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The new edition of American Legal Technology Insider
The latest edition of Charles Christian’s American Legal Technology Insider has been released, bringing its usual colour to the bare recitals one gets in press releases. Although Charles Christian and I may appear to have a fair amount in common … Continue reading
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Masters Conference appoints new Cabinet members
The Masters Conference yesterday published the list of those in its Cabinet. New members include Shawnna Childress of LECG and me – if one is going to join a committee, then one which includes the co-founder of Women in eDiscovery … 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
Legal Inc publishes e-disclosure podcast series
Litigation services provider Legal Inc has published the first two in a series of ten podcasts about electronic disclosure. They take the form of a dialogue between Legal Inc director Lisa Burton and me, and will between them provide a … 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
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
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
Discovery explorers need a map
You can kill an analogy with overuse, just as every cliché was once a clever new phrase. Describing e-discovery / e-Disclosure in terms of explorers and maps, however, does not become hackneyed, because exploration itself continues to excite and because … 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
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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Posse List post profiles Project
I find myself in the unusual position of being the subject of a blog post rather than the writer. I was interviewed in Brussels last week by Gregory Bufithis of the Posse List which describes itself accurately as “your source … Continue reading
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
Service of UK proceedings via Twitter
The UK High Court’s recent permission to serve an injunction via Twitter may be a first, but it has respectable antecedents and the authority of the rules. The relevant part of Rule 6.15 CPR says this: (1) Where it appears … Continue reading
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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
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
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
Twitter as a source of e-discovery information
The best way to get informed about e-disclosure / ediscovery news first thing in the morning is to follow Michelle Mahoney’s overnight tweets (they are at http://twitter.com/michmahon). That is “overnight” in UK terms, since Michelle’s day starts rather earlier than … 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
Guidance Software launches EnCase Certified eDiscovery Practitioner Program
As you will have gathered from recent posts I am not a supporter of the idea that anyone working in the ediscovery / e-disclosure field must have a certificate to prove their competence. My opposition is based largely on the … Continue reading
New edition of American Legal Technology Insider
The current edition of the American Technology Insider is out, with Charles Christian’s report on ILTA 2009 and some spending statistics which are realistic rather than cheery in the short-term at least. There is also, as always, a succinct summary … Continue reading
Fifth Annual eDisclosure Forum in London for only £99
London’s Fifth Annual eDisclosure Forum takes place on 13 November. Run by Thomson Reuters with Sweet & Maxwell, it is generally agreed to be one of the best in the London calendar. The delegate fee is only £99 + VAT, … 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
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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Divided by a common language
Matters of mutual incomprehension can pass unnoticed. In the context which concerns me, for example, English and American participants in e-discovery can fail to realise that one is talking about chalk and the other of cheese. For example, American lawyers … Continue reading
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At least everyone in America has now heard of Scotland
One of the reasons I go to American conferences is to fly the British flag as serious players in the electronic disclosure world, and to answer questions about it. The Civil Procedure Rules apply only in England and Wales. The … 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
E-discovery double-act on video
A few days after advocating the use of YouTube videos to promote new ediscovery understanding, I found myself in one with Browning Marean of DLA. Appearing soon at a cinema near you – well, on PivotalDiscovery.com anyway. If you put … 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
Suburban lords a’leaping
One of my roles for sponsors is to pick up the nuances of language differences between American terminology and English English, which amount to a great deal more than remembering to avoid references to “attorney”. It is not that I … Continue reading
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News from the front at ILTA
It overstates it more than a little to call this news. There are rumours of news but, as I write this on Monday, the vendor stands are still being put up and, if there are announcements being made, I am … 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
Detailed assessments of litigation costs
Everything was a mystery when I became an articled clerk in the late 1970s, not least that label “articled clerk”. Your articles were a period of apprenticeship, and the name also of the document which you and your principal signed … Continue reading
Dates with a history
Readers with long memories (I am talking ten days or so here) may recall an article Setting up dates for lawyers in which I extended an olive branch to anonymous Blogger 585 with whom I had taken issue in previous … Continue reading
Web demos allow interest without commitment
Technology companies make little use of technology to deliver their messages. Web demos may lack the personal touch of a face-to-face show, but you can reach many more people. They offer unparalleled opportunities to show off your products without the … Continue reading
How can we do this differently?
