Category Archives: eDisclosure

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

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Milberg sets out comprehensive arguments in favour of technology assisted review

I do not often look at an article and wish that I had written it, but that was my reaction to a comprehensive piece written by a team from law firm Milberg. Called Technology Assisted Review from the Plaintiffs’ Side … Continue reading

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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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Ralph Losey on the Georgetown TAR / CAR / Predictive Coding panels

How can we make Predictive Coding / Technology Assisted Review / Computer Assisted Review, accessible to potential users when we cannot even agree on a name for it? I favour predictive coding because it refers unambiguously to a specific class … Continue reading

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Impatient US judges push lawyers to be more proactive in early stages of litigation – what about the UK?

Two articles in succession came under my eye at the same time, one a report of a US judicial panel, the other a summary of pending rules changes in England and Wales. I was going to write separate articles about … Continue reading

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Catching up, looking back and moving on

Mike Taylor of i-Lit Paralegals ends his SCL predictions by saying of 2053 that “Chris Dale will have found a way of being in two places at once”. That is not in fact one of my aspirations, and one day … Continue reading

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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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A Hong Kong eDiscovery snapshot in the company of Epiq Systems

On the surface, my area of professional interest looks pretty narrow. When I launched the eDisclosure Information Project, its proposed scope was implied by the word “eDisclosure” – only the civil jurisdiction of England and Wales uses the term “disclosure”, and … Continue reading

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Around the eDiscovery world in 35 days

You may have noticed a certain sporadic element in my written output recently, with patches of silence interspersed with blocks of posts. That pattern will continue through the rest of November, thanks to a conjunction of events in the UK … Continue reading

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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

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Judicial activism: Delaware judge orders both sides to use predictive coding

I am all for judicial activism, and certainly for judicial endorsement of the informed (and preferably consensual) use by litigation parties of a range of technology tools which have been developed to manage the time and costs of litigation discovery. … Continue reading

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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

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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

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eDiscovery in Ireland – coming from behind gives opportunities to get it right

There is a long-running quiz in the Sunday Times called Where Was I? Geographical, historical and literary information is given and two questions are asked, one of which is usually “Where was I?”. Let’s try the same with the conference … Continue reading

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What is legal when collecting and processing personal data?

As with so many subjects, cross-border discovery has many aspects to cover, and it is sometimes helpful to pull out a sub-set and look at it on its own. A helpful page on the European Commission Justice website called Collecting … Continue reading

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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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Regional and personal data privacy controls in the local cloud from Bloomberg Vault

Compliance with data privacy controls is much more than an eDiscovery / eDisclosure problem. Those whose primary focus is eDiscovery tend to see data privacy compliance as an obstacle which stands in the way and complicates data collection for litigation … 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

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iCONECT + EMC SourceOne – Kazeon equals seamless workflow integration

Two of the most interesting shifts in the eDiscovery market in recent years are embraced by the words “consolidation” and “integration”. “Consolidation” implies that one company has bought another to fill a gap in its portfolio, to broaden its client-base … Continue reading

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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

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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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Video promotion for Prague eDiscovery conference on 12 November

I have already expressed my respect for the way in which Fred Gyebi-Ababio has brought his new LawTech Europe Congress from a standing start to an impressive-looking program. The conference home page now sports a video which reinforces my impression … Continue reading

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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

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TransPerfect acquires Digital Reef for fast processing and ECA tools

In my recent article ILTA 2012 Part 3 – Some market observations I said this: There are rumours of at least one significant acquisition – by “significant”, I mean that a major player will buy a strong but smaller niche … Continue reading

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ILTA 2012 Part 5 – Future ILTA events

This is the last of my series of articles about the ILTA conference in Washington in August. What else is ILTA doing around the world? ILTA has recently partnered with ALM, the owners of LegalTech. Apart from LegalTech itself, the next of … 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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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

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Changes coming in the litigation and eDisclosure landscape

Justice requires full disclosure of all potentially relevant electronic documents. Lawyers will always take the lead in managing electronic disclosure / eDiscovery. It is impossible to budget for the costs of litigation. Judges making disclosure orders just tick default boxes … 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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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

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ILTA 2012 Part 4 – The end of the show: the ILTA awards dinner

This is the fourth of five articles about ILTA 2012. Whatever may happen at other awards dinners, this one celebrates the people who lead by an example in an industry which needs them. ILTA ends with a big dinner, with … Continue reading

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ILTA 2012 Part 3 – Some market observations

This is the third of five posts about ILTA 2013. The preceding one ended with the observation that there was much to gain from just talking with people. That may include application-specific tips, ideas about department organisation or training, and … Continue reading

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ILTA 2012 Part 2 – My own ILTA Conference

This is the second of five posts about ILTA 2012. In other posts I talk generally about the benefits of going to ILTA’s big conference, about some of the themes which emerged and about the ILTA Peer awards. This one … Continue reading

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No disclosure in New South Wales Equity Division without exceptional circumstances

I have referred before to Practice Note SC EQ 11 in the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Its key paragraph reads as follows: The Court will not make an order for disclosure of documents (disclosure) … Continue reading

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ILTA 2012 Part 1 – Why you might want to go to ILTA next year

This is the first of five articles about ILTA 2012 in Washington D.C. Why do we go, what is it like, what conclusions can one draw about the market? The main aim is to encourage you to go next year, … Continue reading

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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

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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

