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Google Plus eDiscovery and eDisclosure posts to 5 May
It has been a month since I published my last list of articles published on Google Plus and said that I would not be doing any more of them. I speedily repented of that as the stream of interesting articles … Continue reading
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Conor Crowley’s guidance on the Duty of Competence in e-Discovery applies beyond the US
Bloomberg BNA has published an article by Conor Crowley which looks at both the origins and the new developments in the lawyers’ Duty of Competence in eDiscovery. It is a US article about US rules and codes of conduct. The … Continue reading
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Scattershot innuendo and muck – the Defendants respond to the recusal motion in Da Silva Moore
So far as I can see, only two articles have been published so far to report on the defendant’s Memorandum of Law in response to the plaintiff’s motion for the recusal of Judge Peck in Da Silva Moore. That response … Continue reading
EU Commission under fire for its data protection reforms
EUObserver.com reports that EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding has come under fire, from the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party amongst others, for the scope of and proposed timescale for her proposed new data protection rules. These are seen by … 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
Peck predictive coding Opinion upheld: does anyone remember what this case is actually about?
It is fascinating to watch a story break on Twitter. The news that District Judge Carter had upheld US Magistrate Judge Peck’s opinion in Da Silva Moore appeared first as a rumour, probably within a few minutes of the promulgation … 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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Bye Bye Google Plus – for now at least
In case you are wondering at the number of short posts which I have put here this morning, I began the day intending to capture short notes on my Google Plus page. I have invested a fair amount of time … Continue reading
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The Orange Rag on consolidation in the eDiscovery market
Charles Christian’s Orange Rag brings us a helpful summary of the recent round of acquisitions in the eDiscovery sector with the heading The Great eDiscovery Shakeup – or is that Shakeout? and predicts that 2012 will see yet more of … 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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New Zealand’s new Discovery Rules and Electronic Discovery
New Zealand introduced new discovery rules in February 2012, making it the most recent common law jurisdiction to exercise closer control over how the lawyers and courts conduct the management of discovery – which inevitably means largely electronic discovery. His … Continue reading
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Interesting times in eDiscovery and outside it
I find that I field complaints if I fall silent for a few days. It is, of course, gratifying that anyone should notice, and a word or two of explanation might pre-empt the assumption that I have packed up and … Continue reading
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Articles on eDisclosure, eDiscovery, Cooperation and Privacy by UK and US Judges
For reasons which I may explain separately, I had banked on the Easter period being quiet on the eDiscovery front. On the whole, that hope was justified, with Twitter relatively quiet, few interesting things to pass on, e-mail volumes down, … Continue reading
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Using a neutral third party to resolve or prevent disclosure disputes
One of the most useful UK resources about electronic disclosure is Clive Freedman’s electronic disclosure wiki at http://www.eDisclosure.uk.com. Clive Freedman is a barrister at 3 Verulam Buildings and is (as I am) a member of Senior Master Whitaker’s working party … 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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My Google Plus eDiscovery and eDisclosure Posts to 31 March
Here is another of of the periodic lists of the short posts about eDisclosure and eDiscovery which go on my Google Plus page. This is in part a place to put short posts which link to things which might otherwise … Continue reading
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Jackson – Solicitors must be ready for electronic working
I was sorry not to make it to Lord Justice Jackson’s speech to the Society for Computers & Law this week. Someone will doubtless write a full report in due course, but for now the Law Society Gazette brings us … Continue reading
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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Disclosure and eDisclosure – filming a video primer with Dominic Regan
I took part in a video webinar with LexisNexis this week, part of their rolling programme of Butterworth’s Dispute Resolution webinars. The key fact which I want to put right at the top of this article is that 2,340 viewers … Continue reading
My recent Google+ eDiscovery / eDisclosure posts
Here are links to some of my recent Google+ posts. These are short posts relating (usually) to eDisclosure / eDiscovery whose main purpose is to draw attention to articles and other things of interest which I come across. I put … Continue reading
