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You do want to know what eDiscovery / eDisclosure is costing you, surely?
You will doubtless recall from your Latin lessons at school that the Romans drew a useful distinction between questions which expect the answer “Yes” and those to which the presumed reply is “No”, the former generally beginning with “Nonne” and … Continue reading
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Wilmer Hale sets new standards for law firm eDiscovery web sites
Take a look at Wilmer Hale’s eDiscovery Solutions website. When I first saw it I put up a tweet to the effect that any litigation law firm not doing something like this would be dead within two years. The website … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on Jackson and costs at the Epiq Showcase
I wrote a post in anticipation of Epiq Systems London Showcase on 8 November, focusing mainly on the scope and depth of the consultancy services and software options which are available to lawyers and their clients from broadly-based providers like … Continue reading
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Huron Legal adds digital evidence services to its eDiscovery offerings
Huron Legal is primarily a consulting company working with law firms and corporate legal departments to bring both strategic advice and appropriate resources to their businesses, including eDiscovery problems. That includes pre-emptive advice in anticipation of prospective eDiscovery demands, and … Continue reading
CY4OR highlights IT security risk posed by employees
Forensics and eDiscovery company CY4OR has a timely article on its blog reminding us that a company’s employees are often the weak spot in its security systems. The article, Employees are the largest risk to an organisation’s IT security, refers … Continue reading
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Indemnity costs awarded where unnecessary costs were incurred
Have a look at the judgment of HHJ Simon Brown QC in Mortgage Agency Services Number Four Limited v Alomo Solicitors. A few lines chosen from the end of the judgment (from paragraph 30) should give you enough the flavour … Continue reading
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The Tyranny of the Outlier in shaping eDiscovery disputes – a US article with UK messages
An article about US eDiscovery has messages for UK eDisclosure. The Electronic Documents Questionnaire should be used to reduce unnecessary costs both of the disclosure itself and any disputes about it. I don’t know what US forensic expert Craig Ball … Continue reading
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You say eDisclosure, I say…..whatever is right for the context
The SCL website is again collecting predictions for the coming year. There is always a good crop relating to eDisclosure / eDiscovery – mine usually arrive just after the print edition has gone to press, and I suspect that will … Continue reading
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Proof Finder: 1,000 Nuix licenses at $100 for charity – you learn eDiscovery while others learn to read
EDiscovery software provider Nuix has come up with an imaginative plan which simultaneously provides lawyers and others with hands-on opportunities to develop technical eDiscovery skills and helps increase literacy skills to children in developing countries. Like so many imaginative plans, … Continue reading
UK accountancy firm BDO LLP selects Digital Reef for its eDiscovery work
The London member of business and advisory firm BDO International has taken Digital Reef to support its eDiscovery work. The selection was made through Digital Reef’s UK partner e-Origin. William Wilkinson, Head of Technology Forensics Services at BDO, said “by … Continue reading
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The FBI buys Clearwell eDiscovery Platform
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has chosen Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform for its eDiscovery investigations. There is a press release about the deal here. Criminal investigators have much the same requirements as those in the civil fields – and … Continue reading
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Huron Legal’s Nigel Murray to take part in CEO Fast for Famine
LexisNexis Australia has been rounding up CEOs to take part in CEO Fast for Famine, an initiative led by UNICEF to raise money for its emergency relief program. The countries chiefly affected are Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. LexisNexis asked … Continue reading
A reminder that the blog now has a sister site
For those who missed my original post about this or who do not follow me on Twitter, I have set up a page on Google+ for short notes, mainly about eDiscovery/eDisclosure . These lie part-way between blog posts and tweets, … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems White Paper: From Start to Finish – what actually happens to my clients’ data?