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The Masters Conference for Legal Professionals – Washington 8-10 October

I usually come only once to Washington in a year, with the Masters Conference as an annual fixture.  This year, I will be in Washington three times within a few weeks, but that does nothing to diminish my appreciation of … 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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IQPC Washington Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange

My next trip to Washington DC (I am there as I write, at ILTA) is for IQPC’s Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange which runs from 19 to 21 September at the Marriot Fairview Park. This event is organised by … Continue reading

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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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Gauging interest in eDiscovery Ireland in 2012

Online evidence and investigations specialist Cernam, who organised the extremely successful e-Discovery Ireland 2011 conference, are thinking of running it again. They are sensibly trying to gauge interest before committing to it, and have set up a web page to solicit … 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

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eDiscovery conferences coming up all over the place

I have updated the list of pending conferences on my web site, adding new ones and correcting dates, venues and URLs of those which have changed. I have included some which I am not going to – the EDI Leadership … Continue reading

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Time spent telling judges about their use of social media could be better spent on eDisclosure

Recent guidance from the UK’s Senior Presiding Judge and the Senior President of Tribunals fired a warning shot over the bows of judges who blog, a term which they helpfully define as being “derived from the term ‘web log’”. The … 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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Unexpectedly out of the loop as mother gives robust reply to hospital risk-assessment

A kind reader drops me a line to observe that more than a week has gone by without an article from me. The intermission is nothing to do with a lack of raw material – I still have the Carmel … Continue reading

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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Manslaughter (not), brand protection, Twitter censorship and crass Olympic coverage

I am back from nearly three weeks in the US and catching up slowly. Changing time zones does not bother me much, but it is tiresome how the world declines to stand still when one is away. I have already … Continue reading

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A holiday interval in California

As you may have gathered from my relative silence in these pages, I am on holiday. The primary reason for being in California is to attend the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat which has moved from the place which gave it … Continue reading

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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

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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

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iCONECT deals brings Xera to UK eDisclosure provider MD5 and to Integreon

You may recall my positive comments about iCONECT’s review platform Xera which was launched at LegalTech in February. I subsequently attended iCONECT’s Global Summit on Litigation Technology in Fort Lauderdale in April where I got a further opportunity to see … Continue reading

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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

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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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Susskind the practical futurist. For litigation at least, his future is here already.

Professor Richard Susskind was the keynote speaker at Lawtech Camp London. If his message was familiar to many of us, it bears repeating, certainly in relation to litigation, as the times catch up with his predictions. There is a good … 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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Xerox adds Viewpoint to its eDiscovery range by buying Lateral Data

Xerox’s acquisition of Lateral Data adds significantly to the range of solutions which Xerox Litigation Services can offer to its clients, and provides further evidence that the eDiscovery market is fast consolidating into fewer hands. The announcement is here and Legal … 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

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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

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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

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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

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Content Obesity: an interesting parallel between human and corporate health problems

I have two reasons for referring you to an interesting pair of articles by IBM’s George Parapadakis on his personal blog For what it’s worth…. One is that they introduce an interesting parallel between growing data volumes and a medical … Continue reading

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Notes from Hong Kong: comparative eDiscovery regimes

This is a continuation of a series of roughly chronological mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. Craig Carpenter of Recommind was the moderator of a panel comprising Browning Marean of DLA Piper, Jeff Lane, a partner at King … Continue reading

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Singapore seeks SaaS discovery solution as London barristers set up shop there

The two subjects which comprise my heading are not directly related to each other save that they both point to Singapore’s continuing consolidation as a dispute resolution centre. The Singapore Academy of Law is inviting proposals from companies able to … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Notes from Hong Kong – talking about world eDiscovery

This is a continuation of a series of mini-posts following my recent visit to Hong Kong. Browning Marean of DLA Piper US is one of the few US lawyers who understands the difference between eDiscovery messages which travel and those … 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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Hobs Legal Docs adds Competition work to its eDisclosure skill-set

I mentioned a while back that London legal services provider Hobs Legal Docs had taken on Patrick Rowan from Ernst & Young as sales director. The press release is here but, as I often do with press releases, I have … Continue reading

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Notes from Hong Kong – Introduction

I am back from Hong Kong, where I took part in InnoXcell’s Asia eDiscovery Exchange and spent three days listening as much as talking, with the aim of finding out as much as possible about eDiscovery in the region. It … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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An eDiscovery, social media and libertarian miscellany

I am in Hong Kong, cursing that I left behind the USB thingie required by my wireless headset so that I must type everything by hand. I am here for InnoXcell’s Asia eDiscovery 2012 Exchange, and specifically for panels on … Continue reading

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New Zealand judge gives Megaupload founder the right to disclosure before extradition hearing

A New Zealand court has decided that Megauploads’ Kim Dotcom and others are entitled to disclosure of at least some documents to help them prepare their cases against the US government’s demand for their extradition. There is some irony in … Continue reading

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Costs management: Mr Justice Ramsay describes why it is necessary

I wrote recently about the coming regime of costs management in civil litigation – see Costs management moves closer in England and Wales. We now have a more authoritative reference document. Mr Justice Ramsay delivered a speech a few days … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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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Conference topics indicate the important eDiscovery and eDisclosure themes

That part of my life which involves speaking has four elements – preparation, travel, delivery and reporting. The month of May always has a full diary of events, and this year has more than usual. Of the four elements, the … Continue reading

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