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Having control of documents for disclosure purposes – North Shore Ventures v Amstead Holdings
I cannot remember when I last read a judgment whose subject matter included questions about whether certain documents could be said to be in the “control” of another for the purposes of disclosure. Two such judgments have come my way … Continue reading
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Another indemnity costs order for eDisclosure failures
By coincidence, we have a second UK judgment in a few days which ends with indemnity costs being paid by a party for failing to comply with its disclosure obligations. Mr Justice Akenhead’s judgment in Phaestos Ltd & Anor v … 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
Closing down the Da Silva Moore discussion for now
The terms of the plaintiff’s Objections to Judge Peck’s predictive coding opinion in Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe deprive the commentators of anything useful to say. It is not merely that the decision goes into limbo pending the District … Continue reading
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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
The CPR Standard Disclosure test is a strict one says the Court of Appeal
Disclosure in UK civil proceedings, with or without an “e” at the front of “disclosure”, is not a game for amateurs, raising serious points about the strict interpretation of a deceptively simple-looking rule as well as practical considerations – and … 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
Predictive coding? Technology-Assisted Review? What is the right name?
It is perhaps not surprising that we have yet to arrive at a universal name for the set of algorithms and processes which lie at the higher end of the eDiscovery / eDisclosure market. Barry Murphy addresses this in an … Continue reading
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Much Ado About eDisclosure Defects – the West African Gas Pipeline Judgment
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone You will all by now have seen or heard about Mr Justice Ramsey’s judgment in West African Gas Pipeline Company v Willbross Global Holdings Inc in which … Continue reading
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Fulbright focuses on transparency in predictive coding review
A version of the law of diminishing returns is relevant to one function of predictive coding – its use for prioritisation makes it possible to calculate how much value you are finding relative to the number of documents you are … Continue reading
Contract can lie in email threads or multiple emails
I am, on the whole, fortunate in the judgments which I have to read. Most of them involve procedural failures and breaches of what are, frankly, fairly straightforward obligations. You do not have to be a lawyer or a technologist … Continue reading
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Patel v Unite – order for investigation of deleted Internet forum
Here is an interesting judgment, Patel v UNITE the Union [2012] EWHC 92 (QB) (27 January 2012), which Professor Dominic Regan has pointed me to. The target of postings on a union Internet forum alleges defamation and harassment. The union claims … 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
Postscript to Dominic Regan interview on Jackson and costs management
The transcript of my interview with Dominic Regan (see Professor Dominic Regan on why the Jackson Reforms mean the biggest ever upheaval for UK litigation) seems to have attracted some attention. There are two follow-up links in which you may … 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
Professor Dominic Regan on why the Jackson Reforms mean the biggest-ever upheaval for UK litigation
I interviewed Professor Dominic Regan last week about pending developments in UK litigation. Dominic Regan is speaking at IQPC’s Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit, which takes place in London between 14 and 16 May, where I will introduce and moderate … Continue reading
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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
Before they were famous video – Maas, Whitaker, Peck and Waxse on Predictive Coding
A LegalTech panel organised by Xerox XLS gave us the opportunity to hear four well-known judges discuss the use of technology for eDiscovery. Only one of us knew that the subject would become headline news within days, as Judge Peck … 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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EU promises data protection savings and reduced burdens on business
The European Commission has collected together information about its proposed reforms of the EU Data Protection Rules, including the press release of 21 January, the press conference with Vice President Viviane Reding of the same date, and a number of … Continue reading
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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Recent posts on Google+ to 23 February
I intend to start periodic cross-links from here to my Google+ page to make sure that my posts there get picked up. The Google Plus posts are in no sense of lesser importance than what appears here, nor are they … Continue reading
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US cases which may shape the future of predictive coding
Matthew Nelson of Symantec has an interesting article on Forbes.com this week. Called Federal Judges Consider Important Issues That Could Shape the Future of Predictive Coding Technology, it considers the possible impact of two cases presently before the US courts. … Continue reading
