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- Ireland’s Legal Tech Conference 2022 on 29 November in Dublin
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- Wrapping up two UK disclosure cases which caught the public eye
- Farewell to Charles Christian, who brought legal technology to lawyers
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Author Archives: Chris Dale
eDisclosure expert Andrew Haslam joins Squire Patton Boggs in the UK
Squire Patton Boggs is a US-led firm with a worldwide presence, with offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and beyond. Its global legal practice is well supported by appropriate technology including knowledge management and project management tools. It has … Continue reading
Welcome for a law school eDisclosure course at the QMUL School of Law
The disclosure of documents has always been at the heart of litigation in common law countries. It is not just a procedural requirement with its own strict rules but the source of the evidence and facts on which cases turn. … Continue reading
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Sedona Conference programme on cross-border discovery and data protection in Hong Kong on 21 September
The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 is concerned with cross-border discovery and data protection laws. Its main annual event is usually held in the US or Europe (this year’s was in Berlin) but last year it took place in Hong … Continue reading
Consilio acquires EQD to extend geographic coverage and sector expertise
In recent months, global eDiscovery provider Consilio has acquired Huron Legal and Proven, acquisitions which brought Consilio new areas of activity as well as strengthening existing expertise and reach. Now Consilio has acquired eDiscovery services provider EQD, a Houston-based eDiscovery, … Continue reading
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Billable Hour 2016 – raising money for Save the Children’s work with refugees
The old cliché about a picture telling a thousand words took a very real form last summer with the photograph of a dead Syrian child face-down on a beach. The picture turned the vague concept of a “crisis” into something … Continue reading
Interview: Hal Marcus of Recommind on predictive coding after Pyrrho
Hal Marcus is Discovery Attorney and Director of Product Marketing at Recommind (now OpenText). I caught up with him in London in May, after the publication of the judgment in Pyrrho by which the English court approved the use of … Continue reading
ILTA 2016 – pooling proficiency in a plate-glass palace by the Potomac
If I lighted on the words “pooling proficiency” in my title mainly for their alliterative quality, they are actually quite a good description of what ILTA (the organisation as well as this big annual event) is for. I nearly didn’t go … Continue reading
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Reviewing the year so far: June – into Europe with Sedona and AccessData
This is my third consecutive post about the eDiscovery events which I have attended so far in 2016 (you can find the earlier ones here and here). The point, to reiterate, is not to suggest that my travels are of … Continue reading
Posted in AccessData, Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, EU, EU Safe Harbor, GDPR, Sedona Conference
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Why would you not use predictive coding in UK litigation? An eloquent argument from Alex Dunstan-Lee of Navigant
We have been filming videos and publishing them in parallel with conventional blog posts for a little over two years now. For some of them I participate as a questioner; for others we simply point a camera at someone with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Dunstan-Lee, Katie Jensen
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Reviewing the year so far: May: Relativity Roadshow and IICE in London and Enfuse in Las Vegas
This is the second in a short series summarising the events which I have attended so far in 2016. The first is here. The travelogue is just a peg for the real purpose of the series, which is to show … Continue reading
Two years since Browning Marean died
Craig Ball reminds us on Facebook that it is two years since Browning Marean died. Although the eDiscovery industry is a fairly friendly place, I suspect that most of us would be forgotten within a month of turning up our … Continue reading
Reviewing the year so far: February to April – New York, Hong Kong and London
August may seem a strange time to review the year, but it is quite a good standpoint for me before the eDiscovery events from February to May recede into a jumble of airports and slide sets, and as I pause … Continue reading
FRONTEO sponsors UK launch of ACEDS International Chapter in London on 29 September
