In 2011, Nuix launched a version of its digital discovery and investigations software called Proof Finder, priced at $100 per year. It was not just the price which was remarkable: all the receipts went to a charity called Room to … Continue reading
A new resource called the Chronicle of eDiscovery for Financial Services has begun publication with the ambition to bring together experts in the fields of eDiscovery, data forensics and information management and governance with a particular focus on financial services. Its … Continue reading
This is my second post of today about the need to collect data from mobile devices for eDiscovery and investigations which gives some idea how important the subject is becoming. FTI has a new page about mobile device data with the … Continue reading
Summation is AccessData’s long-standing eDiscovery tool combining predictive coding, advanced analytics, data processing, early case assessment, case management, final review and transcript management. FTK is its Forensic Toolkit, well known for many years as an industry-standard tool for collecting data … Continue reading
Nuix is now delivering weekly 30 minute webinars about the features in its latest products. The webinars are presented by Nuix engineers and subject-matter experts, and aim to address commonly-asked technical questions on product features. The webinars can be found … Continue reading
Recommind is presenting a webinar on 20 October (that is, TODAY) with the name No Safe Harbor – 5 strategies for cross-border eDiscovery. The subject, of course, is the transfer of data from the EU to the US following the … Continue reading
A global international eDiscovery consulting company with offices in London is looking for a senior project manager for their eDiscovery department. The role requires the project manager to give practice support services to clients, sharing expertise and helping with clients’ … Continue reading
As anticipated, there has been a lot of comment on the implications for safe harbour and for data transfers to the US following this week’s decision in Schrems. I wrote briefly about it here, deliberately avoiding substantive comment, and there … Continue reading
AccessData’s Chief Evangelist, Tim Leehealey, is undertaking a tour of cities in the US and around the world to bring users and prospective users up to date with developments in FTK and Summation 6.0. The sessions will cover the state … Continue reading
kCura’s Relativity Fest is taking place in Chicago from 11 to 14 October. I will be there, making some videos and taking part in a panel called Cross-border challenges in a changing world along with David Horrigan of kCura and … Continue reading
APT Search specialises in the recruitment of people with eDiscovery information governance skills. Founder Amit Pandit is one of the best-connected people I know in eDiscovery, as well as one of the best informed. I get quite a lot of requests … Continue reading
I do not normally make reference to individual companies appearing in surveys or rankings, partly because lists themselves are not particularly exciting, and partly for fear of omitting someone whom I should mention. I make an exception for QuisLex’s double appearance … Continue reading
CYFOR, specialists in forensics, eDisclosure and data security, has opened a new office in Dublin. This is CYFOR’s third new office in the last 12 months which indicates expansion and ambition. Dublin is increasingly interesting in eDiscovery terms. That is … Continue reading
Did you hear the one about the party who lost a £50m claim, without any discussion of the pleaded issues, thanks to disclosure failures? Or the case where the judge decided against hearing an expensive application for specific disclosure, saying that the party allegedly … Continue reading
Recommind is giving a webinar on 23 September at 8:00am Pacific / 11:00am Eastern / 4:00pm BST / called Chat is the New Email: Complete Communications Analysis for eDiscovery. Recommind’s Axcelerate 5.5 includes new Smart Processing technology which lets you analyze and review chat and recorded data such as Bloomberg Chat and Skype. In this … Continue reading
Iris Data Services is now part of Epiq Systems, bringing to Epiq its expertise in the provision of managed services along with the software tools which it has developed. These most notably include Iris Arc which gives users the ability … Continue reading
Consilio provides eDiscovery and document review services based on its own proprietary eDiscovery review platform Global RPM. Since 2013, Consilio has integrated ‘s technology-assisted review and predictive coding technology from Backstop into global rpm. This has been so successful that Consilio … Continue reading
On 20 October, Huron Legal, in conjunction with Zenith Chambers and with me, will be talking about the disclosure and evidence in Leeds with in a session entitled Documents win cases! The event starts at 4:00pm with a panel discussion … Continue reading
