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Standards and outcomes: Hitler, the NHS, the police, social workers – and e-Disclosure
My heading, I appreciate, looks like the components of some random word game. There is in fact a connection, and it is to do with the supremacy of result over procedure and of destination over the journey. Hitler, the NHS … Continue reading
Free use of Equivio Early Case Assessment Software for up to one million documents
Equivio is offering to make its early case assessment application Equivio>Relevance available to a limited number of participants in what they call the Equivio>Relevance Challenge – see the press release and sign-up page for details. Most lawyers can understand the … Continue reading
Cloud Computing: Privacy, Disclosure and Discovery Considerations
There is a free webinar on 11 March callled Privacy, Disclosure and Discovery Considerations stemming from Cloud Computing. It is put on by Wave University and CT Summation and the speakers are Dan Regard of iDiscovery Solutions, Inc., eDiscovery Specialist … Continue reading
Cats Legal partners with Digital Reef
I wrote recently about Cats Legal, the combination of established print solutions provider Cats Solutions and litigation support provider LDSI (see Cats Solutions combines with LDSI to become Cats Legal). My planned meeting with Mark Wagstaff of Cats Legal had … Continue reading
New web site for e.law Asia-Pacific
I can see why it has taken e.law some time to assemble their new website following the acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions in November 2009. The integrated business now covers a very broad range of activities across a wide geographical … Continue reading
EnCase Portable brings data collection to your desktop
The idea that a law firm might keep a copy of Guidance Software’s EnCase Portable in a drawer for on-the-spot collections leads into a discussion about how much a firm needs to know. I will let Guidance Software speak for … Continue reading
First law firm commentary on Goodale v MoJ
Congratulations to Tim Constable of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin who seems to have been the first solicitor to get out some information to clients on Senior Master Whitaker’s judgment in Goodale v Ministry of Justice. His article E-disclosure – the … Continue reading
Spring Offensive in the eDisclosure War
It feels suddenly as if a new phase is opening up in the war to tackle the wasted costs of e-disclosure. If the Rule Committee’s recent failure to grasp the nettle seemed a rebuff, there is a new Spring Offensive … Continue reading
Revolutionary video pillory for PR consultants
The humour for the week was provided by Charles Christian, whose Orange Rag included a piece about PR consultants called So that’s why the editor is grumpy and aptly illustrated by a video. I should make clear in passing this … Continue reading
Capturing web pages with iCyte now for the Enterprise
The latest addition to my collection of tools for gathering and storing information is a product called iCyte. I cannot improve on the maker’s own description as follows: iCyte is a browser add-on and web service that lets users save … Continue reading
Nuix joins the e-Disclosure Information Project
I am delighted to welcome eDiscovery and electronic investigation software company Nuix as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. The connection began at the Ark Group eDiscovery conference in Sydney last year when I found myself sitting next … Continue reading
E-Discovery costs-shifting in US litigation
I referred in a recent post to an article I had read which concerned the shifting of US e-Discovery costs from one party to another, that is, the situation where costs incurred by one side are taxed and payable by … Continue reading
The Readership of the e-Disclosure Information Project
I have just been asked to give some statistics for readership of my blog and, having done the research, I might as well summarise it here. It happened to be quite a good day to ask – there were 436 … Continue reading
A proper welcome to Applied Discovery as a new sponsor
I promised a proper welcome to Applied Discovery when I put up a short post on 16 February to draw attention to the arrival of their logo. These Welcome posts are generally the only occasion when I invite collaboration on … Continue reading
Anonymisation, the Hague Convention and US judicial notice of EU privacy protection
I expressed puzzlement recently at the high proportion of page views from the US over a period when most of my focus has been on the UK draft practice direction. I know, of course, that there is much US interest … Continue reading
E-Discovery and Judicial Involvement in Australia
Project Counsel is the sister site to The Posse List, both run by the ubiquitous Gregory Bufithis. Project Counsel’s web site carried an article on 25th February with the title In Australia, e-Discovery and enhanced judicial involvement come of age … Continue reading
Cats Solutions combines with LDSI to become Cats Legal
Print solutions provider Cats Solutions has added the former business of LDSI (Legal Document Services International) to its print and document management services. The combined business has relocated its City-based 24/7 hub facility to new premises at Broken Wharf House, … Continue reading
E-Discovery developments in 2010 from legalsupportnetwork.co.uk
