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LawTech Futures 2012 – the Future of Legal Conference Marketing
I did not attend LawTech Futures 2012 – the Future of Legal Technology, the conference organised by Netlaw Media and the Orange Rag’s Charles Christian last week. There is enough to do on my own patch without straying into the … Continue reading
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Recent eDiscovery Posts on Google Plus
Arguments continue as to the value of Google Plus as a FaceBook rival. I don’t much care about that, only about its ability to attract wider audiences. It is working for me (well, something is) and I continue to put … Continue reading
Epiq Insights – an eDisclosure newsletter from Epiq Systems in the UK
Relatively few of the eDisclosure / eDiscovery newsletters focus on the UK, so it is good to welcome Epiq Insights from Epiq Systems which is now available as a web page as well as by subscribing to an e-mail. The current edition … Continue reading
My Google Plus Posts to 11 March on eDiscovery and related subjects
This post links to my most recent short posts on Google Plus except for those which merely link back to this site. CY4OR on children and Facebook Dean Gonsowski of Symantec interviewed on predictive coding SEC’s Patrick Oot on eDiscovery … Continue reading
Nigel goes over the top on his bottom for Help for Heroes
Nigel Murray, managing director of Huron Legal in London, is limbering up for his annual bike ride to raise money for Help for Heroes. This year the ride is across the Great War battlefields of north-eastern France. It involves 375 … Continue reading
A UK view of LegalTech from Andrew Haslam
Each year, Andrew Haslam of Allvision writes a comprehensive report of LegalTech through the eyes of UK visitors. I say “visitors” in the plural because Andrew solicits contributions and views from others and splices them together. This year, it seems, … Continue reading
Judge Peck’s Predictive Coding Opinion – reporting the reaction
It needed no great prescience to anticipate a flood of articles about US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck’s opinion in the Da Silva Moore predictive coding case (Monique Da Silva Moore, et al., v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group, Civ. No. … Continue reading
1 March on Google Plus
There is no doubt that the hot topic at the moment is predictive coding following Judge Peck’s written Opinion of last week. The rest of the eDiscovery world does not, alas, take time out to clear the stage for any … Continue reading
An acquisition and an appointment point to Epiq consolidation and service delivery
Stories happen when they happen, and the copy / paste news sites and story aggregation people do a good job at rushing the contents of the latest press release to your virtual door. G K Chesterton’s Father Brown famously talked … Continue reading
The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance – the movie
I have referred more than once to the webinar which Nuix organised just before LegalTech with the title The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance. I moderated it, and the panel comprised Craig Ball, Attorney and Forensic Technologist, Stephen Stewart, … Continue reading
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CY4OR takes social media advice to HR and the workplace
Much of the proactive advice which companies need about eDisclosure and data security is aimed at IT departments who have the job of managing data, and at legal departments who have responsibility for the company’s potential eDisclosure obligations. HR departments … Continue reading
Predictive Coding’s Silver Blaze: the dogs who didn’t bark in the night-time
Perhaps the only person who will understand my heading instantly is the judge whose Opinion in Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe is at the centre of eDiscovery attention this week. US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck is as much an … Continue reading
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Words are the easy bit: EU Parliament debates EU – US data privacy concerns
An article on EUObserver.com reports on a debate last week in the European Parliament which highlighted the conflict between US demands for data and EU privacy legislation. The article’s title is Commission Downplays Parliament EU–US Data Privacy Concerns – “downplays” … Continue reading
Digital Reef adds Predictive Priority, enhances Relativity integration and opens its processing power to LSPs
Digital Reef is offering legal service providers the opportunity to make use of its SaaS processing and early case assessment tools on a revenue sharing basis. This should help LSPs who find themselves with more work than they can handle … Continue reading
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Huron eDiscovery Panel at LegalTech as the cross-border climate begins to change
My wide-angle lens is being repaired, so I have no photograph of the panel which Nigel Murray of Huron Legal moderated at LegalTech. There were eleven of us at the table for two consecutive sessions with the title A GC’s … Continue reading
Innovation and informed risk-taking are an eDiscovery duty
A speaker at a Nuix dinner prompts the thought that eDiscovery innovation lies in simply doing what the rules and codes of professional conduct require anyway. By chance, Ralph Losey has written on that subject this week. Risk is a … Continue reading
