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Category Archives: eDiscovery
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
Kind words from the Posse List eDiscovery Reading Room
If a supplier asked me what to do if it received unsolicited praise from a respected source, I would tell them to stick it up on their web site. What is the proper reaction when someone says nice things about … 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
451 Group reports on IQPC in New York
I was not at IQPC’s E-discovery conference in New York last week (see IQPC New York – minimizing risks, costs and challenges). Fortunately the 451 Group’s Katey Wood was there and her report is here. Two of the points which … Continue reading
The Baby P case may be the disclosure story of the year
It begins to look as if the Baby P case will beat even Earles v Barclays Bank in terms of its long-term influence on disclosure, not least for the likely focus on individual failings. Is this cock-up or conspiracy? Why … Continue reading
Irish Law Reform Commission consultation paper on Documentary and Electronic Evidence
The Irish Law Reform Commission has just issued a consultation paper on Documentary and Electronic Evidence. At 313 pages, it is not going to be a quick read and I have done no more than skim it so far. Its … Continue reading
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UK interest in outsourcing on the rise
A Tweet earlier this week asks “Weekly LPO articles in the UK?” which, extended from its native (and necessarily abbreviated) Tweet-speak, means “Are we seeing at least one article a week about legal process outsourcing in the UK?” The question … Continue reading
New website for Local Government Lawyers brings commercial awareness to public sector litigation
A new website for local government lawyers has appeared. Given the very wide range of legal issues which affect local authorities, it is perhaps surprising that we have not seen one before. Local authority insulation from the real world will … Continue reading
Orange Rag: Scottish Civil Costs Review – a missed opportunity
John Craske, Head of Business IT at Dundas & Wilson LLP has contributed a guest article to the Orange Rag which hints at disappointment in the Scottish Civil Courts Review. I wrote briefly about the Report of the Scottish Civil … Continue reading
IQPC New York – minimizing risks, costs and challenges
Minimizing risks, costs and challenges is the title of the IQPC eDiscovery conference taking place in New York from 7 to 9 December 2009. I will not be there, but the agenda offers more opportunities than its title suggests. I … Continue reading
PivotalDiscovery e-Disclosure video with HHJ Simon Brown QC
As a proponent of video as a means of conveying messages, it is remiss of me not to have drawn your attention to one which features His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC and me. It was made by Kina Kim … Continue reading
Georgetown Law: to Insource or to Outsource by George Rudoy
Outsourcing part of the disclosure / discovery process has suddenly attracted attention in the UK. Some think that this is due to the instincts in common between lawyers and the poor old lemmings, who are invoked as role models whenever … Continue reading
How IT can support judicial reform? asks Dutch judge Dory Reiling
How many judges do you know who might write a PhD thesis with the title Technology for Justice: How Information Technology Can Support Judicial Reform, discuss it on her blog, and promise to inform you of its publication by Twitter. … Continue reading
UK Information Commissioner publishes plain English data protection guide
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has produced a guide in plain English which aims to make it easier for the non-expert to understand what is involved. That is all to the good, but this is not one of these … Continue reading
e-Disclosure conference thoughts from the 451 Group
Although I do my own summaries of the conferences I take part in, it is more interesting in some ways to see what other people take away from them. A succinct summary from an interested party who was present as … Continue reading
Strategic alliance allows 7Safe to host Anacomp’s CaseLogistix
What is the seating etiquette if you go to a wedding knowing both parties? Do you have to make an invidious choice between one side of the church and the other? Perhaps you sit in the aisle or hang from … Continue reading
Tearing Me Apart: a new song from The Phoenix Fall
You may just have been indulging my paternal pride, but quite a lot of people seemed to like the first single released by The Phoenix Fall, the Leeds-based Indie band whose drummer is my son Charlie Dale. The second single, … Continue reading
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Planning the IQPC E-Disclosure Conference for London in May 2010
Planning is in hand for IQPC’s May 2010 E-Disclosure conference. Good conferences like this provide elements which other forms of information delivery lack, not least the opportunity to interact with those whose data we write and talk about. Having got … Continue reading
KPMG survey: Is the legal department ready?