Rupert Collins-White is Head of Content and Community at legalsupportnetwork.co.uk and runs a LinkedIn Group of the same name. I met Rupert when he was Features / Commissioning Editor at the Law Society, and he now brings to legalsupportnetwork the … Continue reading
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7Safe White Paper: the inter-relation between computer forensics and e-Disclosure
7Safe has published a white paper which I co-wrote with James Kent of 7Safe. Its purpose is to explain, mainly to lawyers, the role of a forensic collection of data in the subsequent proceedings, whether those be civil or criminal … Continue reading
You cannot really complain at a full InBox and lots of tweets
A day in London leaves me with a pile of e-mails and a heap of tweets – all signs of a lively market, and to be welcomed despite the time it will take to catch up. Add a crusading podcast, … Continue reading
Moving forward on all fronts
I am off today to record a podcast for CPDCast about the e-Disclosure components of Lord Justice Jackson’s report. You may recall that I was booked to do this on the day before the Civil Procedure Rule Committee met to … Continue reading
Legal Inc takes Digital Reef
Amongst the many applications at LegalTech which I was invited to look at but could not fit in was Digital Reef, which allows organisations to identify, collect, process, analyse and review data in place. The advantage of this, obviously, is … Continue reading
No need to wait for the eDisclosure Practice Direction and Questionnaire – just get on with it
The decision (or, rather, the non-decision) of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee to send the e-Disclosure Practice Direction and EDisclosure Questionnaire off into the sidings of a sub-committee has been the equivalent of coming up behind a funeral cortège whilst … Continue reading
LegalTech 2010: Andrew Haslam reports for the Orange Rag and the 451 Group delivers market analysis
My unspoken deal with Andrew Haslam of Allvision after LegalTech each year is that I will write a heavyweight report on the business trends for the ensuing year, and will also write an anecdotal local colour story designed to convey … Continue reading
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Jackson untroubled by delay to e-Disclosure Practice Direction
I do not generally deal in instant news in these pages – considered reflection is more my style and, besides, there is normally a queue of things to write about. At the top of that queue at the moment is … Continue reading
The extent of the right to privacy in French employee’s e-mails
The expression “grasping at straws” has seafaring origins – a drowning man grasps at straws in the absence of anything more solid to cling to. It comes to mind whenever the subject of EU data privacy comes up in the … Continue reading
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There is more to FTI Technology than Attenex and Ringtail
My self-imposed job description involves flitting between all the players in the electronic disclosure / electronic discovery world, picking up information and ideas from one place and dropping them in another. I talk to judges, lawyers and technology suppliers, read … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on the Jackson Report: the word of the moment is momentum
There is a great deal of interest being shown in electronic disclosure amongst UK lawyers at the moment. Some of the activity is reported in my post Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire. That ended … Continue reading
Millnet offer £10,000 of e-Discovery services for free
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes is, as you doubtless know, Latin for “there must be a catch somewhere”. It seems unlikely, of course, that the Greeks are going to be bearing gifts for anybody just now, but Millnet seem to … Continue reading
A short video could win you free tickets and accommodation at CEIC
The use of video turns up in these pages either where a supplier has used the medium to educate or to promote a product, or in a slightly embarrassed reference to my own reluctant appearances in front of the camera. … Continue reading
US-UK discovery differences on video at the Masters Conference
I have only just seen a set of short videos which His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC and I made at the Masters Conference last October in Washington. They were made by LegalQB and involved a proper studio with lighting … Continue reading
Applied Discovery joins the Project’s sponsors
I will do a proper welcome post shortly, and this is just a brief note to welcome Applied Discovery to the ranks of the sponsors of the e-Disclosure Information Project. I wrote about the company recently (see Applied Discovery gets … Continue reading
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Legal Inc case study explains an e-Disclosure project
Statements of functions and benefits and descriptions of litigation support services obviously form the backbone of the marketing material of any company engaged in the handling of electronic documents. It is difficult, however, to convey in the abstract any sense … Continue reading
Deborah Baron summarises the Autonomy Cloud message on video