I am sent a fair number of press releases, although many of those who know I am interested in them seem to think that I acquire my information by some kind of intuition. Many of the PRs I do get … Continue reading
The value of elephants as an illustrative example
It occurs to me that elephants have turned up more than once on this site as a source of parallels or illustrations. Their first appearance here was in May, when my attention was caught by some large plastic elephants in … Continue reading
The e-discovery black box
I am not sure how they keep the standard up, but CaseCentral has been publishing a constant stream of cartoons about e-discovery which must have done wonders for their profile. If I copied every one I liked, I would by … Continue reading
How big is the London e-disclosure market?
I may have brought you here under false pretences. I have no idea how big the London e-disclosure market is and I do not think that anyone else does either. I occasionally hear confident assertions suggesting that there is either … Continue reading
Sugaring the e-disclosure pill
My adverse comments on a post by an e-disclosure blogger known only as 585 bring reactions from Craig Ball and from 585 himself. What level of debate gets the messages across? Politics shows us how easily we can turn people … Continue reading
Electronic Disclosure – Jackson by numbers
I have some heavyweight writing in hand at the moment involving, amongst other things, an analysis of the costs figures which Lord Justice Jackson set out in his Preliminary Report on Litigation Costs. Most of my articles come from my … Continue reading
The right combination of skills at the best possible price
“Outsourcing” is just a label for the distribution of functions into the hands best equipped to perform them at the lowest cost. Both the functions and the relative costs change over time and need constant re-evaluation. Cost reduction involves more … Continue reading
Jackson Litigation Costs Review consultation ends
A few seconds before midnight on Friday, an e-mail arrived from Abigail Pilkington, the Clerk to the Review of Civil Litigation Costs. It was a bit eerie, really. The East Wing of the Royal Courts of Justice is a cavernous, … Continue reading
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Once bitten is twice shy – but you may find that things have changed
My experience of trying voice recognition software again after a failed experiment some years ago, has messages for those who have not caught up with developments in litigation support software. I have come back to voice recognition software after many … Continue reading
Well-justified anonymity of Jackson commentator
I am not sure what to make of an article which I have found on a blog criticising aspects of Lord Justice Jackson’s Preliminary Report on litigation costs. I have a general rule that if I do not have something … Continue reading
Getting away from it all
I have never been much good at this holiday lark. I can manage the logistics of travel, and I do not suffer from any illusion that the world’s continuing rotation depends on my being at my desk. I can flit … Continue reading
Brief service intermission
You have probably heard enough from me for a bit, and I am pushing off to the country for a few days. My wife is just back from yachting in Croatia, and I see more than enough of aeroplanes and … Continue reading
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The information war – news from the front updated
My post Cooperative hands across the sea referred to an article by Jason Baron on Ralph Losey’s e-Discovery Team blog. Jason’s article attracted some comments, two of which are worth hiving off for comment in their own right. One concerns … Continue reading
Outsource edisclosure and share the load
The outsourcing of legal functions is suddenly topical as a result of Rio Tinto’s decision to set up an outsourced legal resource in India and Pinsent Masons’ plan to have first pass litigation review done in South Africa – see … Continue reading
Cooperative hands across the sea
My post about the increasing exchange of ideas between the US and UK on matters of electronic discovery (Preserving the old ways, protecting the new ways) followed a spate of references in US e-discovery commentaries to what is happening in … Continue reading
Preserving the old ways, protecting the new ways
This column, as you may have noticed, is deeply attached to the old principles of discovery of documents as a means of bringing evidence before the court. It is also a determined advocate of new ways of managing it. The … Continue reading
US-UK cross-fertilisation for discovery
Vince Neicho, litigation support expert at Allen & Overy in London, has an interesting article in Legal Week about the increasing amount of discussion and shared ideas between those interested in e-discovery / eDisclosure in the US and the UK. … Continue reading
Do two outsourcing stories in one week presage a trend?
