Category Archives: Litigation Support

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 →

My own article Washington and New York to Mitchell via privacy, Singapore and Lobachevsky has a discursive account of the last couple of weeks, some pictures of Washington and some fulminations about Mitchell, Grayling and the Ministry of Justice. It talks also about privacy, Singapore and plagiarism. Continue reading →

Equivio says “Good enough is not good enough” as it launches Equivio Zoom for Information Governance, expands its educational commitment and begins a Star Certification Program Continue reading →

Guidance Software is giving a webinar on 5 February at 11am PST / 2pm EST called The end of wipe and image as we know it. The title refers to a standard approach to security breaches where malware triggers a security breach and the company’s IT teams rush to deal with it by wiping the affected drives and restoring them from their image files. Continue reading →

EDRM and AccessData webinar on 30 January: Forensics and Mobile Device Discovery Techniques to Optimise eDiscovery with Caitlin Murphy of AccessData Continue reading →

iCONECT, makers of the XERA eDiscovery platform, has a launched a partnership awards program for itslegal service provider network of consulting firms, Big 4 consultancies, and eDiscovery / litigation support service providers around the world Continue reading →

Until now, OrcaTec data was exported into Relativity as an overlay. That process has now being made bi-directional, allowing users to jump back and forth between systems during the review, using whichever functionality is desirable for the stage in hand. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has expanded in New York by opening a new document review centre in downtown Manhattan offering document review services, staffing, managed review, technology assisted review and audio review. The press release is here. Epiq now has five review … Continue reading →

Consilio is presenting a webinar called Saving Dollars, Euros and Yen: understand and control discovery costs in cross-border litigation on 24 January at 1 PM EST. Continue reading →

Guidance Software, owner of the EnCase range of forensic, cybersecurity and eDiscovery products, is presenting a webinar on 29 January called Defensible eDiscovery Workflow: Four Real-World Scenarios Continue reading →

Nuix, makers of eDiscovery and information governance software, are joining forces with EDRM (the Electronic Document Reference Model) to present a webinar at 1:00pm Central on 23 January called Evolving eDiscovery Workflows for the Future. Continue reading →

Sedona Conference appointments and events Continue reading →

A webinar is taking place TODAY, 9 January at 1.00pm EST, with the title Emerging E-Discovery Challenges in Construction Cases: Tips, Tricks, Tweets and Texts. It is organised by the American Bar Association, and Albert Barsocchini, Head of Strategic Consulting at … Continue reading →

iCONECT webinar on 8 January: Accelerated Review with XERA to demonstrate the various review workflow enhancements in the latest release of XERA, including enhanced document compare, improved navigation, static column customization and targeted coding requirements. Continue reading →

Guidance Software webinar on 14 January: Transitioning from EnCase Forensic version v6 to v7 – Part 2 gives users and prospective users a guided tour of the new functionality. Continue reading →

ZyLAB has produced a paper called Breaking the Fraud Triangle: ZyLAB Fraud Prevention and Detection Program which concerns the use of big data analytical tools to identify activities which may involve fraud and/or breach of security and compliance policies. Continue reading →

A welcome new addition to the eDiscovery blogosphere (now that “blogosphere” has been mentioned in an English judgment, I suppose it is all right to use it) is one called Flipping the Gorilla by Marc Jenkins, VP Knowledge Strategy at … Continue reading →

I do not generally involve myself in the mechanics of eDiscovery software. I am not a user and I do not get involved in system selection, and am accordingly keen to leave the analysis of functionality to others. I am … Continue reading →

New ideas and initiatives continue to pour out of information management provider ZyLAB aimed both at proactive intelligent governance programs and at urgent demands for information for disputes and investigations. One of these is an Intellectual Property Protection Program for … Continue reading →

Eddie Sheehy, CEO of Nuix, has published his 10 predictions (well, 11 actually, but who’s counting?) Relating to the management of unstructured data 2014. You can find them here. Most such sets of predictions (including mine) begin with statements of … Continue reading →

Here are the pictures (my pictures as it happens) of the UBIC Washington event last week, together with a video of Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle delivering his keynote speech. Continue reading →

Investment bank Jefferies Group has taken Bloomberg Vault for to manage the enormous volumes of information which Jefferies must keep and make accessible, often at short notice. For many companies, information governance appears as optional, something for which time and … Continue reading →