I am a strong believer in the idea that businesses, and particularly technology businesses, need to make use of every medium which is available to get messages across to potential users. The new media formats such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook … Continue reading
Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire
There has been much interest in the draft eDisclosure Practice Direction and the Questionnaire which forms part of it. Lawyers and education providers keep asking for a sight of it. Lord Justice Jackson commended it. Rule-makers in other jurisdictions have … Continue reading
Distinguishing discussion from lecture at LegalTech
I go back over my recent posts a day or two after publishing them, partly to pick up typos to which one is blind when they are newly typed, but mainly to check that what I said is what I … Continue reading
Mixing eDiscovery business with pleasure at LegalTech 2010
I write each February after LegalTech in New York to try and convey how this event is simultaneously hard work and good fun. Certain times and cultures are inherently suspicious of the idea that you can enjoy yourself whilst working, … Continue reading
CaseCentral CARtoon – what drives Toyota’s eDiscovery purchasing strategy
CaseCentral’s Case in Point cartoon series maintains its quality with this week’s one in which Toyota explains what drives its eDiscovery purchasing strategy. I spotted a judge at LegalTech wearing a No Processing badge which emanated (anonymously) from CaseCentral. Full … Continue reading
BA misses the bus – how to lose goodwill at the end of the project
The customers remember best what happens last, whether you are running an e-Discovery project for them or flying them across the Atlantic. It seems a shame to do it all so well and then screw up at the end. I … Continue reading
Some statistics from Equivio>Relevance
I have recently written a white paper about Equivio>Relevance and was subsequently interviewed about it by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel – both if these can be found on Equivio’s publications page. A recent article by Marisa Peacock on CMSWire called Equivio … Continue reading
Two entries in one week in the Weekly E-Discovery Snapshot
My job is promoting the eDiscovery industry and the companies who engage in it, and I do not focus much on promoting me. I cannot resist this, though. Having an article listed in the Weekly E-Discovery Snapshot which Rob Robinson … Continue reading
7Safe launches UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010
Mysterious messages have been appearing on Twitter all week like “In 85% of data breach cases, payment card information was stolen”. They all lead back to an analysis of data compromise cases over an 18 month period which 7Safe have … Continue reading
H5 EDGE Classifier brings intelligence to ediscovery search
Information retrieval experts H5 has always come across as a cross between a commercial information consulting business and a research university, talking as much about its people – “with professional expertise in linguistics, statistics, computer science, law, information technology, process … Continue reading
FTI Technology 2009 IDC Survey defines the eDiscovery challenges
FTI Technology will be out in force at LegalTech, as you would expect from a company whose range of products and services cover the full range of eDiscovery problems and solutions. They commissioned an IDC survey which was published in … Continue reading
Anacomp e-Discovery panel at LegalTech – emerging technology and a defensible process
Anacomp are running a panel in the New York suite at the Hilton on Tuesday 2 February at 10:30 AM. I will not, unfortunately, be there, because I am on another platform at the same time. The title is What’s … Continue reading
Stratify eDiscovery Super Session panels at LegalTech
I have already mentioned one of the four panels which Stratify is running on Tuesday, 2 February in the Sutton Parlor Center Room at the Hilton in New York. The sessions are as follows: 8.30 Can we have our cake … Continue reading
Epiq Systems e-Discovery Super Sessions at LegalTech
Epiq Systems are running three panels on Tuesday, 2 February at LegalTech. They take place in Concourse G at the Hilton New York as follows: 9:00 Achieving a Cost Efficient, Defensible Document Review 10:00 Best Practices for Successful Multinational E-Discovery … Continue reading
Mary Mack’s review of a decade of ediscovery
Is the rest of the ediscovery world really ten years behind the US? Perhaps it is Judge Scheindlin’s recent strictures which put the US so far ahead of the rest of us in the proportionate search for justice and truth. … Continue reading
Posse List interview with e.law Asia Pacific: the spike in e-discovery work in Asia
I was speaking in Singapore when news broke of e.law’s acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions. It added to my general impression (which I was bold enough to turn into a prediction) that the Asia-Pacific region was the place to watch … Continue reading
Autonomy eDiscovery Appliance – chaining law firms and clients together
A series of announcements from Autonomy coincide with what I see as the coming developments in the UK and elsewhere, enabling the lawyers to work collaboratively with clients. As one would expect, Autonomy has come up with a series of … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: Rudoy on eDiscovery certification – reality or myth?
