last year, I took part in its London meeting and am doing so again at … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, Cross-border eDiscovery, Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDiscovery
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AccessData webinar series: Privacy and security in the age of global investigations
AccessData is presenting a series of three webinars under the heading Privacy and security in the age of global investigations. Two of them are about EU requirements, the first on data security and data protection and the second on EU … Continue reading
Interview: Craig Earnshaw of FTI Consulting talks about FTI’s Find Facts Fast approach to eDiscovery
There is a danger of treating discovery as a purely formal process, something done simply in order to meet an obligation. As Craig Earnshaw of FTI Consulting puts it in this interview (video below), the identification of facts often appears … Continue reading
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Guidance Software product video: EnCase Endpoint Investigator Overview
The format of media presentations about software products has advanced just as the products themselves move forward from year to year. I am as interested in how companies portray their products as I am in what the products themselves actually … Continue reading
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