ACEDS is the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists, a US-led organisation designed to encourage people to improve and certify their eDiscovery knowledge and skill, advance their careers, broaden their contacts, and increase overall competence in eDiscovery and related fields. ACEDS’ … Continue reading
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Luke Holden of CYFOR explains the importance of digital forensics in civil eDiscovery
Digital forensics, once used mainly by police and security forces, are increasingly used in civil discovery / disclosure. As Luke Holden of CYFOR explains in this video, there are two main reasons why it is important to collect data using … Continue reading
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The Sedona Conference publishes public comment version of TAR Case Law Primer
The Sedona Conference has published the public comment version of The Sedona Conference TAR Case Law Primer, a comprehensive review of court decisions addressing the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) and civil discovery. Although the primary focus is inevitably on … Continue reading
Inaugural meeting of the SCL in Singapore on 14 October
The inaugural meeting of the Society for Computers and Law in Singapore takes place on 14 October. Its title is Negotiation and litigation of technology contracts: some common challenges. The Chair was known to us as Mr Justice Ramsey of … Continue reading
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The UK ICO: the key themes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
It would be essential to take account of the views of the UK Information Commissioner’s Office however well or badly it expressed them. As it happens, this extremely good document by the ICO sets out the themes and implications of … Continue reading
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Nuix and Consilio seminar on 24 and 25 August: eDiscovery and information governance in Office 365
Nuix and Consilio join forces on 24 August in San Francisco and on 25 August in Cupertino to lead a half-day seminar on eDiscovery and information governance challenges for Office 365 data. Those who attend will come away with strategies, … Continue reading
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Jenny Le of FRONTEO talks about the management of predictive coding cases after Pyrrho
Jennie Le is SVP Global Operations at FRONTEO USA (formerly UBIC). She was in London shortly after the publication of the UK judgment in Pyrrho which gave court blessing to the parties’ agreement to use predictive coding. Since this interview, … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Fronteo, Predictive Coding, Technology Assisted Review, UBIC
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Interview: Andrew Shimek of Epiq on global eDiscovery and business intelligence
Andrew Shimek is Global Managing Director, eDiscovery Solutions, at Epiq. I interviewed him about the changing expectations of clients in relation to the global presence of those who work for them and their growing need to extract business intelligence from … Continue reading
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Dean Gonsowski of kCura talks about helping Relativity users find the functions they need
When I interviewed Dean Gonsowski, VP, Business Development at kCura I asked him about kCura’s educational initiatives. Dean Gonsowski said that there is a “consumption gap” between the available tools and what some users are actually doing. There are, for example, an … Continue reading
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ILTA Conference 2016 coming up
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. Its biggest event, ILTACON 2016, takes place at National Harbour, just outside Washington DC, from 28 August to 1 September. ILTA is one of the few events which I am happy to attend … Continue reading
Posted in Data Protection, ILTA, ILTA Insight, Litigation Support
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Technology-assisted review and cross-border discovery at Relativity Fest
There is, of course, much more happening at kCura’s Relativity Fest than technology-assisted review and cross-border discovery, the two things referred to in my heading. That’s just what I am participating in – there are more than 85 sessions in all … Continue reading
Panama Papers and cross-border data flows at the Nuix User Exchange
Everyone has their own reasons for going to the Nuix User Exchange – there is something for everyone on the Agenda, whether they are engaged in eDiscovery, law enforcement, forensics or security and whether as corporate client, lawyer, hands-on user, … Continue reading
Judge Peck declines to order a party to use TAR. What would an English judge have done?
