There is an old expression about the retired war horse who, hearing the sound of a distant battle, paws the ground and pricks its ears, excited at the recollection of past engagements. That is rather how I feel about Relativity … Continue reading
If it has seemed quiet on here, the long Christmas break was followed immediately by a two-week holiday in Cornwall, resuming a habit broken for two years by the pandemic. To spread some of the pleasure that gave, here are … Continue reading
If you are interested in a specialist subject – eDiscovery / eDisclosure in my case – which social media platform would you spend time on? Ignoring the Facebook empire and its creepy data-vampire, and ignoring those which are effectively closed … Continue reading
FTI Consulting is presenting a webinar on 27 May called International Women’s Day 2021 – 3 months on: Keeping the conversation alive with senior leaders in legal technology. The webinar’s starting point is that technology consulting is still an area … Continue reading
Relativity Trace is Relativity’s solution for communication surveillance. Its tagline “Detect misconduct before it escalates” is a good summary of its primary function – to identify communications which trigger alerts and concern about one or more individuals. Proofpoint’s function is … Continue reading
I wrote recently about the expansion of Relatvity’s SaaS solution, RelativityOne, in Singapore. That news was followed almost immediately by an announcement about RelativityOne expansion into South Korea through an e-discovery service provider called Intellectual Data. The press release is here. … Continue reading
It is sometimes helpful to do a round-up post, pulling together a number of different eDiscovery / eDisclosure stories in small nuggets, rather than a big single post on one subject. The week in which my wife has a knee … Continue reading
Here’s a conundrum for someone who writes about eDiscovery, its players, people and market. A company with whom you have had a long relationship falls out with its former CEO who was the original cause of that relationship and with … Continue reading
My summer staycation involved dismantling my office for decoration, so I have not got much work done in the last few days. The main eDiscovery event during my absence was the merger between HaystackID and NightOwl Global to produce what … Continue reading
Johnny Depp’s most famous character, Captain Jack Sparrow, is used to situations where all seems lost but something happens in the nick of time to effect a rescue. We left Depp’s latest storyline with our hero struck out for alleged failure … Continue reading
At Relativity Fest in Chicago, I interviewed Megan Rowland of Inventus. Since the interview, Legility and Inventus have come together under the name Legility. Megan Rowland is Team Lead, Project Management at Legility. https://vimeo.com/373579877 I asked her what makes a … Continue reading
It’s been a good week for those of us who like to see discovery / disclosure stories in the mainstream media. Less so, perhaps, for the chap convicted of murder thanks to technology (my article is here) and for Johnny … Continue reading
At Relativity Fest, I interviewed Antonia Karlan, Head of Project Management at Control Risks. I asked her why Control Risks had committed to RelativityOne. https://vimeo.com/372697069 The aim of Control Risks, Antonia Karlan said, was to provide the best solutions for … Continue reading
The UK disclosure pilot enters its tenth month in October. We now have practical experience to add to the text of the practice direction and to the many talks and articles which heralded its arrival. It is time for a … Continue reading
This is the third and last part of my interview with Brendan Sullivan of SullivanStrickler and Fred Moore of Horison Information Systems about the increasing value of tape as an archive medium. You can find Part 1 here and Part … Continue reading
Integreon has assembled a panel to visit Bristol on 26 June to talk about technology and effective resourcing, primarily in the context of the disclosure pilot scheme. The focus will be on practical things – on getting the disclosure job … Continue reading
At Relativity Fest in Chicago, Relativity gave a series of awards to individuals for their contribution to eDiscovery and its related subjects. One of those awards was the Relativity Stellar Woman in eDiscovery award. The winner was Joy Murao of … Continue reading
Karyn Harty is a partner at McCann FitzGerald in Dublin. I spoke to her at Relativity Fest in Chicago about the benefits of the GDPR, about the perception of privacy beyond the EU, and about the extension of eDiscovery skills … Continue reading
You may have noticed an increasing focus in this blog on career opportunities in electronic discovery / disclosure and the wider world where technology meets legal practice. I have no intention of becoming a kind of jobs board, but my … Continue reading
The 2018 Nuix User Exchange runs from 16-18 September in Huntington Beach, California. A recorded discussion between the organisers gives us an idea of what to expect and what is involved in meeting that expectation. Those of us who go regularly … Continue reading
The merger between Consilio and Advanced Discovery is now completed (see announcement here) and the combined company is now the second largest provider of information governance, risk management, eDiscovery, and document and contract review services in the world. One of … Continue reading
As his many friends know, British eDisclosure pioneer Nigel Murray has brain cancer. His daughter Sophie steps into a boxing ring tomorrow, 7 July, to raise money for Cancer Research UK. I invite you to sponsor her distinctly brave method … Continue reading
