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ZyLAB is sponsoring a webinar on 2 April with the title Bridging the gap between legal and IT to increase efficiency and reduce risk. I am one of the participants; the other is Mary Mack, Enterprise Technology Counsel at ZyLAB.

Legal and IT departments are not necessarily the only interest groups within an organisation who are affected by demands for documents and data – HR, privacy and compliance people and a range of other specialists may have to get involved when eDiscovery demands arise.

Legal and IT do not necessarily have parallel interests here – the job of IT is to enable the creation and safekeeping of data; Legal needs to be able to find the information they need, often quickly. That can be expensive; it also imposes stress on departments who are already busy with routine work.

Information governance is a wide topic with many facets. It includes, among other things, the processes and ground rules needed to classify information both by subject and by including, where possible, a flag to indicate that documents have no value and can be deleted. In this webinar, we will look at the risks and costs, and also at the value, which can be managed more efficiently by a programme of defensible information governance.

There is more information and access to a registration form here.

One of the challenges in trying to encourage lawyers to rely more on technology is that they find it hard to believe that a machine can supplant their hard-won knowledge and skill. In fact, of course, the technology used in electronic discovery is not a replacement for that skill but an adjunct to it. It achieves this in two broad ways – by performing repeatable tasks quickly and consistently and by drawing provisional conclusions which the lawyers can then check.

This is a kind of artificial intelligence, or AI, and similar applications are in use, and have been for some time, in a wide range of industries and activities which are of no less significance than compliance with eDiscovery obligations. One of these is healthcare.

UBIC made its name as a provider of litigation support software and big data analysis services and it has been working to apply its skills to a variety of requirements. The most recent of these is in the field of healthcare. UBIC has been conducting joint research with the NTT medical centre in Tokyo on a project whose purpose is to assess the risk that patients will fall over. Each patient’s risk is calculated using an assessment tool which takes account of symptoms and other factors. Like eDiscovery, it requires a mixture of objective fact, computing tools and human input, the latter in the form of the skills of experienced staff.

This has obvious benefits for patients. It has benefits also for the hospital because the patient who falls over spends more time in hospital as a result.

This is interesting stuff. There is a press release about it here.

Nuix has launched Sensitive Data Finder, a new tool designed to aid compliance with privacy laws and data protection regulations amongst other things.

Its secret is the ability to identify high-risk and high-value information very quickly. If you have identified this before a data security breach, the company knows what it has got, where it is, and who has access to it.

Nuix Sensitive Data Finder makes use of all the Nuix searching power across all the endpoints, allowing advanced searches to be made without storing a permanent index.

There is more information about Nuix Sensitive Data Finder here.

Inevitably, there has been a great deal of comment on the recent Opinion delivered by US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck in the Rio Tinto case. I wrote about it, in tandem with a summary of an Irish judgment of the same week, in an article called TAR-red with the same brush in the US and Ireland.

One of the most succinct summaries comes from Constantine Pappas at kCura, in an article called More Da Silva: 3 Takeaways from Judge Peck’s Rio Tinto Opinion. I mention it partly because it lives up to its title, with three short points of value, and partly because Constantine Pappas and I have shared views on this subject ever since I did a panel with him at Relativity Fest a couple of years ago.

The three takeaways which Constantine identifies are:

1. Producing parties don’t need to worry about approval for computer-assisted review

2 Transparency and cooperation are essential, but sharing seed documents may not be…

3 … because no one protocol can dictate every computer-assisted review project.

Whilst I am aware that this took no particular gift of prophecy on our part, these are the same points that Constantine Pappas and I isolated in a chat about predictive coding technology assisted review just before Christmas. The pure technology is, of course, important. What is very much more important is to fit it into the framework required by the rules and into an approach which attaches as much weight to common sense and proportionality as it does to statistics and algorithms.

Iris Data Services, the ever-growing provider of eDiscovery managed services, has launched a new online service called Lawyer | Nonprofit Connect, whose purpose is to help lawyers and non-profit organisations find each other.It works very much like a dating site – the nonprofit fills in a profile form which helps people understand what it does, and lawyers can set out the areas they are interested in. The site will then match them up.

There is a press release about this here.

The biggest item of news in the eDiscovery world so far this year has been Microsoft’s acquisition of Equivio, the text analytics company which made its name with a set of tools designed to minimise the number of documents for review and to reduce the task of categorising them.

