Category Archives: Litigation Support

In a previous article, Legal IQ makes a success of their Washington eDiscovery Exchange, I gave the background to Legal IQ’s recent Information Governance and eDiscovery Strategy Exchange, together with a little local colour. The latter, incidentally, is more than … Continue reading →

Xerox XLS is organising a webinar called Preparing for the Jackson Reforms to take place on Monday 15 October at 4 PM BST. The participants are Senior Master Steven Whitaker, U.K. Royal Courts of Justice, Robert D. Brownstone, Esq., Technology … Continue reading →

A reminder of my recent interview, organised by Recommind and filmed at the top of the Gherkin, with Senior Master Whitaker. Our subject was the acceptability of predictive coding in UK litigation. Master Whitaker knows more about this than any … Continue reading →

I do not know whether it is shrewd marketing on the part of AccessData or a coincidence, but the press announcement of their Mobile Phone Examiner Plus (MPE+) came to my attention on the same day as an article on … Continue reading →

Whatever else one might say about the lawyers for the Da Silva Moore plaintiffs, you can’t deny that they are good at volume – yards of words pour out at every opportunity, and while few of them seem to have … Continue reading →

I give below links to my recent posts on my Google Plus page. The last few weeks have been a particularly fruitful time in eDiscovery, both in the UK and elsewhere, and I have a stockpile of other articles and … Continue reading →

This is a continuation of a series of posts about the Nuix Information Governance Forum, held in June at Palm Beach in Florida. Debra Logan of Gartner was the keynote speaker. Her speech was all meat, and the only acceptable … Continue reading →

The Times has an entertaining column on Saturdays in which it fields complaints made by its readers about its manner of expression (as distinct from purely factual errors).  Not infrequently, the complaints relate to the use of American terms in … Continue reading →

If you wonder why I spent Saturday pouring out articles, it is because Saturday was the only day last week which did not involve a plane, a train, a seminar or a recording of some kind. The rest of the … Continue reading →

Epiq Systems, which provides managed technology services worldwide for lawyers and their clients, has commissioned a report about eDiscovery readiness at companies in the US, France, Germany and the UK.  It is important, every so often, to get some metrics … Continue reading →

US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck yesterday denied the Da Silva Moore plaintiffs’ recusal motion in robust terms. The S.D.N.Y. Blog pulls out the best bits from the ruling and provides a link to it. The opinion is measured, analytical and, … Continue reading →

I wrote recently about a short podcast about predictive coding which I made with James Moeskops of Millnet.  We have now done another one, this time with Dominic Lacey and Jamie Tanner of Eversheds. The context was provided by an … Continue reading →

Although I made it clear in my article Scattershot innuendo and muck that I was indifferent to the outcome of the arguments on the merits in Da Silva Moore, that is no excuse for substituting the word “Plaintiffs” for “Defendants” … Continue reading →

I am inevitably interested in the ways in which ideas and information are passed to and by lawyers, since they are my target audience and I live by reaching them by whatever means come to hand. It is unsurprising that … Continue reading →

The next event in which I am involved is ILTA Insight in London on 8 and 9 May. This year it runs over two days and is produced in conjunction with LegalTech, a division of ALM. I am moderating a … Continue reading →

I wrote recently about the podcasts which IQPC have put on their website as tasters for their Information Governance and eDisclosure Summit which takes place in London between 14 and 16 May. You may be interested in another one which … Continue reading →

A two-day absence in a place where cellular data has yet to penetrate put me behind in the routine task of picking up useful articles and putting links to them on my Google Plus page. Google’s enthusiasm for rolling out … Continue reading →

Jim Shook of EMC takes us back to the stage before discovery. The advanced technology used for dealing reactively with discovery requests has its place at a much earlier stage in the process. Judge Peck’s opinion in Da silva Moore … Continue reading →

Patrick Oot of the Electronic Discovery Institute and the SEC is interviewed by Jim Vint of Navigant in a podcast which anticipates some of the subjects which will come up at IQPC’s London Summit between 14 and 16 May The … Continue reading →