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Taking stock of the eDiscovery world
This is a good moment to pause a little and look around the eDiscovery / eDisclosure world. The wide range of topics which make this such an interesting field are all getting an airing at once. The stream of useful … Continue reading
Integration the target as Guidance Software buys CaseCentral
It was Twitter, of course, which first brought the news that Guidance Software had agreed to acquire CaseCentral. The first tweet came so early that the Guidance web page announcing the deal was a blank placeholder; its page title confirmed … Continue reading
Huron Legal kicks off LegalTech with the Commonwealth Brunch
For several years now, Nigel Murray, MD of Huron Legal in London, has organised what used to be called the British Brunch, now the Commonwealth Brunch. For many of us, it marks the opening of LegalTech. What marks it out … Continue reading
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Recommind keeps the good news coming
It is barely a fortnight since I reported on Recommind‘s coup in appointing Nick Patience as Director of Product Marketing and Strategy. Since then, Recommind’s name has turned up more often than I can keep pace with. I put it … Continue reading
AccessData releases all-new version of Summation
AccessData was not in a hurry to bring out its all-new version of the Summation line of eDiscovery products. The company already had a 20-year history in digital investigations when it bought Summation iBlaze, Enterprise and CaseVantage towards the end … Continue reading
Information Governance, UK eDisclosure and International Discovery in three days
In an ideal world, I would keep the week before LegalTech free. Product announcements pour out with accompanying (and welcome) invitations in advance to find out about the new developments (that is preferable, incidentally, to those who make big announcements and assume … Continue reading
Nuix Webinar: The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance
I am moderating an Inside Counsel live webinar for Nuix with the title The Convergence of eDiscovery and Information Governance on Tuesday 24 January at 1pm to 2pm EST / 10am to 11am PT / 6:00pm to 7:00pm GMT. The … 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
Guidance Software Webinar – Migrating to the Cloud: Navigating the E-Discovery Challenges
Guidance Software has provided a link to a recording of a live webinar which went out to a large audience – perhaps not surprisingly given the subject-matter and the participants. Its self-explanatory title is Migrating to the Cloud: Navigating the … Continue reading
Recommind names Nick Patience as Director of Product Marketing and Strategy
I have just written an article which, amongst other things, referred to the difficulty which eDiscovery / eDisclosure providers face in recruiting appropriately skilled and experienced talent for what is, for many of them, a market which grows almost weekly. … Continue reading
Nuix snaps up Jim Kent as MD for Europe as 7Safe falls to PA Consulting
Looking at my headline for this article, I see that its necessary brevity includes two implied assumptions, neither of which is necessarily accurate. The “as” which connects the two halves of the headline (“Nuix snaps up… as 7Safe falls”) implies … Continue reading
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Forbes article: Technology assisted eDiscovery and the role of humans
I bring a fairly jaundiced eye to some of the marketing by those who sell technology solutions to lawyers. This is not so much to do with the quality of the marketing materials themselves but more to do with their … Continue reading
CY4OR buys eOrigin and takes Nick Pollard to lead its eDisclosure department
I am not generally much bothered about capturing breaking news, preferring to let it simmer a while before I pass it on. Yesterday’s announcement that CY4OR has acquired eOrigin and taken founder Nick Pollard onto its management team to manage … Continue reading
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FTI’s take on 2012 – fewer eDiscovery suppliers per company and more people with “Discovery” in their job title
I talked on Friday to FTI Technology’s Mike Kinnaman, to catch up with FTI’s view of the eDiscovery market in the coming year. FTI takes what you might call an evidence-based approach to prediction each year, asking Ari Kaplan to … Continue reading
Equivio near duplicate and e-mail threads integrated into Relativity
Equivio and kCura have got in ahead of the LegalTech announcements flurry by launching an Equivio tab In Relativity. “Integration” means just that – Relativity users access Equivio’s analytic functionality without either they or the data leaving Relativity. The words … Continue reading
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ILTA Insight in London 8 to 9 May 2012
ILTA, the International Legal Technology Association, works throughout the year to advance and share knowledge of legal technology developments, priding itself rightly on its peer to peer relationships between members. It has a major conference in the US each year … Continue reading
Gartner’s Debra Logan and others at ZyLAB Universe 2011
If you cannot actually attend a conference, the next best thing is to read Project Counsel’s live tweets of the event and their subsequent reports. I was not able to attend ZyLAB Universe 2011 in Amsterdam on 24 November, but … Continue reading
