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Consilio webinar with Exterro on 27 April: working with IT and Legal effectively
Consilio is producing a webinar in conjunction with Exterro for broadcast on 27 April with the title Working with IT / Legal effectively. It covers a long-standing issue within many organisations – communication between IT and legal departments. Legal and … Continue reading
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Customers, products and people: Keith James, CEO of AccessData, talks about changes at the company
From the outside, we are seeing a lot of changes at AccessData. We are seeing developments in product, we are seeing new initiatives with clients, we are seeing new people. I asked CEO Keith James to give me an overview … Continue reading
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Epiq commentary on the effect of the UK Pyrrho predictive coding case in Hong Kong
The Law Society of Hong Kong has revamped its website, Hong Kong Lawyer, and to good effect. UK lawyers will find it all very familiar, with (as I write) recent articles about Calderbank offers and other things inherited or substantially copied … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Yuen, Sebastian Ko
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Relativity Spring Roadshow in London on 3 May
Last year’s London Relativity Spring Roadshow was probably the largest single gathering of eDiscovery providers and users seen in the UK. This year’s Roadshow, taking place on 3 May at the Grange St Paul’s Hotel, will probably be even larger. Along … Continue reading
Posted in Consilio, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, KCura, Relativity
Tagged David Horrigan, Gayle McFarlane, Jonathan Maas, Sean Pike
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Nuix webinar on 21 April: Insider threats – protecting data during eDiscovery
Nuix has a webinar on 21 April called Insider threats – protecting data during eDiscovery. I interviewed Michael Chance of Nuix on this subject in February. The webinar details are here, with the video interview below. All businesses are vulnerable to the risk of … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Bunting, Michael Chance
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Interview: Nick Robertson of kCura talks about Relativity as a platform and about the Relativity Academic Program
Nick Robertson is VP of Product Marketing at kCura. I saw him at Legaltech, and took the opportunity to ask him about two subjects which are important to kCura – the concept of Relativity as a platform, and kCura’s Academic … Continue reading
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In London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt in June with AccessData and Judge Peck
AccessData has organised a short speaking tour in June when US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck and I will speak in London, Amsterdam and Frankfurt over the week beginning 20 June. In each city, we will be joined by a panel … Continue reading
Xerox Legal Business Services brings data analytics to litigation and compliance
It is perhaps unsurprising to find Xerox Legal Business Services enhancing the data analytics capabilities of its Viewpoint eDiscovery platform. Xerox has been a leader in data analytics of all kinds for many years, with hundreds of data scientists at … Continue reading
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Interview: Shamir Colloff of UBIC on business intelligence in eDiscovery
Shamir Colloff is Chief Technology Officer at Evolve Discovery, a UBIC company. In this interview, I asked him what UBIC means when it refers to “business intelligence” in the context of eDiscovery projects. Shamir Colloff explained that UBIC enables users … Continue reading
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FTI webinar on 20 April: Finding “quick wins” in information governance
FTI Consulting is presenting a webinar on Wednesday 20 April called Advice from Counsel: finding quick wins in information governance. Presenters will include Jake Frazier, head of FTI’s Information Governance and Compliance Practice and Ari Kaplan of Ari Kaplan Advisors. … Continue reading
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Navigant seminar in London on 10 May: Is your cyber security under threat?
If cyber threat was not already on corporate agendas, the Panama Papers debacle will help put it there. Navigant is running a seminar on in London on 10 May at 6pm called Is your cyber security under threat? The speaker … Continue reading
Consilio survey: inadvertent disclosure of sensitive data of cloud-based applications
Consilio has long been known as a global expert in eDiscovery and document review services. Increasingly, and not least since its acquisition of Huron Legal last year, it is extending its reach into the wider field of law firm and … Continue reading
Nuix provides the power behind the humans investigating the Panama Papers leaks
The Panama Papers story gives us a very big and high-profile example of how the processing and analytical power of software like Nuix can uncover facts and links which would it otherwise take large teams of humans years to find, if … Continue reading
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What makes for a good eDiscovery conference from a speaker’s point of view?