The decision by Rio Tinto to send some legal work to India comes at the same time as Pinsent Masons announces its plans to send first-pass litigation review work to South Africa. Once you strip out the protectionist reactions of … Continue reading
Australia at the centre of the discovery world
The default map of the world shows Britain in the middle and near the top, with Alaska at top left and New Zealand at bottom right. Perhaps that is because Europe invented the Greenwich Meridian; maybe it is a legacy … Continue reading
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Equivio appeal to corporate IT
Back in March, I wrote about an interview which I had conducted with Warwick Sharp, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Equivio (see Podcast summarisises Equivio benefits). A transcript of the interview was first published in Enterprise Technology … Continue reading
Sedona Conference dialogue on cross-border discovery in Barcelona
As I have noted elsewhere, I had my own cross-border problems in getting to the Sedona Conference International Programme on Cross-Border eDiscovery, eDisclosure and Data Privacy Conflicts in Barcelona on 10-11 June. I was chairing an edisclosure conference in London … Continue reading
Ark Group e-Disclosure Conference 2009
You can generate a lot of notes in six conference days in three countries in nine days and have little time to transcribe them. I am quite good at actually recording what people say, less so at the small but … Continue reading
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Jackson conference challenge to litigation support providers
Lord Justice Jackson laid down a challenge to litigation support providers at the Ark Group e-Disclosure 2009 conference in London last week. They must, he said, find a way to bring down the cost of e-disclosure; if they cannot, then … Continue reading
Remember to seek disclosure of telephone recordings
A “document” is defined in Rule 31.4 CPR as “anything on which information of any kind is recorded”. Lawyers brought up in the days of paper disclosure, even those who have adjusted to electronic versions of those paper documents such … Continue reading
Graphical display of thesaurus terms
The graphical display of discovery / disclosure information has been one of the most interesting developments in software designed for search of all kinds. It is specifically so for litigation document review purposes and, perhaps even more so, for early … Continue reading
Parallel and cross-border developments in eDiscovery
I have just had to turn down the opportunity to speak at a conference organised by LexisNexis in Hong Kong on 20 and 21 July. The invitation was to deliver the keynote speech at the start of the first day … Continue reading
Ian Manning now at Raposa Consulting
As regular readers will know, Ian Manning was the initial sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project, providing continued support despite his never-ending overseas travel commitments for FoxData Ltd. Ian’s extensive experience in forensic collections for commercial litigation and regulatory enquiries … Continue reading
Everything and everyone at the IQPC Information Retention and E-Discovery Management Conference
I reached IQPC’s Information Retention and E-Discovery Management Conference 2009 just as the first speaker stood up on Wednesday morning, feeling rather like Phileas Fogg as he burst into the Reform Club with seconds to spare. Although I had not … Continue reading
An old-fashioned huddle colloquium
My title comes from what appears to be an automatic translation of one of my recent articles which I came across on a site called 123people. What it has been translated into and by whom remains a mystery. My son … Continue reading
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More than just ediscovery panels at CEIC 2009
I have already written (Describing the e-discovery elephant) about the two e-discovery panels which I took part in at CEIC 2009. The panels were only one of the reasons why I came here. There was another formal reason and countless … Continue reading
Describing the ediscovery elephant
It is pouring with rain here in Orlando. Every so often, a flash of lightning illuminates the large plastic elephants which stand in the pool beside me. Even the most assiduous English official, never stuck for something to put up … Continue reading
Compliance with the demands of an e-disclosure diary
I don’t think I envisaged a peaceful life when I decided to commit all my time to promoting electronic disclosure, but I am not sure either that I foresaw this much activity compressed into a short space. It is just … Continue reading
Something for everyone in the Jackson litigation costs report
Lord Justice Jackson’s interim report on civil litigation costs weighed in at 650 pages, not the 1,000 pages which rumour anticipated. It is as well that I am commentator not a newshound journalist, because I missed the big day and … Continue reading
The untapped potential of YouTube as a promotional medium
You can launch political policies, bands and brands on YouTube, but perhaps not 1,000 page interim reports on litigation costs. Lord Justice Jackson will do his launch tomorrow with an old-fashioned press conference. Other things, however, bring the marketing and … Continue reading
Richard Susskind webcast on the End of Lawyers?