Anyone describing their services to a prospective client has a limited bandwidth (measured in time, concentration and the amount of detail which can be imparted and absorbed) available to them and, in focusing on the primary features and benefits, often … Continue reading
The KPMG Preservation Order: it couldn’t happen here….I hope
In writing about the US case Pippins v KPMG (see KPMG Judge Kicks the Sisyphean Stone of Proportionality Back Down the Hill) I made a point of emphasising that “one must… be careful up to a point in commenting adversely … Continue reading
eDiscovery Predictions for 2012 from Symantec and Clearwell
This is the time of year for predictions about the next twelve months. I tend to make mine aspirational, that is, I hope to encourage movement in the general direction of my predictions without necessarily being optimistic that they will … Continue reading
New eDisclosure Information Project page on Google+ for short eDiscovery posts
Google has just launched Google+ Business Pages which, unlike the ordinary Google+ pages, allow you to have an identity as a business rather than only as an individual. That distinction on its own is in fact fairly meaningless in my … Continue reading
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More on risk appetite as US and UK eDiscovery are compared
Recommind’s Howard Sklar was kind enough to comment on my blog post Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it in his post Risk Appetite: no thanks, I’m full on the InfoRiskAwareness site.. My article drew parallels between attitudes to … Continue reading
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Equivio adds Applied Discovery, LDM Global and others to a growing list
It can be quite difficult keeping up with those who sponsor the eDisclosure Information Project, quite apart from the wider eDiscovery/eDisclosure market. Some of them seem to assume that I pick up news by some magical process; others broadcast little … Continue reading
Guidance Software adds Data Reuse Feature to EnCase eDiscovery
There are two reasons for referring you to the latest additions to Guidance Software’s EnCase eDiscovery. The first is the addition of functionality to identify and reuse data which has already been collected, allowing searches of data collected for previous … Continue reading
First Advantage to speak at Litigation Summit in Frankfurt 23-24 November
By the end of next week, I will have spoken at four eDiscovery events in Germany during the year, a four-fold increase on any previous year. I do not take this personally, as it were – there is growing interest … Continue reading
Legal Support Network UK e-Discovery Briefing Paper collects expert views
The UK-based Legal Support Network has just published an interesting briefing paper about eDisclosure / eDiscovery, opening with an observation on the difference, or absence of difference, between those two terms, kick-started by Jonathan Maas of Ernst & Young. For … Continue reading
Supper in Singapore, breakfast in Berlin, luggage in Limbo
04:58am at Heathrow’s Terminal 3. All going to plan so far – the plan being to speak at InnoXcell’s eDiscovery conference in Singapore on Monday, to attend its closing party, and then to moderate a Tuesday session at EMC²’s Momentum … Continue reading
Digital Reef Panel at the Masters Conference – Early Case Assessment: is it working?
I was a member of a Masters Conference panel brought together by Digital Reef to discuss the question whether early case assessment is working as a way of saving time and money in litigation, as well as for improving its … Continue reading
Epiq Systems Solutions Showcase in London on 8 November
Epiq Systems is holding an E-Disclosure / E-Discovery Solutions Showcase at the Barbican in London at 4.30pm on 8 November. Its title is The Power of Options, which seems appropriate for an event which includes several leading software solutions as … Continue reading
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Compare and Contrast: US and UK attitudes to Preservation Sanctions
“My five year old can tell by page three of an Opinion that it is going to end in sanctions”. The best panel sessions leave you with a one-liner which summarises at least one of the viewpoints. The DoJ’s Allison … Continue reading
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Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it
The mediaeval heritage of Dunster in Somerset includes – or did until recently – cobbled streets and paths. These are now being ripped up because the highways officers and health and safety people from the local council are worried about … Continue reading
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I see you have done no blog updates….
