Category Archives: Litigation Support

Jonathan Maas has been appointed Senior Director of UK Client Services for Huron Legal in London. At the same time, Serge Poldi has been appointed Director of UK Discovery Operations. Serge Poldi’s role is the management of daily technology operations and technical leadership. Jonathan Maas will oversee discovery services in the UK and in Europe. Continue reading →

I am the moderator of a Guidance Software /  Inside Counsel webinar taking place today at 2.00pm ET / 11.00pm PT / 19.00 BST with the title International eDiscovery: data protection, privacy and cross-border issues. I will be joined by Patrick … Continue reading →

a webinar to be given by AccessData today called MPE+ Overview. Kevin DeLong, Director of Computer Forensics Training at AccessData will demonstrate the latest and most popular features of Mobile Phone Examiner Plus from the basics through to the extreme. Continue reading →

Much of the talk at Techno Security in Myrtle Beach was about the new Web Review and Analytics tool from Nuix which allows investigators, lawyers, subject matter experts and anyone else who needs it to have secure and compartmentalised access to case data through a web browser. Continue reading →

Two press releases from UBIC emphasise its commitment to easing the path of those engaged in US eDiscovery and investigations. The first is aimed at law enforcement investigators in Japan and involves training in the use of UBIC’s Lit i … Continue reading →

Nuix is running a series of webinars about Information Governance. The first was called The real story of what IG is and why you should be doing it. The others are called Breaking IG down to enable action, Building the case for IG and Operationalising IG Continue reading →

eDiscovery software providers are increasingly recognising, and publicly, the role which their partners play in giving technical support and other benefits to the users of their software. I have mentioned Equivio and kCura recently in this context, both of whom … Continue reading →

Neil Etheridge and Hal Marcus of Recommind are giving a webinar about Axcelerate 5 on 19 June at 2:30pm BST / 3:30pm CEST called Power & Simplicity in Action. Recommind also has a new blog Continue reading →

Iris Data Services has opened an office in Chicago and acquired Clarity Litigation Support in New Orleans. It has Relativity Orange Best in Service designation and has written about Relativity 8.2 Continue reading →

The next in UBIC’s Signature Seminar series will be held in Washington on 20 June. It is called A Predictive Analytic Approach to Investigations and Regulatory Disputes through Artificial Intelligence – How Sophisticated Software Coupled with Proactive Risk Management Can Identify Hidden Risks and Warn of a Potential Crisis Continue reading →

Xerox Litigation Services has followed its acquisition of Smart Data with the launch of a new all-in-one pricing model which allows companies and law firms to mix and match the use of Viewpoint software and related services with maximum flexibility. Continue reading →

KCura has announced the launch of Relativity 8.2, the latest iteration of its extremely successful review and analytics software. As always with kCura, the website sets out clearly what functions justify the tagline “From hold to production and everything in between”, with an overview video and easily-navigable subsections for legal hold, collection, processing, review, analytics and its mobile Binders, as well as information about the platform. Continue reading →

I wrote a while back about the launch of Epiq Systems’ eDiscovery review facility in Toronto. Epiq has now followed that with the addition of a processing and hosting facility to meet the growing demand for their software and their technical … Continue reading →

Lee Reiber is taking part in a webinar sponsored by AccessData on 30 May. Called The Time, Man-Power and Logistical Solution to a Mobile Forensic World, the webinar explains what is involved when data must be captured from hundreds of devices all over the world. Continue reading →

UBIC’s AI-based technology underlies much of this including its Virtual Data Scientist software and other data analysis tools integrated into its Lit i View® data management and analysis platform. It has recently been granted a patent for this technology in Japan. Continue reading →

Nuix is host sponsor of Techno Security which takes place in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Jim Kent is Global Head of Investigations and Security for Nuix. In this brief video, Jim Kent talks about Techno Security, about Nuix’s achievements over the past year, and about training courses available at Myrtle Beach Continue reading →

Guidance Software presents a webinar on 28 May which considers how smaller and medium-sized organisations can manage eDiscovery in-house Continue reading →

Recommind are giving a webinar on Wednesday 28 May at 1.00 EST at which they will describe the intelligent redaction tools built into its Axcelerate 5 and other analytical tools designed to ease the review process and speed it up. Continue reading →

