Category Archives: Litigation Support

Access to justice goes wider than the environment

The UK’s treaty obligations to provide legal remedies which are “adequate … effective …fair, equitable, timely and not prohibitively expensive” in environmental cases applies in all cases and in all courts. UKELA, the UK Environmental Law Association, recently published the … Continue reading

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Rocket Dockets in Australian case management

We do not need an express “rocket docket” jurisdiction for everyone to agree that some or all of the case stages may be speeded up or dispensed with. It is, however, worth seeing what is happening in Australia. Seamus Byrne … Continue reading

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Welcome to new Project sponsors

You will have noticed two new logos on this blog and my web site. Epiq Systems and Anacomp have agreed to support the e-Disclosure Information Project, and although I put their logos up at once, I have not had time … Continue reading

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Revealing redactions in Acrobat PDFs

I suggest here from time to time that it is often human error rather than technical failures which cause data to be revealed inadvertantly. For every security loophole which is actually attributable to a system failure, you can find more … Continue reading

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Summation of e-disclosure responsibilities

Wolters Kluwer, owners of CT Summation, invited me to speak on 20 May as part of their series of thought-leadership talks. The subject was e-Disclosure costs and responsibilities: a primer for in-house and external counsel. I had adopted the theme … Continue reading

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Where were the lawyers at IQPC?

The potential audience for these musing ranges from large London firms with Terabytes of data for review down to much smaller firms with modest volumes and budgets to match. A report of a two-day, high-end conference in London will resonate … Continue reading

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It works, Judge, trust us

US Magistrate Judge the Honorable Andrew Peck here makes his third appearance in this blog in as many days, following his appearances at the IQPC Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management conference last week. There is a note about his reputation … Continue reading

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Whose discovery rules would you rather break?

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t is the dilemma which faces many who are responsible for document production simultaneously in more than one jurisdiction. The subject was covered in some of the sessions at IQPC’s Information Retention and … Continue reading

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Limitations on document retention

There are certain apparent truisms which fall from the mouths of some of those involved in disclosure / discovery / document retention which it seems pointless to correct. They are not wrong, exactly, or are at least founded in something … Continue reading

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People the weakest link in data security

One of those truisms about data handling, on which I have written from time to time, is that security breaches and data loss derive more usually from personal stupidity than from the failure of technology. Caroline Flint, the Housing Minister … Continue reading

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Guidance on benefits of e-Disclosure Project

If it was slightly embarrassing to find myself the principal subject-matter of a speaker session at the IQPC Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Conference last week, it is even more so to have the task of writing about it afterwards. … Continue reading

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Guidance Software white paper launched at IQPC

My white paper for Guidance Software The Place for EnCase® eDiscovery in Electronic Disclosure for Major Corporations in UK Courts was launched yesterday at the IQPC Information Retention and E-Disclosure Management Conference by Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance.

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First Law Society seminar on e-Disclosure

On Tuesday I gave the first in a series of ten regional talks on e-disclosure for the Law Society to an audience of 70 or so solicitors in London. My starting point was the CPR requirements and powers – what … Continue reading

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E-disclosure conferences and seminars 2008

I have updated on my web site the list of conferences, seminars and similar events known to me for 2008, with hyperlinks to the programmes where they are available. I have left up the programmes for the past events, since … Continue reading

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Bringing International Discovery home to all

What is the relevance to UK solicitors of a presentation on International Discovery delivered recently by an Australian in Las Vegas? The answer lies in 200 documents – for that is the new mandatory threshold in Australia for using e-Disclosure … Continue reading

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Summation thought-leadership

As I have already mentioned, Summation is back in the UK and aiming for a share of the growing market here. Since I don’t actually sell software solutions, my interest in “the market” is driven by the underlying causes of … Continue reading

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The Litigation Support Marketplace

Independent consultant Andrew Haslam of AllVision has published an excellent summary of what the litigation support market holds. Called The Litigation Support Marketplace – an Analytical Framework, it surveys the problems and the solutions which exist to solve them. You … Continue reading