For the avoidance of doubt, the last few events which I have done have been models of efficient planning, with the bare minimum of input needed to achieve the result and venue arrangements which could not be faulted. kCura has been inviting … Continue reading
Interview: Erika Namnath of H5 talks about the advantages of using Nuix for fast and accurate search
Erika Namnath is Associate Director, eDiscovery Technical Services, at H5. Nuix invited me to interview her at Legaltech about the contribution which Nuix makes to H5’s long-standing reputation in eDiscovery search. Erika Namnath said that the special feature of H5’s … Continue reading
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Navigant expands its Global Legal Technology Solutions offering to Asia
As I have noted elsewhere, Navigant has grouped a comprehensive range of functions relating to information management into its Global Legal Technology Solutions practice to address the data management challenges of its worldwide clients. Increasingly (and rightly) large corporations are … Continue reading
Posted in Cross-border eDiscovery, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, Hong Kong, Navigant
Tagged Tanya Gross
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ZyLAB: delivering eDiscovery technologies since before eDiscovery was invented
When I wrote about the UK Pyrrho predictive coding judgment on 23 February, I referred to the first information retrieval application I ever used, saying this: If the Master did indeed see “primitive versions of this kind of process” in … Continue reading
Sedona Conference Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection in Berlin 7 to 8 June
The 8th Annual Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border Discovery and Data Protection Laws will take place in Berlin on 7 to 8 June 2016. Applications are now being accepted for attendance at this event which has even more relevance … Continue reading
Relativity webinar on 4 April: The law of mobile, social and emerging technologies
kCura, developers of the Relativity eDiscovery software, are presenting a webinar on 4 April with the title The law of mobile, social and emerging technologies. The relevant law which is discussed will be primarily that of the United States, but … Continue reading
Interview: Hal Marcus of Recommind talks about Axcelerate Cloud
Shortly before LegalTech 2016, Recommind announced Axcelerate Cloud, the latest version of its subscription-based SaaS eDiscovery product using its Axcelerate platform. The press release describes the benefits to clients of this including security, visibility, scalability and predictability. I took the … Continue reading
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Interview: Margaret Shaw Lilani of UBIC on the challenges of Asian document review
Margaret Shaw Lilani is Senior Vice President, Global Review Services, at UBIC. I interviewed her in New York and asked her about the particular issues which arise when undertaking document review in Asia-Pacific countries. The primary issue, she says, is … Continue reading
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Getting ready for Guidance Software’s Enfuse conference in Las Vegas
Guidance Software’s Enfuse conference (formerly CEIC) takes place in Las Vegas from 23 to 26 May. Apart from a few diehard forensics types, I must be one of the longest-standing speakers at this event, watching it grow over the years … Continue reading
The case of the missing week
Looking at this week’s output, you wouldn’t know I spent almost the whole of last weekend drafting stuff for publication. The biggest of the resulting articles (because it has a long-term purpose) was my account of Recommind’s panel session Predictive … Continue reading
Recommind panel session: predictive coding and life after Pyrrho
The judgment in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd & Ors was delivered on 16 February, and Recommind was quick off the mark to get a discussion panel organised for 15 March. The crypt of St Paul’s was packed … Continue reading
The Masters Conference comes to London on 5 April
The Masters Conference has long been a source of timely and relevant information for those interested in any aspect of eDiscovery / eDisclosure. It takes place in various locations, mainly in the US, and on 5 April it comes to … Continue reading
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Interview: Adam Rubinger of NightOwl Discovery talks about discovery management
Adam Rubinger is Head of eDiscovery Management at NightOwl Discovery. In this interview, I asked him to explain what NightOwl means by “eDiscovery management” and what it means for the client. Until recently, Adam Rubinger says, clients’ management of eDiscovery was … Continue reading
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Cicayda integrates its eDiscovery software Reprise with Citrix ShareFile
Cicayda’s Reprise is a cloud-based discovery review software platform which offers fast and powerful eDiscovery review, including text analytics, to law firms and their clients. Cicayda has announced that it is integrating Reprise with file-sharing and sync service Citrix ShareFile. … Continue reading
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kCura buys Content Analyst to enhance Relativity Analytics
kCura’s has acquired Content Analyst, developers of the CAAT® analytics engine which kCura has long used to drive the analytics in Relativity. If this tells us something about kCura’s ambitions, it also emphasises the growing importance of analytics in eDiscovery. kCura’s own … Continue reading
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Legaltech interviews by Doug Austin