As comments go “I checked this morning and saw that you have done no blog updates” ranks very much higher than “Oh, do you keep a blog?”. The observation came, however, from someone who was also attending the Nuix Exchange … Continue reading
E-Discovery from Washington to Dublin
I have been known to spend longer writing about a conference than I spent in attending it, but there is little chance of that at the moment when the gaps between conferences are shorter than the events themselves once the … Continue reading
Barristers, Berlin and Bribery Act – an eDiscovery Compendium Part 2
As my last article explained, I am setting off on a sort of eDiscovery world tour thanks to a coincidence of invitations, each of which was too interesting to turn down. I keep a running list of things which I … Continue reading
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Barristers, Berlin and the Bribery Act – an eDiscovery Compendium Part 1
The three words beginning with “B” in my title are a random selection from the top of my running list of things to write about. They all have a connection with eDisclosure / eDiscovery which is not necessarily obvious (barristers … Continue reading
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kCura Relativity Ecosystem Apps and on-line User Support are good marketing
I spent part of the weekend wandering around the websites of various litigation software providers (we do have fun on Sundays here). I was actually in search of quotations to support (or undermine, as the case may be) a proposition … Continue reading
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CY4OR and Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers Forensics Seminar
In the nick of time, I note that forensics and eDisclosure experts CY4OR are joining forces with Manchester’s Deans Court Chambers for an evening of presentations and discussions about digital evidence, starting at 5:30pm on 29 September – that is, … Continue reading
Late eDisclosure application tacked on to pre-trial review at a cost of £47,000
Court decisions about procedural hearings rarely tell the full story. There may be all sorts of reasons why two good firms of solicitors should find themselves, three months before a 10-day trial, at a pre-trial review onto which had been tacked a … Continue reading
More on Software-Assisted Review as Applied Discovery and KMPG add Equivio>Relevance
Electronic discovery company Applied Discovery and KPMG are amongst those who have recently partnered with Equivio to integrate Equivio>Relevance into their existing eDiscovery applications. These two recent announcements give me an opportunity to return to the subject of software-assisted document review … Continue reading
Costs Management Panel at the Legal Week Commercial Litigation Forum
A parallel emerges between the management of Britain’s railways and the way the civil justice system is run. In both of them, the occasional star project cannot hide the fact that the rest is run-down, neglected by government and inadequate … 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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Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? Serious Entertainment at the Corporate Counsel Forum Europe
The most enjoyable session at the Legal Week Corporate Counsel Forum Europe at Luton Hoo last week had the title Should Corporate Counsel Use Social Media? – Lessons Learnt and Opportunities Found. It came between the information management session in … Continue reading
The Information Management Panel at the Corporate Counsel Europe Forum
My introductory post about Legal Week’s Corporate Counsel Europe Forum was called Drowning in Regulation, and covered what its title implied. Apart from the panel which I was on, which was dedicated to the subject, there was little reference to information management … Continue reading
Moderating a video discussion with Digital Reef: Preparing eDiscovery Data for Review
Whilst I was at ILTA in Nashville in August, I moderated an eDiscovery discussion with Steve Akers, CTO of Digital Reef and Peter Mansmann, CEO of Precise Litigation Technologies. Digital Reef has now edited our discussion down into three short … Continue reading
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Epiq Systems webinar: the Challenges of Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations on 21 September
One keeps hearing of “Bribery Act fatigue”, with the implication that companies and their lawyers either think that the subject was oversold or that the absence of a headline prosecution implies that we can all relax. The sense of urgency … Continue reading
Huron Legal: Cross-Border eDiscovery Breakfast in New York on 21 September
The US is considering possible rule changes in relation to preservation. The UK is tackling case management and costs management. Australia is chewing over the recent report on electronic discovery. New Zealand has a new ediscovery practice direction coming shortly. … Continue reading
The Emerging Technologies Panel at ILTA 2011: remote collections and predictive coding
It would be fair to say that, more than two weeks on, my notes of the Emerging Technologies panel at ILTA are less decipherable than I might have hoped. That is in fact a tribute to Daniel Lim of Guidance … Continue reading
eDiscovery from New Zealand to Ireland
That’s a rather random pairing of countries, you might say from looking at my heading. We are all in favour of cutting down the number of your blog posts, you might go on, but there are better ways of doing … Continue reading
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Adoption and the perception of the courts’ demands
What connection can there be between the formal process of child adoption and eDisclosure / eDiscovery? Adoption is in the UK news at the moment as a result of a report by Martin Narey, former head of the Prison Service … Continue reading
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How Bribery Act-compliant is UK Plc?