Equivio continues its commitment to education with the 8th in its series of webinars with the master title Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. This next one is called Homage to Dr Strangelove: How I learned to stop worrying and love … Continue reading →

One of the subjects which keeps me busy at the moment is cross-border electronic discovery. When I first started talking about it in the US about seven years ago, I was met with disbelief at the idea that people in … Continue reading →

Guidance Software’s annual big event, CEIC, takes place in Las Vegas from 19 to 22 May. As always, its agenda is packed with thought leadership sessions and hands-on training in cybersecurity, forensics and eDiscovery. The agenda is packed, with multiple … Continue reading →

I do not spend a lot of time looking at applications. This is not because I am not interested – I served my time as a litigation software developer and am fascinated by the leaps which have been made in … Continue reading →

The Techno Security and Forensics Investigations Conference takes place from 1 to 4 June at Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. Nuix is the host sponsor of that event for which more than 1500 delegates have already registered. Continue reading →

AccessData has announced the sale of its Litigation Support Services division to OmniVere. Funds from the transaction will be used to invest in AccessData’s growing developments in the incident resolution market. AccessData retains ownership of its long-standing Summation eDiscovery software … Continue reading →

iCONECT is good at its product demonstrations and webinars, and there is one coming up on 21st May at 1:00pm EDT which will give an opportunity to see the new features as well as the existing ones. The new developments include drag-and-drop foldering and thumbnail view which allows users to preview multiple documents in image format together on the screen and then return to the grid to fine-tune the search results or finish the review. Continue reading →

UBIC’s Lit i View ANALYZER, due for release in the US on 1 June, is built on UBIC’s technologies used in Lit i View® XAMINER, a forensic software program released in September. It combines UBIC’s predictive coding engine with its Central Linkage technology whose focus is on human communications within and between organisations. Continue reading →

Nuix has long had a relationship with Legal Hold Pro from Zapproved and joins with them to present a webinar on 28 May called Six pitfalls and opportunities from legal hold to the court room. Continue reading →

Audio discovery represents an increasingly significant component of many eDiscovery exercises. Whilst audio files are most prevalent in, for example, the regulated financial sector, all kinds of companies now create and keep audio files for various purposes; it is no … Continue reading →

The Information Governance Initiative was founded earlier this year to spread understanding about information governance and to suggest practical ways in which companies can change the way they manage information, assess the risks lying within it, and extract real value … Continue reading →

The issues raised by cross-border discovery remain a source of pain and expense to both to those who need to conduct such exercises and to those who face them. They bring all the complexity of any large discovery exercise, with … Continue reading →

Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel for ZyLAB, spoke at the ACEDS 2014 eDiscovery Conference on some of the myths about predictive coding Continue reading →

The function of Recommind’s new Perceptiv derivatives contract analysis tool is to extract the key components of such documents and to store them as structured data, with links back to the source document both for reading purposes and to ensure that the most recent version are readily available. Continue reading →

UBIC is presenting a seminar on 25th of April from 11:30am to 3:00pm in New York with the title Crossing the Pacific: conducting legal business in Japan and the rest of Asia. This is part of UBIC’s Signature series of seminars Continue reading →

It is not necessarily easy to evaluate the potential cost savings and the effectiveness of new technology. On the whole, eDiscovery exercises are done only once, and it is rarely possible to provide a side-by-side comparison between an exercise using … Continue reading →

One of the big areas of growth in eDiscovery support is managed litigation services. Litigation departments, whether in law firms or companies, who do not want to buy and manage their own systems nor want to spend time outsourcing to … Continue reading →

A webinar from Nuix covers the key features, methodologies and use cases for the new release, Nuix 5.2. There are three separate editions of this webinar, for North America on 28 April, for EMEA on 30 April and for APAC on 1 May. Continue reading →

I am taking part in a lunchtime discussion forum hosted by Huron Legal on Wednesday, 7 May at the Law Society with the title eDisclosure Costs: Risks and Opportunities for Litigation Lawyers. Continue reading →

FTI Consulting is running a three-part series of panel discussions on managing multinational discovery matters effectively. One webinar covers Latin America, another Europe, and the third Asia-Pacific. Continue reading →

The 9th Annual IQPC / Legal IQ Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit takes place at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, London on 13 to 15 May with speakers from Consilio, FTI Consulting and IRIS Data Systems as well as from GlaxoSmithKline, Barclays, RBS, Vodafone and the DoJ Continue reading →