Equivio continues its series of educational webinars with the global title Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. The sixth webinar in the series is called Advanced document clustering for eDiscovery and takes place on 16 December at 12:00pm ET. Continue reading →

Johannes Scholtes, Chief Strategy Officer at ZyLAB, is joined in a webinar by Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath in a webinar on 17 December on requirements for long-term preservation or archiving Continue reading →

The US Federal Trade Commission has wide responsibilities which include the protection of customers’ data privacy rights. Matthew Nelson of Symantec and Katherine McCarron, an FTC attorney, discuss this in a webinar on 12 December Continue reading →

Hobs Legal Docs has appointed Rob Crowley, formerly of Recommind, as General Manager and Director and Jonathan Chan, formerly of Ernst & Young, who becomes Director of Technical Services at Hobs. Continue reading →

Nuix is presenting a webinar on December at 1.00pm ET. Its title is Information transparency the cure for information governance analysis paralysis. The panel members are Barclay Blair, Bennett Borden, Leigh Isaacs, and Brian Tuemmler and the moderator is Julie Colgan Continue reading →

Epiq Systems recruits Wendy Cole as Director of Document Review Services in Toronto Continue reading →

iCONECT has provided copies of its XERA review platform as a learning tool on the Electronic Discovery and Digital Evidence graduate course curriculum at the University of Texas School of Law Continue reading →

Two main factors distinguish information management and eDiscovery provider ZyLAB from most of its competitors. One is the exceptional range of its activities, from enterprise information management through to every eDiscovery function. The other is that, whilst having a substantial … Continue reading →

Behaviour informatics and eDiscovery company UBIC is running a big data and information governance seminar in Washington on Friday 6 December. It takes place at the National Press Club and starts at 8.00am. Speakers include US Magistrate Judge John Facciola … Continue reading →

What challenges face legal teams in the coming year? This is the subject to be addressed by Daniel Lim, Deputy General Counsel at Guidance Software, in a webinar to be broadcast on 5 December at 11am PST / 2pm EST … Continue reading →

A quick one this, because I have only just found out about it. I don’t need to say much, just refer you to this page which tells you all about it. Prospective lawyers – baby lawyers and students – are … Continue reading →

Dean Gonsowski, Global Head of Information Governance at Recommind, writes about Predictive Coding Cost Savings and Return on Investment Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has appointed Dianne Drummond as Senior Director of Client Services, based in London to manage the client services team, to oversee project management and client relationships, to ensure delivery of projects within budget and on time, and take the lead with new clients and projects. Continue reading →

The latest amendments to HIPAA substantially increase the obligations placed on companies, their law firms and their eDiscovery providers in relation to patient data, including data handling, data access, the policies and procedures which must be followed and obligations of … Continue reading →

Guidance Software has partnered with Box to ease eDiscovery collections from Box cloud users. The business of Box is the provision of cloud hosting and services. It is much more than a cloud repository, offering features, Apps and access for … Continue reading →

kCura has this week announced the release of Relativity 8.1, the newest version of its web-based eDiscovery platform. The press release here and the information page here highlight the main enhancements to workflow, assisted review and analytics, processing and performance. The information page includes a short video which gives a quick guide to the new features in a form which is easily assimilated. Continue reading →

Litigation support company UBIC, has supplemented its litigation support software and services offerings with a team of certified investigators in Asia and North America under the name Global Forensics Services using comprehensive forensics laboratories in California and in Asia. Continue reading →

eDiscovery software provider iCONECT seems to be everywhere at the moment, including Japan – see Japanese Doc Review Strengthens Client Services with iCONECT’s XERA – and in the Cloud – see XERA Now in the Cloud. Continue reading →

AccessData has opened registration for its user conference ADUC 2014, to be held at the Aria in Las Vegas from 13 to 16 May 2014. The conference brings together the elements of cyber security, computer forensics and eDiscovery litigation support under one roof Continue reading →

The Nuix software covers forensics, eDiscovery and information governance. A series of forensic appointemnts and a paper by Dr James Kent emphasise the commitment to forensic investigations Continue reading →

James Michalowicz has joined Huron Legal as a managing director with a focus on cost control and metrics in law firms and legal departments. Continue reading →