Read KPMG’s new survey on corporate readiness for litigation and then read the judgment in Earles v Barclays Bank. You may spot a connection. KPMG have published the results of the survey which Alex Dunstan-Lee previewed for us at IQPC’s … Continue reading
e.law completes acquisition of CCH Workflow Solutions
On 20 November 2009, Australia’s e.law completed its acquisition of the business assets of CCH Workflow Solutions from Wolters Kluwer. The news of the acquisition broke whilst I was between conferences and although I heard from both Allison Stanfield at … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech round-up
The general reaction to ALM’s Virtual LegalTech by its participants and delegates seems generally to be positive. If, as Charles Christian said on Twitter afterwards, it had a 1990s feel to it, well, that can doubtless be improved upon in … Continue reading
Parallel and cross-border developments in handling electronically stored information
The second session at the Thomson Reuters Fifth Annual e-Disclosure Forum in London on 13 November was called Parallel and cross-border developments in handling electronically stored information. I was the moderator, although if Air Miles were the qualification for talking … Continue reading
Virtual LegalTech looks good so far
Virtual LegalTech looks quite fun so far. It has an exhibit hall, an auditorium and a resource centre amongst other things, and there are people to chat to (Peggy Wechsler of ILTA was on the phone when I dropped by … Continue reading
Georgetown: Privilege, Ignorance and Certification
The PosseList has a report of the main points discussed at the judicial panel which closed the recent proceedings of the Georgetown Law CLE Advanced E-Discovery Institute. Of the three points which the article picks out, I will leave on … Continue reading
Equivio->Relevance brings prioritisation to Epiq Systems’ DocuMatrix
Regular readers will know that I find Equivio’s value proposition to be extremely attractive, notwithstanding that the user – the lawyer or his client – does not always get to see it directly. That is because Equivio’s products are bought … Continue reading
Welcome to Stratify as new Project sponsor
I am very pleased to welcome electronic discovery software company Stratify as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. Their addition to the list of sponsors coincides with the opening of their London office and data centre, as well as … Continue reading
The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange
The first session at the Thomson Reuters e-Disclosure Conference in London last week was called The Continuing Challenges of Preservation, Collection and Exchange. George Socha’s panel included a solicitor, a software provider and a judge – Matthew Davis of Lovells, … Continue reading
Business mixed with pleasure at the Thomson Reuters London e-Disclosure conference
The Thomson Reuters Fifth eDisclosure Forum was sponsored by Autonomy, Stratify and Legastat and, as before, the co-chairs were Browning Marean, George Socha and me. I enjoyed it and, unless they were just being polite, the audience seemed to think … Continue reading
Master Whitaker addresses London Solicitors Litigation Association on e-Disclosure
I went to listen to Senior Master Whitaker speak last night to the London Solicitors Litigation Association about electronic disclosure. I was not expecting to hear much that was new to me – I have heard him speak five times … Continue reading
Cost, quality, risk and predictability in outsourcing debate
An article in Legal Week reports that law firms are aware that existing methods of charging for work must change but says that they are wary of legal process outsourcing as the answer. The only mistake is not to weigh … Continue reading
FTI webinar: financial, transactional and operational databases in e-disclosure
FTI Consulting are presenting a webinar on structured data on Thursday 19 November at 1300 GMT. The subject is perceived by some as too difficult to talk about, but it cannot be ignored. Elephants have provided a recurring theme throughout … Continue reading
FTI webinar – Controlling E-Discovery Costs
FTI Technology are presenting a web seminar on November 5 (that’s today) at 2pm Eastern | 11.00am Pacific | 19.00 GMT. Called Advice from Counsel: In-House Pros on E-Discovery Costs Containment, it is presented by Ari Kaplan, who will present … Continue reading
LexisNexis eDiscovery conference in Singapore
As you might infer from its name, the e-Disclosure Information Project set out with purely national ambitions. England and Wales is the only jurisdiction in the world to give the name e-Disclosure to the process of identifying, preserving, collecting and … Continue reading
Where does a wise man hide a leaf?