I will be off shortly to Hong Kong, to take part in the InnoXcell eDiscovery Exchange 2014 on 29th and 30th April. There are speakers from Nuix, Symantec, FTI, Consilio, Epiq Systems, kCura and Thomson Reuters among others Continue reading →

Xerox has acquired eDiscovery service provider Smart Data to extend the reach of the Xerox Litigation Services eDiscovery software and services. Continue reading →

An article by Hal Marcus of Recommind called Pictures have a superiority complex (eDiscovery and simplicity – part two) looks at the value of visual presentations of data as opposed to its presentation in the rows and columns of an Excel-style table format Continue reading →

Epiq has now released Verison 1.2 of Epiq Analytics. It brings conceptual search, interactive report generation, data visualisation and analytic tools to those who need to make those early strategic decisions which inform internal discussions and negotiations with opponents of the court. Continue reading →

While I was away, Steven Whitaker resigned as Senior Master of the Senior Courts in the Queen’s Bench Division. Steven Whitaker’s skill lay in making procedure the servant of justice; the prevailing orthodoxy is that procedure is an end in … Continue reading →

NightOwl Discovery has produced a useful paper called The Evolution of Data Migration: from eDiscovery challenge to a comprehensive business process. Its purpose is implied by its title – why does one need to migrate data, what challenges arise and what processes, skills and technology are required to achieve a migration which serves the business in its day-to-day work whilst remaining compliant with regulatory requirements and ready for the next eDiscovery challenge. Continue reading →

We see an interesting range of technology approaches to eDiscovery in two recent articles by or about Eddie Sheehy, Global CEO of Nuix. Meanwhile, another Nuix article looks at the benefits for lawyers in acquiring eDiscovery skills. His article I … Continue reading →

Paul Starrett, who presently leads UBIC North America’s Global Legal Risk Management Groups, has been given the additional title of Corporate Officer. Continue reading →

kCura is holding a Relativity Spring Launch event in London on 8 May. As last year kCura will invite a wide audience of hosting partners, law firms, corporate and government representatives. This year’s event will include a keynote presentation from CEO Andrew Sieja highlighting the new features of Relativity 8.2. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems have an on-demand webcast with the title Information governance and security update: new realities for 2014. Its purpose is to address those things which legal and corporate information teams should be dealing with proactively at an enterprise level Continue reading →

Guidance Software’s big (and ever bigger) annual event, CEIC. CEIC 2014 takes place in Las Vegas between May 19 and 22. As always, the CEIC programme consists of a mixture of hands-on technical learning and sessions devoted to the security and eDiscovery context in which those skills are used. Continue reading →

AccessData’s user conference, ADUC 2014, takes place in Las Vegas from May 14 to May 16. Howard Schmidt, former cyber adviser to Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush, is to be the keynote speaker, reflecting the growing significance of cyber security as a concern of corporations. Continue reading →

Decisions about what to collect, and how much social media to collect, must include some understanding of what is involved in doing so and in reviewing it in due course. FTI Technology is good at this and has come up with a video which explains how social media data can be collected, processed and loaded into Ringtail.. Continue reading →

Huron Legal managing director Ronke Ekwensi was formerly vice president for eDiscovery at a major corporation. She has written a paper called Planning for the unexpected: changing eDiscovery providers on short notice which describes the lessons which she learnt in managing providers and in moving into a new one. Continue reading →

The draft amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure attracted over 2000 comments leading, as one would hope, to some amendments. Two rules in particular have been heavily modified – Rule 37(e) relating to sanctions for failure to preserve … Continue reading →

kCura is conducting a series of interviews and webinars about the use of Relativity. Constantine Pappas has interviewed Paul Laven of Merrill Corporation on his experience as a user of Relativity Analytics Continue reading →

Cicayda continues to promote itself, its software and its thinking in the way it began, with a continual flow of news and commentary. It is the informed commentary which will bring in the prospective clients – few will seek out … Continue reading →

A White Paper by Guidance Software identifies seven best practice considerations which will help establish the complete eDiscovery process for the preservation of electronically stored information for litigation and investigation Continue reading →

One of the strengths of iCONECT’s XERA platform is its ability to handle a range of languages, both for search and processing and for the user interface. iCONECT has now released a Japanese version of XERA, part of a growing range of languages which the software can accommodate. Continue reading →