In Equivio’s 5th webinar in their series Predictive Coding without the hype Stephen Goldstein, Director of Practice Support at Squire Sanders and Tom Groom, VP, Discovery Engineering at D4 talk about their practical experience of using predictive coding Continue reading →

FTI Consulting has published a paper by Ari Kaplan called Achieving and Maintaining eDiscovery Fitness. Its topics include information governance programmes, the repurposing of input between cases to reduce duplicated effort from case to case, analytics and predictive coding, eDiscovery costs, and international discovery. Continue reading →

UBIC has added a new litigation hold function to its Lit i View eDiscovery tool to ensure that users can safely manage litigation holds on multiple matters across the corporation. The legal hold tool supports complex Asian languages like Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) Continue reading →

Epiq Systems has opened a document review centre in Canada, and expanded review services in London and other jurisdictions. Articles on TAR and big data and on regulatory co-operation point to a broad range of eDiscovery activity Continue reading →

Equivio Relevance is part of the Intelligent Discovery Process developed by Squire Sanders which helped them to a place in the 2013 InformationWeek 500 – a list of the top technology innovators in the US Continue reading →

Apersee continues its series of eDiscovery webinars. George Socha and Tom Gelbmann have one coming up on processing with Nuix and one on Summation 5 with AccessData Continue reading →

The collection of documents from multiple jurisdictions raises all sorts of issues, not least the privacy and data protection regimes which might be encountered. The focus on this can sometimes obscure very practical difficulties which arise after that, including the … Continue reading →

Joel Tobias, managing director of eDisclosure and forensics company CY4OR, is one of several eDisclosure / eDiscovery experts interviewed on video by Chris Dale Continue reading →

Recommind is organising a breakfast briefing on 7 November at which the main topic is the location and management of mandatory data. Those of us who know Recommind largely through its predictive coding tools for eDiscovery purposes will not be … Continue reading →

One of the problems in assessing the use of any one technology is that you rarely get the opportunity to compare one approach directly with another. iCONECT XERA was used to compare approaches done with and without the use of analytics Continue reading →

HTCIA is the High Technology Crime Investigation Association which runs an annual conference on high-tech crime forensics investigation techniques. Particpants include Consilio, Nuix, FTI Technology, Guidance Software and Epiq Systems Continue reading →

Chris Dale is back from Lawtech Europe Congress where he moderated sessions on eDiscovery Scope, Method and Budgets and on cross-border discovery Continue reading →

Pangea3, a provider of legal process outsourcing services and part of the Thomson Reuters empire, has joined forces with information governance and data management specialist Recommind to deliver a workflow and predictive coding solution for Fortune 500 corporations and law firms. Continue reading →

With its offices in Hong Kong, China and, most recently, Japan, Epiq Systems is as well qualified as any provider to talk about global data protection issues arising between the US and Asia. That expertise is to be applied to … Continue reading →

A short video from Symantec called Symantec Project Honeystick explains what happens when Symantec deliberately left cell phones lying around in public in various US cities. Although many of the finders made attempts to trace the owners, it appeared that … Continue reading →

Huron Legal has appointed Mark Williams and Jennifer Mendelsohn to senior roles in the eDiscovery side of Huron Legal’s business. Huron has also on the shortlist for Supplier of the Year at the Legal Week British Legal Awards 2013 Continue reading →

I am scrupulous to avoid suggesting that the products of any one of my sponsors are better than those of any other. Quite apart from the tact and diplomacy, I am not a user of software applications and have no … Continue reading →

Bob Rowe of Huron Legal talks about the use of predictive coding and analytics in eDiscovery. Huron Legal has two new accreditations to add to its collection. Continue reading →

Nuix Director provides template-driven, web-based eDiscovery workflow automation. It is built (of course) around the powerful Nuix engine, and allows development of automated workflows, processes and reports for all stages of the discovery process. Continue reading →

The big announcement at Guidance Software’s CEIC, which I attended in Las Vegas in May, was EnCase Analytics, a set of tools which allow early identification of previously unknown and difficult-to-detect threats through the use of “big data” analytical techniques. Continue reading →

Brett Burney explains how predictive coding, including UBIC’s Lit i View, works, and describes the additional hoops added by the presence of CJK documents in a collection. Continue reading →

The mid-year meeting of EDRM – the inventors of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and the leading standards organisation for the eDiscovery market – is holding its mid-year meeting in St Paul, Minnesota from 9 to 11 October. The meeting … Continue reading →