If there is anything better than conducting interviews oneself, it is the opportunity to pass on first-rate interviews conducted by somebody else. Doug Austin, Professional Services Manager for CloudNine Discovery and the editor of eDiscovery Daily, made use of LegalTech … Continue reading
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Xerox Legal Services interview me about the UK Pyrrho predictive coding judgment
Unsurprisingly, there has been a great deal of interest in the judgment in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd & Ors, an interest which is not limited to England and Wales. Xerox Legal Services are, of course, as concerned with … Continue reading
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Tagged Rachel Teisch
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Interview: Katie Fitzgerald of Lighthouse in the UK on using Nuix for case strategy and information governance
In my recent interview with him, Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, stressed the mission of Nuix to help tell stories from data. Nuix, Eddie said, brings two principal elements to investigations, whether for litigation or anything else: fast processing is … Continue reading
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Navigant boosts its Information Security practice with FBI hire
Navigant has appointed Bob Anderson as a Managing Director leading its Information Security sub-practice. Information Security is now part of Navigant’s global Legal Technology Solution which embraces a very broad range of disputes, forensics, investigations, compliance and legal technology solutions. … Continue reading
Recommind breakfast seminar in London on 15 March: Predictive Coding and life after Pyrrho
Master Matthews’ predictive coding judgment in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd & Ors has, quite rightly, caused enormous interest, and not just in the UK. I wrote about it here. While the judgment is an important encouragement for litigation … Continue reading
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Huron Legal + Consilio publish Law Department Benchmarking Report
Among the good things which Consilio took on when it acquired Huron Legal was the annual Law Department Benchmarking Report which is now in its sixth year. Data was taken from 119 companies about how they run their internal operations, … Continue reading
Interview: Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, on using data to tell stories
I caught up with Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, at Legaltech and asked him what was going to be important for Nuix and its clients in 2016. Nuix began as a forensics company and moved from there into eDiscovery. Both … Continue reading
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QuisLex awarded US patent for quality management processes in document review
QuisLex is a legal services provider which deals with complex document review, contract management and compliance projects for corporations and law firms. Its eDiscovery projects cover litigation, investigations both internal and for regulatory purposes, and compliance. QuisLex employs more than … Continue reading
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Jonathan Marshall of Navigant talks about cross-border discovery after the end of Safe Harbour
Last year, I interviewed Navigant Managing Director Jonathan Marshall about how Navigant dealt with the problems encountered when dealing with cross-border discovery on behalf of clients. The Schrems decision and the invalidation of Safe Harbour, the pending Data Protection Regulation, … Continue reading
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Reacting to the reactions to the Pyrrho predictive coding judgment
My reaction to the judgment in Pyrrho? About bloody time too. There, that’s that done. Oh. You want more than that. Um.. Because, as you know, I spent my whole life looking at Twitter, I saw Taylor Wessing’s story about … Continue reading
Planning ahead for Legaltech – next year
You won’t find here a list of all the software demos I saw at LegalTech, or accounts of all the sessions I went to (though I mention my own), or deep discussion of trends. I have done a bit of that in … Continue reading
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Judicial approval for the use of predictive coding in UK eDisclosure
A press release from Taylor Wessing reports that Master Matthews has given judicial approval for the use of predictive coding for disclosure in the English High Court. The press release reports that the parties had agreed the use of predictive … Continue reading
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FTI Technology White Paper: Metrics that Matter in eDiscovery
How much do lawyers need to understand about metrics and statistics in order to conduct a proper search? This is a question which is fundamental to the take-up of modern technology, and one which is hard to address. I saw … Continue reading
CYFOR signs up for military obstacle run to raise funds for children’s hospice
A team from CYFOR’s Manchester office has signed up to participate in the Royal British Legion Major North series to raise money for Derian House Children’s Hospice. The event takes place on Sunday 20 March and apparently involves 10km of … Continue reading
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Angela Bunting of Nuix on the benefits of being on top of the data
Angela Bunting is Director of eDiscovery Products and Solutions at Nuix. When I interviewed her last September, she had just written a paper called Putting perspective back into eDiscovery whose theme was the benefit of getting on top of the … Continue reading
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AccessData webinar series: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the FRCP Amendments
