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A reminder about some ediscovery sources plus a mini-conference on video
My plan to update the reference section on my website over Christmas was thwarted by the time it took to move from Windows to Office 2011 on the Mac – one of those jobs for which you allocate an hour … Continue reading
Webinar on 13 January – interview with the General Counsel of the SFO about the Bribery Act
A reminder that Vivian Robinson QC, General Counsel of the Serious Fraud Office, is taking part in a webinar on the implications of the UK Bribery Act 2010 on 13 January. The other participants are Barry Vitou, partner in Winston … Continue reading
Planting eDiscovery ideas inch by inch and step by step
Every article could cover one more topic, bring in another side-reference, or round out the discussion with another example, parallel or exception. Sometimes it is best to stick to one core subject. The continent of Europe is so wide, Mein … Continue reading
Strong UK presence at LegalTech 2011
LegalTech 2011 is only a few days away and the programme is packed. Almost everyone whose name has appeared in these pages is taking part in something, and I will not attempt to list them all. Following on, however, from … Continue reading
Judges defend our long-term liberties from short-term politicians
Can you get Henry VIII, necrophilia, the Human Rights Act, Phil Woolas, quangos, rubbish bins, the nuances of the English language, New Labour statism and health & safety into one serious article about the role of the judiciary vis-à-vis the … Continue reading
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Richard Susskind’s law firm technology predictions for 2011
A short interview with Professor Richard Susskind on the Legal IT web site gives a packed 12 minutes or so which is well worth listening to at the beginning of the year. E-Disclosure is covered along with iPads, social media, … Continue reading
E-Discovery / E-Disclosure Predictions for 2011
Metadata, as we all know, is data about data. Perhaps next year we could have predictions about predictions – an article put up at about the beginning of November guessing what the various pundits will include in their list of … Continue reading
Glad I am not going anywhere today
It is very beautiful here in Oxford this morning, but I am glad I am not going anywhere today. Larger version There is no bread in the shop. The car has been buried for two days and I am not … Continue reading
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Not guilty of aiding and abetting over Christmas carol
In my shy, retiring and very English way, I have been busy disclaiming credit for things this month. Those of you who were at the Judicial Roundtable at Georgetown, or who read my account of it, will know that I … Continue reading
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Some resources on the UK Bribery Act 2010
I mentioned briefly in my report of IQPC in Munich the lucid explanation given by Vivian Robinson QC, General Counsel of the Serious Fraud Office, of the implications of the UK Bribery Act 2010. The aspect which interests me in … Continue reading
Don’t believe everything you read in the papers
Mark Twain said “The report of my death is an exaggeration” when his obituary was published prematurely. Rudyard Kipling, in similar circumstances, wrote to the offending magazine saying “I’ve just read that I am dead. Don’t forget to delete me … Continue reading
Predictive coding and defensibility
An article called The Red Herring of Defensibility and Predictive Coding by Craig Carpenter of Recommind on the Inforiskawareness site draws attention again to the technology generally known as “Predictive Coding”. Craig can fight his own corner as to the … Continue reading
The cost of data security breach notifications
At first sight, the publication on 10 December of an article headed Data security – is Europe still lagging behind the US? brings a wry smile here. We are used to US articles speaking in condescending terms about everything from … Continue reading
IQPC Exchange in Munich: Information Retention and eDiscovery in Europe
The civil law jurisdictions of mainland Europe have no discovery tradition as it is understood in common law countries like the US and UK. The IQPC Information Retention and eDiscovery Exchange in Munich was an opportunity for corporate counsel to … Continue reading
To the Varsity Match with FTI to watch Oxford win (and other things)
I went yesterday via Terminal 1 at Heathrow to the Varsity Match as a guest of FTI, where Oxford beat Cambridge 21-10. The last time I watched rugby at Twickenham was 4 November 1967, when the Queen nearly ran me … Continue reading