I am off to Chicago at the weekend to join kCura’s Relativity Fest 2013 next week. I am taking part in the Assisted Review Panel on Tuesday. Its purpose is to discuss the development of best practices in this fast … Continue reading →

Recommind, with its specialist niche in unstructured data management, analysis and governance technology, is sponsoring the “Legal expertise: dispute resolution” category at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards Continue reading →

CEIC 2014 – the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference organised by Guidance Software – takes place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 19 to 22 May 2014. It brings together cybersecurity, eDiscovery, security intelligence and digital investigations in a comprehensive … Continue reading →

Global eDiscovery software and services provider Consilio has reached agreement with Business Intelligence Associates to bring BIA’s TotalDiscovery platform to Consilio’s clients. Consilio becomes a BIA Platinum Partner. Continue reading →

The eDiscovery webinar Social communication: is there anything worth requesting? which I recorded last week with Ian Campbell of iCONECT and Thomas Barnett of Saito Sorenson LLP is now available online Continue reading →

Those who read my blog will know that I have been away for the last three weeks and that I turned up late for a rare holiday because I was in Hong Kong moderating an interesting panel in the company … Continue reading →

I have known Sasha Hefler for a long time, having come across her at many of the higher end eDiscovery conferences which I attend in the US and elsewhere and where she usually seemed to be quietly – but ubiquitously … Continue reading →

ZyLAB is now known well known as a provider of eDiscovery and information risk management tools used by corporations and their advisers to plough through very large volumes of data to get quickly and cost effectively to the information which … Continue reading →

The senior judiciary is reviewing the Jackson Reforms. Meanwhile, we live with the rules and the cases as we find them. Birmingham Law Society is promoting a session called Essential Update on Jackson with Professor Dominic Regan and Ed Pepperall QC. Continue reading →

It was with mixed feelings that I heard that Craig Carpenter was leaving Recommind to become Chief Marketing Officer with AccessData. As Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Recommind, he was closely linked in my mind with the … Continue reading →

eDiscovery software and services company UBIC specialises in Asian language eDiscovery. The most recent version of its forensic software, Lit i View Xaminer™, is designed in Japan for Japanese police and other government agencies. Continue reading →

The 4th webinar given by eDiscovery text analytics company Equivio in their series Predictive Coding Minus the Hype. It covers various use cases beyond the fulfilment of eDiscovery obligations Continue reading →

Guidance Software is presenting a webinar on 2 October at 11am PDT with the title Endpoint Security from A-Z with EnCase Technology. Continue reading →

Equivio Zoom appears as a tab in kCura’s eDiscovery / eDisclosure review application Relativity. Equivio Zoom 2.6 is now available for Relativity 8 Continue reading →

FTI Technology is giving a webinar on Wednesday 2 October at 2.00pm ET | 11.00am PT with the title eDiscovery Fitness Survey results – five steps for getting your program into better shape. By “eDiscovery fitness”, FTI refers to the … Continue reading →

This is a reminder about a webinar called Introduction to Asian eDiscovery Challenges to be given on 20 September at 1:00pm EDT by eDiscovery Journal in association with Asian language eDiscovery software specialist UBIC. Continue reading →

The iCONECT Fall series of eDiscovery webinars on social communication includes discussions about sources of potentially discoverable material which might be overlooked Continue reading →

LTEC – the LawTech Europe Congress – takes place again in Prague in 2013 with a range of legal technology providers, including eDiscovery providers like Nuix, Guidance Software, Huron Legal and Navigant. Continue reading →

Nuix is running a series of courses aimed at people with different skill levels and objectives with self-explanatory titles like Nuix Fundamentals training, Nuix eDiscovery Specialist Training and Nuix Investigation Specialist Training. Continue reading →

We can, I hope, take it for granted that most lawyers involved in litigation and regulatory requests have got their minds round email, loose files like word documents and spreadsheets and the other more obvious discoverable material – “obvious” because they have obvious parallels in the paper world. Continue reading →

ZyLABI have taken part in any number of data collection and privacy panels at which the US indifference to privacy protection has been given as a norm. It is always qualified, however, by references to certain specific areas including HIPAA. I have not had the curiosity until now to look this up and see that this is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act 1996 – I was aware that it was to do with medical information, but knew no more than that. Continue reading →