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Barrister Gordon Exall is giving a talk called Sanctions and how to avoid them at Hardwicke Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn on 3 December at 5:30pm along with Sarah Venn of Hardwicke Chambers. Continue reading →

Ambitious plans to set up the Singapore International Court moved closer this week when the proposals were put before the Singapore Parliament. Continue reading →

eDiscovery in Asia – a breakfast seminar in London on 2 September organised by Nigel Murray Continue reading →

A ZDNet article by Zack Whittaker is headed How one judge single-handedly killed trust in US technology industry. The subject is the ruling by US District Judge Loretta Preska upholding an earlier ruing ordering Microsoft to hand over documents held only on non-US servers. Continue reading →

iCONECT, makers of the XERA eDiscovery platform, have reached an agreement with Aquipt to make XERA available on Aquipt’s MatterPoint infrastructure. Continue reading →

This is about good marketing rather than eDiscovery / eDisclosure. The business of Lawyers on Demand is matching the temporary requirements of in-house legal departments with the talents of lawyers who disdain the implications of full-time employment and instead offer … Continue reading →

Mr Justice Flaux has been appointed by the Lord Chief Justice as judge in charge of the Commercial Court with effect from 3 July. The media release is here. Anything I know about him is anecdotal, but anecdote suggests that he … Continue reading →

Nuix has published a paper showcasing the processing power of its Investigate Workstation 5.2 and showing how it helps investigators deal with the growing datasets encountering digital investigations. Continue reading →

Oxford City Council has hired a plane to snoop on its citizens regardless of the privacy implications. Continue reading →

A Recommind blog post by Drew Lewis considers the ethical duty to be technically competent in eDiscovery Continue reading →

The best references come from happy clients, and UBIC is obviously pleased to be able to report that two major pharmaceutical manufacturers have praised the investigations and analysis support solutions in UBIC’s analytics review platform Lit i View. Continue reading →

Judge Dory Reiling is a senior judge in Amsterdam and author of technology for Justice, a book on improving access to justice with information technology. Here is an article by her on her blog, Technology for Justice, describing a system which she and her team have developed to give citizens direct access to the courts by the use of technology. Continue reading →

A good article by Jeremy Hopkins of Riverview Law explaining what is – and is not – implied by recent publicity about barristers qualifying to undertake public access work Public Access to the Bar – main event or sideshow? Continue reading →

An article in the NLJ called The simple approach by Richard Langley makes the suggestion, obvious to all except the rule-makers, that costs could be reduced by simplifying the CPR.

Today’s General Counsel – The Exchange – San Francisco 17-18 March Continue reading →

Singapore to create two new dispute resolution centres about Singapore’s plans for the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and the Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) Continue reading →

The Equivio Zoom platform integrates a number of the data analytics tools which gave Equivio its reputation, including email threads, near-duplicate detection, Equivio’s Relevance predictive coding tool and Equivio Themes. Zoom presents a clean attractive interface whose design criteria include … Continue reading →

A new post on the ZyLAB blog has the title Automatic fraud triangle analytics made possible with text-mining and content analytics. The detection of fraud involves a number of things, but two things in particular arise here. One is an … Continue reading →

A reminder of three webinars coming up on 19 and 20 November which I have written about and which I recommend: Equivio on 19 November Predictive Coding Minus the Hype webinar No. 5: predictive coding with two industry experts. My … Continue reading →

Charles Lavallée, a director at the Xerox-owned Lateral Data, has written an article called Proportionality Just Across the Pond – UK, US and Canada whose purpose is to compare briefly how eDiscovery is managed in these three jurisdictions. Continue reading →

You have to admire a technology law website which makes its commitment to clarity with the words Eschewing tech law obfuscation to enlighten everyone’s inner geek. That is the claim (and it is a justified claim) of IT-Lex Technology Law, a website run by Adam Losey (yes, son of the famous Ralph, but an eDiscovery force in his own right). Continue reading →

The ABA International White Collar Crime Conference is taking place in London on 7 and 8 October. Aaron Stevens, a partner in the financial crime and investigations group at BLP, has had the idea of bringing together a team to … Continue reading →

US eDiscovery is fortunate in the quality of those who talk and write about the subject. One of the most trenchant commentators – no, scratch that, the most trenchant commentator – on eDiscovery is Craig Ball, whose Ball in your court blog, should be compulsory reading wherever electronic discovery / eDisclosure takes place. Having advanced forensic skills plus legal knowledge sufficient to make him a Special Master AND the ability to speak and write clearly about these things is an enviable spread of talents. Continue reading →

This short YouTube video from Bloomberg Law is an interview with Professor Richard Susskind which encapsulates much of the message from his recent book Tomorrow’s Lawyers. Continue reading →

A quick pointer to a video interview in which Ron Friedmann, a consultant with Fireman & Company and author of the popular blog “Strategic Legal Technology”, chats with David Horrigan, an attorney and analyst with 451 Research. Continue reading →

I do not keep track of all the moves, appointments and awards within the worldwide eDiscovery / eDisclosure market, but it is helpful occasionally to collect a few together to help remind us that there is a thriving industry here. Continue reading →

Reed Smith has recruited Patrick Burke as Counsel in its Records and EDiscovery (RED) Group. It is not perhaps a coincidence that I wrote about Reed Smith recently in an article called Reed Smith: 6 reasons to Insource Litigation Support – I would love to be able to write more about law firm eDiscovery expertise, but few of them seem to have much to say. Continue reading →

IQPC’s 8th Annual Information Governance & eDisclosure Summit 2013 takes place in London from 14 to 16 May. One of the obvious areas for discussion is the impact of the Jackson reforms on the eDisclosure aspects of case management. Continue reading →

Epiq Systems, provider of managed technology and services for lawyers internationally, has been in Hong Kong since 2009. From last year, it has offered document review services in Hong Kong in addition to the range of technology and consulting solutions which it has always provided there. Continue reading →

The US Transportation Security Administration has selected Nuix to help it process and search large volumes of data from disparate sources and to do so very quickly. The Nuix press release is here. Continue reading →

Predictive Coding provider Recommind is sponsoring an Inside Counsel webinar called When is Predictive Coding right for your case? on Wednesday 27 February at 2pm ET / 11am PT Continue reading →

Symantec has arranged for cab rides at LegalTech New York in what is being rebranded as the eDiscovery Cab. This is a customised variant on a Discovery Channel television game show called Cash Cab in which prizes are awarded by driver Ben Bailey. Continue reading →

One of the continuing themes in legal practice is that the law schools are failing in their duty to produce the next generation of lawyers armed with the skills needed for the world in which they will (if they are lucky) work. We come across this specifically in the context of electronic discovery / eDisclosure, which is barely talked about all, even in US law schools. Continue reading →