The collision between US discovery requirements and EU privacy and data protection laws is a long-running story of mutual incomprehension on which the formal conflict of laws is merely an overlay. US courts and regulators expect every last document to … Continue reading →

Jack Bond, litigation support specialist at Dewey & LeBoeuf in London is organising a charity Quiz Night on 3 May in support of The Children’s Trust and in memory of his daughter, Sarah. He is getting together teams in tables … Continue reading →

My decision to stop reporting every additional layer of comment on Judge Peck’s Da Silva Moore Opinion (see Closing down the Da Silva Moore discussion for now) was made in part because of the diminishing returns we were getting from the focus … Continue reading →

One does not have to be obsessive about web rankings to be interested in the reach of one’s blog posts, particularly in an industry which constantly evolves – or, as recently, takes the occasional big jump. Can one be heard … Continue reading →

I am not going to try and compete with the Clearwell / Symantec writing team as it comments on developments in the Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe case, the first one in which the use of predictive coding, the … Continue reading →

Applied Discovery has a double interest in the Da Silva Moore v Publicis Groupe case which came before Judge Peck just before Valentines Day. As a software provider, it offers technology-assisted review (which it calls “predictive tagging”) powered by Equivio->Relevance … Continue reading →

The good-looking, self-confident male never does well in a Losey film. Don Giovanni is hurled down into Hell as Donna Anna has her revenge. Who can forget the handsome face of William (Michael York) as his girlfriend’s (another Anna as … Continue reading →

It is a particular pleasure to welcome London-based eDiscovery / eDisclosure provider Millnet as a sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project. It is a company with which I have long-standing links and which has turned up in these pages from … Continue reading →

On 26 March, Lord Justice Jackson will give the SCL Annual Lecture 2012 with the title “Reforming the Civil Justice System“. The venue is the offices of Allen & Overy at One Bishops Square, London E1 6AD, and the event … Continue reading →

I noticed at the end of last year that Applied Discovery’s avatar on Twitter had changed, the big red ball of its LexisNexis owner being replaced by a parallelogram with an @ symbol in it. The same symbol appeared at … Continue reading →

This event has now been moved to 17-18 May 2012 IQPC has a three-day conference aimed specifically at the energy industry and those who advise it. Its strong list of speakers include three judges – Senior Master Whitaker from England … Continue reading →

You can skip the words and go straight to the pictures. Click on 2011 – A Year in pictures by Chris Dale for the Google+ display I begin to think that I will not be able to sort out my … Continue reading →

Ever keen to be up with the trends, I seize on the alleged imminent death of e-mail as one excuse for not sending Christmas messages this year. Other excuses include the deficiencies of Outlook as a mailer (“there is a … Continue reading →

Tom Kilroy is General Counsel at a publicly quoted company, leading a team of around 35 people. His blog, GC’s Eye View, is sub-titled Thoughts on law and business from a General Counsel at a publicly traded company. Those who … Continue reading →

My thanks to Matthew Davis at Hogan Lovells for drawing my attention to a straightforward guide to eDiscovery which has been published by the New York State Bar Association. It inevitably has a US focus, but it is full of … Continue reading →

There is no eDiscovery in this post, although it picks up on my article of 21 October called Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it. That drew parallels between attitudes to public safety in the UK and to eDiscovery … Continue reading →

I am always happy to get involved in debates about the best way of dealing with eDiscovery problems. The following tips may be helpful: Pretty well every supplier in this market has something less than complimentary to say about pretty … Continue reading →

Those of us who think that the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relating to preservation are utterly bonkers get powerful reinforcement from a case brought against KPMG in the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs are described as “entry-level auditors” … Continue reading →

The Masters Conference for Legal Professionals takes place in Washington on 3 to 5 October at the Ronald Regan Centre. I will be there, as always – this is one of my favourite events in the calendar, and often my … Continue reading →

The International Association of Women Judges (IAWJ) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization of more than 4,000 members at all judicial levels in more than 102 nations. Formed in 1991, the IAWJ has united women judges from diverse legal-judicial systems who … Continue reading →