Most of us leave traces of our everyday activities on the Internet, often without realising it. Internet chat, Facebook posts, calendar entries and photograph metadata are often available to contradict assertions about our whereabouts and lifestyle. The defendant in Cirencester … Continue reading
Epiq Systems has announced the opening of a new office in Frankfurt as part of its plans to expand its international service offerings. Epiq is already well-established in the US, the UK, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. The full range … Continue reading
Legal services provider QuisLex has been offering litigation and corporate support services since 2004. I come across it because of its litigation support services focused on document review and related aspects of electronic discovery, but it also offers a range … Continue reading
Consilio’s recent partnership with Shamrock Capital Advisors brought with it the promise of yet further expansion for an eDiscovery company whose reach extends year by year. Consilio already has review centres in Hong Kong and Tokyo amongst the nine such … Continue reading
Recommind has announced that Axcelerate 5.5 includes advanced analysis of instant messaging data which can be used for the discovery of platforms such as Instant Bloomberg, Skype and Google Chat. Whilst Bloomberg data is relevant only to the financial industry, … Continue reading
So far as I am aware, there is no competition to find the most regular participant in panels and webinars devoted to cross-border discovery and the comparative requirements of the US and UK. If there was such a contest, I would … Continue reading
Guidance Software’s long-running annual event CEIC will henceforth be known as Enfuse. My account below of the 2015 show was written before that news broke – I held it back so that I could include links to some of the … Continue reading
Huron Legal has republished the useful article called eDiscovery / eDisclosure in the EU written for ILTA by Jonathan Maas of Huron Legal and Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy. It begins with a guide to what “Europe” is, aimed … Continue reading
Roger Angarita is Director of Product Management at Guidance Software. In this interview, I ask him about to tell me about some of the features and benefits of the forthcoming release of EnCase 8. As Roger Angarita makes clear, EnCase … Continue reading
AccessData is producing a webinar on Friday 21 August at 10.00am Mountain Daylight Time with the title Summation and FTK: streamline your eDiscovery and investigation needs. You can read about Summation here and about FTK here. An article published recently … Continue reading
An article by Cicayda’s Aaron Vick asks the question “What is metadata?”. Those in the UK who might hope that the question is irrelevant to them might first count the number of times the word “metadata” turns up in the practice … Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but my heart doesn’t exactly race at the thought of listening for an hour to a webinar on email archives. On the face of it, email archives fall into the category known as “worthy but … Continue reading
I was away for part of July and missed an article by eDiscovery and forensics experts CYFOR about work they are doing to help clients involved in swap / interest rate hedging product disputes. The article by eDisclosure consultant Lydia … Continue reading
Gabriela Baron, Esq. is Senior Vice President at Xerox Litigation Services. Xerox Litigation Services offers a range of eDiscovery solutions including software, services and consulting increasingly (as we will see below) to corporate clients. Its software includes the Viewpoint Software, OmniX … Continue reading
In this video, I interview Chad McManamy, VP of eDiscovery at Guidance Software. The main topic of our discussion was Guidance Software’s 2015 Second Annual eDiscovery Survey which collected answers from nearly 100 in-house legal departments and eDiscovery service providers … Continue reading
It is easy for eDiscovery people to treat the management of litigation documents as an end in itself, overlooking or ignoring the fact that discovery is one of many components of litigation. It is also easy (I get eloquent about … Continue reading
Lawtech Europe Congress, rebranded as InSig2 Lawtech 2015, has hitherto taken place in Prague. This year it moves to Brussels, taking place at the Management Centre Europe on 26-27 October 2015. There are two keynote speakers. The first is by … Continue reading
I have already written about the Guidance Software webinar due to take place on 30 July at 11.00am PDT with the title Inside Counsel Takes Control: The 2015 E-Discovery Survey. A blog post from Guidance Software called Panel of Experts … Continue reading
I was preparing to go away when news broke of the award winners in ALM’s 2015 LTN Innovation awards, and so come to them rather late. IRIS Data Services won the award for Best eDiscovery Managed Services Provider with it’s … Continue reading
