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CPR, CMC, WTF …. and OCD: eDiscovery stories keep rolling in
I have a stream of short articles coming. This is just some background noise. I observed in a tweet last week that I had overlooked the Twitter presence of an interesting legal software development company, Neota Logic. “Might be because … Continue reading
Epiq Systems seminar focuses on the new Costs Management rules
Epiq Systems held an extremely informative seminar on the new costs regime earlier this week. You will find at the end of this post a link to the video made on the day with the strong recommendation that you watch … Continue reading
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Discussing eDisclosure round the table at the Brewery
The fact that we enjoyed ourselves at the TGCI eDisclosure event in London did not make it any less of a serious forum for discussion. The round-table format, the complete absence of PowerPoint slides, and the invitation to delegates to … Continue reading
Jackson events next week with Epiq and Consilio and guides from Judge Brown, Dominic Regan and Kerry Underwood
A tweet last week compared the first few days of the new case and costs management regime with 1939 – the reference was not intended to evoke anything belligerent but that period of uneasy calm known as the Phoney War … Continue reading
Nuix and the Global Offshore Money Maze – tools and skills go beyond conventional eDiscovery
Whilst this story has Nuix software as its inspiration, the point is a wider one – where do you start when you don’t know where to start on a large collection of data? A combination of software and shoe leather … Continue reading
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Comfortable apathy for anyone? Some Jackson case management and costs management commentary
I am working on some material to add to the Resources section of my web site about the case management and costs management aspects of Jackson. There is, as you would expect, a great deal of comment flying around at … Continue reading
Use of technology-assisted review and costs-shifting in US patent case has UK parallels
One of the main differences between the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the Civil Procedure Rules of England and Wales is that England and Wales is a costs-shifting jurisdiction by default. That means that the winner can expect to … Continue reading
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Huron Legal hosts post-LegalTech discussion in London
Nigel Murray, managing director of Huron Legal in London, was the host this week of a discussion and dinner at the Cavalry and Guards club whose purpose was a roundup of LegalTech from a UK perspective. This has become a … Continue reading
Preservation and proportionality on the agenda for US litigation
There is a lot going on in the eDiscovery / eDisclosure world at the moment, what with new Civil Procedure Rules in England and Wales, and with products, appointments and webinars to write about and conferences to plan for. There … Continue reading
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Welcome to UBIC as new sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
It is a pleasure to welcome UBIC as a new sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project. Theirs is a name which I have known about for some time, but it was only at LegalTech that I had the opportunity of … Continue reading
FTI Report – Advice from Counsel by Ari Kaplan: Trends that will change E-Discovery
As it did last year, FTI Technology has commissioned a study by Ari Kaplan called Advice from Counsel Trends that Will Change E-Discovery (and What to Do About Them Now). This is based on interviews with 30 inside counsel with … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems survey points to a rise in UK and European eDisclosure
A new survey by Epiq Systems throws light on the recurring (and generally unanswerable) question as to the amount of eDiscovery work in the UK and Europe. One cannot assess the actual volumes, but it is helpful to know what … Continue reading
The end of an era: law firms, eDiscovery, Susskind, the year 1599, dinosaurs, and a yellow scooter
Sometimes one gets the sense of being tangibly at the end of an era – the door is closing and, perhaps, others are opening. I felt like that, quite suddenly, on my way to LegalTech in New York a few … Continue reading
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The Jackson Reforms encourage proportionate eDisclosure / eDiscovery in any jurisdiction
I am taking part in a panel discussion at LegalTech next week with Integreon and kCura on the subject of the Jackson Reforms. We will emphasise that the rule changes generally reflect duties to which lawyers are subject anyway, and … Continue reading
Reed Smith: 6 reasons to Insource Litigation Support
A lot of what I write suggests to law firms that their clients’ interests and, indeed, their own, may lie in delegating much of their eDiscovery / eDisclosure function to others. I usually link this to Professor Richard Susskind’s observation … Continue reading
Some predictive coding resources useful for UK lawyers
I am increasingly being asked to talk about predictive coding in the UK, and the subject warrants an article of its own. I will come to that shortly, but meanwhile point you to two articles published in the last few … Continue reading
Symantec data retention survey highlights gap between retention beliefs and practices
All surveys, in any industry, have the aim of promoting the company which commissions them – why else would they bother? A new survey about document retention beliefs and practices – and the gulf between them – is, however, valuable … Continue reading
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Tagged Trevor Daughney
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Where are we now on legal hold and self collection?