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Keywords not always the key to disclosure

How useful are keywords in refining document populations? They can be a blunt instrument, but it may be proportionate to use blunt instruments as long as everyone involved is aware of the method used. What does it all mean to … Continue reading

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Judge has more than one interest in trees

A letter in yesterday’s Times throws a new light on the interest which His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC has in electronic disclosure. As regular readers know, Judge Brown is an enthusiastic proponent of cutting down litigation costs by tight … Continue reading

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XBundle lifts bar to electronic court bundles

It has been observed unkindly that a high proportion of my research seems to be done in bars. I find them good places to pick up information, especially if everyone else drinks and I do not. Perhaps it is less … Continue reading

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Insider gremlins being fixed

My surmise as to why January’s edition of Legal Technology Insider has come back to haunt us seems to have been correct (see Gremlins delay warning of EDD trolls). Charles Christian writes at once to say that a bug in … Continue reading

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Gremlins delay warning of EDD trolls

Giving your predictions for the year at the end of April is a bit like going to the bookies as the Grand National field crosses the Melling Road for the second time (not that that would have done you much … Continue reading

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Aural Guidance on e-Disclosure

Something called the e-Disclosure Information Project is necessarily interested in exploring beyond the traditional speaking and writing ways of getting that information across, and this year has brought a number of recorded opportunities. The Project is a loose confederation of … Continue reading

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ILTA 2008: e-Disclosure – the next risky business

This was the title of the second e-disclosure session at ILTA INSIGHT 2008 in London – the first was on Judicial training in e-Disclosure. George Rudoy of Shearman & Sterling, and UK e-disclosure consultant Andrew Haslam talked about risk management, … Continue reading

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Standard Mercantile Court Directions

The old cliches are the best of course, and I feel just now that we have reached the summit after pushing snow uphill for years (15 years in my case). The snowball is poised to roll downhill, gathering momentum and … Continue reading

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ILTA 2008: judicial training in e-disclosure

I have already given an overview of the excellent ILTA INSIGHT 2008 conference in London yesterday (ILTA 2008 – not just another e-disclosure conference). Two sessions dealt with electronic disclosure. The first was given by Mark Surguy of Pinsent Masons, … Continue reading

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ILTA – not just another e-disclosure conference

When the Director of Global Practice Technology & Information Services at Shearman & Sterling describes what we are doing in the Birmingham Mercantile Court as “leap-frogging the US in e-disclosure”, you begin to think you might be getting somewhere. George … Continue reading

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What do people actually do in e-disclosure?

What began as an analysis of women in e-disclosure turns into the idea of writing about the daily work of people of all kinds whose work involves e-disclosure. The aim is to make the business of e-disclosure more approachable both … Continue reading

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Law Society regional e-Disclosure training

The Law Society has just published the programme and venue listings for its electronic disclosure training series under the title E-disclosure – the rules, the practice and the benefits. This begins in London on 13 May and goes to Birmingham, … Continue reading

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ILTA INSIGHT 2008

ILTA INSIGHT 2008 takes place on 15 April at the Hilton London Tower Bridge. I will be speaking there with Mark Surguy of Pinsent Masons and HHJ Simon Brown QC in a session to report on the progress which has … Continue reading

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E-discovery progress in Australia

There is a more than theoretical interest in what is happening in disclosure in other jurisdictions. We are all facing the same challenges, and it is helpful to know what the problems, and the perceived solutions, are in far-away places … Continue reading

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Attracting readers for electronic disclosure

I do not have any sophisticated means of tracking the visitors to this blog, but WordPress shows me which pages have been read how many times and allows me to distinguish between real views and those made by crawlers and … Continue reading

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Relevant is irrelevant to standard Disclosure

I spend a sadly disproportionate amount of my life touring the Web with the aid of Google, looking for things which are relevant to disclosure of documents, and in particular electronic disclosure. Look, I even talk like Part 31 of … Continue reading