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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Hobs Legal Docs has an office in Manchester and a presence on Twitter
In my post Information Governance, UK eDisclosure and International eDiscovery in three days, I reported on a seminar which Terry Harrison of Hobs Legal Docs organised at HSBC’s Northern regional office in Manchester and which I spoke at. What I … 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
Setting the scene after LegalTech 2012
Well, who would have thought that the big topic of conversation at LegalTech would be the weather? Keen though I am to import British ideas into US eDiscovery, the near-obsessive British focus on temperature and precipitation can stay at home. … 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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Revival of UK Litigation Support Technology Group – LiST – with meeting on 24 January
There is a meeting of LiST – the Litigation Support Technology Group – at Allen & Overy at 5:00pm tomorrow, Tuesday 24 January. This is a welcome revival. The Litigation Support Technology Group is a UK think tank, formed in … Continue reading
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Herb Roitblat on Ralph Losey on Search
Articles on search by OrcaTec’s Herb Roitblat are rare, but worth waiting for. I would much rather point you to his article, and to the articles by Ralph Losey to which they refer, than try and write them myself. I … 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
Delay for Draconian Data Protection Regulation
The term “displacement activity” has a technical meaning in animal biology, something I am happy to leave to the animal biologists. The lay use of the term connotes some activity undertaken in order to avoid having to do something else … Continue reading
Judge Peck and Mallesons in LTN Legal Technology Innovation Awards
Legal Technology News annually presents its LTN Innovation Awards for Outstanding Achievement by Legal Professionals in their Use of Technology. This year’s awards, to be presented on the first day of LegalTech, includes one to US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck … Continue reading
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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
A proper welcome to Xerox XLS as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
The logo of Xerox Litigation Services – XLS appeared here shortly before I set off on last October’s race from continent to continent. I wrote a brief welcome at the time but wanted to find out more about the company’s … Continue reading
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EDisclosure Seminar in Manchester with Hobs Legal Docs on 25 January
I am pleased to be taking part in an eDisclosure seminar called eDisclosure after Goodale and the Practice Direction in the company of Terry Harrison of Hobs Legal Docs in Manchester on 25 January. The event runs from 6:00pm to … Continue reading
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European Data Protection: Coming of Age – Brussels 25–27 January 2012
The Fifth International Computers, Privacy and Data Protection Conference takes place in Brussels between 25 and 27 January 2012 under the title European Data Protection: Coming of Age. Monique Altheim of The Law Office of Monique Altheim is organising and … 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
Twitter and Technology-Assisted Document Review – the downside of uninformed prejudice
A report on the future of document review reaches me via Twitter. The spirit which ignores or condemns social media as a business tool matches the spirit which many lawyers show towards modern methods of document review. I yield to … Continue reading
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Trans-Atlantic video panel: The differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe
The American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law organised a lunchtime panel session in Washington last week. Its topic was the differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe and how those differences might affect … Continue reading
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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
Who explains eDisclosure sources to the lawyers and the court?
An article by US lawyer and eDiscovery expert Jon Resnick of Applied Discovery has application in UK proceedings as well as in the US. Who on your side actually understands where the client’s data is and what is involved in … 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
2012 eDisclosure and eDiscovery Predictions
SCL, the website of the Society for Computers & Law, has kindly published my predictions for eDisclosure / eDiscovery for 2012. Every year, Editor Laurence Eastham collects predictions across a wide range of the subjects where technology meets the law, … Continue reading
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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
Prosecution lawyers don’t want to take the CPS tablets
An article of last week on my Google+ site (Norwich CPS tests tablet computers as a step towards paperless courts) sounded a cautious welcome for the plan by the Crown Prosecution Service to send out all the documents for criminal … Continue reading
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