The latest iteration of Relativity’s analytic tools is called Active Learning. Roland von Borstel has written about it on the Ricoh / Commonwealth Legal blog Technology in Practice under the title Five reasons Active Learning is better than TAR. The … Continue reading
By “London” in my title, I mean “the courts of England and Wales”. Probably, in fact, I mean “disputes business”. This is not one of those “we’re all doomed” articles, just some pointers to the possibility that other jurisdictions may … Continue reading
One of the attractions of Relativity for its partners and customers is the ability to customise it and to add functionality to meet client needs. This was the main theme arising from my interview with Charlie Kaupp, Product Manager for … Continue reading
I have an article in draft about some of the marketing surrounding the GDPR, with a focus on the “4%-ers” – those who seek to imply that the slightest defect in policy or practice will automatically lead to a fine … Continue reading
Barrister Gordon Exall, the author of the invaluable Civil Litigation Brief, has now put more than 2,000 posts on the blog. He has done more than provide an essential service for all those who grapple with civil procedure. He has … Continue reading
One of my best moments of last year was interviewing Gerard Ryle of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists about the Panama Papers. Nuix was one of the software tools used to analyse that data and it was easy to … Continue reading
EDRM / Duke Law is running a series of webinars designed to help lawyers and judges on various aspects of technology-assisted review. It is part of preparation for the Duke Conference on TAR to be held in Arlington on 7 … Continue reading
The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) publishes several short papers designed to increase awareness of the technical, security and legal implications of various aspects of data holding. These documents are not, and do not purport to be, detailed explanations of … Continue reading
An interesting article called The sentiment at Legalweek 2017 by Angela Bunting, Director of eDiscovery at Nuix, considers the value of sentiment analysis tools. Angela Bunting took data relating to Legaltech – tweets with relevant hashtags and blog posts – … Continue reading
Beth Patterson is Chief Legal & Technology Services Office at Allens. When I saw her at ILTA in Washington, Allens had just won the Janders Dean Lexis Nexis Innovation Award for its use of technology to support its lawyers and … Continue reading
ILTA at the beginning of September gave me a good opportunity to interview US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck about the growing use of technology-assisted review in litigation. Judge Peck had recently given his opinion in the Hyles case to the … Continue reading
Squire Patton Boggs is a US-led firm with a worldwide presence, with offices in Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and beyond. Its global legal practice is well supported by appropriate technology including knowledge management and project management tools. It has … Continue reading
The old cliché about a picture telling a thousand words took a very real form last summer with the photograph of a dead Syrian child face-down on a beach. The picture turned the vague concept of a “crisis” into something … Continue reading
Digital forensics, once used mainly by police and security forces, are increasingly used in civil discovery / disclosure. As Luke Holden of CYFOR explains in this video, there are two main reasons why it is important to collect data using … Continue reading
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. Its biggest event, ILTACON 2016, takes place at National Harbour, just outside Washington DC, from 28 August to 1 September. ILTA is one of the few events which I am happy to attend … Continue reading
Karyn Harty is a partner at Dublin law firm McCann FitzGerald. It was Karyn who ran the arguments for the use of predictive coding which were successful in the Irish Bank Resolution v Quinn case and I interviewed her about … Continue reading
The links which appear below the logos on this blog are derived from my Rebelmouse page at https://www.rebelmouse.com/chrisdaleoxford/edi_covery/. Rebelmouse is quite good as a running note of sites of interest, though just a little too fiddly for me to keep it … Continue reading
ILTA, the International Legal Technology Association, is sponsoring two scholarships for this year’s ILTA Conference in Washington DC between 28 August and 1 September. The scholarships are in honour of Browning Marean of DLA Piper US. One scholarship is to … Continue reading
The worldwide eDiscovery industry has few major corporate players and, relative to the size of the market it serves, a small pool of individuals at its top. I do not aspire to keep up to date with all the promotions … Continue reading
Paul Bernal is Lecturer in information technology, intellectual property and media law at the University of East Anglia Law School. His blog and tweets bring us interesting and often trenchant material on privacy, human rights and the Internet. His article … Continue reading
You may have noticed that my written output has declined over the last few weeks – at least somebody has noticed, because I have had a slightly hurt enquiry as to whether I intend to cover a particular topic. There … 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
