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Category Archives: Electronic disclosure
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
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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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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Two more Bribery Act sessions with LDM Global
LDM Global has two more Bribery Act events coming up this week, following the one which I moderated for them recently. The first is on Wednesday 25th of May at 4.00pm BST and is a webinar given by LDM Global … Continue reading
Craig Ball Entertains at CEIC 2011 on Computer Forensics for Lawyers
I choose my words carefully when I write, and nowhere more than in the headings to articles. It took me 10 seconds to decide that the word “entertains” would form part of the heading to this post. “Entertains”, “Forensics” and … Continue reading
The Bribery Act – time to review Information Management
In the short gap between IQPC in London and CEIC in Orlando, I was invited to join a panel at Pinsent Masons on the Bribery Act, one of a series organised by Barry Vitou of Pinsents and thebriberyact.com. You will … Continue reading
Getting on with the basics at CEIC as the eDiscovery world spins a little faster
I could sit here all morning trying to come up with a succinct heading which captures everything which is going on in eDiscovery / eDisclosure at the moment. The big things happening at a corporate level have greater long-term significance … Continue reading
UK and US EDisclosure / EDiscovery and Compliance Commonality at IQPC London
There was something for everyone at the IQPC Document Retention and EDisclosure Management Summit in London this week. The Bribery Act gave added incentive for those responsible for information management within organisations; at the other end of the process, prosecutors … Continue reading
Metropolitan Corporate Counsel interviews Equivio on Processing and Proskauer on Compliance
The only direct connection between the two articles referred to in my title are that they both appeared on the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website yesterday. An interview with Warwick Sharp of Equivio is headed The processing mountain was blocking the … Continue reading
LexisNexis e-disclosure webinar pulls in the crowds
2090 people registered to watch a video webinar on e-disclosure and privilege last week. That is, apparently, the highest number for any of the successful LexisNexis series of such webinars and presumably reflects the growing interest in electronic disclosure. The … Continue reading
Judge Grimm on ignorance of ediscovery rules and lack of consistency from courts
A high proportion of e-disclosure / ediscovery disputes in both US and UK courts arise because one or both of the parties does not know what target it is supposed to reach. This generally stems from one of two causes … Continue reading
Clear and convincing evidence needed to show contempt in intimate pictures case
I am writing my annual play for US and UK judges to perform at IQPC in London. The purpose each year is to sweeten the pill of e-disclosure didacticism with some light humour. If I always cast the US judges … Continue reading
ALRC Update on the Australian Discovery Inquiry
Patrick Collins, Senior Legal Officer of the Australian Law Reform Commission, made a presentation at an ediscovery conference in Melbourne last week. I don’t miss many common law ediscovery conferences, but I was not at this one, and I am … Continue reading
Epiq joins the NLJ for a roundtable discussion on costs and case management
The New Law journal is running a series of roundtable discussions on various aspects of litigation and dispute resolution. I have my eye on the events in this series because I am due to take part in one shortly. Quite … Continue reading
Audio Search and Geolocation from ZyLAB
Two new developments from ZyLAB are worth passing on. In contrast to some players in this market, ZyLAB produces press releases which are short and to the point, without the boilerplate wrappers so beloved of others which set you nodding … Continue reading
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Singapore case – Specific Discovery – Sanae Achar v Sci-Gen Ltd
A new case from the Singapore High Court involves an appeal against an order for specific discovery of documents. The case is Sanae Achar v Sci-Gen Ltd [2011] SGHC 87 The appellant lost and was ordered to disclose more or less what had … Continue reading
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You do not need the fear of sanctions to get value from legal hold software
I am doing a panel session on Day 2 of the IQPC Information Retention and EDisclosure Managemement Summit with Ronke Ekwensi of Pfizer. Our subject is ESI preparation and preservation: Assessing – and addressing – your eDisclosure Liabilities. One of … Continue reading
LDM Global survey on common ediscovery errors and a new office in New York
LDM Global recently conducted a survey across the USA, Europe and Australia to find out what were seen as the most widespread ediscovery errors. Whilst the results will surprise no one, it is good to be reminded that the problems … Continue reading
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Three webinars from Digital Reef
Digital Reef, whose ediscovery, early case assessment and compliance software has recently brought them into the KMWorld List of 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management, is producing three webinars over the next few weeks. These are as follows: Burst … Continue reading
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Recommind Webinar – UK Bribery Act: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Game-Changer?