Clearwell White Paper: the new Practice Direction and e-Disclosure
Clearwell Systems has published on its website a White Paper which I co-wrote with them with the title The New Practice Direction and e-Disclosure: Best practices for Complying Proportionately (registration required). Its purpose is to set out recent developments in … Continue reading
Premonitions of what was to come
I have no idea what is happening in this photograph: That is not strictly true – I know that it was taken at IQPC in Munich last week just as I was about to moderate a panel on data protection … Continue reading
International discovery, sanctions, ethics and US-UK comparisons at Georgetown
I was, I think, the only UK speaker (or, indeed, delegate) at the Georgetown Advanced e-Discovery Institute. If the primary reason for going was to talk about US-EU differences, there was progress made too on the continuing US-UK dialogue about … Continue reading
Catching an eyeful in Leeds and a snowfall in Munich
The paucity of posts lately may lead you to think that all is quiet on the e-disclosure / e-discovery front. It is in fact a symptom of the opposite – there has been more than enough to keep me amused, … Continue reading
Thomson Reuters 6th eDisclosure Forum in London
It is Friday night as I start writing this. I am in BA’s lounge at Washington Dulles Airport after the two-day Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute. There I took part in an international panel, talked and/or listened to the Who’s Who … Continue reading
Two podcasts and a video on electronic disclosure
I have done two podcasts and a video recently which you may find a painless way of absorbing information about electronic disclosure. I was interviewed last week by Karl Schieneman of ESIBytes earlier this week, on an introduction from Mike … Continue reading
The InnoXcell eDiscovery Exchange Platform in Singapore
The InnoXcell eDiscovery Exchange Platform in Singapore seems months ago, though I have in fact been back for only a fortnight. I wrote briefly about it then (A quick ediscovery trip to Singapore) and promised a round-up of the sessions. … Continue reading
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6th Annual eDisclosure Forum on 15 November
I am co-chairman, with Browning Marean and George Socha, of the Thomson Reuters / Sweet & Maxwell Sixth Annual eDisclosure Forum on 15 November at Canary Wharf in London. Speakers include Senior Master Whitaker, HHJ Simon Brown QC, Mark Surguy … Continue reading
From Clearwell in Cornhill to Millnet on Millbank via Memory Lane
I went to Millnet’s 15th birthday party on Friday and, in consequence, wound up with very sore feet. That is not the non-sequitur which it may appear to be. The day began with an e-disclosure talk and ended with an … Continue reading
Rybak v Langbar sends warning to those who destroy evidence
Extreme cases do not necessarily add materially to our understanding or give us as much guidance for the future as one might think. Rybak & Ors v Langbar International Ltd [2010] EWHC 2015 (Ch) (09 July 2010) is what would … Continue reading
A useful guide to sources on EU Data Privacy Laws
The Guidance Software Newsroom carries a new article by Denise Backhouse of the eData Practice of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP headed Master European Data Privacy Laws. I refer you to it because it is expressly intended as a guide … Continue reading
Changes in the UK eDisclosure market: Huron acquires Trilantic just after Grant Thornton acquires Legal Inc
The consolidation of the UK and international e-discovery market took a further step today when Huron Consulting Group announced the acquisition of Trilantic. This follows the recent announcement that Grant Thornton had added Legal Inc’s people and expertise to its … Continue reading
Getting back to the e-Disclosure day job
Although it may seem that I spend most of my time in the departure lounges of the world, travel is a relatively small element of a typical month’s work. I am back to the meetings, the platform and media opportunities … Continue reading
Another London doorway to Equivio technology
Legastat is the latest London-based e-disclosure services provider to offer Equivio’s technology for speeding up the identification of redundant data and enabling early case assessment. It is not the only such provider, and the same technology is available as integrated … Continue reading
Berezovsky v Abramovich – refusal of enhanced disclosure order in the Commercial Court
A decision about edisclosure made in the Commercial Court by Mrs Justice Gloster DBE in August has recently been published on BAILII. The case is Berezovsky v Abramovich , the pleaded sum at stake exceeds US$3.5 billion, and the allegations … Continue reading
