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Using marketing to make people hate you
There is more to marketing than making yourself heard – that is just a process, achieved with money and effort. The objective, however, is to make people buy from you, not hate the sight and sound of your name. Bad … Continue reading
Gucci v Curveal: a blow for US interests – whichever way you understand that expression
British 19th Century “gunboat diplomacy” and the song The Wreck of the Old 97 are what came to mind when I read the latest Opinion of a US court about the relative importance of US interests and the laws of … Continue reading
Legal Efficiency supplement in The Times today
Raconteur has produced an excellent supplement for today’s Times on Legal Efficiency which includes a report by Professor Dominic Regan of an interview with me. Having, as I do, the luxury of writing about anything I choose, it is good … Continue reading
Talking rather than writing – normal service will be resumed soon
The relative silence on these pages recently does not imply that I have run out of things to say (sorry about that) merely that I have had a good run of being out and about, or making plans for future … Continue reading
A flying visit to Edinburgh
The spate of blog posts last week-end was a clearing of the decks in the knowledge that I would not have much writing time for a bit. The Edinburgh trip which is the subject of this post is being followed … Continue reading
7Safe eDiscovery networking event on 15 April
7Safe is holding an eDiscovery networking event on Thursday 15 April at The Hoxton Hotel, 81 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3HU at 6.30pm. It is to mark the official launch of their hosting of Anacomp’s CaseLogistix, one of the … Continue reading
Vector Investments: successful claimant made to pay for unhelpful disclosure
Is quite rare to come across UK cases where the quality and costs of disclosure become the subject of a reported judgment. In rare cases such as Digicel, Earles or Goodale, disclosure is either the primary subject-matter of the judgment … Continue reading
New e-Disclosure articles on the SCL website
The website of the Society for Computers & Law has two new articles about electronic disclosure. One is by barrister Clive Freedman of 3 Verulam Buildings and is called Disclosure: the Proposed Rule Changes. It summarises succinctly the elements in … Continue reading
Stratify and CaseLogistix manage e-Discovery for the Valukas report on Lehman collapse
I am reasonably sure that I will not find time to read the 2,200 page Valukas Report on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Fortunately, Gregory Bufithis of The Posse List has extracted from it the description of the electronic discovery … Continue reading
Welcome to Recommind as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is very good to be able to extend a warm welcome to Recommind as a new sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. As the focus for e-Discovery / e-Disclosure turns increasingly on to the way companies collect and manage … Continue reading
Welcome to H5 as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is a great pleasure to be able to put up the logo of information retrieval company H5 as a new sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. I described H5 in a recent article as “a cross between a commercial … Continue reading
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Standards and outcomes: Hitler, the NHS, the police, social workers – and e-Disclosure
My heading, I appreciate, looks like the components of some random word game. There is in fact a connection, and it is to do with the supremacy of result over procedure and of destination over the journey. Hitler, the NHS … Continue reading
Free use of Equivio Early Case Assessment Software for up to one million documents
Equivio is offering to make its early case assessment application Equivio>Relevance available to a limited number of participants in what they call the Equivio>Relevance Challenge – see the press release and sign-up page for details. Most lawyers can understand the … Continue reading
EDiscovery leads in March issue of American Legal Technology Insider
The March issue of Charles Christian’s American Legal Technology Insider is available here. It leads with the headline Shake-up time for e-Discovery sector, with Iron Mountain’s acquisition of Mimosa Systems and the report that Marsh & McLennan Companies are putting … Continue reading
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Cats Legal partners with Digital Reef
I wrote recently about Cats Legal, the combination of established print solutions provider Cats Solutions and litigation support provider LDSI (see Cats Solutions combines with LDSI to become Cats Legal). My planned meeting with Mark Wagstaff of Cats Legal had … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: who provides eDiscovery education?