An article by George Rudoy on the Georgetown Law site, which includes some input from me, reawakens the debate about certification of those who work in eDiscovery. Education on this subject was a key recommendation of the recent UK Jackson … Continue reading
Recovery of e-Disclosure or E-Discovery costs in litigation
The broad idea about recovery of the costs of litigation is that the so-called “English Rule” allows a successful party to recover his costs from the loser, whereas the costs of US litigation lie where they fall. It is not … Continue reading
Seeing Nuix at LegalTech
I try to avoid spending too much time at LegalTech looking at applications. I am much more interested in talking and listening to people, and three days is just not long enough to fit everything in. I generally limit my … Continue reading
Alcohol and amphetamines as an e-Discovery solution for Edna
Almost everybody who tweets about eDiscovery offered links to Craig Ball’s article called E-Discovery for Everybody: the Edna Challenge. In it, Craig sought the input of several influential players in the market on behalf of Edna who needed to undertake … Continue reading
US claims Global Power to Access Data despite EU data protection laws
Another decision of a US court shows the supremacy of the US courts over EU laws, at least as seen from the US. It doubtless plays well in Utah, but is probably bad news for US evidence-collection in the long … Continue reading
Outsourcing reaches the business press – so the clients will read all about it
The UK’s appetite for stories and comment about outsourcing remains undimmed. A a long article in The Times on 15 January carried the title Brief for India’s outsourcing lawyers: keep it cheap. Ron Friedmann of outsourcers Integreon, an astute observer … Continue reading
US District Judge to Speak on Women in eDiscovery Panel at LegalTech
One of the best panels at the Masters Conference in Washington last year was the Women Thought Leader Panel: The Art of Negotiating E-Discovery moderated by Caitlin Murphy of CT Summation and including Shawnna Childress of LECG, co-founder of Women … Continue reading
Catching up with the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure
I missed the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure which came into effect on 1 January. By “missed”, I mean that I knew about them but decided that it was a topic important enough to be put on one … Continue reading
Guidance Software launches EnCase eDiscovery 4 with help from Twitter and YouTube
Guidance Software has released EnCase E-Discovery 4, which offers a pre-collection analytics capability as well as the ability to analyse and review ESI throughout the key discovery processes – during a legal hold, during forensic data collection, post- collection, during … Continue reading
Between the rock of Jackson and the hard place of LegalTech
Once a decade, we get a large and influential report on Civil Procedure in the Courts of England & Wales. Once a year, the largest and most important e-discovery conference takes place in New York. Did they have to take … Continue reading
Anacomp ECA Webinar 20 January – measuring and managing eDiscovery
A reminder that Anacomp, owners of review platform CaseLogistix, have a live webinar today, Wednesday 20 January, called Beyond the Buzz: Measuring and Managing eDiscovery with Early Case Assessment. Tom O’Connor and Chuck Kellner, along with Chris Smith, Senior Product … Continue reading
Some eDiscovery mistakes are more forgivable than others
We have seen some high-profile mistakes in the discovery world recently. We should discriminate between incompetence and stupidity or oversight. A mistake is not an ediscovery mistake just because it involved electronic documents. The mirth generated at the expense of … Continue reading
Tweets travel far and fast – which is good if that is what you want
The speed with which I got reactions to a tweet of Saturday showed the power of this medium. That is great if that is what you want, as I did, less so if that was not the intention. My arm … Continue reading
Applied Discovery gets new marketing wind behind it
Good eDiscovery marketing must give would-be clients useful information and help, not just shout “buy me” with a list of functions and benefits. All forms of media must be pressed into service, and value lies more in helpful content than … Continue reading
NLJ Jackson litigation costs webcast still available
The technical difficulties with the New Law Journal’s free Jackson webcast derived, apparently, from the best of reasons – a very large number of people wanted to watch it (that is what happens when the Dale publicity machine gets going … Continue reading
First thoughts on the eDisclosure implications of the Jackson Report
The sections relating to disclosure and e-disclosure in the Jackson Report are a call to action for lawyers and judges without waiting for any actual amendment to the Rules. The key element which Jackson identifies is education, and we can … Continue reading
Trilantic assembles experts for International eDiscovery Track at LegalTech