Lessons from Applied Discovery Proportionality panel in Toronto
It sounds a bit flippant to say that I went to Toronto for breakfast. It certainly would not do as an answer to the immigration official asking the purpose of my visit. Readers with long memories may recall two earlier … Continue reading
A quick eDiscovery trip to Singapore
I got back at dawn this morning from the InnoXcell eDiscovery conference in Singapore. I was only there for the two days of the conference and had only just got back from a one day trip to Toronto to attend … Continue reading
Addressing the outsourcing of document review
The word “addressing” in my title is used here as the opposite of “ignoring”. As with the use of technology, you cannot dismiss the idea of outsourcing document review without finding out who does it, how they go about it, … Continue reading
Having the Acuity to determine Relevance with Predictive Coding
Many commentators have lighted on the paper Crash or Soar – Will the legal community accept “predictive coding?” by Anne Kershaw and Joe Howie, in which they explored whether lawyers will be willing to abide by the results of review … Continue reading
Fulbright & Jaworski issue their 7th Litigation Trends Survey
There is no point in my summarising this when Monica Bay has already done so and provided a link to it. The sentence Asked if EDD for civil actions needs to be curtailed in the U.S., 70% agreed, and 50% … Continue reading
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Technology providers strike up long-term links with clients
Since I do not purport to be a journalist, I have the luxury of letting things float around in my head until an angle evolves. Odd strands – things I read or see or which come up in discussions – … Continue reading
Roundup of The Masters Conference 2010
“We have been travelling since we saw you last. We have been in America, entertaining the Americans whose need, let’s face it, is greater even than yours. Of course when we’re over there we say that the other way round” … Continue reading
Back from the Masters Conference in Washington
I am just off the plane after the Masters Conference in Washington. This is a conference which gets better every year and there is a lot to write about. I was on a panel on early case assessment led by … Continue reading
London litigation support party coincides with eDisclosure Practice Direction launch
I believe that it was a coincidence that almost the entire UK litigation support industry gathered at the Larder in Clerkenwell on the evening before eDisclosure Practice Direction 31B passed into the rules. I do not mean that the presence … Continue reading
Low-tech privacy breaches
Amidst all the proper concern about the use of technology in breaches of privacy, it is easy to overlook the ease with which we can give away information by more everyday means. Some examples illustrate what I mean. My railway … Continue reading
Over-estimating both costs and risks in the eDisclosure Practice Direction
There is a general sense that the eDisclosure Practice Direction has broad acceptance amongst lawyers – those who have read it before commenting on it, anyway. It is not just another CPR burden, nor is it something to fear – … Continue reading
Turning e-discovery news and views into a community of interest
Those of us who work in e-discovery / e-disclosure get better and better at passing information and views between ourselves. Web sites, blogs and Twitter allow us to keep up with developments – new products, company news and cases – … Continue reading
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AccessData joins the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is a great pleasure to welcome AccessData as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. AccessData has been involved in digital investigations for more than 20 years and its Forensic Toolkit®, cyber security and eDiscovery software solutions allow … Continue reading
E-Disclosure and E-Discovery at home and abroad
I have given my first law firm talks since the Edisclosure Practice Direction became official and have started talking to my sponsors about its implications for them – the questionnaire gives them a useful and early role, if they are … Continue reading
Inquiry blog – Discovery of Documents in Australian Federal Courts
An Inquiry into the law, practice and management of the discovery of documents in litigation before Australian Federal Courts was launched by the Attorney-General in May 2010. I wrote about it at the time (see Terms of Reference for Australian … Continue reading
ILTA 2010 wrap
This is my third (and last) article about ILTA 2010 Strategic Unity which closed in Las Vegas last week. My first article was a scene-setter, designed to give the flavour of the event and to explain why I thought it … Continue reading