Commentators in other jurisdictions, me included, have expressed wonder at the procedural hurdles which US case law developments in the past six years have placed in the way of parties preparing to give discovery. We don’t criticise the need to … Continue reading
Taking Predictive Discovery out of the black box
Part of my role is to help those responsible for eDiscovery / eDisclosure to identify the products and services which they might consider when deciding on the “tools and techniques” (as the UK Practice Direction 31B puts it) to be … Continue reading
Applying science to the validation of technology-assisted review
Dr David Grossman is Associate Director of the Georgetown Information Retrieval Library and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has recently written a paper called Measuring and Validating the Effectiveness of Relativity Assisted … 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
Standing back from the Delaware predictive coding case
The Delaware Hooters case promotes not just predictive coding specifically but the idea that lawyers must consider all appropriate tools and techniques to reduce the burden of eDiscovery / eDisclosure. That approach will be required in Engalnd and Wales by … 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
The main messages from eDiscovery Ireland 2012 in Dublin
I have written an introductory piece which gave a context to the excellent eDiscovery Ireland 2012 conference which took place last week in Dublin – see eDiscovery in Ireland – coming from behind gives opportunities to get it right. The overall … Continue reading
The use of technology in regulatory investigations
Hobs Legal Docs was the sponsor of an interesting article in The Lawyer recently which emphasised the need to use technology to respond quickly to regulatory demands. Those who find themselves overwhelmed by the timetables for eDisclosure / eDiscovery in … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 20 October
Here is a summary of the (relatively few) eDiscovery updates posted on my Google Plus page between 14 and 20 October. ______________________________ Xerox adds streamlined redaction to its upgraded Omnix 5.4 discovery platform The headline feature in the new release … 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
What exactly is defensible deletion?
Philip Favro of Symantec, in an article called Defensible Deletion: The Cornerstone of Intelligent Information Governance on the eDiscovery 2.0 blog, defines defensible deletion as “a comprehensive approach that companies implement to reduce the storage costs and legal risks associated with the … Continue reading
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Hobs Legal Docs and Relativity maximise the value of the clients’ own eDisclosure review
How much work should the clients put into their own eDisclosure / eDiscovery? We express caution at the idea that the clients should collect their own data, largely because of the risk that they will damage its integrity in the … Continue reading
Guidance Software webinar today: Five best practices in eDiscovery readiness
There is a webinar today at 2:00pm EDT given by Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software, and me, with the title Five Best Practices in eDiscovery Readiness. Corporations of any size face litigation, regulatory requests, or the need to … Continue reading
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
UK-based Legal IQ makes a success of their Washington eDiscovery Exchange
There is much more to organising a conference than the mechanics of bookings, venues and other practical things. It requires a good understanding of the industry to which the conference is addressed, a wide range of connections in that industry, … Continue reading
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
New data sources drive innovative eDiscovery forensics at Millnet
The appointment of Stuart Clarke to head a new forensics function at Millnet gives me an opportunity to set out here something which I cover in some of my eDisclosure / eDiscovery talks. The general theme there is that, important … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery Updates to 9 September 2012
This adopts my experimental new format which bundles my Google Plus posts for a period (not necessarily a fixed period) and makes their text available here, together with links to the G+ posts, to the source and to some of … Continue reading
Short eDiscovery updates to 28 August 2012
I am increasingly using Google Plus to supplement the main articles in this blog. This allows me to cover a wider range of topics, mainly links to articles by others, to webinar announcements and to other things which would otherwise … Continue reading
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LawTech Europe Congress in Prague on 12 November
My series of articles on future eDisclosure/eDiscovery conferences keeps being interrupted by my attendance at current conferences, most recently by a week at ILTA 2012 in Washington D.C. The conference season now seems to last all year, at least for … Continue reading
Proportionality and a choice of technology from Hobs Legal Docs
Recent posts by Hobs Legal Docs remind us that the problems raised by e-Disclosure are resolved by adherence to principles like proportionality as well as by the selection of appropriate technology. You don’t need scientific proof (though it exists, apparently) … Continue reading
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
Taking time to think about Proportionality and Preservation in eDiscovery
The demos, the cases and the formal meetings are an important part of gathering information, but it is good, occasionally, to lift one’s head from the hard-edged material which flows around you and just kick ideas around without an agenda. … Continue reading
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FTI Predictive Coding webinar today – what does counsel really think about predictive coding?