Recommind are presenting a webinar in conjunction with Inside Counsel on Thursday 21 April (that’s this week). The title is The UK Bribery Act: Much Ado About Nothing, Or Game-Changer? and registration is here. The speakers are Mark Mendelsohn, Partner … Continue reading
Epiq’s acquisition of Encore gives the customer more choices
E-Discovery services and technology company Epiq Systems, Inc. has acquired Encore Discovery Solutions for $100 million cash. The press release is here. Most market comment has focused on the acquisition price and on the estimated 50% increase in the revenue … Continue reading
Filling the day and nearly getting filled with lead
One of the influential figures in US ediscovery gets very cross at references to the “ediscovery market”, as if the commercial connotations somehow sully the purity of the context of rules and judges and justice which the ediscovery / e-disclosure … Continue reading
A Craig Ball anti-forensics article reminds UK readers of Rybak v Langbar
Thousands of words are written each week about e-disclosure / ediscovery. That old joke about today’s article is being tomorrow’s cat litter is hard to apply literally to electronic publication, but it is right to say that few of the … Continue reading
Huron Consulting, LDM Global, Hobs Legal Docs and Recommind all move home
In case you are setting off for a meeting in London with Huron Consulting Group, LDM Global or Hobs Legal Docs, you may care to note they have all moved premises in recent weeks. Recommind has also moved, though I … Continue reading
Lawyers replaced by computers for ediscovery search – a retrospective
The dust is settling on the debate aroused by the John Markoff article in the New York Times of 4 March headed Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software. We can’t have that, so I thought I would keep … Continue reading
E-disclosure Great Debate at The Lawyer
The Lawyer today carries a report by editor Catrin Griffiths of an edisclosure panel last week hosted by The Lawyer as part of a series of such debates. The panel included Senior Master Whitaker, Phil Beckett of Navigant, and senior … Continue reading
Aggressive Transparency and Strategic Cooperation in Electronic Disclosure
Lieutenant Schrank: You hoodlums don’t own these streets. And I’ve had all the rough-house I can put up with around here. You want to kill each other? Kill each other, but you ain’t gonna do it on my beat. … … Continue reading
Risk, Processes, Proportionality and Objectives in Bribery and eDisclosure
This post is actually about a talk given jointly by me and Barry Vitou of Pinsent Masons and of thebriberyact.com to an audience invited by Iron Mountain in Westminster this week about the Bribery Act and developments in e-Disclosure. I … Continue reading
Digital Reef, kCura and Foley & Lardner Webinar on 9 March
I do not catch all the webinar notices which fly by, and get to mention only a fraction of those. That implies no lack of support for the format or for those who put them on, but it is only … Continue reading
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King Ludd and the Lawyers – e-Discovery and the Luddite Fallacy
Since I am about to refer you to three weighty articles by others, I will keep my own comment to a minimum. The context is the ability of modern litigation software to analyse documents more quickly and more cheaply than … Continue reading
The relevance of a computer called ‘Watson’ and a television game show to electronic disclosure
A computer with a homely name like ‘Watson’ and a US quiz show may sound like trivialisation of the serious subject of electronic discovery / eDisclosure. Equally, a reference to ‘Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing” sounds way over the top for … Continue reading
Phlogging IQPC with Dominic Regan and ipadio
Let us deconstruct my title in stages, taking the easy bits first. IQPC is a well-known conference organiser whose Information Retention and E-Disclosure Summit is generally recognised as the best of the London conferences on information management and the use … Continue reading
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The Bribery Act and e-Disclosure – Iron Mountain breakfast seminar on 8 March
Registration is now open for the Iron Mountain Breakfast Seminar on Electronic Disclosure and the new UK Bribery Act which takes place on Tuesday 8 March at 8.30am at Altitude 360, Millbank Tower, London. The registration form is here. The … Continue reading
AccessData conference carries electronic discovery message to Germany
I am very much looking forward to moderating an electronic discovery conference in Frankfurt on 22 March. The hosts are AccessData and the speakers are drawn from a broad range of legal, technical and compliance backgrounds, and from well-known firms … Continue reading
Metadata and Data Exchange Formats in Electronic Disclosure – a US model for a common-sense approach in the UK
UK lawyers are rightly sceptical about the relevance of US e-discovery rulings to their own cases. Occasionally, however, one comes along which is grounded in universally-applicable common sense or which throws light on some basic technological point which has not … Continue reading
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Davis v Grant Park – EDiscovery Sanctions just like the Advantage Rule in Rugby