UK-based legal support provider Trilantic has put together a double panel session on EU data privacy and related subjects which takes place on the first day at LegalTech, Monday, 1 February. Subjects covered will include privacy considerations and EU data … Continue reading
Interview with Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about Equivio>Relevance
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has published an interview based on a long conversation which I had with them before Christmas. The title is Trainable E-Discovery Software Offers Cost Savings and the subject is Equivio>Relevance. The main theme of the interview was … Continue reading
New Singapore e-discovery resource
Those who come here often will know that I was in Singapore in October last year shortly after the introduction of their Practice Direction No 3 on Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Information . I had been invited to … Continue reading
Twitter data feeds as a potential source of income for them and discovery material for us
A new survey relies on the ability to analyse Twitter usage, and Twitter has begun a drive to make money from its data feeds. Both point towards the use of Twitter data as discoverable information. I wrote an article last … Continue reading
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Getting past the hold music
Every writer aspires to have his work described as “interesting and funny”, particularly if it is simultaneously accepted as dealing seriously with weighty matters. The aim is to get the ediscovery messages past the hold music and encourage people to … Continue reading
Outsourcer Integreon adds to Insource v Outsource discussion
I drew attention recently to an article on outsourcing from a law firm perspective, written by George Rudoy on 1 December on the Georgetown Law site and called To Insource or to Outsource. I suggested that it was worth reading, … Continue reading
Craig Ball on Ed Balls’ Ofsted Balls-Up
My apologies to those of delicate sensibilities who might take this amiss. It is, I accept, insensitive of me to do this to you at the beginning of an article. There is no choice, I am afraid – I must … Continue reading
Anacomp divests to focus on CaseLogistix, eDiscovery and litigation
Anacomp has sold its MVS Division to DecisionOne in order to focus on eDiscovery with its document review application CaseLogistix and the services which go with it. 2010 should be the right year to concentrate on eDiscovery You would probably … Continue reading
Distinguishing data from information when balancing risk against cost
There are parallels between the reaction to terror attacks and other threats and the handling of e-disclosure for litigation. Collections of masses of data become not merely a substitute for information but places to lose it, and the real objective … Continue reading
Letter in the Times about destruction of ESI
Amongst my predictions for 2010, published on the website of the Society for Computers & Law on 21 December, was this one: Another side-effect of the Earles judgment will be a debate as to what the law of preservation and … Continue reading
The e-Disclosure Information Project in 2009 and 2010
My e-Disclosure predictions for 2010 are up on the website of the Society for Computers and Law. I have not checked back to my previous years’ SCL predictions, but I think that this batch have much more, and much better-grounded, … Continue reading
Times E-Disclosure article leads with Baby P photocopier excuse
The article on E-Disclosure in today’s Times E-disclosure: how good is your filing system? by Grania Langdon-Down leads with the extraordinary “lost in the photocopier” excuse given by Ofsted as they gave late disclosure of 2,000 pages of documents in … Continue reading
Gartner points to non-US E-Discovery market growth
Gartner predicts an eDiscovery software market worth $1.2 billion in 2010. More than 10% of that will be outside the US. Software suppliers may be ready to run with this, but where are the skilled people? Gartner’s report of 16 … Continue reading
Kind words from the Posse List eDiscovery Reading Room
If a supplier asked me what to do if it received unsolicited praise from a respected source, I would tell them to stick it up on their web site. What is the proper reaction when someone says nice things about … Continue reading
451 Group reports on IQPC in New York
I was not at IQPC’s E-discovery conference in New York last week (see IQPC New York – minimizing risks, costs and challenges). Fortunately the 451 Group’s Katey Wood was there and her report is here. Two of the points which … Continue reading
The Baby P case may be the disclosure story of the year
It begins to look as if the Baby P case will beat even Earles v Barclays Bank in terms of its long-term influence on disclosure, not least for the likely focus on individual failings. Is this cock-up or conspiracy? Why … Continue reading
Irish Law Reform Commission consultation paper on Documentary and Electronic Evidence
The Irish Law Reform Commission has just issued a consultation paper on Documentary and Electronic Evidence. At 313 pages, it is not going to be a quick read and I have done no more than skim it so far. Its … Continue reading