Copying my work is OK – up to a point
From time to time, people ask if they may republish my articles; sometimes they simply go ahead and copy them without asking. I am usually relaxed about this – although most of my work involves writing, that is not what … Continue reading
The e-disclosure practice direction and electronic documents questionnaire in tangible form
Since I have been banging on about the “proposed” or “pending” edisclosure practice direction for months now, it is not surprising that everyone seemed to think that I would be the first to know when it had been formally published. … Continue reading
ILTA 2010 in Las Vegas: Strategic Unity, Defensibility and the Cloud
ILTA is the International Legal Technology Association. I am now back from ILTA 2010 Strategic Unity in Las Vegas, which was as busy and as good as ever. The red hot bloggers and tweeters were reporting on events as they … Continue reading
E-Disclosure Practice Direction and Electronic Documents Questionnaire – it is official
I have made many references over the last few months to the pending UK e-Disclosure practice direction and to the electronic documents questionnaire which is part of it. The more observant of you will have noticed that I have never … Continue reading
What happens in Vegas matters in the UK: ILTA 2010
It is 2.30am here in Las Vegas and my laptop has just woken me up with a mating noise – yes, three days into this technology conference at this most modern of hi-tech hotels, the internet connection has sprung to … Continue reading
Getting the timing right
The run-up to ILTA is not a good time to give the impression that I am too busy to take note of what is going on. It is a time of product launches, when all the players in the e-discovery … Continue reading
Welcome to Clearwell as new sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project
It is a great pleasure to welcome Clearwell Systems as the latest sponsor of the e-Disclosure Information Project. Given Clearwell’s present standing in the eDiscovery market, it is hard to realise that it was founded as recently as 2004 and … Continue reading
Helping yourself to confidential information in litigation
Two parties, male and female, are engaged in litigation. The lady fears that the man will conceal information about his assets which ought to be disclosed in the litigation, and gets her agents to copy all his personal and business … Continue reading
Catching the flood of E-Disclosure and E-Discovery articles
Applied Discovery, Jonathan Maas, The Posse List, EU Data Protection and data privacy, Iron Mountain Stratify, Aérospatiale, WP158, Safe Harbor, Irish eDiscovery, Scotland, Autonomy, FTI Technology, Senior Master Whitaker, Ernst & Young, Goodale v Ministry of Justice, Craig Ball, Multiven … Continue reading
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Getting in amongst the lawyers
I referred in my last post (see The Last Lap) to the law firms which lie below the very biggest and which have the potential to be the standard-bearers for a new approach to managing litigation. Many of their lawyers … Continue reading
Epiq launches European document review service
Epiq Systems, owners of document review application DocuMatrix, have launched a new document review service based in its new offices in London following the success of the US service. The press release is here. It is in a sense otiose … Continue reading
A call to arms for ediscovery in Hong Kong
The purpose of my visit to Hong Kong last week was to speak at the InnoXcell Ediscovery and Digital Forensics Conference on 7 and 8 July. Several of the international brigade of ediscovery speakers joined local lawyers, suppliers and others … Continue reading
Noel, Stanley and Ludwig in Hong Kong
I am just back from a week in Hong Kong whose primary purpose was to speak at an ediscovery conference, with a couple of other meetings thrown in. I did three panels in one afternoon and a fourth the following … Continue reading
Back from Hong Kong Ediscovery Conference
I had no ambitions to write up the Hong Kong trip whilst I was there. Quite apart from the fact that I was due to be on the platform for 25% of its running time, there were a lot of … Continue reading
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Goodale v MoJ now has a proper neutral citation number
Senior Master Whitaker’s important judgment in Goodale v Ministry of Justice now has a proper neutral citation number. It is 2009 EWHC 3834 (QB) Handed Down: 5 November 2009. The Claim No is HQ06X03876. Thanks to Master Whitaker for passing … Continue reading
How much does a lawyer need to know about electronic documents?