AccessData is running an eDiscovery webinar series in conjunction with Adam Smith, Esq., with the title The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the FRCP Amendments. There are three parts to the webinar, to be broadcast on 23 February, … Continue reading
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Interview: Bruce Markowitz of Evolver at Relativity Fest
Bruce Markowitz is the VP for Legal Services at Evolver. Evolver is a Relativity Premium Hosting Partner, and I had the opportunity to talk to Bruce Markowitz at Relativity Fest. I asked him first why he goes to Relativity Fest; … Continue reading
ZyLAB and ACEDS webinar on 10 March: Optimising your FOIA request process from start to finish
Corporate decisions about introducing eDiscovery software tend to focus on the big events such as major litigation, regulatory investigations and internal investigations. Like every other investment proposal, eDiscovery specification involves an analysis of cost and benefit, including an attempt to … Continue reading
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Nuix Insider Conference in London on 23 March
The Nuix Insider Conference will take place in London on 23 March. It is an educational event, aimed at anyone from advanced existing users to those who are new to Nuix. Some of the sessions are technical ones to do … Continue reading
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The intangible benefits of going to Legaltech
“What have you seen that’s new here at Legaltech?” is a stock phrase used to open conversations when you have nothing else to say. It is a formality, no more meaningful than that other stock Legaltech conversation about the weather, … Continue reading
Another year, another LegalTech
My New Year resolution, in business terms, was to take on things only if a) they had a business benefit for me or b) they benefited one or more of my sponsors and/or c) were interesting. I would cut down … Continue reading
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Interview: David Horrigan, Legal Content Director at kCura
At the tail end of last summer, I had the opportunity to talk to David Horrigan, General Counsel and Legal Content Director at kCura. I asked him first what his plans were for education in his new role. David Horrigan … Continue reading
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Bob Tennant of Recommind: it’s about finding the documents that matter
It is of course a good thing that the eDiscovery software market offers competing solutions to clients. Competition means choice; it also means that software providers must strive to keep invention up and costs down. It is equally true that … Continue reading
Eddie Sheehy of Nuix talks about the need for speed and context in investigations
Speed is important in eDiscovery whether that is for litigation or for investigations. This is partly because time is money, and anything which reduces time reduces also the cost of the investigation, but there are other reasons why the advantage … Continue reading
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Interview: US Magistrate Judge Peck on cross-border discovery after Schrems
Shortly after the Schrems judgment was published, I moderated a panel on cross-border discovery at Lawtech Europe Congress in Brussels. One of the panellists was US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck, and I took the opportunity to interview him about one … Continue reading
Tom Palladino of NightOwl Discovery talks about the advantages of working directly for corporations
NightOwl Discovery, based in Minneapolis, has been providing discovery services for corporations and law firms for many years. I had the opportunity to interview its president, Tom Palladino, while at EDI in New Orleans and I asked him about to … Continue reading
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Information Governance webinars from Nuix
Nuix has bundled together a set of video webinars designed to demystify information governance and, as Nuix puts it, to “move the discourse on IG from theory to action”. The webinar titles are self-explanatory: The real story of what information … Continue reading
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Forthcoming webinars on the rules and practice directions and on identification and retrieval of documents
I am about to record two video webinars with MBL Seminars covering different aspects of eDisclosure in England and Wales. One, to be broadcast on 25 February, is called eDisclosure – the Rules and Practice Directions. The regulation of disclosure is … Continue reading
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Education and cross-border eDiscovery at kCura’s Relativity Fest
Yes, I know it has been weeks since kCura’s Relativity Fest in Chicago, but that was the first of a series of events, each of which got in the way of reporting on the last. I gave a brief summary … Continue reading
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Interview: Jeff Herron, SVP of Client Solutions at Cicayda
Jeff Herron is Senior Vice President, Client Solutions at eDiscovery software company Cicayda. In this interview, he describes how Cicayda can help companies even before litigation begins with a view to both improving their position in future or prospective cases … Continue reading
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Commonwealth Brunch at LegalTech New York
Independent eDiscovery and privacy consultant Nigel Murray has been organising a Commonwealth Brunch at LegalTech for 10 years now. This year’s takes place on Sunday 31 January at a very civilised 10:30am. It is hoped that the venue will be … Continue reading
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Opening the kimono on legaltech words to be eradicated in 2016