I have been sitting for a while on one of those legal updates which the New Law Journal produces from time to time for which they gather a group of experts round a table and report their discussion in a … Continue reading
ILTA 2011 – the end of the beginning? We’re just getting going
I am back from the annual conference of ILTA, the International Litigation Technology Association, in Nashville, Tennessee. The original draft of this post said that I was “just back” but (as more than one correspondent has reminded me) time has … Continue reading
The Guardian, the Rolls Building and me
“Fancy you being quoted in Communist paper today!”. Thus read an e-mail received as I was boarding the plane for Nashville. The reference is to an article published in Saturday’s Guardian headed Rolls Building court complex can make London ‘global legal … Continue reading
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ILTA 2011 comes to life at Nashville
ILTA 2011 is slowly coming to life downstairs, but the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center is so large that I am getting my information about it from tweets rather than from my own observation – there could be a … Continue reading
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Three new sponsors and HP buys Autonomy – all in a week’s work
This was never going to be a relaxing week, sandwiched as it was between a conference in Singapore and ILTA 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. At least I had written all my Singapore articles by the time I landed at Heathrow … Continue reading
Huron Consulting goes with Nuix
I rarely pass on press releases without some accompanying context, focusing on a few big articles rather than many snippets, but this one headed Huron Consulting replaces Autonomy with Nuix caught my eye as it was published. Nuix provides software … Continue reading
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A court-led eDiscovery initiative in Singapore
I thought I had done with Singapore for a bit, at least until October when I am back there for the InnoXcell eDiscovery conference on 31 October. A news item on the Asia Legal Business Online website seems worth passing … Continue reading
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Rapporteur rounding up the Singapore Electronic Litigation Conference
It was a privilege to be asked to be one of the rapporteurs at the end of the International Electronic Litigation Conference in Singapore. Bryan Ghows of UniLegal LLC spoke to one group and I the other, with ten minutes … Continue reading
Senior Master Whitaker raises the eDiscovery stakes for unprepared litigants
You are busy, I know, and here is another 3,000 words to read. I will repeat here at the top the paragraph with which this article ends, as a taster for what Master Whitaker said in his plenary session speech … Continue reading
The Singapore Electronic Litigation Conference comes to an end
The International Conference on Electronic Litigation came to an end here in Singapore yesterday. I have already given you the core statistics – more than 350 participants from 36 countries. I am staying on until Sunday – as on my … Continue reading
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Lord Justice Jackson in Singapore: Piloting Civil Justice Reforms
The best judicial advocates of proportionate electronic discovery emphasise that, however significant the costs and other implications of discovery, they are but a part of a wider duty to make justice affordable. That duty is distributed – it lies with … Continue reading
Jumping Jurisdictions: EDiscovery from California to Singapore
I am sorry about all those words from my brief stopover in the UK between California and Singapore – 11,100 of them, 1000 per day and one word for every mile flown to get there and back. What is alarming … Continue reading
Final round-up of the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat
My reporting of the excellent Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat has been rather dominated by my post Judge Peck and Predictive Coding at the Carmel eDiscovery Retreat. Frankly, if that had been the only session it would have justified my 11,000 … 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
The Value of eDiscovery Self-Collection Tools
I mentioned in a recent post that membership of Guidance Software’s Strategic Advisory Board brought the pleasure of seeing developments work through from concept to production to adoption. One of the most exciting of these was Guidance’s EnCase Portable. The … Continue reading
Consider document review services as well as technology
The recent dominance of predictive coding and other forms of computer-assisted review in these pages and elsewhere reflects as well as reports on the growing interest in this kind of technology. It is also inevitable that the discussion has been … Continue reading
Strong eDiscovery behind the Q2 numbers at Epiq Systems
I have made it clear in an earlier article that analysing the detail of company accounts is neither one of my strengths nor my interests. One has to pay some attention, however, to an announcement which reads Epiq Systems announces … Continue reading
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Excellent source on New Zealand eDiscovery reforms
New Zealand is a common law jurisdiction requiring discovery of documents in broadly the same way as the UK, Australia, Canada, Singapore and Hong Kong and, at a little more distance, as the US. It is not necessarily a disadvantage … Continue reading
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Drawing conclusions from Guidance Software’s Q2 2011 financial results
I do not claim any expertise in deciphering trends from the quarterly figures published by the leading players in the eDiscovery industry. I know what I am good at, and the analysis of corporate accounts is not on the list. … Continue reading