We all make judgements, conscious or otherwise, about the degree of skill or knowledge we need to acquire to conduct our business or, indeed, for everyday living. A number of factors dictate how much we feel that we need to … Continue reading
Legal Inc offers secondment of litigation support personnel
Although most providers of litigation support services make their consultants available to law firms to help with projects, Legal Inc has gone one further and effectively set up its own recruitment arm, offering litigation support personnel at all levels. The … Continue reading
Keeping up with Equivio
Equivio illustrates the maxim “less is more” in ways which go beyond the purpose of its software, which is “the management of data redundancy in content-centric business processes” . There is something appropriate in the way that a company whose … Continue reading
Iron Mountain completes the assimilation of the Stratify brand
What do you do as an acquiring company when you buy a strong brand? At one extreme, you swallow it whole and relabel everything on Day One, risking the loss of goodwill and brand-awareness which is part of what you … Continue reading
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SharePoint 2010 is the next dumping ground for lawyers to understand
Larry Briggi of FTI Technology describes Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 as “the next dumping ground”. SharePoint is already here and now and having stuff dumped in it daily. FTI’s SharePoint Harvester is one of the new products aimed at meeting the … Continue reading
Applied Discovery + EMC + Kazeon offer combined services for collection, ECA and Review
It used to be quite easy to explain to lawyers what was the role of each player in the discovery process. It was easiest, of course, in the days when the only application was a photocopier. Many lawyers, I think, … Continue reading
Australian ediscovery round-up
My conclusion after my recent visit to Sydney was that every jurisdiction which engages in ediscovery thinks that it is behind the others. This is certainly not true of Australia, and Master Whitaker and I were not merely being polite … Continue reading
Some object-lessons from history, art and a non-discovery conference
You nearly got a grumpy old man story from me yesterday morning. You were spared only because I did not have time to write it before setting off for London. If I had known how the day would evolve, I … Continue reading
Cats at Bacchanalia
Cats Legal kindly asked me to speak at their client event last night. More compelling than me as an attraction, I suspect, was the fact that the venue was Bacchanalia , the specialists in fine Spanish wines, whose premises are … Continue reading
Ark Group eDisclosure conference in London
On my way to London yesterday to chair the Ark Group ediscovery 2010 conference, I read about the deletion of e-mails by an aide to the Qatari royal family (see Guardian article here). The allegation is that 19 e-mails referring … Continue reading
Lunch-time talk in Sydney with Nuix and KPMG
Knowing that Master Whitaker and I were going to be in Sydney for the Chilli IQ eDiscovery conference, Eddie Sheehy of Nuix invited us to speak at a lunch organised by Nuix and KPMG. The venue was a room on … Continue reading
Far and wide eDiscovery at the Chilli IQ conference in Sydney
Sometimes an unconscious theme develops during conferences. Appropriately, perhaps, given the “IQ” element in the organiser’s name, the point which recurred in Sydney was the use of human intelligence in parallel with the processing power and clever technology to get … Continue reading
Chris-crossing the globe for e-discovery
Sorry for the silence. It has been a bit busy here – not just “here” which is Sydney, but in the short gap in England between leaving Las Vegas and setting off for here. It is a brisk sunny morning … Continue reading
E-Disclosure in Liverpool with Cats Legal, Epiq Systems and Dominic Regan
I have to take back what I said yesterday about my rail trip to Liverpool. I had expected the usual shambles, those delays with risible explanations and insincere apologies which are the norm on our overcrowded, badly-run rail network. In … Continue reading
A brief lull between conferences
“You seem to pop up everywhere” said Morgan Sheehy of Nuix when I bumped into him at CEIC 2010 in Las Vegas, a few days after I had seen him in London. Indeed so, for that is the job, or … Continue reading
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Comment on Singapore Deutsche AG judgment
Vince Neicho of Allen & Overy saw my post about the Singapore judgment of Senior Assistant Registrar Yeong Zee Kin in Deutsche Bank AG v Chang Tse Wen and others (see Singapore e-Discovery judgment shows international commonality and active management) … Continue reading
Clive Freedman e-Disclosure webinar
Barrister Clive Freedman of 3 Verulam Buildings gave a webinar on e-disclosure last week. Clive is a member, as I am, of Senior Master Whitaker’s working party which produced the draft e-disclosure practice direction and ESI questionnaire which were commended … Continue reading
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International eDiscovery Panel at CEIC
There is one major difference between the general run of discovery problems and those relating to international and cross-border discovery. The former are soluble – competence and co-operation coupled with judicial management would fix most ediscovery problems tomorrow; the trans-jurisdictional … Continue reading
Judicial ediscovery comparisons at CEIC
I did a short summary piece about two of the sessions which I attended at CEIC in Las Vegas (see CEIC comes to an end), promising to expand on them when I got home. I am not quite home, sitting … Continue reading
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CEIC 2010 comes to an end