In 2014, Cardozo School of Law established the Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI) which aimed to give law school students a grounding in the legal and practical aspects of data law, including privacy, information governance, eDiscovery and cybersecurity. Amongst other … 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
I have been away at a conference, and the two posts which I have published today were both written before I left. There will be much more in due course, including an account of the event itself. Meanwhile, my attention … 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
Former in-house Counsel Casey Flaherty has set up a business called Cost Control to help companies manage legal spend. He makes no secret of his conviction that many outside lawyers offer poor value to their corporate clients because they do … 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
For several years now, eDiscovery and data privacy consultant Nigel Murray has been taking part in the Big Battlefield Bike Ride which raises money for Help for Heroes, a charity supporting those severely injured while serving in the armed forces. … 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
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
APT Search is a specialist recruiter whose focus is on eDiscovery / eDisclosure. Its founder is Amit Pandit and, so far as I can see, nearly everybody in the UK eDisclosure business values Amit’s advice whether they are an employer … 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
My recent post, Taking a breather from eDiscovery events, did not intend to give the impression, as it did to at least one person, that I am knocking off for a bit. That’s a nice thought, but the only thing … Continue reading
Inevitably, there has been a great deal of comment on the recent Opinion delivered by US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck in the Rio Tinto case. I wrote about it, in tandem with a summary of an Irish judgment of the same week, in an article called TAR-red with the same brush in the US and Ireland. One of the most succinct summaries comes from Constantine Pappas at kCura, in an article called More Da Silva: 3 Takeaways from Judge Peck’s Rio Tinto Opinion. Continue reading
Nuix has launched Sensitive Data Finder, a new tool designed to aid compliance with privacy laws and data protection regulations amongst other things. Its secret is the ability to identify high-risk and high-value information very quickly. Continue reading
UBIC has been conducting joint research with the NTT medical centre in Tokyo on a project whose purpose is to assess the risk that patients will fall over. Continue reading
ZyLAB is sponsoring a webinar on 2 April with the title Bridging the gap between legal and IT to increase efficiency and reduce risk. I am one of the participants; the other is Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB. Continue reading
Equivio has launched a major product release with Equivio Zoom v4.0 and Zoom Tab for Relativity V3.0. Zoom is Equivio’s eDiscovery platform, combining predictive coding and analytics including thematic analysis, near-duping, email threading, batching and language detection. Continue reading
Iris Data Services, the ever-growing provider of eDiscovery managed services, has launched a new online service called Lawyer | Nonprofit Connect, whose purpose is to help lawyers and non-profit organisations find each other. Continue reading
APT Search is seeking a Business Development Consultant for an international legal services company in its London office. Experience in sales is an obvious prerequisite, including international sales in Europe and Asia. Continue reading
Xerox Litigation Services‘ increasing interest in the Asia-Pacific region appeared in an interesting article on the Xerox E-Discovery Talk blog last year by Rachel Teisch about the new Hong Kong eDiscovery practice direction. It was called A Game-Changer for E-Discovery in Hong … Continue reading
FTI Technology has published a helpful paper called eDiscovery in Asia as a guide to the practical, legal and cultural issues which arise when eDiscovery demands (mainly but not always from the US) are made in Asia. It can be … Continue reading
The latest release of Recommind’s Axcelerate 5 introduces interactive, customisable dashboards with visualise analytics about eDiscovery productivity and review. This is the subject of a webinar to the presented by Neil Etheridge and David Nicholls of Recommind on 25th March at 5:00pm GMT. Continue reading
Although I come across Epiq Systems mainly in relation to its worldwide eDiscovery services, it offers a much wider range of integrated technology solutions for the legal profession, including a group specialising in data breach solutions. Epiq has now appointed … Continue reading
Nuix is offering eDiscovery specialist training courses in London on 25 and 26 March consisting of two days of specialised workflow training. Those who attend will work through a complete eDiscovery project, from ingestion ingestion of unstructured data through to … Continue reading
The long-standing UK eDiscovery and digital forensics provider formerly known as CY4OR has recently rebranded itself as CYFOR, with a new website which emphasises that it has long since moved beyond its roots as a digital forensics company and added eDisclosure and cybersecurity skills and technology, among other things, to its services. Continue reading
LawTech NZ, the 3rd annual New Zealand Law and Technology Conference, is taking place in Auckland on 18 March. Continue reading