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Finding out more about Women in Discovery

I did a short post last night about a Women in eDiscovery London Group which I heard about in a pub (you would be surprised how much of what goes in my blog is picked up in pubs). My request … Continue reading

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Epiq Systems buys Pinpoint Global

Epiq Systems, who have recently released DocuMatrix 12, the international version of their document review software, have announced the further expansion of their UK business with the acquisition of Pinpoint Global Ltd. Pinpoint are best known for their proprietary processing … Continue reading

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LDM shows CaseMap integration

Regular readers will know that I am an enthusiast for CaseMap as a low-cost tool both for its primary purpose – the linking of litigation facts to issues – and as a simple way to handle disclosure. If today’s postings … Continue reading

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Judge how CaseMap gets to the issues

I went to Birmingham last week with LexisNexis to show a judge what CaseMap can do. Why is it important for judges to see solutions like this, and what is CaseMap’s role in handling the issues in litigation? Part of … Continue reading

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LiST publishes draft Disclosure Statement

The LiST Group has published a draft revised Disclosure Statement on its Publications page. The draft was submitted to the DCA (as was) in 2006 with a view to kick-starting a discussion about this under-regarded element in the disclosure process. … Continue reading

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For the avoidance of doubt…

Those of you excited by my report yesterday of a District Judge striking out both statements of case for failure to comply with a practice direction did, I hope, get to the bottom, where the words “fool” and “1 April” … Continue reading

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How do I find out about electronic disclosure?

The e-Disclosure Information Project began in response to a perceived need for different players in the e-disclosure field to know more about what the others were doing. In the last few months, I have heard or heard of things like: … Continue reading

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See the Rule Committee in action

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee is having an open meeting on 13 June 2008. I wrote about last year’s one (Rule Committee Open Meeting) in a manner simultaneously respectful and tongue-in-cheek – respectful in that the Rule Committee does an … Continue reading

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LiST Group expands

I have written appreciatively about the work of the Litigation Support Technology Group – LiST – on my web site. LiST is a think-tank, whose members – all skilled and experienced litigation support people in law firms and analogous organisations … Continue reading

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Directions initiative in Birmingham

Practitioners in the Birmingham Mercantile Court are being sent a draft order for directions which includes provisions aimed at tighter case management. Why is this useful, and what if you genuinely think that the proposed order should not apply in … Continue reading

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H5 gets safe harbor certification

H5, the high-end provider of automated document analysis and information risk management services for the legal industry, has obtained safe harbor certification from the US Federal Trade Commission. Most US companies whose business involves handling EU-derived data now have such … Continue reading

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Summation back in the UK

Summation is one of the older litigation support software companies – it was founded in 1988. It has made a few attempts to break into the UK market but these fizzled out mainly (to my eye) for lack of a … Continue reading

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Defensibility of the UK e-Disclosure process

Do the UK courts ever question the manner in which electronic evidence was collected? It is a source of much contention in the US but we have little case law directly on the point here. It is clearly vital to … Continue reading

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E-Disclosure conferences in London 2008

There are several e-Disclosure conferences in London this year, including a couple which have not been seen in this space for a bit. Conference organisers have a keen eye for what is topical and have obviously decided that 2008 is … Continue reading

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The Qualcomm CREDO Program

The judge who heard the sanctions part of the Qualcomm case set out a program for devising an action plan to prevent future disclosure violations. UK companies may like to measure their own preparedness against it. On 30 January I … Continue reading

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Conference focuses on ADR and Costs

CLAN, the Commercial Litigation Association, is running a conference on 13 March with an emphasis on Alternative Dispute Resolution and costs. Called Practical Challenges for Modern Commercial Litigators, it addresses issues including Litigation funding ADR: what the future holds Costs: … Continue reading

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Discovering what to do about e-disclosure

The paucity of blog postings recently does not imply that there is nothing to write about On the contrary, there is too much going on to stop and write it all up. A quick summary of what has come up … Continue reading

