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Category Archives: ZyLAB
ZyLAB webinar with ACEDS today: optimising your public disclosure and FOIA response process
ZyLAB is presenting a webinar today at 1:00pm EST in conjunction with ACEDS with the title Practical online workshop: optimising your public disclosure and FOIA response process. The emphasis in the webinar is on practical suggestions as to how cities, … Continue reading
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ZyLAB introduces eDiscovery as a service
As I noted in a recent article, ZyLAB has been producing search software, and applying it to eDiscovery requirements, for many years. Most ZyLAB users own and manage their software in-house. ZyLAB now, however, delivers its eDiscovery solutions in a … Continue reading
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ZyLAB: delivering eDiscovery technologies since before eDiscovery was invented
When I wrote about the UK Pyrrho predictive coding judgment on 23 February, I referred to the first information retrieval application I ever used, saying this: If the Master did indeed see “primitive versions of this kind of process” in … Continue reading
ZyLAB and ACEDS webinar on 10 March: Optimising your FOIA request process from start to finish
Corporate decisions about introducing eDiscovery software tend to focus on the big events such as major litigation, regulatory investigations and internal investigations. Like every other investment proposal, eDiscovery specification involves an analysis of cost and benefit, including an attempt to … Continue reading
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ZyLAB webinar on 17 December: reflections on 2015 and looking forward to 2016
ZyLAB and ACEDS have organised a webinar for 17 December with the title The end of the year webinar – leading eDiscovery experts reflect on 2015 and look forward to 2016. Craig Ball, George Socha, Bill Speros, Johannes Scholtes and … Continue reading
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Cross-border discovery, unconventional sources of data and some unexpected artificial intelligence in Brussels
The core of this post is my account of the LawTech Europe Congress in Brussels. If the opening wrap-around stuff about Brussels, Bruges, bureaucrats and a Belgian farm is not to your taste, you can skip straight to the heading … Continue reading
ZyLAB’s loss is ACEDS’ gain as Mary Mack becomes Executive Director
The Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS) has appointed Mary Mack as its executive director. Mary Mack was most recently the Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB, responsible not only for hands-on consulting but for furthering ZyLAB’s educational agenda. I have enjoyed … Continue reading
The European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) uses ZyLAB to uncover fraud
The European Anti Fraud Office (OLAF) is responsible for investigating allegations of fraud, corruption and other irregular activity affecting the EU budget. In 2014, OLAF investigated 1,417 allegations of possible fraud. It uses ZyLAB’s technology, and in particular its search … Continue reading
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ZyLAB webinar today: selecting the right eDiscovery solution for your company
eDiscovery software and consulting company ZyLAB is producing a webinar today, 4 June, at 1:00pm ET, with the title Selecting the right eDiscovery solution for your company. The word “solution” in this context implies both the software selected for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Johannes Scholtes, Mary Mack
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ZyLAB webinar today: dealing with the complexity of multinational litigation
ZyLAB is presenting a webinar today, 27 May, at 1:00pm ET with the title Dealing with the complexity of multinational litigation. These speakers are Gregory Bufithis, managing director of eTERA Consulting Europe, and Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB, … Continue reading
Launch of the Information Governance Initiative
The most interesting topic of discussion at LegalTech 2014 was not some new technology nor the proposed revisions to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, but the launch of the Information Governance Initiative. That is certainly not to dismiss the … Continue reading
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Washington and New York to Mitchell via privacy, Singapore and Lobachevsky
The problem with running a website which offers news and updates is that people notice when it lies silent – the essence of news is that it is new. In fact, I have never aspired to timeliness and, as I … Continue reading
Germany moves to restrict US data transfers as PRISM concerns grow
Buried deep in my article Cross-border discovery and privacy gaps widen thanks to PRISM and trolls was a reference to an article by Hunton & Williams called German DPAs Halt Data Transfer Approvals and Consider Suspending Transfers Based on Safe … Continue reading
A representative selection of sessions at the IQPC London Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit
I avoid lists, on the whole. Apart from the fact that one can sense the readers bleeding away, there is always the risk of omitting somebody or something, or of appearing to give an unintended priority to one thing rather … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
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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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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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
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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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
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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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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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
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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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
Audio Search and Geolocation from ZyLAB
Two new developments from ZyLAB are worth passing on. In contrast to some players in this market, ZyLAB produces press releases which are short and to the point, without the boilerplate wrappers so beloved of others which set you nodding … Continue reading
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ZyLAB half-day seminar on 6 April: the UK Bribery Act – controlling the impact on your organisation
E-discovery and information management software provider ZyLAB is hosting a half-day seminar on the UK Bribery Act in Middle Temple Hall on 6 April starting at 9:30am. ZyLAB’s applications stretch from the long-term information management requirements of companies through to … Continue reading
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Levelling out after LegalTech
LegalTech, UK educational sessions and calls from law firms, an LPO conference, Irish eDiscovery, litigation as an invisible export, legal blogging in New York and eDiscovery in Germany all help to pass the time. By and large, I find that … Continue reading
Welcome to ZyLAB as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
You will have noticed the addition of another new logo to the collection of those who sponsor the e-Disclosure Information Project. ZyLAB joined up before Christmas, and I deferred writing my usual welcome piece because of a plan to go … Continue reading
Webinars from ZyLAB and LDM Global
I do not catch the news of all the webinars which take place about e-discovery / e-disclosure. Their announcements fly by on Twitter or elsewhere and are gone before I can pick them up. Two of them came by today, … Continue reading
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