Georgetown Law E-Discovery Law Blog carries an article by George Rudoy of Shearman & Sterling which moves away from the certification argument (see my post Rudoy on eDiscovery certification – reality or myth) and on to the question about who … Continue reading
New web site for e.law Asia-Pacific
I can see why it has taken e.law some time to assemble their new website following the acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions in November 2009. The integrated business now covers a very broad range of activities across a wide geographical … Continue reading
EnCase Portable brings data collection to your desktop
The idea that a law firm might keep a copy of Guidance Software’s EnCase Portable in a drawer for on-the-spot collections leads into a discussion about how much a firm needs to know. I will let Guidance Software speak for … Continue reading
First law firm commentary on Goodale v MoJ
Congratulations to Tim Constable of Matthew Arnold & Baldwin who seems to have been the first solicitor to get out some information to clients on Senior Master Whitaker’s judgment in Goodale v Ministry of Justice. His article E-disclosure – the … Continue reading
Legal Efficiency Supplement in the Times
I mentioned in passing in my post of last night that I am to interviewed by Dominic Regan for a special report which Raconteur are publishing on Thursday 25 March in The Times newspaper. Called Legal Efficiency, it will look … Continue reading
Spring Offensive in the eDisclosure War
It feels suddenly as if a new phase is opening up in the war to tackle the wasted costs of e-disclosure. If the Rule Committee’s recent failure to grasp the nettle seemed a rebuff, there is a new Spring Offensive … Continue reading
Revolutionary video pillory for PR consultants
The humour for the week was provided by Charles Christian, whose Orange Rag included a piece about PR consultants called So that’s why the editor is grumpy and aptly illustrated by a video. I should make clear in passing this … Continue reading
Capturing web pages with iCyte now for the Enterprise
The latest addition to my collection of tools for gathering and storing information is a product called iCyte. I cannot improve on the maker’s own description as follows: iCyte is a browser add-on and web service that lets users save … Continue reading
Goodale v MoJ – a template judgment for active management of eDisclosure
The publication of Senior Master Whitaker’s judgment in Goodale v Ministry of Justice is important for reasons beyond the fact that the parties used the ESI Questionnaire which is annexed to the proposed e-Disclosure Practice Direction and which is also … Continue reading
Nuix joins the e-Disclosure Information Project
I am delighted to welcome eDiscovery and electronic investigation software company Nuix as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. The connection began at the Ark Group eDiscovery conference in Sydney last year when I found myself sitting next … Continue reading
E-Discovery costs-shifting in US litigation
I referred in a recent post to an article I had read which concerned the shifting of US e-Discovery costs from one party to another, that is, the situation where costs incurred by one side are taxed and payable by … Continue reading
The Readership of the e-Disclosure Information Project
I have just been asked to give some statistics for readership of my blog and, having done the research, I might as well summarise it here. It happened to be quite a good day to ask – there were 436 … Continue reading
A proper welcome to Applied Discovery as a new sponsor
I promised a proper welcome to Applied Discovery when I put up a short post on 16 February to draw attention to the arrival of their logo. These Welcome posts are generally the only occasion when I invite collaboration on … Continue reading
Anonymisation, the Hague Convention and US judicial notice of EU privacy protection
I expressed puzzlement recently at the high proportion of page views from the US over a period when most of my focus has been on the UK draft practice direction. I know, of course, that there is much US interest … Continue reading
E-Discovery and Judicial Involvement in Australia
Project Counsel is the sister site to The Posse List, both run by the ubiquitous Gregory Bufithis. Project Counsel’s web site carried an article on 25th February with the title In Australia, e-Discovery and enhanced judicial involvement come of age … Continue reading
Cats Solutions combines with LDSI to become Cats Legal
Print solutions provider Cats Solutions has added the former business of LDSI (Legal Document Services International) to its print and document management services. The combined business has relocated its City-based 24/7 hub facility to new premises at Broken Wharf House, … Continue reading
E-Discovery developments in 2010 from legalsupportnetwork.co.uk
Rupert Collins-White is Head of Content and Community at legalsupportnetwork.co.uk and runs a LinkedIn Group of the same name. I met Rupert when he was Features / Commissioning Editor at the Law Society, and he now brings to legalsupportnetwork the … Continue reading
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7Safe White Paper: the inter-relation between computer forensics and e-Disclosure
7Safe has published a white paper which I co-wrote with James Kent of 7Safe. Its purpose is to explain, mainly to lawyers, the role of a forensic collection of data in the subsequent proceedings, whether those be civil or criminal … Continue reading