US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck has just declined to order an unwilling party to use technology-assisted review in a case called Hyles v New York City. I think that an English court would have made the order in analogous circumstances. I … Continue reading
Epiq to be acquired and to be combined with DTI to make a big global player
We are unlikely to see bigger eDiscovery market news in 2016. Epiq Systems has reached agreement to be acquired by OMERS Private Equity and Harvest Partners, LP in a transaction valued at approximately $1 billion. The acquirers are majority shareholders … Continue reading
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Interview: Michael Jeffrey Glick of FRONTEO talks about the use of managed services in eDiscovery
Michael Jeffrey Glick is Senior Vice President – Managed Services at FRONTEO USA, formerly UBIC North America. I interviewed him when he was in London recently and asked him what is meant by the term “managed services”. A very wide … Continue reading
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A disputed predictive coding case from the UK – BCA Trading
We were a long time waiting for the publication of the judgment in Brown v BCA Trading and others, the first occasion, publicly at least, where the use of predictive coding was ordered by the court in the face of … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, OpenText, Recommind
Tagged Adam Kuhn
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QuisLex opens large-scale review centre in New York
QuisLex is a legal services provider offering managed document review, contract and compliance management, legal spend management, and legal operations consulting services. Its largest operations centre is in Hyderabad where its core operational teams include a quality management team, a … Continue reading
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AccessData webinar on 3 August: Law firm best practices for simplifying eDiscovery
On Wednesday 3 August at 2.00pm ET, AccessData joins forces with Oklahoma law firm Crowe & Dunlevy to present a webinar called Law firm best practices for simplifying eDiscovery. Crowe & Dunlevy has recently implemented AccessData’s eDiscovery product Summation to … Continue reading
Recommind is now OpenText
An article by Mark Barrenechea, CEO and CTO of OpenText, with the heading OpenText Expands eDiscovery, Content Analytics, and Cloud with Recommind Acquisition marks the completion of OpenText’s acquisition of Recommind. OpenText is already a leading provider of Enterprise Information Management … Continue reading
Karyn Harty of McCann FitzGerald: eDiscovery in Ireland and the Irish Bank Resolution case
Karyn Harty is the Partner at McCann FitzGerald in Dublin who won the predictive coding argument in Irish Bank Resolution v Quinn. I interviewed her recently about that case and about the wider subject of eDiscovery in Ireland. Taking the … Continue reading
Q&A: Reasons for using Viewpoint from Xerox Legal Business Services
LDM Global’s Joey Friedmann discusses how Xerox’s Viewpoint eDisclosure platform helps clients achieve greater efficiencies in eDisclosure projects. Viewpoint is an eDiscovery platform of Xerox Legal Business Services. It is available as a hosted platform or used behind the client’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Joey Friedmann, Rachel Teisch
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The Microsoft Warrant appeal decision and US exceptionalism in a changing world
A kind person sent me the appeal decision in Microsoft v United States before the metaphorical ink was dry. Usually I could drop everything and deal with it, but its arrival coincided with one of those rare blog posts which … Continue reading
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Epiq talk on 15 July to Hong Kong Academy of Law about handling digital data
I have only just seen this the notice about a talk to be given tomorrow, 15 July, to the Hong Kong Academy of Law by Epiq about handling digital data with secure and forensically sound practices. The Hong Kong Academy … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq, Forensic data collections
Tagged Jay Chong, Sebastian Ko
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Disclosing native files by default – proportionate common sense in any jurisdiction
From time to time, I mock the curious assertion that “US discovery is two years ahead of the UK and the rest of the world”. I did it most recently in my article about Legaltech Hong Kong where I referred … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Nuix
Tagged Eddie Sheehy, Tom O'Connor
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Consilio paper: How technology can support data protection compliance
Today, the European Commission launched the EU–US Privacy Shield with the headline “Stronger protection for transatlantic data flows”. The European Commission press release is here and the reciprocal Remarks by the US Secretary of Commerce are here. This seems a … Continue reading
Posted in Consilio, Cross-border eDiscovery, Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDiscovery, EU Safe Harbor
Tagged Michael Becker
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The UK summer of 2016 explained for foreigners…oh, hold on, there’s news coming in..
I started this morning to write something about the UK for the benefit of those outside it who might be a bit confused with the multiple strands of chaos and confusion running in the few days since the Brexit referendum. … Continue reading
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Fronteo and Nuix partnership brings Nuix processing power to Fronteo products
I wrote recently about UBIC’s rebranding as Fronteo. Fronteo has got off to a good start with a strategic discovery partnership with Nuix. The agreement allows Fronteo to bring the speed and processing power of Nuix to the ever-growing volumes … Continue reading
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FTI webinar on 12 July: Smarter investigations in the App Age
As individuals, we all use our phones and tablets to create ever greater volumes of data in an ever widening range of formats. Every app brings new opportunities to create and store data and to communicate with others, and it … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, FTI Technology, Mobile discovery
Tagged JR Jenkins
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eDiscovery Business Confidence survey: onward and upward?