Professor Richard Susskind caused a stir at the ABA TechShow in Chicago in April with his thoughts on the way the future looks for the legal profession. The context was the launch of his latest book, The End of Lawyers?, … Continue reading
Guidance Software survey for IQPC
The Information Retention and e-Disclosure Conference run by IQPC is usually one of the best in the calendar, with a better-than-usual mix of corporate users and information professionals. It take place this year on 20 and 21 May at Le … Continue reading
E-Disclosure in the £50,000 case
The article to which I am about to refer you is in fact called E-Discovery in the $50,000 Case by Conrad Jacoby and not as my heading shows it. We in the UK renamed the ancient process known as discovery … Continue reading
Autonomy audio processing for law firms
Autonomy has wasted little time in extending its search technology into the iManage products which came to it with the acquisition of Interwoven. It has announced an audio processing capability for what is now called Autonomy iManage WorkSite. The business … Continue reading
Keyword searching for e-disclosure documents is not like using Google
There is no one-size-fits-all answer when deciding what keywords (and what else apart from keywords) to use to arrive at the “right” set of documents for disclosure. You have to educate yourself to know what the court expects. There is … Continue reading
LexisNexis debate marks ten years of the CPR
LexisNexis, publishers of the Civil Court Practice 2009 “The Green Book” marked the tenth anniversary of the Civil Procedure Rules with a debate chaired by Lord Neuberger which considered the impact of the CPR and assessed its strengths and weaknesses. … Continue reading
Dropping in to Oxford, dropping out to Paris
The printed description of a software application’s capabilities is no substitute for interaction with the people who are selling it, just as the bare record of historical narrative without people does little to bring a subject alive. People buy from … Continue reading
Anacomp gets unqualified SAS 70 Type II security certification
Anacomp, which owns the litigation review platform CaseLogistix, has received a full unqualified SAS Type II certification for its hosting and operations centre at Herndon, Virginia. SAS 70 is an auditing standard established by the American Institute of Certified Public … Continue reading
All the news that’s fit to print from Unfiltered Orange
The source for my story about the US – Swiss Safe Harbor was Unfiltered Orange, the electronic discovery resource run by Rob Robinson for Orange Legal Technologies. Rob’s then e-discovery blog was the first resource I came across when I … Continue reading
Informed comment in the Times adds to the Woolf rules debate
No sooner had I published my post Have the Woolf reforms worked? yesterday when Jonathan Maas flicked me a link to an article in Times Online on the same subject. It is called Sad and unsatisfactory – but not destroyed … Continue reading
Not going to Canada for the second time this month
As you may recall, I was not able to go to a meeting in Toronto at the beginning of April, when Senior Master Whitaker and I had hoped to see Justice Campbell and others to talk about common ground between … Continue reading
Keeping informed on information about informaton
It is getting hard to keep up. The various aspects of information and justice which I write about are developing faster than I can put quill to keyboard. I wrote my piece An information war at the week-end and updated … Continue reading
Confounding the expectations of a cynical audience
Susan Boyle, the unlikely-looking star of Britain’s Got Talent, reminds us that first impressions may mislead. You do not know how good something can be unless you see – or, in this case, hear – it. Your cynicism as to … Continue reading
Welcome to FTI Technology as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is very good to welcome FTI Technology as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. FTI Technology is a segment of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global business advisory firm, and brings immense resources to bear on the acquisitions and … Continue reading
KordaMentha picks EnCase from Guidance Software for Australian eDiscovery
Like sport and so much else, the idea of proving a legal case by discovery of documents is an old English concept which was adopted wherever the English had a hand in establishing a system of law. America kept it … Continue reading
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Electronic Working Pilot Scheme
I have not had the chance to read it yet, but Practice Direction (Electronic Working Pilot Scheme) supplementing rule 5.5 of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998 provides for a pilot scheme by which, in the circumstances set out in the … Continue reading
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NERDI and ClearGuideAutoKrolLexFTios
The e-discovery 2.0 blog scored an exclusive with a recent post. Under the heading Government Launches Bold New Recovery Effort, it reported the nationalisation of the US electronic discovery industry. A new authority, the National Electronic Discovery Institute (NERDI) was … Continue reading
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Discovering inspiration from heroes of the past
My primary topic, electronic discovery or electronic disclosure, is a sub-set of a wider subject – more than one wider subject, indeed. It is important as a matter of simple business efficiency; it is critical to the subject of access … Continue reading
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