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Commercial Court judges set out their case management intentions

A well-attended meeting of the Commercial Litigators’ Association on Monday was left in no doubt that the Commercial Court judges intend to follow closely the recommendations of the Commercial Court Long Trial Working Party Allen & Overy were the hosts … Continue reading

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Networking thoughts after LegalTech

The LegalTech cud is still being chewed. The graph below show page views on this blog down to today, with an encouraging upward trend. The actual visits are not huge in absolute terms – 163 page views on one day … Continue reading

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The Portability of H5’s Process

Contrary to my assumptions, H5’s very different approach to document review can be made available in the UK on data hosted here. Those with bigger cases should consider adding H5 to their list of possible solutions I had breakfast with … Continue reading

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Access your data with eMAG

One of the many bonuses of going to LegalTech is the chance to talk to people whom one knows or knows of but never gets the chance to see – thus the apparently odd remark in my post Why no … Continue reading

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LDSI and LiveReview

I am not sure how I have worked in the litigation support industry for 15 years without meeting Noel Kilby, nor why it should, eventually, have been easier to do so in LDSI’s office in New York when we are … Continue reading

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Howrey sets up in India

Howrey, the US and global law firm known as much for its trial and litigation support services as for its legal practice, has opened an office in Pune, India, to handle its document management and similar functions. This, as the … Continue reading

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Guidance on the Human Factor in eDiscovery

My first port of call in New York last week was Patrick Burke, Assistant General Counsel at Guidance Software. I did a webinar with Patrick over Christmas (Americans don’t really do Christmas I discover – the last e-mail in on … Continue reading

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Basketball pointers for litigation management

eDiscovery Tools is an Australian company which makes software for processing e-mail and other electronic documents for litigation and similar purposes. Its main product is eDiscovery Processor, used by law firms, corporate clients, government departments and litigation support bureaux to … Continue reading

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Trilantic sessions round off LegalTech

As in previous years, Trilantic organised three sessions for the last day of LegalTech. They are generally less formal than the other sessions and, as I have said elsewhere, take important subjects with a light tone. I thought I would … Continue reading

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Trilantic delivers Translation Services

Trilantic has launched Trilantic Translation Services (TTS) which, they say, is the first translation service which uses the accuracy of human translation with the power of technology. TTS is described as a robust, highly effective, fast translation service [which] is … Continue reading

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Trilantic sets out EU Data Protection Rules

The EU Data Protection Rules – Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council – On the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data to give … Continue reading

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Anacomp and IPRO announce strategic alliance

Anacomp has announced an alliance with IPRO which will integrate IPRO’s eCapture software application into CaseLogistix. Anacomp does rather good press releases this days and I cannot better their own description The integration between IPRO eCapture and CaseLogistix eliminates batch … Continue reading

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Anacomp introduces hosted CaseLogistix

Anacomp, the business process solutions company which acquired CaseLogistix last year, has announced that it is now making CaseLogistix available on-demand via its hosted docHarbor information platform. CaseLogistix was anyway one of the most interesting litigation support review applications on … Continue reading

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Why no UK lawyers at LegalTech?

“When does the full LegalTech blog get released” asks a reader, obviously impatient with my chatty discursive wanderings around the subject. I assume he expects a full narrative, starting at Session 1 on Day 1 and ending with an extended … Continue reading

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Service with a snarl undoes technology miracles

Good technology must be matched by good people, and it is often the people who let it down. Any technology budget must include a large element for support and training. It is not just the salesmen who need a good … Continue reading

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Pocketing the key technology at LegalTech

My new Blackberry helps me organise what is important. It does not decide what is important. The same should be true of e-disclosure applications. Both are an aid to efficient processes, not a substitute for them. My heading may have … Continue reading

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Feeling at home back at LegalTech in New York