I wrote this article before setting off on my recent trip to Amsterdam and Frankfurt. By the time I returned, the UK had voted to leave the EU – something which, like most people, I had not expected. I have … Continue reading
Interview: Ed Spencer of Taylor Wessing on Pyrrho and predictive coding
In this video interview, I talk with Edward Spencer, the associate at Taylor Wessing who had the conduct of the eDiscovery application in Pyrrho Investments v MWB Property which resulted in the UK’s first court approval for the ue of … Continue reading
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Karyn Harty talks about McCann FitzGerald’s Data Investigations Group
Karyn Harty is a partner at Dublin law firm McCann FitzGerald. It was Karyn who ran the arguments for the use of predictive coding which were successful in the Irish Bank Resolution v Quinn case and I interviewed her about … Continue reading
eBook from AccessData to help CIOs and CISOs plan to meet changing demands
AccessData has published a guide to help corporate information technology executives with the strategic technology planning needed for legal, compliance, human resources and investigative teams across the organisation. The eBook is called CIO and CISO Guide to Digital Discovery Technology … Continue reading
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Update on Xerox business names after separation into two companies
In January 2016, Xerox announced that it planned to separate into two independent public companies by the end of 2016. Xerox has now announced that the new Business Processing Outsourcing (BPO) company will be called Conduent, Inc. while the Document … Continue reading
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FTI recorded webinar: predictive coding – the future of document review
FTI Consulting recently broadcast a webinar in conjunction with The Lawyer with the title Predictive coding – the future of document review? Its focus was the use of predictive coding technology in the UK, spurred by the judicial approval given … Continue reading
404 error on my Rebelmouse links
The links which appear below the logos on this blog are derived from my Rebelmouse page at https://www.rebelmouse.com/chrisdaleoxford/edi_covery/. Rebelmouse is quite good as a running note of sites of interest, though just a little too fiddly for me to keep it … Continue reading
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Relativity Fest 2016 early bird registration includes the cost of a Relativity exam
The early bird registration rate of $950 for Relativity Fest remains open until 30 June. That price includes the cost of one Relativity exam as well as access to the many technical, legal and practical sessions. On top of that, there … Continue reading
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Consilio Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series – closes 15 July
Consilio and The General Counsel Forum have launched the 2016 Law Department Benchmarking Performance Series with their Survey No 1: Foundational Metrics. The aim is to and gain insight into metrics and trends driving law department operations with metrics such … Continue reading
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eDiscovery opportunities in the Brexit difficulty
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”. Winston Churchill I spent last week doing a mini-tour of European cities, organised (and excellently) by AccessData. The theme was the collision between data … Continue reading
Sebastian Ko of Epiq in Hong Kong talks about conducting eDiscovery in the Asia Pacific region
Sebastian Ko is Director, Document Review Services, for Epiq, based in Hong Kong. I had the opportunity to interview him when I was in Hong Kong earlier this year and I asked him about how Epiq handles the issues which … Continue reading
Posted in China, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq, Hong Kong, Singapore
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Interview with Eddie Sheehy as he celebrates 10 years as CEO at Nuix
Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, has been with the company for ten years. To mark the occasion, the Nuix marketing department asked him ten questions about his time with a company which has seen remarkable growth in a very short … Continue reading
Relativity webinar on 20 June: Mid-year briefing: 2016 data discovery case law
kCura is presenting a webinar on 20 June at 1:00pm ET whose purpose is to review data discovery case law at the half year point. Judicial decisions continue to shape the practice of law. 2015 brought the US yet further … Continue reading
Posted in Court Rules, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Relativity
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From Himmler to Theresa May to Trump to Microsoft + LinkedIn: why we need data protection
The condemnation in Godwin’s Law, the “Reductio ad Hitlerum”, does not apply to an article which legitimately begins with a record of Nazi atrocities in Berlin. The implied comparison between Heinrich Himmler and Chris Grayling is justified by their parallel … Continue reading
Epiq takes Relativity to China