Ducking the eDiscovery Certification Battle
I am not sure that I can face the battle which is presently raging in the US about certification of electronic data discovery professionals. It is a subject on which I have written before, coming down, in general terms, against … Continue reading
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Zubulake comments and my comments about her comments
Laura Zubulake has commented adversely on my post Zubulake in her own words at Carmel. Someone whose name appears in the title of a post is obviously entitled to be heard in response and I must equally obviously reply, albeit … Continue reading
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Judge Peck and Predictive Coding at the Carmel eDiscovery Retreat
US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck’s keynote speech at the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat was one of the clearest statements yet by a judge that the use of new technology like predictive coding is an acceptable way to conduct search in … Continue reading
Back from Carmel and North California
I got back from San Francisco this afternoon after nearly two weeks away. Mary Ann (Mrs D) and I went first to the excellent Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat a new venture organised by Chris La Cour. The star turn there … Continue reading
Laura Zubulake in her own words at Carmel
Whilst it was interesting to hear Laura Zubulake’s behind-the-scenes account of the case which made her name, stories of old battles do not necessarily equip us for the war which follows. As I recounted in my last post, I have … Continue reading
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Getting to the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat
I am at the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat, a little south of San Francisco. My wife, Mary Ann, is with me, which is what happens when you make your wife a director of the business and put her in charge … Continue reading
CY4OR web site brings forensics to lay lawyers
A nice reference has turned up on CY4OR’s website to supplement the words like “professionalism”, “expertise” and “excellent” which recur amongst their testimonials. The one I like reads as follows: Professional and prompt service and able to “dumb down” the … Continue reading
Welcome to kCura as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project
It is a great pleasure to welcome kCura as the latest sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project. The connection goes back a bit, and the arrival of their logo on my sites is part of a continuing if intermittent strand … Continue reading
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A lull in the Predictive Coding battle
The role of a journalist in war, it is said, is to come down from the hills after the battle and bayonet the wounded. I will content myself with a tour of the battlefield. If this means nothing to you, … Continue reading
ZyLAB eDiscovery tools as a prototype for removing discovery bottlenecks
When evaluating products of any kind, it is helpful to know how they will cope with the extremes. Cars are road-tested at speeds and in conditions far removed from the everyday experience of most drivers; the specifications for cameras and … Continue reading
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LDM Global and AccessData announce strategic partnership
I was going to say that the strategic partnership recently announced by LDM Global and AccessData is like a wedding announcement – two people you know publish their intention to tie the knot and you think “Ahh, made for each … Continue reading
Two UK backshoring stories in a week
I had not heard the term “backshoring” until this week, but that is perhaps because it is a relatively new phenomenon. It is the opposite, or, rather, the reverse, of “offshoring”, another of those annoying-but-convenient one-word labels for major shifts … Continue reading
Lawyer Invitational Golf Tournaments raise money for Children’s Hospital
My friend Robert Childress of Wave Software draws my attention to the Lawyer Invitational Golf Tournaments, the next of which takes place on 18 July at the Trump National Golf Club Westchester NYC. I see that the Westchester event kicks … Continue reading
Epiq Systems Breakfast Seminar: Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations
The UK Bribery Act is now on us, having come into force on 1 July. Like the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the US, the Bribery Act has highlighted the importance of information management and of eDiscovery techniques and processes … Continue reading
Co-operation, calendars and change: eDiscovery parallels from Trafalgar
A strutting, ambitious Frenchman with platform heels and an attractive wife wants to make all Europe subject to French bureaucracy. A union of European states wants to take all Britain’s assets and make her people obey foreign laws. The British … Continue reading
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MoJ Consultation on Civil Justice and Bash-a-Burglar: every man for himself replaces access to justice
Lady Hale’s speech on access to justice, the government’s “bash a burglar” scheme, issuing proceedings in Salford, competition from Singapore for dispute resolution as well as banking, eDisclosure and hoods packing heat – all in 2,000 words. A Ministry of … Continue reading
Time to take the next steps: a Hong Kong eDiscovery conference
Leaving aside Australian conferences, this was my fourth AsiaPac event. Two years ago, I co-chaired a conference for LexisNexis in Singapore. Shortly after that, Jeffrey Teh and others from LexisNexis set up InnoXcell to bring business events to the region. … Continue reading