FTI Technology is putting on a series of webcasts about predictive coding. The first of them is TODAY at 13.00 ET with the title Survey Results: What Does Counsel Really Think About Predictive Coding? The speakers are Ari Kaplan, Joe Looby of … Continue reading
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
Epiq Systems: document review in Hong Kong, Zoom from Equivio and covered in eDJ
eDiscovery provider Epiq Systems seems to be popping up all over the place at the moment. Grouping the various sources together has the benefit, for me as well as for them, that those new to this subject can see how … Continue reading
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
Dean Gonsowski of Symantec on the eDiscovery maturity model
An interesting article on InsideCounsel by Dean Gonsowski of Symantec-Clearwell called The e-Discovery Maturity Model considers the stages through which an organisation goes through in reaching a level of skill and competence appropriate to the issues which it faces. Picking up on a … Continue reading
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Recommind and Fulbright panel debunks predictive coding myths
I have already linked once to Monica Bay’s article Panel Debunks Predictive Coding Myths reporting on a panel discussion between Howard Sklar of Recommind and David Kessler of Fulbright & Jaworski. Both of them were discussing similar points at the Carmel … Continue reading
Knowledge workers and project managers in eDiscovery
Mark Yacano and Cat Casey of Hudson Legal have published the third and final of their InsideCounsel series on the role of knowledge workers and project managers in eDiscovery. Their theme is the changing role of those who both undertake … Continue reading
Recent posts on Google+ on eDiscovery and other legal subjects
Being away, and with only random access to the Internet, focuses one’s mind on the most efficient way of capturing interesting articles as Twitter (my main source) dishes them up. Whatever its other virtues, Twitter is no good as an … Continue reading
Predictive coding on the move
“The move” in my article’s title maybe taken to refer to the advances in the take-up of predictive coding in the last few months. In fact it is me who is moving– I am on a California road trip with … Continue reading
Huron opens document review facility in India
Huron Consulting Group has extended its global eDiscovery offerings by opening a document review centre and data operations team in India. As a result, Huron now has 1,500 review seats at nine locations in the US, the UK and India. … Continue reading
More about the Legal Hold and ECA Optimization Service from Guidance Software
I referred in a recent article to a new service offered by Guidance Software to users of its EnCase eDiscovery software. It sounded sufficiently interesting for me to schedule a call with Timothy Bailey, Senior Director of Professional Services at … Continue reading
Make another firm’s risk your competitive opportunity – a paper for CY4OR
CY4OR have published a paper written by me called Make another firm’s risk your competitive opportunity. CY4OR’s main business is electronic disclosure and litigation support, forensic data collection, and digital forensics for civil and criminal proceedings. It has wider interests, … Continue reading
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Podcast: explaining present and future UK eDisclosure rules and practice
A podcast recorded with Symantec aimed at explaining UK discovery rules and procedures for a US audience is a helpful summary for UK lawyers and clients as well. When I first took on the role of explaining UK electronic disclosure, … Continue reading
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The Nuix Information Governance Forum: a defensible deletion case study of massive proportions
This is a continuation of a series of posts about the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held in June at Palm Beach in Florida. This session was moderated by Carolyn Betts, marketing director at Nuix. The panel comprised Dan Regard of … Continue reading
Keeping up with developments at Guidance Software
New tools and initiatives keep arriving from Guidance Software, helping to support Guidance’s position in the “Leaders” quadrant of Gartner’s 2012 Magic Quadrant for eDiscovery Software. That news broke whilst I was at CEIC 2012, Guidance Software’s growing (1500 delegates this … Continue reading
Epiq Systems London judicial panel points to future of technology-assisted review
The original invitation to Epiq Systems’ panel debate on judicial attitudes to technology assisted review said that the speakers would be Senior Master Whitaker and US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck. That was enough to have me book my place, but … Continue reading
The Nuix Information Governance Forum: Defining the IG Problem
Any attempt to write up the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held recently at Palm Beach in Florida, neatly illustrates the very point which was central to the discussions there – one ends up with an awful lot of data, in … Continue reading