You come to this site, I know, for sharp, incisive, witty stuff about the e-disclosure world, the court rules, the case law, the new developments. There is plenty of that at LegalTech here in New York, but those who do … Continue reading

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Legal Technology Awards 2008

The Legal Technology Awards 2008 happened five days and an ocean away – two oceans, in fact, one called the Atlantic and one poured from various bottles on both sides of the Atlantic. Both time and tide mean that my … Continue reading

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Long Trials trial gets longer trial

Mr Justice Andrew Smith, Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court, has issued a statement about the Report of the Commercial Court Long Trials Recommendations. The Recommendations will be put into practice from 1 February. The trial period, however, will … Continue reading

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The cost of printing electronic documents

Charles Christian’s Orange Rag has a helpful article called Think before you Print which sets out the costs of printing documents for review – which involve more than the bare printing costs. It is by no means a finger-wagging, tut-tutting … Continue reading

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The impact of Qualcomm for UK lawyers

The sanctions judgment in Qualcomm v Broadcomm emphasises for UK lawyers the apparent conflict between their duty to ensure that their clients give full disclosure and their parallel obligation to keep disclosure proportionate. The two duties are not in fact … Continue reading

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Discovery Mining passes source code audit

Discovery Mining has announced that the source code of its Web-hosted online review application has passed a rigourous security audit. The security of the data we put into the hands of others is a hot topic at the moment, as … Continue reading

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Spotting the turning-point at the starting-point

The main character in the film The Butterfly Effect explores every possible event in his search for the right answer, only identifying the correct turning point at the end of the last reel, after much unnecessary tribulation. The aim of … Continue reading

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E-Disclosure – What does the court expect?

His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC told a London conference audience what the UK courts expect from those who appear before them when electronic disclosure is a big element in a case. I have written separately about the conference organised … Continue reading

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Growing interest in e-disclosure sources

A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words, so to save a lot of typing, I give you the graph which my Blog host, WordPress, produces to show the hits since I began the blog a year ago. The … Continue reading

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Heavyweight appointments by H5

H5, the San Franciso-based provider of automated document analysis and information risk management services for the legal industry, has made two top-flight appointments in the last few days. Raymond L Ocampo Jr, former senior vice president, general counsel and secretary … Continue reading

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Intimidation by Terabyte – scope of e-disclosure

The judgment in Hands v Morrison Construction Services Ltd [2006] may have related to the special circumstance of an application for pre-action disclosure in the TCC, but it has some messages applicable to e-disclosure generally We are very short on … Continue reading

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Debating the Aikens Report

I wrote on Friday (Give more credit to the Aikens Recommendations) with a more positive view of the Long Trial Report and Recommendations than had been given by John Reynolds of White & Case (Aikens misses the big picture) in … Continue reading

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Irish Court rules on data extraction

Anyone involved in electronic discovery may be interested in a decision of the Irish Supreme Court in Dome Telecom v Eircom. The point at issue was whether a party can be required to create a document as part of the … Continue reading

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Give more credit to the Aikens Recommendations

John Reynolds, a partner in White & Case, shows less than enthusiasm for the Commercial Court Long Trials Report and Recommendations in an article published yesterday on Legal Week’s web site. The Recommendations deserve more credit. The article, headed Aikens … Continue reading

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Marcus Evans conference – E-Discovery Strategies

A good e-Disclosure conference will make you want to know more or, at least, will ring an alarm bell in due course. There are pitfalls to know about and practice development opportunities being missed. I am just back from a … Continue reading

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Predicting litigation responsibility for 2008

The big changes in litigation for 2008 both concern responsibility – the authority and knowledge of the person who gives the Disclosure Statement and the direct responsibility at boardroom level for the time and cost of heavy litigation. Both represent … Continue reading

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LDSI appoints Deborah Coram as UK MD

Legal Document Services International – LDSI – has appointed Deborah Coram as Managing Director of LDSI’s UK business operations. Deborah Coram has a legal background and practiced at two major Australian law firms. She was head of international business development … Continue reading