On 28 July, Nuix is presenting a webinar called eDiscovery best practices when dealing with email archives. It it addresses a problem faced by many organisations: very large volumes of email are gathered over many years; they are the source … Continue reading
APT Search, which specialises in recruitment for eDiscovery / eDisclosure posts, is looking for someone to take the role of eDiscovery sales director for an international client. The successful applicant will become part of the client’s international business development team. … Continue reading
Craig Earnshaw, London-based senior managing director at FTI Technology, is one of the speakers at a webinar run by Compliance Week on 16 July at 2:00pm ET. It is called the Art of cooperation: helping mitigate FCPA investigation fallout. In … Continue reading
Iris Data Services offers fixed prices for eDiscovery matters together with a managed services model which is designed to allow corporations and their lawyers to focus on the issues, the strategy and tactics of a dispute or investigation. In this … Continue reading
Just before Christmas, I wrote an article called Smailes v McNally: eDisclosure consequences of failure to comply with Unless Order. It followed the delayed publication of the Court of Appeal’s judgment Smailes & Anor v McNally & Anor [2014] EWCA … Continue reading
APT Search, who specialise in eDiscovery / eDisclosure recruitment, are seeking someone to take the role of management review leader / review manager based in London. The successful applicant will have a legal background and at least seven years’ experience … Continue reading
Those whose work consists only of litigation, of whatever size, generally think that the eDisclosure burdens placed on them are onerous. Those burdens, and in particular the timelines, can look pretty relaxed when compared with what has to be done, … Continue reading
HSR stands for Hart-Scott-Rodino and to the Antitrust Improvements Act which bears these names. The act requires companies to file detailed information in certain circumstances with the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice who might then request further … Continue reading
Those who skim articles rather than read them might conclude that this post is anti-US in tone. It is not – half my audience comes from the US and I am interested in balanced views not competing claims for purity. … Continue reading
I wrote here about a webinar produced by iCONECT, makers of the iCONECT-XERA review platform, in which iCONECT addresses some of the reasons – excuses may be a better word – which lawyers give for not using predictive review. That webinar … Continue reading
A little way down the home page on its new website, FTI Technology has an unrecognisable blotch of pixels with the tagline “See what you’ve been missing…”. As you scroll past it, the pixels resolve into the face of a … Continue reading
US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck is a tireless promoter of eDiscovery best practices. Although best known for his Da Silva Moore and Rio Tinto Opinions on the use of technology-assisted review, he is authoritative also on subjects as diverse as … Continue reading
Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind, was one of the panel members at a discussion at the recent Bloomberg Technology Conference. Whether one likes it or not, technology is increasingly performing functions with the potential to replace humans, and the subject … Continue reading
Specialist eDiscovery / eDisclosure recruiter APT Search is seeking to recruit a sales executive based in London on behalf of a company offering eDiscovery solutions to leading law firms. The requirements include a “vast working knowledge of the disclosure” and … Continue reading
It is not just the technology and not just the price which matters when lawyers are choosing a provider of eDisclosure services. Lawyers have moved beyond seeing eDisclosure as just things on screens, and appreciate the people who are doing … Continue reading
eDiscovery software and consulting company ZyLAB is producing a webinar today, 4 June, at 1:00pm ET, with the title Selecting the right eDiscovery solution for your company. The word “solution” in this context implies both the software selected for the … Continue reading
When I first got involved in eDiscovery / eDisclosure in the late 1980s, the components of the problem were relatively straightforward: lawyers needed to find evidence; they were required to comply with some civil procedure rules; they needed to make … Continue reading
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. It has recently been furthering the commitment implied by the word “International” in its name. This takes several forms, most notably the annual events in London and Hong Kong (I go to both … Continue reading