In its first press release since the acquisition, Equivio has launched a major product release with Equivio Zoom v4.0 and Zoom Tab for Relativity V3.0. Zoom is Equivio’s eDiscovery platform, combining predictive coding and analytics including thematic analysis, near-duping, email threading, batching and language detection.

The new release is aimed at simplifying the user experience and enhancing productivity with a conversion to HTML 5, simplified review, automatic calculation of relevance scores known as “score the rest”, estimation of training completion to allow better planning of the review process, and various auto tagging functions.

All of these features and enhancements are also available in Zoom Tab in Relativity v3.0.

There is a press release about this release here.

APT Search specialises in recruitment for companies and firms involved in eDiscovery / eDisclosure and related subjects.

It is seeking a Business Development Consultant for an international legal services company in its London office. Experience in sales is an obvious prerequisite, including international sales in Europe and Asia.

There is more information about this position here.

Xerox Litigation Services‘ increasing interest in the Asia-Pacific region appeared in an interesting article on the Xerox E-Discovery Talk blog last year by Rachel Teisch about the new Hong Kong eDiscovery practice direction. It was called A Game-Changer for E-Discovery in Hong Kong which was widely distributed by others with an interest in the region.

Rachel Teisch has now turned her attention to new restrictions on the use of personal data in China and to new cybersecurity regulations in her article headed  Are China’s New Data and Cybersecurity Regulations a Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?

One of the reasons why Xerox Litigation Services is interested in these subjects is that it is engaged in cross-border eDiscovery projects in China which inevitably run into the laws which are designed primarily to protect Chinese state secrets. The new privacy law, the snappily named Measures for the Punishment of Conduct Infringing the Rights and Interests of Consumers is, as its name implies, designed for the protection of individuals rather than companies or the state. It comes into effect on 15 March.

The range of information protected by the new law includes specific reference to “status of income and assets, health status, and consumption habits” in addition to the already wide range of personal data types covered by EU and other data protection laws.

Rachel Teisch’s article refers also to new rules which, although primarily intended as anti-terror legislation, would have much wider implications, some of which, Rachel Teisch says, would have the effect of jeopardising the security of the data. Since her article was published, the proposed laws have been postponed, not least because of strong representations from the US, and at a Presidential level. It seems that the third reading of the bill has been suspended for the moment

As you would perhaps expect from a company of this size, Xerox Litigation Services is increasingly writing across a wide range of subjects of importance to international corporations, covering many different aspects of information data protection and collection. You can sign up for email notifications from the article.

The latest release of Recommind’s Axcelerate 5 introduces interactive, customisable dashboards with visualise analytics about eDiscovery productivity and review.

The purpose is to bring what Recommind calls Business Intelligence to the eDisclosure process so that lawyers and their clients can easily keep up-to-date with what is happening across individual matters and overall caseloads.

This is the subject of a webinar to the presented by Neil Etheridge and David Nicholls of Recommind on 25th March at 5:00pm GMT. There is more information and a registration form here.

FTI Technology has published a helpful paper called eDiscovery in Asia as a guide to the practical, legal and cultural issues which arise when eDiscovery demands (mainly but not always from the US) are made in Asia.

It can be tempting to assume that other regions are much the same as your own and that business practices in one place are broadly similar to those back home. There is nothing particularly anti-American in saying that people from the US seem taken aback to discover that what is important to them is ignored elsewhere and, conversely, that people from other countries look askance at US practices. This is particularly true of electronic discovery.

American lawyers are constantly surprised to discover that other people do not make a religion out of preservation and legal hold rules, that they are content with reasonable discovery rather than everything and more, and that we do not share the cultural assumption that our opponent is always trying to cheat. Non-US businesses on the receiving end of US discovery demands stand amazed at the extravagance and lack of compromise in US demands.

If the gulf seems big as between the US and Europe, it is very much bigger in the wide and culturally-diverse region collectively thought of as Asia. I come across this particularly in the context of cross-border eDiscovery, but it is relevant in a wider context.

FTI Technology has been working in AsiaPac for along time and has seen (and helped develop) best practices for handling the legal, regulatory and technical challenges which arise. FTI has now joined forces with Asian Legal Business Magazine to interview lawyers in Asia on the changes to eDiscovery practices in the region. The result is of interest and importance to multi-national corporations and law firms and to anyone else interested in comparative approaches to a common problem.

The result has been incorporated into a paper called eDiscovery in Asia: What are the emerging best practices for handling the legal, regulatory and technical challenges? which you can download from here.