Seeing rather too much of London this week
Fate is usually kind enough to give me spaces between the big events and time enough to write them up before the next one. Fate has not been so kind this week: with two major events yet unreported (Hong Kong … Continue reading
Predictive Coding: video interview with Master Whitaker and an SCL article
Recommind has published a video in which I interview Senior Master Whitaker and Computers & Law has published a related article which I wrote to accompany the video. I try and keep a rough balance in these pages between subjects … Continue reading
Huron and Epiq expand managed review and legal staffing in Washington
Just as I pressed the Publish button on my article of last night (Discussing UK eDisclosure developments with Judge Brown and Huron Legal), which referred to Huron’s acquisition of Ascertus, a Huron press release came in about its next acquisition, … Continue reading
Notes from Hong Kong: Opening dialogue – Barry Murphy of eDJ Group and Craig Carpenter of Recommind
This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. And so to the conference itself, in two rooms overlooking the water. Many events like this take place in gloomy basements, … Continue reading
Far from the Black Box: explaining Equivio Relevance to Lawyers
The latest addition to Equivio‘s comprehensive set of resources on its smart new website is a paper by me called Far from the Black Box: explaining Equivio Relevance to Lawyers. I am developing a deep dislike of the expression “black … Continue reading
Discussing UK eDisclosure developments with Judge Brown and Huron Legal
You might easily get the impression at this time of year that I am spending more time abroad than in the UK. Statistically, that is not (quite) the case, though it is fair to say that I have spent an … Continue reading
Notes from Hong Kong: Dinner with Richard Kershaw of FTI Technology
This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. I have reported elsewhere that I heard a rumour of a senior appointment at FTI’s Hong Kong office, and deduced that they … Continue reading
Back from the Nuix Information Governance Forum in Palm Beach
The Nuix Information Governance Forum, which has just closed in Palm Beach, Florida, was a late entry into my calendar. Nuix CEO Eddie Sheehy mentioned it to me when we were in Hong Kong a couple of weeks ago and it … Continue reading
CY4OR draws attention to the value of CCTV evidence
EDisclosure and forensics services provider CY4OR have an interesting article on their smart new web site about the use of CCTV to catch criminals in the act. Much of the article is about a CCTV network which has been established … Continue reading
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kCura White Paper: workflow for computer-assisted review in Relativity
kCura has released a short and clear white paper called Understanding the Components of Computer-Assisted Review and the Workflow that Ties Them Together. It has a short foreword from Katey Wood at ESG which takes as its starting point that … Continue reading
Third Millnet eDisclosure podcast on predictive coding
I have just recorded the third in a series of short podcasts with James Moeskops, managing director at London eDiscovery provider Millnet. It is available here, without any registration forms to complete. The first of these podcasts looked at what … Continue reading
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
Epiq Systems to host UK–US judicial discussion in London on technology-assisted review
Epiq Systems have invited Senior Master Steven Whitaker and US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck to take part in a panel discussion about the use of technology-assisted review in litigation. The panel, to be moderated by Epiq’s Laura Kibbe, will take … Continue reading
A post-Hong Kong holding post
I spent last week in Hong Kong at the Asia eDiscovery Exchange 2012 organised by InnoXcell. A lot of good stuff came out of that conference and it will take me a while to turn my draft report into a … Continue reading
ZyLAB webinar – Bridging the gap between corporations and law firms
I recorded a webinar with ZyLAB’s Johannes Scholtes last week in which we revisited a topic we have covered before – the gap which exists between companies and their lawyers on the subject of information governance and the anticipation of … Continue reading
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Investing to avoid the mere imputation of sanctionable eDiscovery conduct
Jim Shook, Director in EMC’s eDiscovery and Compliance Field Practice, has published an article on the Kazeon blog called Activating Your Information Management Shield whose central part considers two cases where legal hold sanctions were threatened; both cases involved the deletion of … Continue reading
Early Data Assessment – a webinar with AccessData and Apersee