SCL article: e-Disclosure and Legal Practice in the Recovery Position
Computers and Law, the website of the Society for Computers & Law, has kindly republished an article which I wrote following LegalTech 2010. They have merged that article with the predictions which I made for the SCL at the turn … Continue reading
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You cannot really complain at a full InBox and lots of tweets
A day in London leaves me with a pile of e-mails and a heap of tweets – all signs of a lively market, and to be welcomed despite the time it will take to catch up. Add a crusading podcast, … Continue reading
Moving forward on all fronts
I am off today to record a podcast for CPDCast about the e-Disclosure components of Lord Justice Jackson’s report. You may recall that I was booked to do this on the day before the Civil Procedure Rule Committee met to … Continue reading
Legal Inc takes Digital Reef
Amongst the many applications at LegalTech which I was invited to look at but could not fit in was Digital Reef, which allows organisations to identify, collect, process, analyse and review data in place. The advantage of this, obviously, is … Continue reading
No need to wait for the eDisclosure Practice Direction and Questionnaire – just get on with it
The decision (or, rather, the non-decision) of the Civil Procedure Rule Committee to send the e-Disclosure Practice Direction and EDisclosure Questionnaire off into the sidings of a sub-committee has been the equivalent of coming up behind a funeral cortège whilst … Continue reading
LegalTech 2010: Andrew Haslam reports for the Orange Rag and the 451 Group delivers market analysis
My unspoken deal with Andrew Haslam of Allvision after LegalTech each year is that I will write a heavyweight report on the business trends for the ensuing year, and will also write an anecdotal local colour story designed to convey … Continue reading
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Jackson untroubled by delay to e-Disclosure Practice Direction
I do not generally deal in instant news in these pages – considered reflection is more my style and, besides, there is normally a queue of things to write about. At the top of that queue at the moment is … Continue reading
The extent of the right to privacy in French employee’s e-mails
The expression “grasping at straws” has seafaring origins – a drowning man grasps at straws in the absence of anything more solid to cling to. It comes to mind whenever the subject of EU data privacy comes up in the … Continue reading
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There is more to FTI Technology than Attenex and Ringtail
My self-imposed job description involves flitting between all the players in the electronic disclosure / electronic discovery world, picking up information and ideas from one place and dropping them in another. I talk to judges, lawyers and technology suppliers, read … Continue reading
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Dominic Regan on the Jackson Report: the word of the moment is momentum
There is a great deal of interest being shown in electronic disclosure amongst UK lawyers at the moment. Some of the activity is reported in my post Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire. That ended … Continue reading
Millnet offer £10,000 of e-Discovery services for free
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes is, as you doubtless know, Latin for “there must be a catch somewhere”. It seems unlikely, of course, that the Greeks are going to be bearing gifts for anybody just now, but Millnet seem to … Continue reading
Defensible document review – Epiq Systems panel at LegalTech
As is increasingly the case, The Posse List is getting out its reports of events and developments so quickly and comprehensively that it is folly on my part to cover them as well. This suits me well, since I am … Continue reading
A short video could win you free tickets and accommodation at CEIC
The use of video turns up in these pages either where a supplier has used the medium to educate or to promote a product, or in a slightly embarrassed reference to my own reluctant appearances in front of the camera. … Continue reading
US-UK discovery differences on video at the Masters Conference
I have only just seen a set of short videos which His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC and I made at the Masters Conference last October in Washington. They were made by LegalQB and involved a proper studio with lighting … Continue reading
Sedona Conference WG6 presentation to Article 29 Working Party in Brussels
I do not usually pass on things sent to me without adding some value (or, at least, some comment) of my own. I will make an exception for a report just in from James Daley, co-chair of the Sedona Conference … Continue reading
Applied Discovery joins the Project’s sponsors
I will do a proper welcome post shortly, and this is just a brief note to welcome Applied Discovery to the ranks of the sponsors of the e-Disclosure Information Project. I wrote about the company recently (see Applied Discovery gets … Continue reading
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Legal Inc case study explains an e-Disclosure project
Statements of functions and benefits and descriptions of litigation support services obviously form the backbone of the marketing material of any company engaged in the handling of electronic documents. It is difficult, however, to convey in the abstract any sense … Continue reading