CEIC 2010 is winding down here in Las Vegas. Whatever measure you take – the quality of the sessions, the opportunity to catch up with people and meet new ones, the sheer numbers of people attending (1,300 or so), the … Continue reading
Missing my Dragon
Jonathan Maas of Ernst & Young says that I missed a trick in my account of the laptop which died en route to Las Vegas and which I had to replace and set up in order to do a webinar … Continue reading
Party with a purpose at the poolside
I am told that there is record attendance at CEIC 2010 here in Las Vegas. Putting it like that implies no doubt on my part that the claim is correct, but this place is so vast that you could lose … Continue reading
Manual discovery is like herding steers down the Strip
I hope I never tire of the wonders of all this technology or cease to be amazed by what one can do with it. It is more than 100 years since the Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk, and I travel … Continue reading
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Keeping at work in the Cloud from Las Vegas
I have been here in Las Vegas a little over 24 hours. So far I have been asked by a cop if I have been arrested before, and been blatantly short-changed in Starbucks; I have been to one tourist attraction … Continue reading
IQPC the best London e-disclosure conference again
The three-day IQPC Information Retention and eDisclosure Management Summit is over for another year. It is the biggest and best conference in the London calendar and one which genuinely aspires to do better each year. Everyone I spoke to seemed … Continue reading
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IQPC: I heard your judges’ panel blew the doors off the joint
The quotation in my heading just came in from Gregory Bufithis of The Posse List. The reference is to the judicial panel yesterday at IQPC in London comprising (alphabetically) His Honour Judge Simon Brown QC, US Magistrate Judge John Facciola, … Continue reading
Nigel Murray cycles to Trilantic’s new Dubai office
There is a photograph on Nigel Murray’s blog which appears to show that he has been cycling to work. Given the present state of air travel, this may be the most sensible method, even if you live in England and … Continue reading
A week of change in e-Disclosure as well as in politics
It is not often that you look back over a week or so and know that you will always remember it. Eight days ago, we had the same government as we had had for 13 years; now, not only the … Continue reading
Court of Appeal declines to overturn specific disclosure judgment in Fiddes v Channel 4
Those interested in judicial management of disclosure might like to look at the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Fiddes v Channel 4, delivered on 24 March but published on BAILII only on Friday. The case is interesting for … Continue reading
FTI Consulting partnership makes Late Shift possible for National Portrait Gallery
It is not just e-Disclosure which needs to find wider audiences. Institutions like the National Portrait Gallery also have to make their displays more accessible. The word “accessible” acquired politically correct connotations in the New Labour years, with public funds … Continue reading
Video illustration of forensic collections tool
I am always looking out for new ways of getting to wider audiences. Although you cannot beat actually talking to people, the Internet offers other ways conveying information. Forensics collection experts 7Safe have produced a video about their data collection … Continue reading
Imminent reform in prospect for Australian discovery process
Reform of the discovery process in Australia is said to be “imminent”, according to an article in the New Lawyer. The article says that the Attorney General has asked the Australian Law Reform Commission to explore options to promote the … Continue reading
Recommind webinar: Technology is Changing the Economics of e-Disclosure, Are You Prepared?
My title is the name of a webinar which I am doing with Jason Robman of Recommind on 25 May. Its description reads as follows: The enormous costs and time associated with the e-Disclosure process are staggering, with the document … Continue reading
E-Disclosure law, practice and technology in one educational package
The first of the E-disclosure seminars organised jointly by Professor Dominic Regan and me took place yesterday at Ely Place Chambers. Dominic and I were joined by Senior Master Whitaker and by speakers from three technology providers, 7Safe, Legal Inc … Continue reading
Reminder: Dominic Regan and Chris Dale on e-Disclosure at Ely Place Chambers on 12 May
Professor Dominic Regan and I will be leading a seminar from 2.00 until 5.15 on Wednesday 12th May at Ely Place Chambers on the subject of electronic disclosure of documents. Lord Justice Jackson’s only recommendation in relation to e-disclosure was … Continue reading
Women in eDiscovery at IQPC on 18 May
It is not too late to sign up for the women in e-Discovery session at IQPC’s Information Retention and e-Disclosure Summit on Wednesday 18 May. The conference itself runs from Monday 17 May and the Women in eDiscovery session takes … Continue reading
Late disclosure of e-mails ends BA price-fixing trial
The government and its agencies have come unstuck yet again over failure to disclose electronic documents. A Reuters article British Airways price fixing trial collapses, published today, reports that the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) had failed to disclose relevant … Continue reading
ILTA 2010 Nashville venue under water
ILTA 2010, due to take place at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville Tennessee on August 22-26, is confident that it will find another venue after the waters from the Tennessee floods severely damaged the hotel. This video gives you … Continue reading
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