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An articled clerk in Gray’s Inn in the 1970s

An old name used by a web searcher stirs memories of typewritten lists of documents of long ago. I keep a close eye on the web statistics from my web site and blog. They tell me, amongst other things, what … Continue reading

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Australia updates Federal Court ediscovery rules

New court rules for handling electronic documents are expected in Australia before the end of 2007. They will bite on as few as 500 documents, there will be a court-appointed expert to manage cases, and there is a massive investment … Continue reading

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Commercial Court Long Trial Recommendations

The Report and Recommendations of the Commercial Court Long Trials Working Party was published on 6 December 2007. Its 83 pages deserve a closer look than time allows now, but we will have a quick summary of the passages relating … Continue reading

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Litigation insurers have an interest in eDisclosure

My heading is not a report that litigation insurers have actually shown an interest in electronic disclosure. They clearly have an interest, though, in the sense that their interests must lie in anything which has the potential to bring parties … Continue reading

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Victor Limongelli now CEO of Guidance Software

Guidance Software announced last week that Victor Limongelli has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. I met Victor at a conference in London earlier this year. He is easy to spot – an American executive who speaks knowledgeably about the English … Continue reading

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First e-disclosure training for judges

I led an e-disclosure training session in Birmingham last week for a room-full of District Judges and Specialist Judges from Chancery and Mercantile Courts in Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds. We covered the Practice Direction to Part 31 CPR, the … Continue reading

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T3 – Trial Tactics and Technology in London

A mock eDiscovery hearing yesterday in front of real judges would have put UK litigation lawyers on notice of rough rides ahead if they are less than fully prepared to justify what has been done or not done to control … Continue reading

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Throw it over the wall Discovery

Both the legal and IT worlds have technical expressions and terms of art which tend to exclude outsiders. Litigation support and e-Disclosure have feet in both these camps and a reasonable share of terms which do not mean much to … Continue reading

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US court rejects production of paper documents

The US Electronic Discovery Blog carries a story under the heading Court rejects paper production as inadequate and orders production in electronic format. The court had suggested that “whatever is electronically available.. be made available in electronic format”. The Defendants … Continue reading

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Richard Susskind and the End of Lawyers

Richard Susskind’s long-term prediction that the work of lawyers will break up into “identifiable and discrete pieces” applies here and now to electronic Disclosure. The discrete stages of first identifying and culling, and only then analysing, document populations do not … Continue reading

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E-Discovery conference in London January 2008

Marcus Evans, the international conference organiser, asked me some time ago to be a speaker at their E-Discovery and Document Management Strategies Conference in London on 14 and 15 January 2008. The request coincided with the opportunity to organise e-Disclosure … Continue reading

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Useful pointer to US e-Discovery sources

The Information Governance Engagement Area has a link to a useful article which pulls together the key US sources on e-Discovery matters. The article, by Robert Ambrogi in Law Technology News, is called EDD Bytes to feed your firm’s knowledge … Continue reading

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Training for judges in e-Disclosure

“I have been asked to develop and deliver a training course for judges on the subject of e-disclosure. There are two broad headings – the nuts and bolts of the technology and the proactive use of the CPR to encourage … Continue reading

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Electronic evidence and e-discovery forum 2007

The skills and tools developed for urgent regulatory compliance and forensic analysis have benefits for cost-effective electronic Disclosure in litigation. I am just back from the Electronic Evidence and e-Discovery forum run by AKJ Associates, a two-day conference at which … Continue reading

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Predicting the end of e-Discovery?

At first sight, a ruling made in Delaware last week appears to predict the end of e-Discovery. A closer reading reveals a terminological confusion and the common-sense conclusion that clients will find a different way of resolving their disputes if … Continue reading

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IT goes a lot faster than people for discovery

My heading comes from an article called The Data Explosion at Forbes.com (you need to sign up as a member, or more easily found here) about H5, the San Francisco company specialising in large-scale document analysis and the management of … Continue reading

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