Guidance Software is organising a webinar on Wednesday 18 March at 11:00am PST in conjunction with its EnCase App Central partner Belkasoft. The webinar is called Enhancing Digital Investigations with Belkasoft, and covers evidence found in social media which can help make a case for digital investigators. Continue reading
APT Search has have a post for a project manager based in London as part of the practice support group litigation department of a client. The role include liaison, consulting and the provision of technical services to the company’s lawyers Continue reading
For the last two years, kCura has had a Spring Roadshow in London. This has had two primary purposes – a specific one in that new products have been announced there, and a more general one reflecting the importance of … Continue reading
Recommind is holding its inaugural London eDiscovery Professionals Symposium in London on 16 March. The programme, which runs from tea at 15:30 through to drinks at 18:00, has a mixture of discussion about eDiscovery and Information Governance and updates on Recommind Axcelerate 5.3. Continue reading
There is a webinar taking place today at 1:00pm Central with the title Getting Cloud Data from the New Big Three: Google, iCloud & MS Office 365. Continue reading
AccessData is offering a test drive demo to allow prospective users the opportunity to try its full products for 20 days. The offer applies to MPE plus and (shortly) to FTK and MPE+ nField. Continue reading
CEIC 2015 takes place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 18 to 21 May. Its agenda is now live online and ready to be explored. Continue reading
UBIC is the sponsor of an EDRM / Apersee webinar called Cross-border issues in eDiscovery to be broadcast on 18 February, at 1:00pm Central / 7:00pm GMT. The broad issues arising in this context are reasonably clear, deriving not merely … Continue reading
kCura is participating in a webinar today, 17 February, called Text Analytics in Action: Finding the “Killer Patent”. Ryan Hynes and Evan McAlpine of kCura are the main participants, and the webinar is moderated by Andy Moore, Publisher of KMWorld. Continue reading
Xerox Litigation Services on the Big Data Analytics Track at LegalTech Continue reading
Roe Frazer is CEO of Nashville-based eDiscovery software company Cicayda. Cicayda is proud to be different from its competitors in everything from the development tools which it uses to its marketing style. Continue reading
HP has a series of panel sessions at LegalTech on the related themes of information governance and eDiscovery. Titles include Information Management in the Age of the New Attorney, Counsel’s Secret Weapon in the Information Wars: Governance Strategies and Tactics and How to Take Advantage of the Cloud for eDiscovery. Continue reading
Nuix and iCONECT have completed delivery of “Direct to Database” (D2D) integration between Nuix eDiscovery and iCONECT-XERA®. Nuix users can now automatically create an iCONECT-XERA database and transfer extracted document data for review from within Nuix eDiscovery Workbench. Continue reading
Recommind has added new functionality to Axcelerate 5 which gives visibility into the time, cost and quality of document review, showing everything from project expenses to staffing levels and performance, resource allocation and other factors fundamental to business decision-making. Continue reading
Huron Legal is sponsoring the Day 2 track at LegalTech called Cost control and using analytics to proactively manage. There are three sessions, Analytics and information governance, Analytics to enhance litigation and discovery strategy, and Analytics for progressive law department management. Continue reading
Epiq Systems announce global partnership with Contoural to deliver information governance solutions Continue reading
Cicayda is unifying all these applications and its search engine into one platform, called Reprise which embraces its cloud-based review software and workflow engine, search and analytics and other functions. Cicayda emphasises that it has developed all these tools itself and that there are no extra charges for the advanced analytics. Continue reading
Iram Arras of iCONECT is to lead a presentation at LegalTech called Seeing is believing: machine learning powered content visualisation for the enterprise on 4 February at 3:45 PM 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
AccessData at LegalTech: FTK+Summation – the convergence of digital investigations, big data, mobile data, and eDiscovery Continue reading
Resolution1 is the cybersecurity specialist company recently spun out of AccessData. It has recently published a paper about the use of its cyber incident response by a UK-based global bank. Continue reading
I offer you this video from Riverview Law for two reasons: the first is the reason for which they made it – to draw attention to their own willingness to offer fixed price fees and other alternative fee arrangements to … Continue reading
Every month seems to bring us a new example of an eDiscovery services provider integrating Nuix into its client offerings. The most recent of these is Lighthouse eDiscovery which has incorporated Nuix Web Review and Analytics into Lighthouse ECA. Lighthouse … Continue reading
Consilio, which has a global presence as a provider of eDiscovery services, is looking for a marketing manager based in Washington DC. Continue reading
I rather like some videos released recently by EY aimed primarily at encouraging people to join, and aspire to partnership at, EY. You can find them here. I watched the one about Sanjay Bhandari, a partner in the fraud investigation … Continue reading
iCONECT offers transcript management with Opus 2 Magnum Continue reading
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