Deborah Baron summarises the Autonomy Cloud message on video
I am a strong believer in the idea that businesses, and particularly technology businesses, need to make use of every medium which is available to get messages across to potential users. The new media formats such as Twitter, blogs, Facebook … Continue reading
Containing the interest in the eDisclosure Practice Direction and ESI Questionnaire
There has been much interest in the draft eDisclosure Practice Direction and the Questionnaire which forms part of it. Lawyers and education providers keep asking for a sight of it. Lord Justice Jackson commended it. Rule-makers in other jurisdictions have … Continue reading
Distinguishing discussion from lecture at LegalTech
I go back over my recent posts a day or two after publishing them, partly to pick up typos to which one is blind when they are newly typed, but mainly to check that what I said is what I … Continue reading
Mixing eDiscovery business with pleasure at LegalTech 2010
I write each February after LegalTech in New York to try and convey how this event is simultaneously hard work and good fun. Certain times and cultures are inherently suspicious of the idea that you can enjoy yourself whilst working, … Continue reading
CaseCentral CARtoon – what drives Toyota’s eDiscovery purchasing strategy
CaseCentral’s Case in Point cartoon series maintains its quality with this week’s one in which Toyota explains what drives its eDiscovery purchasing strategy. I spotted a judge at LegalTech wearing a No Processing badge which emanated (anonymously) from CaseCentral. Full … Continue reading
BA misses the bus – how to lose goodwill at the end of the project
The customers remember best what happens last, whether you are running an e-Discovery project for them or flying them across the Atlantic. It seems a shame to do it all so well and then screw up at the end. I … Continue reading
Some statistics from Equivio>Relevance
I have recently written a white paper about Equivio>Relevance and was subsequently interviewed about it by Metropolitan Corporate Counsel – both if these can be found on Equivio’s publications page. A recent article by Marisa Peacock on CMSWire called Equivio … Continue reading
Two entries in one week in the Weekly E-Discovery Snapshot
My job is promoting the eDiscovery industry and the companies who engage in it, and I do not focus much on promoting me. I cannot resist this, though. Having an article listed in the Weekly E-Discovery Snapshot which Rob Robinson … Continue reading
7Safe launches UK Security Breach Investigations Report 2010
Mysterious messages have been appearing on Twitter all week like “In 85% of data breach cases, payment card information was stolen”. They all lead back to an analysis of data compromise cases over an 18 month period which 7Safe have … Continue reading
H5 EDGE Classifier brings intelligence to ediscovery search
Information retrieval experts H5 has always come across as a cross between a commercial information consulting business and a research university, talking as much about its people – “with professional expertise in linguistics, statistics, computer science, law, information technology, process … Continue reading
FTI Technology 2009 IDC Survey defines the eDiscovery challenges
FTI Technology will be out in force at LegalTech, as you would expect from a company whose range of products and services cover the full range of eDiscovery problems and solutions. They commissioned an IDC survey which was published in … Continue reading
Anacomp e-Discovery panel at LegalTech – emerging technology and a defensible process
Anacomp are running a panel in the New York suite at the Hilton on Tuesday 2 February at 10:30 AM. I will not, unfortunately, be there, because I am on another platform at the same time. The title is What’s … Continue reading
Stratify eDiscovery Super Session panels at LegalTech
I have already mentioned one of the four panels which Stratify is running on Tuesday, 2 February in the Sutton Parlor Center Room at the Hilton in New York. The sessions are as follows: 8.30 Can we have our cake … Continue reading
Epiq Systems e-Discovery Super Sessions at LegalTech
Epiq Systems are running three panels on Tuesday, 2 February at LegalTech. They take place in Concourse G at the Hilton New York as follows: 9:00 Achieving a Cost Efficient, Defensible Document Review 10:00 Best Practices for Successful Multinational E-Discovery … Continue reading
Mary Mack’s review of a decade of ediscovery
Is the rest of the ediscovery world really ten years behind the US? Perhaps it is Judge Scheindlin’s recent strictures which put the US so far ahead of the rest of us in the proportionate search for justice and truth. … Continue reading
Posse List interview with e.law Asia Pacific: the spike in e-discovery work in Asia
I was speaking in Singapore when news broke of e.law’s acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions. It added to my general impression (which I was bold enough to turn into a prediction) that the Asia-Pacific region was the place to watch … Continue reading
Autonomy eDiscovery Appliance – chaining law firms and clients together
A series of announcements from Autonomy coincide with what I see as the coming developments in the UK and elsewhere, enabling the lawyers to work collaboratively with clients. As one would expect, Autonomy has come up with a series of … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: Rudoy on eDiscovery certification – reality or myth?