Epiq has enhanced its status as a global provider of legal technology solutions and services by making kCura’s Relativity available in the People’s Republic of China. Epiq is a Relativity Orange Level, Best in Service hosting partner and has data … Continue reading
Analytics Hub: Analytics-as-a-Service from Xerox Legal Business Services
Analytics Hub is a new service from Xerox Legal Business Services. Most people engaged in large eDiscovery exercises are used to calling on analytical tools built into their eDiscovery applications to help them extract useful information from large volumes of … Continue reading
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Browning Marean scholarships to attend ILTA in Washington – closing date 19 June
ILTA, the International Legal Technology Association, is sponsoring two scholarships for this year’s ILTA Conference in Washington DC between 28 August and 1 September. The scholarships are in honour of Browning Marean of DLA Piper US. One scholarship is to … Continue reading
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AccessData European tour: When data transfer collides with data privacy
I am just back from the Sedona Conference Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection in Berlin, on which I will write shortly. I won’t put my suitcase away just yet, however, nor my notes from Berlin, because next week … Continue reading
Posted in AccessData, Data privacy, Data Protection, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure
Tagged Judge Peck
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UBIC, Inc. and related subsidiaries to change corporate name to Fronteo
UBIC, which specialises in international litigation support and big data analysis, has announced that it is to change its corporate name and the corporate names of various subsidiaries to Fronteo, subject to shareholder approval. The name change serves two purposes: … Continue reading
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QuisLex gains awards and nominations for its legal services delivery
QuisLex provides outsourced legal services across a range of activities, not least the eDiscovery aspects of litigation and investigations. There is very much more to this than simply sitting teams of people down at computers to tick boxes. You get … Continue reading
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No surprises on either side as OpenText acquires Recommind
If I say that OpenText’s acquisition of Recommind, announced yesterday, is unsurprising, that does not make it uninteresting or unimportant. There have been rumours of an acquisition by the one and of the other for some time, although the names … Continue reading
The Sedona Conference: Practical in-house approaches for cross-border discovery and data protection
The Sedona Conference has published Practical in-house approaches to cross-border discovery and data protection after several months of public comment on an earlier version. This is a disorientating area to practice in, particularly at the moment: We now have a … Continue reading
David Wallack of NightOwl Discovery talks about portfolio management and harmonising discovery practices
In this interview I asked David Wallack, General Counsel and Director at NightOwl Discovery, what trends he saw and foresaw among NightOwl’s corporate clients. Many clients, David Wallack says, are re-evaluating both their own software purchases and the manner in … Continue reading
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Dean Gonsowski of kCura talks about the increasing role of clients in the management of eDiscovery
I have known Dean Gonsowski seemingly for ever as he combines business development with user and market education. He is now VP, Business Development at kCura, and I interviewed him at LegalTech New York about his role, and about changing … Continue reading
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Interview: Jenny Le of UBIC on how to engage with senior executives on cyber security risks
Jenny Le is Vice President, Discovery Services, at UBIC. That role extends beyond pure discovery matters and into other aspects of managing corporate data, including cyber security risk. In the interview below, I asked Jenny Le how one explains to senior … Continue reading
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Full marks for Peter Hibbert’s Electronic Evidence and eDisclosure Handbook
Peter Hibbert’s new book, the Electronic Evidence and eDisclosure Handbook, published by Sweet Maxwell, was waiting for me when I came back from one of my foreign trips. It has gazed reproachfully at me from my bookshelf ever since, as … Continue reading
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Nuix living up to its promises at the Insider Conference in London
I was diverted from writing about the Nuix Insider Conference, held in London on 23 March, by the news of the Panama Papers which broke shortly afterwards. That was too topical to miss, and Nuix played a major part in … Continue reading
An accolade for FTI Ringtail data visualisation tools as lawyers ponder reading every document
I published an article earlier today called Read the documents and then decide their relevance. What – all of them? about a UK lawyer who had commented on an article about predictive coding, saying: As lawyers we like to see the documents, … Continue reading
Read the documents and then decide their relevance. What – all of them?