In January 2015, Huron Legal released its IMPACT Benchmarking Survey on Law Department legal spend. In this video, Bret Baccus, senior director at Huron Legal, talks about some of the main points which arose from the survey. No one factor, … Continue reading
eDiscovery lawyers are constantly being told to watch out for new sources of discoverable data as platforms and data types multiply. Those who think only of email and word files are probably missing great deal of potential evidence. Audio discovery … Continue reading
I wrote recently about two scholarships being offered by ILTA in honour of the late Browning Marean, one for people living and working in the US and one for international applicants. My article Attend ILTA Conference 2015 in Las Vegas … Continue reading
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As I reached home after the second day of IQPC’s 10th eDiscovery and Information Governance Summit, cold, soaked through, and knackered after two days in which I had sat down only to eat or moderate panels, an email arrived…. I … Continue reading
Navigant has global clients for a wide range of business functions including those which require electronic discovery and related services. In this video, Jonathan Marshall, a London-based director in Navigant’s Legal Technology Department, talks about Navigant’s new presence in Hong … Continue reading
LiST – The Litigation Support Technology Group – is a London-based think tank with international reach. It was originally formed in 2003 by a group of litigation support specialists with the aim of encouraging and developing a uniformity of approach … Continue reading
In advance of CEIC in Las Vegas, Guidance Software has released the results of its 2015 Second Annual eDiscovery Survey. As before, questions were put to in-house legal departments and eDiscovery service providers, nearly 100 of whom replied. The main … Continue reading
US lawyers are much more expressly focused on the ethics of litigation than we are in the UK. A cynical US lawyer once told me that that is because there is a paper on Ethics in law exams. My own … Continue reading
When in Hong Kong recently, I had the opportunity to talk to Major Baisden, President of Iris Data Services, about Iris’s growing presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Iris’s global clients are growing their businesses in AsiaPac, Major Baisden says, and … Continue reading
It is inevitable that most of the attention is paid to very big eDiscovery matters and to the tools and processes needed to manage them. Most disputes, however, do not have documents measured in millions. Legal teams must analyse collections … Continue reading
Recommind is running a series of presentations at major US cities at the beginning of June with the title Investigations at Warp Speed: Strategies for Hyper-Efficient Review. The agenda includes a presentation from Bennett Borden of Drinker Biddle & Reath … Continue reading
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. It works throughout the year, and in an increasing number of jurisdictions, to help lawyers make the best use of technology in their practices. Its main event of the year is a big … Continue reading
CEIC is the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference, run every May by Guidance Software, and this year once again at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. It takes place from 18-21 May and I will be there, as I have been for many … Continue reading
This year sees the 10th anniversary of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit, to be held at the Waldorf Hilton in London between 12 and 14 May. This event is, by a wide margin, the biggest event in the UK … Continue reading
What connects a law school course run by a Nashville-based eDiscovery software company and a legal expert systems company with a UK report on access to justice? And what has any of these to do with the recruitment of young people … Continue reading
The thing about Nuix, from a commentator’s point of view, is that it has always got something new to say, across multiple fronts and in many jurisdictions at once. If, as I just have, you have a run of events … Continue reading
I was one of around 350 guests at kCura’s Relativity Spring Launch in London last week. Before saying anything about the event or the product, I should note that an assembly of this size with a sole focus on eDiscovery / eDisclosure (never … Continue reading
Litigation is a project in which the prime lawyer input of strategy, tactics and advocacy is only a part of the set of factors which must be marshalled and controlled to bring a case to a successful conclusion on time and … Continue reading
APT Search, which specialises in recruitment for eDiscovery / eDisclosure, is looking on behalf of a client for a product specialist to work as part of “client support services”. The person they are seeking will be used to working directly with … Continue reading