Epiq Systems acquires De Novo Legal to expand its Managed Review Services
It is only eight months since Epiq Systems significantly increased its legal technology reach by the acquisition of Encore eDiscovery. It has ended the year by acquiring De Novo Legal LLC, whose particular strength is managed review services. The acquisition … Continue reading
You can find eDiscovery parallels everywhere if you look hard enough
What is the proper etiquette when someone else devotes half a blog post to writing about you? if they are simply polite, then a brief acknowledgment is all that is is required. It is easy if they are rude or … Continue reading
An eDisclosure evening at Lord’s with Clearwell
It is quite hard to find suitable and accessible venues for what is, essentially, a talking session. The location, and any side attractions, must be interesting enough to be part of the draw, but you do not want them to … Continue reading
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LDM Global launches processing and hosting managed services
LDM Global is offering legal discovery processing, hosting and support services in fixed-price blocks payable by monthly, quarterly or annual subscriptions. The press release is here. The scheme allows access to LDM Global’s processing, storage, and backup, together with project … Continue reading
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Two predictive coding case studies emphasise time and cost savings
I referred a while back to two case studies about the use of the technology known variously as “predictive coding”, “computer-assisted coding” or, more recently, “technology assisted review” or TAR. One of them involved Epiq Systems and the other Millnet. … Continue reading
CY4OR signs partnership agreement with Guidance Software for EnCase Enterprise
UK-based forensics company CY4OR has reached an agreement with Guidance Software under which CY4OR will offer and support Guidance Software’s EnCase Enterprise Platform. This is a logical development for CY4OR, building on their nine-year history of forensic investigations and collections … Continue reading
Shortened version of Epiq white paper published by New Law Journal
A recent post of mine, called Epiq Systems White Paper: from start to finish – what actually happens to my clients data? referred to a white paper which I wrote with Deborah Blaxell of Epiq. The paper has now been … Continue reading
Pedigree suggests that Hobs Legal Docs will keep on growing in eDisclosure
I have been trying to work out when I first heard of Hobs Legal Docs or came across its managing director, Terry Harrison. I have been in the UK litigation support business since 1993, and can generally recall the context … Continue reading
Wilmer Hale sets new standards for law firm eDiscovery web sites
Take a look at Wilmer Hale’s eDiscovery Solutions website. When I first saw it I put up a tweet to the effect that any litigation law firm not doing something like this would be dead within two years. The website … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on Jackson and costs at the Epiq Showcase
I wrote a post in anticipation of Epiq Systems London Showcase on 8 November, focusing mainly on the scope and depth of the consultancy services and software options which are available to lawyers and their clients from broadly-based providers like … Continue reading
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Huron Legal adds digital evidence services to its eDiscovery offerings
Huron Legal is primarily a consulting company working with law firms and corporate legal departments to bring both strategic advice and appropriate resources to their businesses, including eDiscovery problems. That includes pre-emptive advice in anticipation of prospective eDiscovery demands, and … Continue reading
CY4OR highlights IT security risk posed by employees
Forensics and eDiscovery company CY4OR has a timely article on its blog reminding us that a company’s employees are often the weak spot in its security systems. The article, Employees are the largest risk to an organisation’s IT security, refers … Continue reading
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Proof Finder: 1,000 Nuix licenses at $100 for charity – you learn eDiscovery while others learn to read
EDiscovery software provider Nuix has come up with an imaginative plan which simultaneously provides lawyers and others with hands-on opportunities to develop technical eDiscovery skills and helps increase literacy skills to children in developing countries. Like so many imaginative plans, … Continue reading
The FBI buys Clearwell eDiscovery Platform
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has chosen Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform for its eDiscovery investigations. There is a press release about the deal here. Criminal investigators have much the same requirements as those in the civil fields – and … Continue reading
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Huron Legal’s Nigel Murray to take part in CEO Fast for Famine
LexisNexis Australia has been rounding up CEOs to take part in CEO Fast for Famine, an initiative led by UNICEF to raise money for its emergency relief program. The countries chiefly affected are Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. LexisNexis asked … Continue reading
Epiq Systems White Paper: From Start to Finish – what actually happens to my clients’ data?