An article in the Law Society Gazette is headed High Court backs predictive coding in first contested case. It is a report on the judgment which I mentioned briefly last week in which clients of BLP won the right to use predictive coding … Continue reading
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Now we have a contested predictive coding application succeeding in the UK
Yesterday morning, I moderated a panel at the IICE Summit on the subject of Pyrrho and predictive coding. Even as we were talking, the court was delivering a judgment in another case in favour of a party seeking to use … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Predictive Coding, Recommind
Tagged Chris Dale, Ed Spencer, Hal Marcus, Judge Waxse, Vince Neicho
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Adi Elliott of Epiq talks about using the DMX eDiscovery Dashboards to gain business intelligence
Adi Elliott is Vice President, Market Planning, Discovery, for Epiq. I caught up with him in Hong Kong shortly after Epiq’s announcement of enhancements to the DMX eDiscovery Dashboards, and I asked him about them. The video interview is below. … Continue reading
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Guidance Software Data Risk and Privacy Survey results
Guidance Software undertakes a survey each year on some aspect of data management or data risk. This year, and unsurprisingly, the survey is about data risk and privacy, with the subtitle How concerned are organisations with data risk? The survey results, … Continue reading
Discussing online courts as we fight about the cost of paper bundles. An institutional shambles
Two recent documents will be of interest to those who are concerned (in the widest sense of the word) with the development of online courts in England and Wales. If you wonder why this is of relevance to my generally ediscovery-focused … Continue reading
Some eDiscovery industry appointments at kCura, Consilio and Xerox
The worldwide eDiscovery industry has few major corporate players and, relative to the size of the market it serves, a small pool of individuals at its top. I do not aspire to keep up to date with all the promotions … Continue reading
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FTI webcast on 25 May: what does the future hold for predictive coding?
I wrote recently about a webcast taking place on 25 May produced by FTI in conjunction with The Lawyer. We now have the details of the webcast which you can find here. Its title is What does the future hold … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, FTI Technology
Tagged Jonathan Fowler
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Nuix webinar on 31 May: EU General Data Protection Regulation – Need to Knows
On 31 May, Nuix is presenting a webinar called EU General Data Protection Regulation – Need to Knows. The subject, and the panel, is a re-run of a session at the very successful Nuix Insider Conference in London on 23 … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber security, Data privacy, Data Protection, Data Security, Discovery, eDiscovery, GDPR
Tagged Julie Colgan, Paul Slater
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Epiq webinar on 18 May: Understanding why REAL managed services and eDiscovery makes a REAL difference
Daniel Gold of Epiq is presenting a webinar on 18 May called Understanding why REAL managed services and eDiscovery makes a REAL difference. The capitalisation of the word REAL implies that some levels of service are less comprehensive than others. … Continue reading
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FTI publishes Forrester data privacy heat map
We are, perhaps, gradually winning the battle to persuade US lawyers, courts and regulators that the privacy and data protection requirements of other jurisdictions are not to be lightly ignored. When I first started talking about privacy in the US, … Continue reading
The claimant who relied on photographs taken before the accident
I bang on a fair bit about the potentially discoverable evidence which we all create and carry around with us. It lies in diary entries, in our use of Google Maps, as social media posts, and in a wide range … Continue reading
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Navigant cyber crime expert warns law firms about cyber risk
An out-of-town meeting meant that I missed the cyber security seminar given by Navigant in London on 10 May. The speaker, as I wrote here, was Bob Anderson who heads Navigant’s growing Global Information Security Practice. Legal IT Insider carries … Continue reading
Pyrrho, GDPR, banking compliance and US-UK differences at the Relativity Spring Roadshow
I have written about the Relativity Spring Roadshow and linked to the products announced at it. I turn now to the four sessions which preceded CEO Andrew Sieja’s keynote. I will not try and summarise each of the panels, not … Continue reading
ZyLAB webinar with ACEDS today: optimising your public disclosure and FOIA response process
