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Category Archives: FTI Consulting
Relativity and FTI report – risk, culture and technology challenges for general counsel
I wrote at the end of last year about a report from FTI Consulting and Relativity on the ever-widening role of general counsel. I summarised the theme of that report thus: You would not [when I qualified] have expected to … Continue reading
Report from FTI Consulting and Relativity on the ever-widening role of general counsel
When I qualified, the role of the in-house lawyer was not a particularly significant one. They handled matters of formal corporate compliance and gave preliminary advice on matters with a legal element, but they mainly acted as the interface between … Continue reading
FTI webinar on 27 May: International Women’s Day 2021 – 3 months on
FTI Consulting is presenting a webinar on 27 May called International Women’s Day 2021 – 3 months on: Keeping the conversation alive with senior leaders in legal technology. The webinar’s starting point is that technology consulting is still an area … Continue reading
Rather more than a week’s eDiscovery notes
I don’t publish these round-up posts to a particular pattern – they go up when there is enough to say. The absence of a timetable means that I do not have to apologise if there is a longer-than-usual interval between … Continue reading
A roundup from my desk when we should all be in New York for Legalweek
Every year between 2007 and 2019 I went to Legaltech (later Legalweek) in New York at the end of January. I missed 2020 because I had a hip replacement on 30 January, and consoled myself with the knowledge that I … Continue reading
Interview: Wendy King of FTI Consulting on working with teams and clients during the pandemic
I have interviewed Wendy King of FTI Consulting several times. That has always been face to face, usually at conferences, but lockdown brings the need to do the interview remotely. The interview, then, was a model for our subject, which … Continue reading
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Interview: Gráinne Bryan of FTI Consulting on the use of technology in Irish dispute resolution and compliance monitoring
I recently interviewed Gráinne Bryan of FTI Consulting in Ireland about FTI’s technology role in helping law firms, financial institutions and other businesses with anything to do with the use of data in business. In the second part of our … Continue reading
Interview: Gráinne Bryan on FTI Consulting’s technology role in Ireland
Gráinne Bryan has recently been appointed as Managing Director, Technology, at FTI Consulting in Ireland. I know her from her previous role as CEO, Legal Technology Solutions at leading law firm McCann FitzGerald, where she promoted the use of technology … Continue reading
Interview: Jordan Domash of Relativity on developments in Relativity Trace
At Relativity Fest 2018, I interviewed Relativity’s Jordan Domash about the then-nascent product Relativity Trace. Twelve months later, I interviewed him again at Relativity Fest 2019, asking him what had changed since we last met. Jordan Domash said that much had … Continue reading
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Interview: Andrew Szwez of FTI Consulting on the value of using RelativityOne
I recall being invited to a meeting at a US conference, I suppose about three years ago. In the room were senior marketing people from Relativity and FTI Consulting. As always on these occasions, I tried to guess what announcement … Continue reading
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Story Development for legal teams from FTI Technology
The assembly of detail needed for a complex film scene is similar to that required for running litigation. FTI Technology has Story Development services to help get all the elements into place. I recently watched the film 1917, notable for … Continue reading
FTI Consulting enhances its eDiscovery services with a partnership with Brainspace
FTI Consulting has marked the new year by entering into a partnership with analytics software company Brainspace. The start of the new decade offers an opportunity to look back at the progress made in the past 10 years. You will … Continue reading
Interview: Scott Gillard of FTI Consulting on eDiscovery developments in Australia
I have known Scott Gillard of FTI Consulting for many years, mainly from brief annual conversations at Legaltech in New York. At Relativity Fest in Chicago, I had the opportunity to talk to him properly about electronic discovery in Australia … Continue reading
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Interview: Wendy King of FTI Consulting on RelativityOne and on the changing role of GCs
Wendy King of FTI Consulting is an interviewer’s delight, giving crisp answers which tell us all we need to know in as few words as possible. I took the opportunity to talk to her at Relativity Fest in Chicago. I … Continue reading
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Sedona Conference webinar on 6 November: US/UK EU cross-border data transfers after Brexit
The Sedona Conference is organising a webinar on 6 November called US – UK – EU cross-border data transfers after Brexit. As I write, it is far from clear what will happen on or before 31 October. Will there be … Continue reading
FTI Technology and Relativity: corporate legal departments in 2020
FTI Technology and Relativity have joined forces with Ari Kaplan Advisors to ask chief legal officers about the future of the legal industry and about what skills and expertise will be needed by the next generation of lawyers. Ari Kaplan … Continue reading
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FTI Consulting expands Relativity support in Australia