What connects Father Brown’s deduction that a trusted old soldier had been a villain with Autonomy’s tracing of Jérôme Kerviel’s activities at Société Générale? Both stories involved not just hiding leaves in forests but making a forest in which to … Continue reading
London litigation support all gathers in one pub
A large pub gathering of most of the London litigation support industry prompts some thoughts on the state of the industry and on what makes a buyer new to the market choose one supplier rather than another If the Larder … Continue reading
PosseList wrapup of the Masters Conference
The PosseList has managed to get out a full report of the Masters Conference and the first part of its notes on ACC Boston whilst I have yet to note up either Judge Facciola’s eleoquent keynote address at the Masters … Continue reading
The Orange Rag adds its weight to litigation support on both sides of the Atlantic
I wonder what was the first legal technology development reported by Charles Christian. A new design of quill pen perhaps which, coupled with a revolutionary advance in parchment development, allowed legal clerks to write on both sides of a document … Continue reading
Earles v Barclays Bank reported in the Times
Earles v Barclays Bank was reported in The Times today with the heading Disclosing electronic data. I have already written about this (see Costs penalty for non-compliance with e-disclosure obligations). It is significant at several levels: unlike Digicel it is … Continue reading
When is an EDD quotation like a cold beer?
These posts sometimes acquire a life of their own in the writing especially where, as with this one, they are done in stages across a rather long day. What began as an account of my last day in Singapore turns … Continue reading
The British invade Washington again, this time to talk and learn, not burn
To say that electronic discovery is international connotes more than the cross-border ramifications of multi-jurisdictional litigation. There is commonality in the problems, the rules and the solutions, to say nothing of the implications for law firms of new ways of … Continue reading
British liberties viewed from the Land of the Free
The subject of liberty came at me in three different ways on a single Sunday morning in Washington a few days ago. The top article in the Washington Post was headed “In today’s viral world, who keeps a civil tongue” … Continue reading
Next stop Singapore for LexisNexis E-Discovery Conference
Practice Direction No 3 of 2009 in the Supreme Court of Singapore is entitled Discovery and Inspection of Electronically Stored Information and took effect on 1 October 2009. I am off to Singapore today to take part in a conference … Continue reading
Big reception for Marean-Dale video
Browning Marean and I made two short videos at ILTA09 with Kina Kim of PivotalDiscovery. The “big reception” in my title refers to the venue rather than the reaction, but this means of conveying information is well worth doing. Years … Continue reading
Off to the Masters Conference in Washington DC
I have gone to the Masters Conference in Washington DC. See Packed programme for Masters Conference. I am there until Wednesday evening, staying at the Willard Hotel. See you there. Home
Costs penalty for non-compliance with e-disclosure obligations
A judgment given yesterday by His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC sitting as an Additional High Court Judge in the Birmingham Mercantile Court, will focus minds on the need to comply with the requirements of Part 31 CPR and the … Continue reading
Packed programme for Masters Conference
The 2009 Masters Conference takes place in Washington on 12 and 13 October. Its title, Global Corporate Change – Navigating Discovery, Risk and Security covers only a fraction of the subjects covered in two days. The best part for me … Continue reading
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Information retention at e-Disclosure conference in Brussels
I demonstrated my own commitment to information retention by mislaying my notes of the sessions at IQPC’s Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Europe Conference in Brussels last week. As with all the best document retention policies, this means that I … Continue reading
Learning in good company at IQPC e-Disclosure Conference in Brussels