Anyone describing their services to a prospective client has a limited bandwidth (measured in time, concentration and the amount of detail which can be imparted and absorbed) available to them and, in focusing on the primary features and benefits, often … Continue reading
The KPMG Preservation Order: it couldn’t happen here….I hope
In writing about the US case Pippins v KPMG (see KPMG Judge Kicks the Sisyphean Stone of Proportionality Back Down the Hill) I made a point of emphasising that “one must… be careful up to a point in commenting adversely … Continue reading
eDiscovery Predictions for 2012 from Symantec and Clearwell
This is the time of year for predictions about the next twelve months. I tend to make mine aspirational, that is, I hope to encourage movement in the general direction of my predictions without necessarily being optimistic that they will … Continue reading
ZyLAB White Paper and Webinar: Bridging the Gap between Legal and IT
ZyLAB has published a white paper which I wrote with them called Bridging the Gap between Legal and IT. It is to be followed by a webinar on 1 December when I will discuss the issues raised in the paper … Continue reading
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More on risk appetite as US and UK eDiscovery are compared
Recommind’s Howard Sklar was kind enough to comment on my blog post Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it in his post Risk Appetite: no thanks, I’m full on the InfoRiskAwareness site.. My article drew parallels between attitudes to … Continue reading
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Equivio adds Applied Discovery, LDM Global and others to a growing list
It can be quite difficult keeping up with those who sponsor the eDisclosure Information Project, quite apart from the wider eDiscovery/eDisclosure market. Some of them seem to assume that I pick up news by some magical process; others broadcast little … Continue reading
Guidance Software adds Data Reuse Feature to EnCase eDiscovery
There are two reasons for referring you to the latest additions to Guidance Software’s EnCase eDiscovery. The first is the addition of functionality to identify and reuse data which has already been collected, allowing searches of data collected for previous … Continue reading
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
Legal Support Network UK e-Discovery Briefing Paper collects expert views
The UK-based Legal Support Network has just published an interesting briefing paper about eDisclosure / eDiscovery, opening with an observation on the difference, or absence of difference, between those two terms, kick-started by Jonathan Maas of Ernst & Young. For … Continue reading
Supper in Singapore, breakfast in Berlin, luggage in Limbo
04:58am at Heathrow’s Terminal 3. All going to plan so far – the plan being to speak at InnoXcell’s eDiscovery conference in Singapore on Monday, to attend its closing party, and then to moderate a Tuesday session at EMC²’s Momentum … Continue reading
Epiq Systems Solutions Showcase in London on 8 November
Epiq Systems is holding an E-Disclosure / E-Discovery Solutions Showcase at the Barbican in London at 4.30pm on 8 November. Its title is The Power of Options, which seems appropriate for an event which includes several leading software solutions as … Continue reading
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I see you have done no blog updates….