An article by George Rudoy on the Georgetown Law site, which includes some input from me, reawakens the debate about certification of those who work in eDiscovery. Education on this subject was a key recommendation of the recent UK Jackson … Continue reading
Recovery of e-Disclosure or E-Discovery costs in litigation
The broad idea about recovery of the costs of litigation is that the so-called “English Rule” allows a successful party to recover his costs from the loser, whereas the costs of US litigation lie where they fall. It is not … Continue reading
Alcohol and amphetamines as an e-Discovery solution for Edna
Almost everybody who tweets about eDiscovery offered links to Craig Ball’s article called E-Discovery for Everybody: the Edna Challenge. In it, Craig sought the input of several influential players in the market on behalf of Edna who needed to undertake … Continue reading
US claims Global Power to Access Data despite EU data protection laws
Another decision of a US court shows the supremacy of the US courts over EU laws, at least as seen from the US. It doubtless plays well in Utah, but is probably bad news for US evidence-collection in the long … Continue reading
Outsourcing reaches the business press – so the clients will read all about it
The UK’s appetite for stories and comment about outsourcing remains undimmed. A a long article in The Times on 15 January carried the title Brief for India’s outsourcing lawyers: keep it cheap. Ron Friedmann of outsourcers Integreon, an astute observer … Continue reading
US District Judge to Speak on Women in eDiscovery Panel at LegalTech
One of the best panels at the Masters Conference in Washington last year was the Women Thought Leader Panel: The Art of Negotiating E-Discovery moderated by Caitlin Murphy of CT Summation and including Shawnna Childress of LECG, co-founder of Women … Continue reading
Catching up with the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure
I missed the new Ontario E-Discovery Rules of Civil Procedure which came into effect on 1 January. By “missed”, I mean that I knew about them but decided that it was a topic important enough to be put on one … Continue reading
Between the rock of Jackson and the hard place of LegalTech
Once a decade, we get a large and influential report on Civil Procedure in the Courts of England & Wales. Once a year, the largest and most important e-discovery conference takes place in New York. Did they have to take … Continue reading
Anacomp ECA Webinar 20 January – measuring and managing eDiscovery
A reminder that Anacomp, owners of review platform CaseLogistix, have a live webinar today, Wednesday 20 January, called Beyond the Buzz: Measuring and Managing eDiscovery with Early Case Assessment. Tom O’Connor and Chuck Kellner, along with Chris Smith, Senior Product … Continue reading
Some eDiscovery mistakes are more forgivable than others
We have seen some high-profile mistakes in the discovery world recently. We should discriminate between incompetence and stupidity or oversight. A mistake is not an ediscovery mistake just because it involved electronic documents. The mirth generated at the expense of … Continue reading
Tweets travel far and fast – which is good if that is what you want
The speed with which I got reactions to a tweet of Saturday showed the power of this medium. That is great if that is what you want, as I did, less so if that was not the intention. My arm … Continue reading
Applied Discovery gets new marketing wind behind it
Good eDiscovery marketing must give would-be clients useful information and help, not just shout “buy me” with a list of functions and benefits. All forms of media must be pressed into service, and value lies more in helpful content than … Continue reading
NLJ Jackson litigation costs webcast still available
The technical difficulties with the New Law Journal’s free Jackson webcast derived, apparently, from the best of reasons – a very large number of people wanted to watch it (that is what happens when the Dale publicity machine gets going … Continue reading
First thoughts on the eDisclosure implications of the Jackson Report
The sections relating to disclosure and e-disclosure in the Jackson Report are a call to action for lawyers and judges without waiting for any actual amendment to the Rules. The key element which Jackson identifies is education, and we can … Continue reading
Jackson on Costs Free Webcast: 14 January 2010 at 1pm
This is the full text of New Law Journal’s latest reminder about today’s webcast at 1.00pm GMT New Law Journal will host a live panel discussion on the key proposals and practical implications of Lord Justice Jackson’s final report on … Continue reading
Trilantic assembles experts for International eDiscovery Track at LegalTech
UK-based legal support provider Trilantic has put together a double panel session on EU data privacy and related subjects which takes place on the first day at LegalTech, Monday, 1 February. Subjects covered will include privacy considerations and EU data … Continue reading