I got back late on Thursday from IQPC’s Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Europe conference in Brussels. I was on three panels on the first day, attended several others, met or re-met countless people, and yet seemed in retrospect to … Continue reading
Clearing the decks before going to Brussels
I do not pretend that this job is hard work in the way that trying to reach a sales target or managing a large project is hard work. It is far too enjoyable for that. It would, however, be good … Continue reading
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e-Disclosure is like opera – you do not start with Wagner
I am fond of analogies, as you know, and everything from motorway signs to Roman bridges gets pulled into service to illustrate e-disclosure points. It seems to be catching: Craig Earnshaw of FTI Technology in London came up with another … Continue reading
Flying the wrong messages across cultural boundaries
Most broad ideas of the characteristics which identify people from other races and cultures contain a grain of truth as well as a dollop of unfairness. The excitable French, stoic Britons and [supply your own words here] Irish turn up … Continue reading
New French Data Protection Opinion on US discovery procedures
I bet that headline made your heart skip a beat with excitement, as mine did when I saw that the Proskauer Rose LLP Privacy Law blog has a new entry headed French Data Protection Authority releases new opinion on compliance … Continue reading
Top 10 tips for working with E-Discovery from Tom O’Connor
The programme for the Masters Conference in Washington on 13 and 14 October is now published. It looks set to be even better than last year’s, even if you ignore my own small part in it. I will come back … Continue reading
The best technology is useless without the right people
In electronic disclosure as in everything else, the technology itself is unlikely to cause the problems. For the moment at least, it needs direction from human intelligence. Money spent on equipment is wasted if not supported by a brain cell … Continue reading
Evidence Eliminator does the trick for Phoenix Four
A director who destroyed documents in anticipation of a government investigation may not be subject to any penalty for the bare act of destruction divorced from any actual proceedings against him or his company. If that is indeed the position, … Continue reading
Reaching informed agreement that e-disclosure is not needed
Having just published an article about whether electronic disclosure is needed in all cases, I turned to Ralph Losey’s blog to discover that he had just published an article about whether electronic discovery is needed in all cases. We do … Continue reading
How would Bray & Gillespie play in the UK?
Bray & Gillespie is a US eDiscovery case which has attracted attention partly because its outcome was so predictable and partly for the strong views expressed by the judge as to the conduct of those involved. What would have been … Continue reading
I got it from Twitter – Normandy in pictures 1944 and now
Most of what I write about, however unlikely the starting point, brings you back to electronic discovery / e-disclosure sooner or later. Even I, however, can find no such connection for what I am about to point you to. I … Continue reading
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Using Twitter to talk to your clients
My article Twitter as a source of e-discovery information drew a comment from Nick Wade, Group Product Manager for Symantec’s Enterprise Vault – Discovery. I had focused on Twitter as merely a source of information. Nick draws attention to its … Continue reading
More than one reason for new FTI Paris presence
It is interesting to find FTI Consulting, Inc. opening a new forensic and litigation consulting practice in Paris. There is more to this, I suspect, than the economic truism that, for those who can afford it, recession is the best … Continue reading
7Safe blogs to keep us informed about e-disclosure forensics
E-disclosure Information Project sponsor 7Safe has joined the growing number of businesses using a blog to pass on information about what it does and what is happening in the company. It is a powerful and cheap marketing medium whatever you … Continue reading
Who needs a bridge when the river goes away?