A good workflow needs to bring consistency whilst allowing for flexibility to adapt to different jobs and client needs. Nuix has a webinar on 2 April which is relevant both of those who design workflows and to those who will be the users. Continue reading →

I am just back from the San Francisco instance of the Today’s General Counsel eDiscovery series. Next up is the London version, which takes place at the Brewery in Chiswell Street on 8 to 9 April. Continue reading →

Equivio is extending its commitment to objective user education with the seventh in its highly regarded webinar series Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. This one is called The Essential Guide to Managing a Predictive Coding Project. Continue reading →

ZyLAB webinar today: Changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure at final stages. Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB and Thomas Y. Allman Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati College of Law will discuss the mot likely changes Continue reading →

Autonomy UK workshop – eDisclosure: the new frontier for defensibility for risk management Continue reading →

iCONECT has announced a series of four new webinars highlighting the benefits of IVIEW, the custom visualisation engine which is built into iCONECT’s XERA review platform. The webinars are aimed at project managers, lawyers and plaintiff firms Continue reading →

An article called Can structured and unstructured data marry? by Eddie Sheehy, Global CEO of Nuix, makes an interesting point about the differences between structured and unstructured data at a level which goes beyond obvious physical differences. Continue reading →

UBIC , the eDiscovery software and services provider with specialist skill in Asian languages, continues to develop what it calls behavioural informatics technology with the launch of Email Auditor, an application which monitors email correspondence to identify questionable behaviour. Continue reading →

kCura webinar on 11 March: proportionality and computer-assisted review Continue reading →

The ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference 12-14 March Continue reading →

FTI archived webinar: social media and eDiscovery or: how I learned to stop worrying and love digital ephemera Continue reading →

Recommind is giving a live webinar with Q&A on Thursday 6 March at 12:00pm EST / 9:00am PST. Its purpose is to demonstrate the features of Recommind’s Axcelerate 5, the latest iteration of its on-demand review and analysis platform. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems focuses on Europe with the appointment of Richard Seabrook as Vice President and General Manager, eDiscovery Europe, and an article on cross-border litigation and investigations by Deborah Blaxell Continue reading →

Masahiro Morimoto, Chairman and CEO of eDiscovery software and consulting company UBIC, has written a book intended to inform Japanese corporate and legal officers about the implications of US eDiscovery. The book is called eDiscovery Japan – a pathway for US attorneys to do business with Asian corporations. US lawyers need to understand the Japanese point of view as much as Japanese companies need to understand the US. Continue reading →

To what extent is it possible for a common approach to develop for managing eDiscovery? The court rules or the demands of a regulator impose certain constraints and practices, but it is open to any company and its lawyers to … Continue reading →

AccessData has launched InSight™ Platform which speeds up both the identification of threats and the resolution of incidents. It is a cybersecurity system which enables companies to manage the data incidents caused by cyber-attacks, mobile risk, GRC (Governance Risk & Compliance) and eDiscovery requests and get employees back to work as quickly as possible. Continue reading →

Ronke Ekwensi appointed a Managing Director at Huron Legal advising lawyers on information governance and eDiscovery Continue reading →

CY4OR is a UK-based eDisclosure and forensics company which offers eDisclosure services using software from Nuix and Symantec-Clearwell. An article called Inside eDisclosure: Dispelling the price myth by Tom Hall on the CY4OR eDisclosure blog reminds lawyers that they are now required to prepare an estimate of costs of disclosure Continue reading →

Recommind’s Axcelerate 5, which, after two years of work and 300 new features, justifies the claim to newness. Apart from improved technology, the focus is on making it easier to use – indeed, the ambition is to that the users should find it positively pleasurable. Continue reading →

Audio evidence and financial institutions – a discussion led by Epiq Systems in London on 27 February Continue reading →

UBIC is hosting a webcast on Wednesday, 19 February at 1:00 PM EST about the challenges of applying data analytics to legal discovery and to other investigations involving large volumes of changing data. Continue reading →

The Nuix party at LegalTech 2014 included learned entertainment from The centrepiece was The Great Debate with legal luminaries including US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck, US Magistrate Judge James Francis, Jason Baron and Bennett Borden of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, Laura Kibbe of Epiq Systems, Conor Crowley of the Crowley Law Office and Nuix’s own Deborah Baron among others Continue reading →