As comments go “I checked this morning and saw that you have done no blog updates” ranks very much higher than “Oh, do you keep a blog?”. The observation came, however, from someone who was also attending the Nuix Exchange … Continue reading
E-Discovery from Washington to Dublin
I have been known to spend longer writing about a conference than I spent in attending it, but there is little chance of that at the moment when the gaps between conferences are shorter than the events themselves once the … Continue reading
kCura Relativity Ecosystem Apps and on-line User Support are good marketing
I spent part of the weekend wandering around the websites of various litigation software providers (we do have fun on Sundays here). I was actually in search of quotations to support (or undermine, as the case may be) a proposition … Continue reading
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Social Media Opportunities and Risks in the Workplace
A White Paper and webinar from ZyLAB draw attention to the marketing and network advantages, and to the corresponding discovery/disclosure risks, which come with the massive growth in social media use. I am fairly sparing with both adjectives and adverbs … Continue reading
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CY4OR and Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers Forensics Seminar
In the nick of time, I note that forensics and eDisclosure experts CY4OR are joining forces with Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers for an evening of presentations and discussions about digital evidence, starting at 5:30pm on 29 September – that is, … Continue reading
More on Software-Assisted Review as Applied Discovery and KMPG add Equivio>Relevance
Electronic discovery company Applied Discovery and KPMG are amongst those who have recently partnered with Equivio to integrate Equivio>Relevance into their existing eDiscovery applications. These two recent announcements give me an opportunity to return to the subject of software-assisted document review … Continue reading
Some Recent Articles on Social Media Use in Companies
This post collects together a few articles which appeared at about the same time as Tim Bratton’s talk Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Europe last week. These articles cover the marketing, the practical and … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems webinar: the Challenges of Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations on 21 September
One keeps hearing of “Bribery Act fatigue”, with the implication that companies and their lawyers either think that the subject was oversold or that the absence of a headline prosecution implies that we can all relax. The sense of urgency … Continue reading
Huron Legal: Cross-Border eDiscovery Breakfast in New York on 21 September
The US is considering possible rule changes in relation to preservation. The UK is tackling case management and costs management. Australia is chewing over the recent report on electronic discovery. New Zealand has a new ediscovery practice direction coming shortly. … Continue reading
The Emerging Technologies Panel at ILTA 2011: remote collections and predictive coding
It would be fair to say that, more than two weeks on, my notes of the Emerging Technologies panel at ILTA are less decipherable than I might have hoped. That is in fact a tribute to Daniel Lim of Guidance … Continue reading
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
ILTA 2011 – the end of the beginning? We’re just getting going
I am back from the annual conference of ILTA, the International Litigation Technology Association, in Nashville, Tennessee. The original draft of this post said that I was “just back” but (as more than one correspondent has reminded me) time has … Continue reading
ILTA 2011 comes to life at Nashville
ILTA 2011 is slowly coming to life downstairs, but the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center is so large that I am getting my information about it from tweets rather than from my own observation – there could be a … Continue reading
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Three new sponsors and HP buys Autonomy – all in a week’s work
This was never going to be a relaxing week, sandwiched as it was between a conference in Singapore and ILTA 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. At least I had written all my Singapore articles by the time I landed at Heathrow … Continue reading
Huron Consulting goes with Nuix
I rarely pass on press releases without some accompanying context, focusing on a few big articles rather than many snippets, but this one headed Huron Consulting replaces Autonomy with Nuix caught my eye as it was published. Nuix provides software … Continue reading
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Senior Master Whitaker raises the eDiscovery stakes for unprepared litigants
You are busy, I know, and here is another 3,000 words to read. I will repeat here at the top the paragraph with which this article ends, as a taster for what Master Whitaker said in his plenary session speech … Continue reading
A Flock of Articles on Computer-Assisted Document Review
What tells the swallows to gather on the telegraph wires before starting their migration southwards? One has to ignore, I think, the possibility that the telegraph wires are part of their communications network. Perhaps the birds all use an avian version of … Continue reading
The Value of eDiscovery Self-Collection Tools
I mentioned in a recent post that membership of Guidance Software’s Strategic Advisory Board brought the pleasure of seeing developments work through from concept to production to adoption. One of the most exciting of these was Guidance’s EnCase Portable. The … Continue reading
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
Strong eDiscovery behind the Q2 numbers at Epiq Systems