Interview with Metropolitan Corporate Counsel about Equivio>Relevance
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel has published an interview based on a long conversation which I had with them before Christmas. The title is Trainable E-Discovery Software Offers Cost Savings and the subject is Equivio>Relevance. The main theme of the interview was … Continue reading
New Singapore e-discovery resource
Those who come here often will know that I was in Singapore in October last year shortly after the introduction of their Practice Direction No 3 on Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Information . I had been invited to … Continue reading
Twitter data feeds as a potential source of income for them and discovery material for us
A new survey relies on the ability to analyse Twitter usage, and Twitter has begun a drive to make money from its data feeds. Both point towards the use of Twitter data as discoverable information. I wrote an article last … Continue reading
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Getting past the hold music
Every writer aspires to have his work described as “interesting and funny”, particularly if it is simultaneously accepted as dealing seriously with weighty matters. The aim is to get the ediscovery messages past the hold music and encourage people to … Continue reading
Outsourcer Integreon adds to Insource v Outsource discussion
I drew attention recently to an article on outsourcing from a law firm perspective, written by George Rudoy on 1 December on the Georgetown Law site and called To Insource or to Outsource. I suggested that it was worth reading, … Continue reading
Tweeting weights and weighing Tweets
I am a relatively recent convert to Twitter and am hooked on a number of levels. These are primarily business-driven, in the hard-nosed sense that I acquire information from others and disseminate things of my own – the publication of … Continue reading
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Craig Ball on Ed Balls’ Ofsted Balls-Up
My apologies to those of delicate sensibilities who might take this amiss. It is, I accept, insensitive of me to do this to you at the beginning of an article. There is no choice, I am afraid – I must … Continue reading
Anacomp divests to focus on CaseLogistix, eDiscovery and litigation
Anacomp has sold its MVS Division to DecisionOne in order to focus on eDiscovery with its document review application CaseLogistix and the services which go with it. 2010 should be the right year to concentrate on eDiscovery You would probably … Continue reading
Distinguishing data from information when balancing risk against cost
There are parallels between the reaction to terror attacks and other threats and the handling of e-disclosure for litigation. Collections of masses of data become not merely a substitute for information but places to lose it, and the real objective … Continue reading
Letter in the Times about destruction of ESI
Amongst my predictions for 2010, published on the website of the Society for Computers & Law on 21 December, was this one: Another side-effect of the Earles judgment will be a debate as to what the law of preservation and … Continue reading
The e-Disclosure Information Project in 2009 and 2010
My e-Disclosure predictions for 2010 are up on the website of the Society for Computers and Law. I have not checked back to my previous years’ SCL predictions, but I think that this batch have much more, and much better-grounded, … Continue reading
Gartner, Hong Kong and civil servants inspire reader comments
Recent comments from readers cover the Gartner report on the litigation software market, the state of play in Hong Kong, and the bright light which has suddenly been shone on the need for government departments to approach electronic disclosure in … Continue reading
Times E-Disclosure article leads with Baby P photocopier excuse
The article on E-Disclosure in today’s Times E-disclosure: how good is your filing system? by Grania Langdon-Down leads with the extraordinary “lost in the photocopier” excuse given by Ofsted as they gave late disclosure of 2,000 pages of documents in … Continue reading
Gartner points to non-US E-Discovery market growth
Gartner predicts an eDiscovery software market worth $1.2 billion in 2010. More than 10% of that will be outside the US. Software suppliers may be ready to run with this, but where are the skilled people? Gartner’s report of 16 … Continue reading
Legal Technology Awards 2009
The Legal Technology Awards list is out. The number of categories, providers and products may seem bewildering, but their web sites give a good idea of what they do. Follow some links and see what maps to the problems which … Continue reading
Legal Inc publishes 5th podcast and Earles article
Litigation support provider Legal Inc has now published the fifth in the series of podcasts which I recorded with Lisa Burton. This one covers the software and systems available in the market. The series can be found here. Legal Inc … Continue reading
eDisclosure Information Project 