The mechanics of electronic disclosure are not an inherently legal function like Will writing or conveyancing. Instead of assuming that the work will always be theirs, lawyers must ask themselves why the clients should not divert it somewhere else. There … Continue reading
The UK is well-placed between the EU and the rest of the eDiscovery world
The first big eDiscovery conference of the autumn is IQPC’s Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Europe conference in Brussels on 30 September and 1 October. I am going there mainly to take part in a panel organised by Guidance Software … Continue reading
Second Digicel judgment concerns privilege not e-disclosure
A second Digicel judgment does not bear on the subject of e-disclosure, but relates to alleged waiver of privilege in documents containing legal advice. A mention of it here might forestall confusion on the part of those who turn up … Continue reading
Conveying business ideas with short videos
Videos about the e-discovery /e-disclosure industry can be by captains of industry or the junior trainee, can cover everything from pure technology to business commentary, and can be formal or otherwise. A set of short videos by Mike Lynch of … Continue reading
A round-up to catch up
There is a fair amount going on at the moment and a round-up note seems a good way of catching up. I will come back to some of these topics shortly with more detail than there is time for just … Continue reading
EMC and Kazeon: can we have Twitter back please?
I am new to Twitter and have yet to get to grips with all the conventions. Its primary use amongst eDiscovery people (no-one there talks of e-disclosure, alas) seems to be to refer others to interesting articles elsewhere. That seems … Continue reading
I disclose the discovery that Britain is on its own
The UK cast itself off from the US and the rest of the common law world when we renamed “discovery” to “disclosure”. Now the whole Special Relationship has apparently died. US-UK cooperation on discovery/disclosure will survive that. Inevitably, this column … Continue reading
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International fame for Anglo-Saxon
My dog Saxon has adjusted well to the fame which comes from a mention in Gabe’s Guide. I referred to him in a post a few days ago and, before I knew it, the world’s press (well, Gabe anyway) blew … Continue reading
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How was ILTA for you?
There are two halves to the question “How was ILTA for you?”. One is the personal reaction. Did I learn something and see some interesting technology? Did I meet interesting people? Did I have fun? The answer to all these … Continue reading
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Judicial College gives hope of e-disclosure training
Today’s Times reports on the launch of a new Judicial College which will give judges the opportunity to top up their skills and keep up to date with developments in the law, practice and procedure. The Lord Chief Justice, Lord … Continue reading
Why not just read a few eDiscovery cases?
An hour or so after I posted my blog entry eDiscovery certification bars new entrants arguing against the apparatus of exams and certificates for in-house staff, a new post appears headed The Critical Need for eDiscovery Certification followed closely by … Continue reading
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EDiscovery certification bars new entrants
I said in an earlier article (Recruiting one’s strength for post-recession litigation support) that I would come back to the difficult subject of e- discovery certification. The context in which it came up was that of the individual skills of … Continue reading
Collaborating to avoid the end of lawyers
I am not going to give you a full report of Richard Susskind’s talk to ILTA last week. Its basic premise is well-known to anyone interested in this area; I have written about it before; if you are interested, you … Continue reading
Recruiting one’s strength for post-recession litigation support
The Litigation Support Peer Group had a session at ILTA09 called The Future of Our Litigation Support Profession: What Lies Ahead? These are the people who actually do the work, so their reports and their views are worth having. They, … Continue reading
Bigger in America
It is obvious why American discovery must necessarily be bigger than discovery anywhere else. Everything else is bigger here and it is perhaps a point of honour – there would be a sense of failure if any other country had … Continue reading
Gone to ILTA
I will be at ILTA09 in Washington for most of the next week. I have a few meetings and will go to some of the litigation sessions, but most of the time will pass in bumping into people and chatting. … Continue reading
London meeting of Women in eDiscovery
I am a supporter of Women in eDiscovery and glad to learn from Laura Kelly of Epiq Systems that the London branch is active. They have a meeting on 17 September at the offices of Fulbright & Jaworski, 85 Fleet … Continue reading
Socha and Gelbmann survey the EDD market
No time to précis it or comment on it, but George Socha and Tom Gelbmann have published their annual overview of the results of their annual survey on the Legal Technology News site. If asked to pick the most important … Continue reading
Show me more like this
Guidance Software’s new EnCase Portable is interesting enough for itself. The way in which they are promoting it is even more so. The industry as a whole could make use of YouTube’s ability to point users to related material. I … Continue reading
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