Category Archives: First Advantage

Blog posts on eDiscovery | eDisclosure in January 2013

Here is a list of the 58 blog posts published in January 2013 on my Commentary Blog and Updates Blog. They got 9,464 page views between them. As mentioned in a recent post, the web site has been smartened up … Continue reading

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Blog posts on eDiscovery | eDisclosure in December 2012

Here is a list of my blog posts of December 2012 on eDiscovery / eDisclosure and related matters. After several months of experiments, I have abandoned my Google Plus page for my short eDiscovery posts in favour of a second … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery Updates to end November 2012

This post summarises the posts on my Google Plus page during November 2012. I gave up on Google Plus after that for reasons given in my post here, and set up a new updates blog. A different form of index … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery updates to 27 October 2012

This is a summary of the posts about eDiscovery / eDisclosure on my Google Plus page between 21 and 28 October 2012. Those which relate to webinars etc which have now passed may lead to blind links. Where I know … Continue reading

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7th eDisclosure Forum in London on 15 November. Are you ready to benefit from the new eDisclosure rules?

The reforms consequent on Lord Justice Jackson’s recommendations will take effect in April 2013. A conference taking place in London on 15 November will focus on those which relate to eDisclosure, stressing the benefits which will flow to lawyers and … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery updates to 13 October

Most of these updates on my Google Plus site are from the week ending 6 October. After that, I was at the Masters Conference in Washington and at an event given by Symantec-Clearwell at Tower Bridge, with no time to write. … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery updates to 29 September

I was at a Washington conference for much of the week ending 22 September and the updates for that week are correspondingly reduced in number. This selection covers two weeks’ of my Google+ updates. Some of them relate to webinars … Continue reading

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Short eDiscovery updates to 15 September 2012

This continues my new practice of summarising posts, mainly about eDiscovery, which have appeared on my Google Plus page recently. There are 26 of them in this summary, which points to a busy week (now two weeks ago) of announcements … Continue reading

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London conference: Information Governance and eDiscovery for Financial Services on 10-12 September

IQPC is running an event called Information Governance and eDiscovery for Financial Services at Canary Wharf between 10 and 12 September 2012.  Recent events in the banking industry suggest that those who work in financial services, and those who advise them, … Continue reading

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My Google Plus eDiscovery posts to 14 August

A longer list than usual, partly because many interesting things came along and partly because I was called away for over a week before I had the chance to list them. Law Society Gazette – No replacement yet for £10m … Continue reading

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First Advantage: “Seek and you shall find” applies as much to your provider as to your data

The actual process of looking for documents and data is secondary to the decision about how you are going to tackle the task.  Much of the procedural focus in the UK at the moment – with costs budgeting and Lord Justice Jackson’s … Continue reading

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First Advantage to run anti-corruption workshop and sponsors Young Lawyers 2012

At first sight, there is no obvious connection between the two topics referred to in my heading, yet both have an eDisclosure / eDiscovery connection. Much of the interest in the subject – my interest anyway – lies in the … Continue reading

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Something for everyone at IQPC’s Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit

If you want a rounded account of IQPC’s successful Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit in London this week, this is not the place to find it. I was involved in five events over the three days and spent most of … Continue reading

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First Advantage to host cross-border regulatory conference in Brussels

Updated on 19 April to include a link to the press release about this event including the timetable. I wrote recently about the acquisition of DLR Legal by First Advantage Litigation Consulting, which brings together FADV’s technology and consulting skills … Continue reading

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First Advantage acquires DLR Legal for Multilingual Managed Review

First Advantage Litigation Consulting (FADV) has announced the acquisition of London based DLR Legal, a global managed review services business.  First Advantage already has a strong practice in managing projects involving multiple jurisdictions and multiple languages, and the acquisition of … Continue reading

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A further reminder about my Google Plus site

I have yet to do the necessary cross-linking between the various places in which I put eDiscovery information. At the moment, it makes more sense to push the stuff out there and worry in due course about making a cohesive … Continue reading

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IQPC Munich eDiscovery themes recur around the world

I was not sorry when my plane’s wheels touched down at Heathrow on my return from IQPC’s Information Retention and eDiscovery Exchange in Munich on Wednesday night, bringing to an end 28,000 miles of eDiscovery travel in six weeks. A … Continue reading

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First Advantage to speak at Litigation Summit in Frankfurt 23-24 November

By the end of next week, I will have spoken at four eDiscovery events in Germany during the year, a four-fold increase on any previous year. I do not take this personally, as it were – there is growing interest … Continue reading

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How Bribery Act-compliant is UK Plc?

I have been sitting for a while on one of those legal updates which the New Law Journal produces from time to time for which they gather a group of experts round a table and report their discussion in a … Continue reading

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Consider document review services as well as technology

The recent dominance of predictive coding and other forms of computer-assisted review in these pages and elsewhere reflects as well as reports on the growing interest in this kind of technology. It is also inevitable that the discussion has been … Continue reading

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UK and US EDisclosure / EDiscovery and Compliance Commonality at IQPC London

There was something for everyone at the IQPC Document Retention and EDisclosure Management Summit in London this week. The Bribery Act gave added incentive for those responsible for information management within organisations; at the other end of the process, prosecutors … Continue reading

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All set for the IQPC London Document Retention and e-Disclosure Summit

I do not see much point in describing in detail which sessions look interesting over the three days of IQPC’s Information Retention and e-Disclosure Management Summit, which starts at the Brewery in Chiswell Street on Monday. It is a packed … Continue reading

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Filling the day and nearly getting filled with lead

One of the influential figures in US ediscovery gets very cross at references to the “ediscovery market”, as if the commercial connotations somehow sully the purity of the context of rules and judges and justice which the ediscovery / e-disclosure … Continue reading

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Welcome to First Advantage as a sponsor of the E-disclosure Information Project

I am very pleased to welcome First Advantage Litigation Consulting as a new sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project.  First Advantage was already a well-established forensics, litigation consulting and eDiscovery company when I met them at my first LegalTech in … Continue reading

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Ark Group eDisclosure conference in London

On my way to London yesterday to chair the Ark Group ediscovery 2010 conference, I read about the deletion of e-mails by an aide to the Qatari royal family (see Guardian article here). The allegation is that 19 e-mails referring … Continue reading

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