ZyLAB is presenting a webinar today at 1:00pm EST in conjunction with ACEDS with the title Practical online workshop: optimising your public disclosure and FOIA response process. The emphasis in the webinar is on practical suggestions as to how cities, … Continue reading
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Panel sessions supplement the product announcements at the Relativity Spring Roadshow in London
We marvelled last year that kCura assembled an audience of 490 for its London Spring Roadshow. This year, more than 600 people assembled for what is kCura’s biggest event apart from Relativity Fest. Part of that increase reflects growing take-up … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Sieja, David Horrigan
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Information management, investigations, compliance and eDiscovery in London on 18 to 19 May
The conference brand previously known as Information Governance and eDiscovery or, more colloquially, just “IQPC”, is this year called IICE – Information Management. Investigations. Compliance. EDiscovery. It takes place in London on 18 and 19 May and, as its predecessors … Continue reading
Posted in Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Epiq Systems, KCura, Recommind, Relativity, UBIC
Tagged Adi Elliott, Andrew Shimek, Ed Spencer, Hal Marcus, Judge Waxse, Nigel Murray, Vince Neicho
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Katie Jensen of Navigant talks about how to encourage UK lawyers to use predictive coding
Katie Jensen is Director, Legal Technology Solutions at Navigant. She is from the US, and therefore brings a perspective to the use of technology by UK lawyers which is slightly different from those used to our ways. I interviewed her … Continue reading
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Consilio: 11.5 million reasons for law firms to take data security seriously
Even before its acquisition of Huron Legal, Consilio was extending its range from international eDiscovery services into consultancy and pre-emptive advice to organisations about the management and control of information. Huron Legal’s range of services included a strong specialisation in … Continue reading
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Interview: Jim Vint of Navigant talks about the Navigant Reference Model
Jim Vint is a Managing Director in Navigant’s Global Legal Technology Solutions team which offers global eDiscovery and data analytics services to enable effective digital risk management. Navigant has launched what it calls the Navigant Reference Model, and I asked Jim … Continue reading
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Conversations on privacy and Pyrrho at the Relativity Spring Roadshow
kCura’s Relativity Spring Roadshow takes place on Tuesday 3 May at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel London. I have already written about it, but thought it worth observing that the Industry Sessions programme is now published in its full form and … Continue reading
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Tagged Dan Wyatt, David Horrigan, Ed Spencer, Gayle McFarlane, Jonathan Maas
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Daniel Pelc of NightOwl Discovery talks about mobile technology discovery
Daniel Pelc is Senior Consultant, eDiscovery Management, at NightOwl Discovery. His responsibilities include helping NightOwl’s clients with the management of mobile devices and data in anticipation of, or in reaction to, discovery demands for it. In this video interview, Daniel … Continue reading
FTI webinar on 25 May: How predictive coding is changing the legal landscape
FTI Consulting is producing a webinar on 25 May in conjunction with The Lawyer on the changes we can expect from the use of predictive coding in litigation, investigations and related areas of compliance, and the resolution (and avoidance) of … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Fowler
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Recommind video: predictive coding and life after Pyrrho
Earlier this year, Recommind organised a panel session in the Crypt of St Paul’s to discuss the predictive coding judgment in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd & Ors. I was one of the participants, and I wrote at … Continue reading
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EU in-depth analysis: the data protection regime in China
The European Parliament’s Directorate-General for Internal Policies, Policy Department C: Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs has produced an In-depth analysis of the data protection regime in China. Those who consider that the present privacy regime in the EU is complex … Continue reading
ZyLAB introduces eDiscovery as a service
As I noted in a recent article, ZyLAB has been producing search software, and applying it to eDiscovery requirements, for many years. Most ZyLAB users own and manage their software in-house. ZyLAB now, however, delivers its eDiscovery solutions in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Johannes Scholtes
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