I have made it clear in an earlier article that analysing the detail of company accounts is neither one of my strengths nor my interests. One has to pay some attention, however, to an announcement which reads Epiq Systems announces … Continue reading
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Drawing conclusions from Guidance Software’s Q2 2011 financial results
I do not claim any expertise in deciphering trends from the quarterly figures published by the leading players in the eDiscovery industry. I know what I am good at, and the analysis of corporate accounts is not on the list. … Continue reading
CY4OR web site brings forensics to lay lawyers
A nice reference has turned up on CY4OR’s website to supplement the words like “professionalism”, “expertise” and “excellent” which recur amongst their testimonials. The one I like reads as follows: Professional and prompt service and able to “dumb down” the … Continue reading
Welcome to kCura as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
It is a great pleasure to welcome kCura as the latest sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project. The connection goes back a bit, and the arrival of their logo on my sites is part of a continuing if intermittent strand … Continue reading
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A lull in the Predictive Coding battle
The role of a journalist in war, it is said, is to come down from the hills after the battle and bayonet the wounded. I will content myself with a tour of the battlefield. If this means nothing to you, … Continue reading
ZyLAB eDiscovery tools as a prototype for removing discovery bottlenecks
When evaluating products of any kind, it is helpful to know how they will cope with the extremes. Cars are road-tested at speeds and in conditions far removed from the everyday experience of most drivers; the specifications for cameras and … Continue reading
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LDM Global and AccessData announce strategic partnership
I was going to say that the strategic partnership recently announced by LDM Global and AccessData is like a wedding announcement – two people you know publish their intention to tie the knot and you think “Ahh, made for each … Continue reading
Lawyer Invitational Golf Tournaments raise money for Children’s Hospital
My friend Robert Childress of Wave Software draws my attention to the Lawyer Invitational Golf Tournaments, the next of which takes place on 18 July at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester NYC. I see that the Westchester event kicks … Continue reading
Time to take the next steps: a Hong Kong eDiscovery conference
Leaving aside Australian conferences, this was my fourth AsiaPac event. Two years ago, I co-chaired a conference for LexisNexis in Singapore. Shortly after that, Jeffrey Teh and others from LexisNexis set up InnoXcell to bring business events to the region. … Continue reading
Predictive Coding Wars: Recommind Contra Mundum
It is a novel experience to spend a whole Saturday writing a 4,330-word article whose conclusion is that none of its subject-matter is really very important to one’s readers, however much it means to the participants in the story. If … Continue reading
Georgetown Law eDiscovery Training Academy crosses the bridge
The technology I really want to see is a time machine or some kind of teleportation device. I once attended conferences in Barcelona and Sydney in the same week. I have had breakfast in Sydney and dinner in Washington on … Continue reading
eDiscovery in Germany: moderating a conference for AccessData in Frankfurt
It was a dark and stormy night, and as he watched the lightning split the clouds and heard the thunder rolling across the castle’s turrets and towers, he thought sod this for a game of soldiers. With six unbroken hours … Continue reading
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Epiq Breakfast Seminar on Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations on 14 June
Epiq Systems is holding a breakfast seminar in London on 14 June called the Challenges of Cross Border Regulatory Investigations. The speakers are Professor Dominic Regan, David Cracknell of Slaughter and May, Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy, Mark Surguy … Continue reading
East, West Home’s Best – to a Midlands Law Firm with Epiq Systems
A trip by train to talk to a regional law firm gives an excuse to recommend the iPad as a library of those documents you will never read at your desk, and to recommend two papers in particular which address … Continue reading
Nigel Murray takes to his wheels again for Help the Heroes
It is that time of year again. Nigel Murray of Huron Legal sets off this weekend for another arduous cycle ride across Northern France in aid of the charity Help for Heroes. His blog page is suspiciously light on training … Continue reading
LDM Global takes the UK Bribery Act and the FCPA to New York
As befits any ediscovery / edisclosure company with the word “Global” in its name, LDM Global is running in New York an equivalent of the session which I did with them and McGuireWoods recently in London. Called the UK Bribery … Continue reading
Final Reminder: AccessData EDiscovery Seminar in Frankfurt on 7 June
This is a final reminder of an event taking place in Frankfurt on Tuesday 7 June at which I am moderating a conference on ediscovery for EU, and specifically German, companies. The conference, which is organised by AccessData, includes a … Continue reading
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The Gartner Magic Quadrant for EDiscovery Software and other EDiscovery Market Matters
As I have often said, I am content to stick to my own part of the e-Disclosure / e-Discovery world and leave others to theirs. Deciphering market trends is the job of analysts; journalists can react quickly to news; the … Continue reading
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eDisclosure Information Project 