I was one of those asked by Nextpoint to identify a Legaltech buzzword which should the eradicated during 2016. Some of the replies are here. My own contribution is “kimono” as in the expression “opening the kimono”, or revealing more … Continue reading
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FTI Technology: going beyond the reactive and compliance uses for audio evidence
I wrote recently about FTI’s technology for managing social media and audio, drawing attention to the role which technology plays not only in reactive eDiscovery but in compliance, particularly where companies are under a regulatory obligation to keep such data … Continue reading
Posted in Audio discovery, Discovery, eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Electronic disclosure, FTI Technology
Tagged Jake Frazier
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Victor Limongelli elected chairman of AccessData
The Board of AccessData, long-established provider of digital forensics and eDiscovery software, has elected Victor Limongelli as chairman of the board. Victor Limongelli brings long experience, including seven years as President and CEO of Guidance Software, to the post. I … Continue reading
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Guidance Software: catch the Early Bird discounts for Enfuse 2016 – 23-26 May in Las Vegas
I have already drawn attention to the fact that Guidance Software’s long-running CEIC conference has been renamed Enfuse. It takes place from 23 to 26 May in Las Vegas. It comes back to my attention for two reasons. One is … Continue reading
Nuix track at Legaltech: Information Governance Challenges
One of the most enjoyable parts of last year’s LegalTech New York was the information governance track run by Nuix on the closing day. I was a participant in an IG panel led by Julie Colgan of Nuix which, as … Continue reading
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Interview: Elizabeth Erickson of UBIC talks about lawyer acceptance of eDiscovery technology
Elizabeth Erickson is Solutions Architect at UBIC. The word “solutions” implies more than a purely technical achievement – it is only a “solution” if the lawyers see it as addressing a problem which they face. In this interview, I ask … Continue reading
2015 eDiscovery year in review from Recommind
Adam Kuhn of Recommind has written an eDiscovery review of 2015 by reference largely to Recommind’s own posts during the year. I do not know if he ranked them by order of perceived importance, but I agree with putting the … Continue reading
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Tom Palladino of NightOwl Discovery talks about the advantages of having a presence in the EU
An increasing number of US eDiscovery providers are setting up operations in the EU and in the Asia-Pacific region. Part of the objective here is to capture new work, but the main motive is usually to give a better and … Continue reading
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Interview: Roe Frazer, CEO of Cicayda on what makes Cicayda different
In this interview, I ask Roe Frazer, CEO of eDiscovery software company Cicayda, what is different about Cicayda. Roe Frazer’s answer stresses the technology, and in particular the natural language processing analytics, on which Cicayda is based. That does not … Continue reading
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Interview: Adi Elliott of Epiq Systems talks about eDiscovery managed services
In this video interview I talk to Adi Elliott, Vice President of Market Planning at Epiq Systems, about the role of managed services for eDiscovery. Adi Elliott came into Epiq with Iris Data Services, which Epiq had acquired a few … Continue reading
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Devices which tell their own eDiscovery story
I mentioned in a recent article the “Frequent Locations” feature in iPhones and iPads. Whatever you think about being tracked in this way, I cannot say that it is very accurate, at least as shown on my iPad (it was … Continue reading
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Moving from the tactical to the strategic as Consilio buys Huron Legal
“In small operations, everyone is doing something tactical every day. Now we can think strategically, with account managers focusing on the objectives of corporations and law firms, not just pushing data from the left to the right” This seemed to … Continue reading
The SCL publishes my predictions for 2016
Computers and Law, the website of the Society for Computers and Law is publishing the 2016 predictions of those interested in IT law and IT for lawyers. Today it is my turn, and my few words (not so few, as … Continue reading
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Xerox Legal Services adds Relativity Premium Hosting Partnership to its eDiscovery services portfolio
Xerox Legal Services has long offered its clients its proprietary eDiscovery platforms including Viewpoint and OmniX. It has now become a Relativity Premium Hosting Partner which adds significantly to the range which can be offered to new and existing clients. … Continue reading
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Interview: Stacey Neumann, VP of Client Solutions at Cicayda
In this interview, I ask Stacey Neumann, Vice President of Client Solutions at Cicayda, to describe a typical Cicayda case. There is no such thing, she says, as a typical case size. Cicayda’s technology will handle very large cases but … Continue reading
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ZyLAB webinar on 17 December: reflections on 2015 and looking forward to 2016