I took part in a webinar yesterday with Caitlin Murphy of AccessData, Tom Gelbmann and George Socha of Apersee, and Chad Papenfuss of the Federal Trade Commission. Our subject was Early Data Assessment and the title we gave to it … Continue reading
Hobs Legal Docs takes Relativity and makes a senior appointment
London-based litigation and document management provider Hobs Legal Docs has made two significant announcements whilst I have been on my travels. The first was the appointment of Patrick Rowan as Sales Director and as a Board Director of Hobs Legal Docs Ltd. … Continue reading
Metrics, Social Media, Magistrates, Monkeys and Mitigating Risk at CEIC 2012 in Las Vegas
I am not above inventing a headline whose connection with the subject-matter is less important than its potential for attracting readers curious to know what the article has got to do with eDiscovery. In this case, the headline is an … Continue reading
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
Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong claiming eDiscovery attention
Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong only look close together when viewed from a long way away. They all have a common law eDiscovery tradition, but it is coincidence of timing rather than any specific commonality which groups them together … Continue reading
Interview with James Moeskops of Millnet on Predictive Coding
In the light of Judge Peck’s Da Silva Moore Opinion approving the use of predictive coding in US Federal civil proceedings, I recently interviewed James Moeskops of Millnet about the use of this technology in English courts. The result is … Continue reading
A reminder of Nigel Murray’s bike ride for Help for Heroes
I saw on the news last night the funeral of yet another British soldier killed in Afghanistan. He was married to a local girl and had three boys. He was 25. It reminded me about this year’s Big Battlefield Bike … Continue reading
Reed Smith chooses Equivio Zoom for Predictive Coding and Analytics and Relativity for Review
Since both Equivio and Relativity sponsor the work of the eDisclosure Information Project, I am necessarily interested in reports of their big sales. I do not, however, write about every success on the part of those who fund what I … Continue reading
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Greg Wildisen of Epiq Systems on Predictive Coding in UK eDisclosure
The Society for Computers and Law has published on its website an article by Greg Wildisen, International Managing Director at Epiq Systems with the title E-disclosure: Training Technology. Epiq offers predictive coding through the integration of Equivio’s Relevance product into Epiq’s … Continue reading
Mary Mack of ZyLAB: eDiscovery – A Focus on Cost Saving and Winning
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel recently interviewed Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel for ZyLAB. The result is published as eDiscovery – a Focus on Cost Saving and Winning. Subjects include moves by corporate counsel to take more control of eDiscovery, the ongoing … 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
Relativity – channelling the enthusiasm at kCura
kCura’s growth prompts thoughts about how companies and industries (and empires and whole civilisations come to that) start and grow, and how they must keep moving forward to stay at the top. The accepted wisdom, promoted by Gartner in its … Continue reading
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Equivio spells out predictive coding basics on ESIBytes podcast
Yet again, I find myself pointing to one of Karl Schieneman’s ESIBytes podcasts as a source of timely and coherent explanations of topical eDiscovery issues. Predictive coding inevitably dominates at the moment, thanks to the coincidence of the Da Silva … Continue reading
Traps for the unwary – the cross-over between social media and eDisclosure
Social media and electronic disclosure are two important subjects which many companies and their lawyers would rather ignore – their very names are enough to strike apathy into many hearts. eDisclosure provider CY4OR has joined forces with others to promote … Continue reading
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Proof Finder 2 from Nuix now on video
Proof Finder 2 is a limited edition version of Nuix’s investigations and eDiscovery software tool which, in an imaginative exercise, the company is selling for $100 per licence per year. It has all the functionality of the full product, subject … Continue reading
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OrcaTec’s Herb Roitblat gets the measure of the Da Silva Moore Plaintiffs
If you are not yet familiar with the plaintiffs’ arguments about predictive coding (I use the word “about” in its broadest sense, since much of the argument appears to be about some completely different agenda) in Da Silva Moore v. … Continue reading
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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