FTI Technology is sponsoring an EDRM webinar on 23 April (that’s today) called Using FTI Ringtail to Modernise Keyword Search for Efficiency and Better Discovery Outcomes. The presenters are JR Jenkins, senior director of FTI Consulting and Jason Ray, Managing … Continue reading
Although I cannot claim to have predicted that Epiq Systems would buy Iris Data Services, it is one of those acquisitions whose logic seems entirely obvious as soon as it is reported. Epiq has long shown inventiveness and consistency in … Continue reading
kCura’s Relativity Fest takes place this year between 11 and 14 October in Chicago. kCura has announced the 2015 competition for the Relativity Innovation Awards, open to customers who are building outstanding applications and integrations on top of the Relativity … Continue reading
The Singapore Academy of Law is organising a conference to take place in Singapore on 29 and 30 June. It is called Technology Law Conference 2015: the Future of Money and Data. Its theme is that technology offers both utopian … Continue reading
ILTA’s big show took place at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville in August 2014. Somewhat belatedly, here are some of the pictures which I took then, partly as encouragement to those who might want to go … Continue reading
CEIC, the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference is run by Guidance Software. This year’s CEIC takes place from 18-21 May and is again at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. I will be there. Here are some of the photographs which I took … Continue reading
If you read my article TAR-red with the same brush in the US and Ireland, you will have concluded that I had a copy of the judgment in Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Ltd v Sean Quinn and ors about the … Continue reading
Apart from a couple of webinars and the occasional lunchtime event in London, I am gratefully back at my desk for most of the time between now and mid-May. That is deliberate, and I need it, not just to keep … Continue reading
As part of my record of the year 2014, I am publishing belatedly the photograph sets from some of the events which I attended in 2014. Among them was the Asia Technology Summit in Hong Kong in March 2014. We have had the … Continue reading
As we get ready for the 10th Annual Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit, the biggest event in the London calendar, here are a few photographs from last year’s event, starting with a couple of Sanjay Bhandari of EY who was, … Continue reading
The last few days have brought us significant court rulings in the US and in Dublin about the use of technology which is variously called predictive coding, technology-assisted review, computer-assisted review, and other names indicative of the joint application of … Continue reading
kCura held its Spring Launch party in London in May 2014. CEO Andrew Sieja took us through the new features of Relativity 8.2, demo stations allowed visual explanations, and there was a good party. I wrote about it here. Below … Continue reading
I have published photographs from the InnoXcell 2014 Big Data Symposium here and here. We also took the opportunity to do video interviews, some of which have lasting value. Judge David Harvey of New Zealand talks about courts, lawyers and … Continue reading
Corporate Knowledge Strategies, known as CKS, is a forum for communities of practice for those concerned with corporate information and the issues surrounding its creation, its safekeeping and its use. I took part in an event which CKS ran New … Continue reading
The third Legaltech Hong Kong takes place on 2 March at the JW Marriott in Hong Kong. As always, the agenda is broad, running across a wide range of the challenges which face lawyers in the Asia-Pacific region. I recently bumped … Continue reading
Professor Richard Susskind has been a long-time and eloquent proponent of alternative ways of settling disputes through the use of both technology and procedural amendments. His picture of arguments being resolved by people in fancy dress in wooden-walled courts has … Continue reading
You will be wondering, no doubt, at the near-silence on my part on my blogs and Twitter for the last two weeks or so. I don’t suppose you’d noticed at all in fact, but I will tell you anyway. The first … Continue reading
This is personal – it is about what I go to LegalTech for. As I make clear below, if you are a potential buyer of software, then LegalTech is the perfect place to see demos of everything relevant under one … Continue reading
Independent eDiscovery and privacy consultant Nigel Murray has organised the 9th Commonwealth Brunch in New York on the Sunday before LegalTech at the Tavern on the Green at 10.30am Continue reading
It is a year since TeCSA – the Technology and Construction Solicitors Association – launched its eDisclosure Protocol and Guidelines. I was involved at the beginning, as moderator of a well-attended pre-launch training day, and am a member of the … Continue reading
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