ZyLAB and ACEDS have organised a webinar for 17 December with the title The end of the year webinar – leading eDiscovery experts reflect on 2015 and look forward to 2016. Craig Ball, George Socha, Bill Speros, Johannes Scholtes and … Continue reading
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Challenges of email archive discovery – and some recent examples
Back in the summer, I wrote an article summarising the lessons from a Nuix webinar on email archives. Nuix has now created an infographic called The challenges of email archive discovery which you can find here together with a link to … Continue reading
FTI – managing social media and audio along with emails and the rest
It gets ever harder to describe the functionality of eDiscovery software as data-types multiply and functions expand to manage them. The marketing teams understandably want to give prominence to new features, undiluted by the wider picture, but the result is … Continue reading
Discriminating between disclosure and discovery – a recap
Some questions come round so often that it is easiest to refer to the last time I answered them, or the time before, or the time before that. I come across Alison North at information governance events – she is … Continue reading
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AccessData webinar on 9 December: new product features for FTK 6.0
As I recently recorded, AccessData has released new versions of both its review application Summation and its forensic application FTK. Both are now at Version 6.0. On Wednesday 9 December at 12:00pm Mountain Standard Time, AccessData is presenting a webinar … Continue reading
Interview: Richard Lutkus of Seyfarth Shaw on how his firm uses Relativity
If you judge it only by the awards it wins, Seyfarth Shaw is a leader in lawyer use of technology to work better for clients. Who better to talk to, then, to find out how lawyers can use eDiscovery software … Continue reading
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ILTA Teleforum today – no Safe Harbour: what’s new in the European data protection laws?
I am taking part in an ILTA teleforum today at 4:00pm GMT / 11:00am EST with the title No safe harbour: what’s new in European data protection laws? Our focus will inevitably be the consequences of the Schrems Safe Harbour … Continue reading
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RBS Rights Issue Litigation: considering whether the eDisclosure process had overtaken the purpose
I don’t like these judgments where a good firm of solicitors is seriously mauled by the judge for what are seen retrospectively as project management failures in a vast eDisclosure exercise. It is hard to be kind in cases where … Continue reading
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Computers & Law seeks predictions for 2016
Laurence Eastham of Computers & Law Magazine http://www.scl.org is again inviting predictions from experts in IT law and legal IT for the coming year. He would especially value contributions from outside SCL’s normal circles – “most obviously but not exclusively from technologists … Continue reading
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Hal Marcus of Recommind talks about Recommind’s chat solution
Hal Marcus is Director of Product Marketing at Recommind. I caught up with him at ILTA in September and asked him about Recommind’s latest release of its eDiscovery application Axcelerate. One of the additions, Hal Marcus says, is a set … Continue reading
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Lawrie Hall of CYFOR talks about CYFOR’s recent expansion
Lawrie Hall is Head of Civil Investigations and eDisclosure at CYFOR. In this short interview, he talks about his role in developing business and managing eDiscovery projects at CYFOR. He also talks about CYFOR’s expansion, with offices now in London, … Continue reading
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Costs and procedural complexities – appeal struck out for simple disclosure failures
Although Gordon Exall (he of the excellent Civil Litigation Brief) said recently on Twitter that he wished that he covered a subject which “got [him] trips around the world”, that “overrated pastime” (as I described it in reply) has reduced … Continue reading
Ari Kaplan survey with Recommind: Reinventing corporate legal with cloud consolidation
Ari Kaplan has established a reputation for conducting first-hand surveys of those who influence decision-making in eDiscovery and related areas. He recently teamed up with Recommind to conduct a survey of 25 large corporations for the 2015 Corporate Legal Operations … Continue reading
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Jonathan Maas of Huron Legal talks about helping lawyers identify the scope of eDisclosure
I have recently done a number of events with Jonathan Maas of Huron Legal, talking to barristers and solicitors in Leeds and London, at ILTA Insight and in Brussels. His consistent theme has been the need for lawyers to identify … Continue reading
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Relativity Fest interview: Hytham Aly of Altep talks about being a Relativity database administrator
When I was at kCura’s Relativity Fest in Chicago in October, I took the opportunity to speak to some of the people who use Relativity in different capacities. One was Hytham Aly, a database administrator at Altep, a Relativity Orange … Continue reading
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Interview: Patrick Burke of Seyfarth Shaw on cross-border data transfers for eDiscovery
It is many years since Patrick Burke and I started talking together about cross-border data transfers for eDiscovery. We had an annual slot at Guidance Software’s CEIC (now Enfuse) events and I recall a slide set from about 2009 which … Continue reading
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