The eDiscovery software and services market has developed in ways which few of us predicted. Three broad lines were, however, discernible a while back – that consolidation would reduce the number of players in the market, that the market would … Continue reading
RelativityOne data migration services from FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting has been one of the Relativity’s most active partners in the use of Relativity’s SaaS platform RelativityOne. Some of the benefits of that are described in my most recent interview with Wendy King of FTI on the subject. … Continue reading
FTI Consulting on building a global IG and discovery program
A recent article in Corporate Disputes Magazine looks at some of the factors – notably leadership and strategy – involved in building a global information governance and discovery programme. It includes input from Craig Earnshaw and Sonia Cheng of FTI … Continue reading
Interview: Wendy King of FTI Consulting on managing international eDiscovery with RelativityOne
At Relativity Fest in London, I spoke to Wendy King of FTI Consulting’s Technology segment about FTI’s use of RelativityOne. FTI is a global consultancy, offering Relativity across four continents. Most of its matters span multiple jurisdictions, Wendy King said, and … Continue reading
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Some pictures from Relativity Fest London 2019
Here are some pictures from Relativity Fest London which occupied large premises in Houndsditch, and (pleasurably) a large amount of my time, earlier this week. Bigger and better than ever, was the general view. Relativity CEO Andrew Sieja opens the … Continue reading
FTI Consulting and the increasing cross-over between information governance, privacy and security
In the beginning was eDiscovery and, alongside it, the barely-regarded business of records management. EDiscovery brought obvious risk – of losing a case or, in the US, of being sanctioned for non-compliance with a court rule. Records management appeared to … Continue reading
Interview: JR Jenkins of Nuix on the success of the integration between Nuix and Ringtail
I have known JR Jenkins, now at Nuix with the rest of Ringtail, for many years. We have had long discussions over that time once or twice a year, talking not only about Ringtail but also about the developments in … Continue reading
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eDiscovery training at the White House from ACEDS, Ricoh and FTI
Behind the headlines and the high politics, the White House is a government department whose Executive Office must deal with information governance, records management and IT like any other department. ACEDS (the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists) recently took a … Continue reading
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Interview: Thomas Sely of FTI Consulting on the growing need for FTI’s eDiscovery services in France
Thomas Sely is Senior Director – eDiscovery and Forensic Technologies at FTI Consulting in Paris. I interviewed him in London recently, interested to know more about the demand for forensic technology in France, where FTI has been expanding its technology … Continue reading
Interview: Chris Hatfield of FTI Consulting on changing trends in forensic data collections
Christopher Hatfield is an expert in digital forensics, cyber and eDiscovery at FTI Consulting in London. I spoke to him recently about changing trends in forensic data collections. Chris Hatfield said that Google and Microsoft now have discovery interfaces … Continue reading
Interview: Brian Stuart of FTI Consulting on the opportunities to add value and new services with Relativity
It is noticeable that eDiscovery and the subjects which are grouped around it are becoming more interesting to those who work in it. I don’t mean merely that there is more work around, but that the participants are finding it … Continue reading
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Interview: Nina Bryant of FTI Consulting on privacy developments after the GDPR implementation date
I recently interviewed Nina Bryant of FTI Consulting to ask her what she was seeing six months after the implementation of the GDPR (the General Data Protection Regulation). It had been the cause of much nervous anticipation, and I was … Continue reading
Interview: Sam Farley of FTI Consulting on the changing eDisclosure expectations of corporate clients
Sam Farley is a Senior Consultant at FTI Consulting in London. I went to see him to find out how corporate clients are approaching the use of electronic disclosure tools and skills. The traditional model was that clients instructed lawyers … Continue reading
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Interview: Stephen Stewart of Nuix talking about Ringtail, and a Ringtail demo
I have recorded around 50 interviews recently, and only now get the opportunity to go back through them. One advantage of the interviews which I did with Nuix is that Nuix did the filming and editing. Chatting to interesting people … Continue reading
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Interview: Matthew Field of FTI Consulting on the growing use of technology-assisted review in the UK
Matthew Field is a Director at FTI Consulting in London. I interviewed him recently about the increase in the use of the technology which is known variously as technology-assisted review and predictive coding (and which I will call “TAR” for … Continue reading
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FTI Consulting expands its technology capabilities in the Middle East, UK and India
FTI Consulting has significantly expanded its services in forensic technology, data and analytics by appointing five senior managing directors in the Middle East, the UK and India. The five (pictured below) are Paul Walker, Amit Jaju, Andrew Pimlott, Muthmainur Rahman … Continue reading
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