Despite its title, this is “about” Legal Week’s Corporate Counsel Europe Forum, held at Luton Hoo, last week, in only the loosest sense, consisting more of random reflections derived from listening to first-rate speakers with in-house responsibility for legal and … Continue reading →

My annual suggestion, already made in recent posts, that UK law firms ought to attend US conferences about litigation practice, gets a last outing for 2011 just as the traditional law firm model is given five years to live. A … Continue reading →

There are not many things which we can all agree on in eDiscovery / eDisclosure. You would probably get near-unanimity as to what the rules say in any jurisdiction (at least from those who have read them), and most people … Continue reading →

Craig Ball is a US lawyer, forensic expert and entertainer – that last word probably does not appear on his CV, but  you will gather just from the title of my article Craig Ball Entertains at CEIC 2011 on Computer … Continue reading →

With Singapore behind me (well almost, I am still here as I write this, in the BA lounge, waiting to fly) I can turn to the next two events in the eDiscovery calendar. Next up is ILTA 2011  at Gaylord … Continue reading →

The first morning of the Electronic Litigation Conference organised jointly by the Supreme Court of Singapore and the Singapore Academy of Law has yielded so much of interest and importance that I am in danger of losing it if I … Continue reading →

Clearwell is now officially part of Symantec is the self-explanatory title of today’s post on the Clearwell eDiscovery blog and of the more formal acquisition report on Symantec’s site as the acquisition and regulatory formalities come to an end. Clearwell’s … Continue reading →

I am very pleased to welcome iCONECT as a new sponsor of the eDisclosure Information Project – I cannot say “the latest” sponsor, since kCura has come in since the iCONECT logo went up. iCONECT joined just before I left … Continue reading →

Nigel Murray of Huron Legal has completed his arduous cycle ride for Help for Heroes. Not surprisingly, he was not able to keep his blog going whilst cycling, and I am pleased to pass on his emailed report (minus the … Continue reading →

Few of those engaged in electronic discovery could have missed Tom Fishburne’s  Case in Point cartoons on the CaseCentral site, with their apparently infinite capacity to identify the weak points and have fun at their expense. I had not realised … Continue reading →

I will be in at the Hotel Du Vin in Birmingham on the afternoon of Wednesday 25 May talking about EDisclosure with Drew Macaulay of First Advantage Litigation Consulting. Our chosen title is EDisclosure Re-Discovered. The agenda for the event … Continue reading →

I got my first hint of US interest in the Royal Wedding soon after it was announced. I was the only British representative at a Washington conference, and stood up to make some worthy point at a judicial panel. One … Continue reading →

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office, already beleaguered as the government tries to make up its mind about its fate, has now lost its General Counsel. The widely respected Vivian Robinson QC is said to be going to McGuireWoods, leaving the … Continue reading →

I was one of the speakers at a breakfast seminar last week with the title the UK Bribery Act – Controlling the Impact on the Organisation.The event was organised by ZyLAB whose products are designed, across the various modules, to … Continue reading →

A Twitter direct message received this morning from Scott Gillard of Minter Ellison in Australia read: Love the new iPad version of your blog. Nice job. I did not know that there was a new iPad version of my blog … Continue reading →

As Twitter reaches its fifth birthday, lawyers and ediscovery providers alike seem suddenly to be discovering its value as a tool for engaging with others. At a New York panel, I talked about some general benefits and pitfalls of blogging … Continue reading →

Before I get any more queries of the “Why no new posts?” variety, I have been in New York for a week, primarily for a panel on blogging, tweeting and friending, and for a webinar. It was the week that … Continue reading →

My apologies if my title has brought you here under a misapprehension as to its subject-matter. It has been that kind of day. “Virgin” is Virgin Media, supplier of telecommunications services which generally work, albeit not at the speeds advertised. … Continue reading →

I am very pleased to welcome CY4OR as a sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. I wrote about them a few days ago, but that was about their marketing, which I rated highly. What about their work? CY4OR was founded … Continue reading →

There are plenty of helpful articles about LegalTech 2011, just closed in New York, and about what was on view there. This is a more personal account, aimed at encouraging more UK lawyers to go next year for a concentrated … Continue reading →