The Discovery skills of Hong Kong cab drivers
I am in Hong Kong, having just finished the two-day InnoXcell eDiscovery conference. The purpose at these conferences – my purpose anyway – is to encourage lawyers to know their way around the rules, the practice and the technology so … Continue reading
Predictive Coding Wars: Recommind Contra Mundum
It is a novel experience to spend a whole Saturday writing a 4,330-word article whose conclusion is that none of its subject-matter is really very important to one’s readers, however much it means to the participants in the story. If … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech on 16 June – Advanced Litigation Technologies with LeClairRyan
I took part in the very first Virtual LegalTech, ALM’s imaginative way of delivering webinars online in a series running through a day, giving delegates most of the benefits of attending a conference without the cost and burden off getting … Continue reading
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Georgetown Law eDiscovery Training Academy crosses the bridge
The technology I really want to see is a time machine or some kind of teleportation device. I once attended conferences in Barcelona and Sydney in the same week. I have had breakfast in Sydney and dinner in Washington on … Continue reading
eDiscovery in Germany: moderating a conference for AccessData in Frankfurt
It was a dark and stormy night, and as he watched the lightning split the clouds and heard the thunder rolling across the castle’s turrets and towers, he thought sod this for a game of soldiers. With six unbroken hours … Continue reading
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Australian Discovery Report stresses Case Management, Consistency and Understanding
The Australian Law Reform Commission published its final report Managing Discovery: Discovery of Documents in Federal Courts at the end of May. The net effect of the recommendations is conveniently set out in the final issue of the ALRC’s Discovery … Continue reading
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IQPC 2011 Information Retention and eDiscovery Exchange Survey
I wrote approvingly of IQPC’s Information Retention and eDiscovery Exchange which took place in Munich towards the end of 2010. I have been involved in some of the discussions about the 2011 equivalent, which will take place at the Kempinski … Continue reading
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UK Law Firms should come to ILTA 2011 – August 21-25 in Nashville
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association, an organisation committed to encouraging the advance of technology in law firms and, just as importantly, the advance of law firms by the use of technology. Its guiding principle is peer encouragement – … Continue reading
Epiq Breakfast Seminar on Cross-Border Regulatory Investigations on 14 June
Epiq Systems is holding a breakfast seminar in London on 14 June called the Challenges of Cross Border Regulatory Investigations. The speakers are Professor Dominic Regan, David Cracknell of Slaughter and May, Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy, Mark Surguy … Continue reading
East, West Home’s Best – to a Midlands Law Firm with Epiq Systems
A trip by train to talk to a regional law firm gives an excuse to recommend the iPad as a library of those documents you will never read at your desk, and to recommend two papers in particular which address … Continue reading
Nigel Murray takes to his wheels again for Help the Heroes
It is that time of year again. Nigel Murray of Huron Legal sets off this weekend for another arduous cycle ride across Northern France in aid of the charity Help for Heroes. His blog page is suspiciously light on training … Continue reading
LDM Global takes the UK Bribery Act and the FCPA to New York
As befits any ediscovery / edisclosure company with the word “Global” in its name, LDM Global is running in New York an equivalent of the session which I did with them and McGuireWoods recently in London. Called the UK Bribery … Continue reading
The Gartner Magic Quadrant for EDiscovery Software and other EDiscovery Market Matters
As I have often said, I am content to stick to my own part of the e-Disclosure / e-Discovery world and leave others to theirs. Deciphering market trends is the job of analysts; journalists can react quickly to news; the … Continue reading
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Judicial Panel at CEIC has messages for other jurisdictions
Although primarily a forensics conference, CEIC, the Computer Enterprise and Investigations Conference, has an e-discovery track whose purpose is to raise awareness of the context in which data forensics are used beyond the law enforcement where they began. The cross-border … Continue reading
UK Government bids for a world-class legal reputation whilst neglecting the basics back home
The UK Ministry of Justice has launched a paper called Plan for Growth: Promoting the UK’s Legal Services Sector. The opening, at least, is admirably crisp for a civil service document: It identifies the law as one of Britain’s strengths…. … Continue reading
EU-US EDiscovery – Data Transfer Role-Play at CEIC
One of my reasons for going to CEIC 2011 in Orlando was to take part in a panel about international EDiscovery. The panel was called International EDiscovery: Data Protection, Privacy and Cross-Border Issues and was led by Patrick Burke, Assistant … Continue reading
AccessData EDiscovery Conference in Frankfurt on 7 June
I am very much looking forward to speaking at and moderating an EDiscovery conference run by AccessData at the impressive Schlosshotel Kronberg near Frankfurt on 7 June. The programme is here. The speakers come from Siemens AG, from a US … Continue reading
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