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UK interest in outsourcing on the rise
A Tweet earlier this week asks “Weekly LPO articles in the UK?” which, extended from its native (and necessarily abbreviated) Tweet-speak, means “Are we seeing at least one article a week about legal process outsourcing in the UK?” The question … Continue reading
Orange Rag: Scottish Civil Costs Review – a missed opportunity
John Craske, Head of Business IT at Dundas & Wilson LLP has contributed a guest article to the Orange Rag which hints at disappointment in the Scottish Civil Courts Review. I wrote briefly about the Report of the Scottish Civil … Continue reading
IQPC New York – minimizing risks, costs and challenges
Minimizing risks, costs and challenges is the title of the IQPC eDiscovery conference taking place in New York from 7 to 9 December 2009. I will not be there, but the agenda offers more opportunities than its title suggests. I … Continue reading
PivotalDiscovery e-Disclosure video with HHJ Simon Brown QC
As a proponent of video as a means of conveying messages, it is remiss of me not to have drawn your attention to one which features His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC and me. It was made by Kina Kim … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: to Insource or to Outsource by George Rudoy
Outsourcing part of the disclosure / discovery process has suddenly attracted attention in the UK. Some think that this is due to the instincts in common between lawyers and the poor old lemmings, who are invoked as role models whenever … Continue reading
UK Information Commissioner publishes plain English data protection guide
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has produced a guide in plain English which aims to make it easier for the non-expert to understand what is involved. That is all to the good, but this is not one of these … Continue reading
e-Disclosure conference thoughts from the 451 Group
Although I do my own summaries of the conferences I take part in, it is more interesting in some ways to see what other people take away from them. A succinct summary from an interested party who was present as … Continue reading
Strategic alliance allows 7Safe to host Anacomp’s CaseLogistix
What is the seating etiquette if you go to a wedding knowing both parties? Do you have to make an invidious choice between one side of the church and the other? Perhaps you sit in the aisle or hang from … Continue reading
Tearing Me Apart: a new song from The Phoenix Fall
You may just have been indulging my paternal pride, but quite a lot of people seemed to like the first single released by The Phoenix Fall, the Leeds-based Indie band whose drummer is my son Charlie Dale. The second single, … Continue reading
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Planning the IQPC E-Disclosure Conference for London in May 2010
Planning is in hand for IQPC’s May 2010 E-Disclosure conference. Good conferences like this provide elements which other forms of information delivery lack, not least the opportunity to interact with those whose data we write and talk about. Having got … Continue reading
KPMG survey: Is the legal department ready?
Read KPMG’s new survey on corporate readiness for litigation and then read the judgment in Earles v Barclays Bank. You may spot a connection. KPMG have published the results of the survey which Alex Dunstan-Lee previewed for us at IQPC’s … Continue reading
e.law completes acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions
On 20 November 2009, Australia’s e.law completed its acquisition of the business assets of CCH Workflow Solutions from Wolters Kluwer. The news of the acquisition broke whilst I was between conferences and although I heard from both Allison Stanfield at … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech round-up
The general reaction to ALM’s Virtual LegalTech by its participants and delegates seems generally to be positive. If, as Charles Christian said on Twitter afterwards, it had a 1990s feel to it, well, that can doubtless be improved upon in … Continue reading
Parallel and cross-border developments in handling electronically stored information
The second session at the Thomson Reuters Fifth Annual e-Disclosure Forum in London on 13 November was called Parallel and cross-border developments in handling electronically stored information. I was the moderator, although if Air Miles were the qualification for talking … Continue reading
Georgetown: Privilege, Ignorance and Certification
The PosseList has a report of the main points discussed at the judicial panel which closed the recent proceedings of the Georgetown Law CLE Advanced E-Discovery Institute. Of the three points which the article picks out, I will leave on … Continue reading
Welcome to Stratify as new Project sponsor
I am very pleased to welcome electronic discovery software company Stratify as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. Their addition to the list of sponsors coincides with the opening of their London office and data centre, as well as … Continue reading
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