I am keen on parallels and analogies which help illustrate serious subjects by drawing on historical, fictional, cultural or any other references which may throw light on (or at least help us to remember) things we ought to know. The … Continue reading
Levelling out after LegalTech
LegalTech, UK educational sessions and calls from law firms, an LPO conference, Irish eDiscovery, litigation as an invisible export, legal blogging in New York and eDiscovery in Germany all help to pass the time. By and large, I find that … Continue reading
Welcome to First Advantage as a sponsor of the E-disclosure Information Project
I am very pleased to welcome First Advantage Litigation Consulting as a new sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. First Advantage was already a well-established forensics, litigation consulting and eDiscovery company when I met them at my first LegalTech in … Continue reading
Welcome to Digital Reef as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
I am very pleased to welcome Digital Reef as the newest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. This news comes in as I am packing to leave for LegalTech and you, and they, will forgive me for giving the briefest … Continue reading
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Guidance Software adds forensics and ediscovery for iPad and iPhone
Guidance Software, best known in the e-disclosure / e-discovery world for enterprise network collections with EnCase eDiscovery, has announced a new forensic tool for the Apple iPad, iPhone 4 and iPod Touch. Encase Neutrino also handles Android 2.1 and 2.2. … Continue reading
What the Trilantic-Huron combination means for clients
Well-known UK litigation support provider Trilantic was acquired by Huron Consulting Group last November. I went to see Trilantic’s Nigel Murray to find out how the clients will benefit from the combined fire-power of the two companies. Although Trilantic seems … Continue reading
New web sites and a case study make good marketing
Although the nuts and bolts of what I do involves e-discovery / e-disclosure rules and the crossover between rules and practice on the one hand and technology on the other, my real interest lies in marketing, with a self imposed … Continue reading
Cross-Border and Multi-National eDiscovery at LegalTech from FTI and Epiq
I have written already about those sessions at LegalTech 2011 in New York which have a UK element in them (see Strong UK presence at LegalTech 2011). As I said in that article, it is impossible to list, let alone … Continue reading
Epiq Systems and Huron Consulting as Angels for US-UK e-disclosure play at LegalTech 2011
An “angel” in theatrical terms is someone who puts money into a play or film. Many productions would not happen without such support. I have already mentioned the judicial play which we are putting on at LegalTech and which consists … Continue reading
Exposing your thinking parts to the outsourcing discussion
That old image of the ostrich burying its head in the sand is apparently unfair. The purpose is apparently to use the ground as a sounding board, vibrations giving advance warning of problems to come. This prosaic reality undermines that … Continue reading
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Recommind expands in UK and EU with hires and hosting
A couple of years ago, Charles Christian of the Orange Rag observed that whilst other providers made a lot of noise about what they were going to do in the UK market, Recommind quietly got on with making sales. The … Continue reading
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LDM Global webinar on 27 January – Sampling for Dummies: Applying measuring techniques in ediscovery
We all have a notion of what “sampling” means. My dictionary defines it as a “small separated part of something illustrating the qualities of the mass”. In electronic disclosure / e-discovery terms it can be useful at an early stage … Continue reading
The ups and downs of US ediscovery sanctions
The sanctions handed down by US courts for ediscovery failures bewilder the rest of us somewhat. To my eye, if one wanted to design a system which was absolutely certain to encourage satellite litigation, tactical play and (as a defensive … Continue reading
Welcome to LDM Global as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
I am really pleased to welcome LDM Global, a company which I have known almost since its foundation 15 years ago, as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. In the days when my work involved handling rows and … Continue reading
The Trilantic Commonwealth Brunch on Sunday at LegalTech
The invitations to parties, receptions and meetings at LegalTech New York continue to roll in – my personal best so far is four assignations on one evening. The biggest issue, so far as I am concerned, is not fitting them … Continue reading
Welcome to ZyLAB as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
You will have noticed the addition of another new logo to the collection of those who sponsor the e-Disclosure Information Project. ZyLAB joined up before Christmas, and I deferred writing my usual welcome piece because of a plan to go … Continue reading
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