Nuix is offering eDiscovery specialist training courses in London on 25 and 26 March consisting of two days of specialised workflow training. Those who attend will work through a complete eDiscovery project, from ingestion ingestion of unstructured data through to delivery of the final data.

There is a discount offer open to those attending this course. Further details and registration form can be found here.

Although I come across Epiq Systems mainly in relation to its worldwide eDiscovery services, it offers a much wider range of integrated technology solutions for the legal profession, including a group specialising in data breach solutions.

Epiq has now appointed Brookes Taney as VP to lead the data breach solutions group with a mission to expand the breach response business which has already remediating hundreds of data breach cases in a range of industries.

There is a press release about this here.

The long-standing UK eDiscovery and digital forensics provider formerly known as CY4OR has recently rebranded itself as CYFOR, with a new website which emphasises that it has long since moved beyond its roots as a digital forensics company and added eDisclosure and cybersecurity skills and technology, among other things, to its services.

CYFOR’s new corporate video draws attention to the journey that digital evidence takes, whether for criminal investigations or civil litigation, from identifying, preserving and collective it through to processing and review.

CYFOR is able to bring Nuix, Relativity and Clearwell to its engagements, allowing it to make use of whatever tools are best suited for the circumstances. Its video includes compliments from both Nuix and Relativity.

It also includes a helicopter, something I do not (yet) aspire to match in my own videos.

LawTech NZ, the 3rd annual New Zealand Law and Technology Conference, is taking place in Auckland on 18 March.

LawTech NZ is run by Andrew King of eDiscovery Consulting and is the only event of note in the New Zealand eDiscovery calendar. Speakers include His Honour Judge David Harvey, Scott Gillard of FTI Consulting, Jo Sherman of EDT and strategic eDiscovery and data privacy consultant Nigel Murray.

Judge Harvey is also booked to speak at the IQPC Information Governance and eDiscovery Summit in London in May where he is participating in a panel which I am moderating. He and I will also coincide at a cross-border eDiscovery panel in Singapore in June, on which I will write shortly.

New Zealand is one of the few common law jurisdictions requiring eDiscovery which I have not visited. I very much hope to put that right one year.

The New Zealand event sponsors include Nuix and FTI Consulting. There is more information about the event here.

Guidance Software is organising a webinar on Wednesday 18 March at 11:00am PST in conjunction with its EnCase App Central partner Belkasoft.

The webinar is called Enhancing Digital Investigations with Belkasoft, and covers evidence found in social media which can help make a case for digital investigators.

The presenters are Yuri Gubanov and Oleg Afonin of Belkasoft and Robert Bond of Guidance Software, and the webinar will cover how to find social media artefacts, identify those which matter for the investigation and find and analyse mobile app data.

There is more information and a registration form here.

It is hard to keep up with the flow of interesting looking eDiscovery / eDisclosure posts which specialist recruiter APT Search is advertising. Amongst others, they have a post for a project manager based in London as part of the practice support group litigation department of a client.

The role include liaison, consulting and the provision of technical services to the company’s lawyers to help with identification, collection and production of documents for litigation or investigations.

There is more information about this role here.

For the last two years, kCura has had a Spring Roadshow in London. This has had two primary purposes – a specific one in that new products have been announced there, and a more general one reflecting the importance of the UK market to kCura.

I wrote here about last year’s event and there are some photographs of it here.

This year’s event has expanded in both time and space. It is an all-day event, running from 9.00am to 10.00pm and including Relativity training, a user group meeting (already sold out), a keynote from CEO Andrew Sieja and a networking reception with solution stations and demos.

The space problem has been addressed by moving the event to 155 Bishopsgate. ILTA Insight was held here last year, the first time many of us had come across this extremely good new venue.

You can find the programme for the Relativity Spring Launch Roadshow here, including a registration form.

Recommind is holding its inaugural London eDiscovery Professionals Symposium in London on 16 March. The programme, which you can see here, runs from tea at 15:30 through to drinks at 18:00, has a mixture of discussion about eDiscovery and Information Governance and updates on Recommind Axcelerate 5.3.

One of the main benefits of Axcelerate 5.3 is the visibility which Recommind calls Business Intelligence, that is, the idea that electronic discovery is not merely a technical function carried out ancillary to litigation or investigation but a key component of the management of the business. Much of Recommind’s new development is aimed at giving businesses a clearer picture of the information (not just the data) which they own and which they need to access either for reactive purposes (such as an eDiscovery demand) or for finding value in the data.

These objectives are amongst the part of the broad remit of the Information Governance Initiative and Bennett Borden, who is both a founder of the IGI and a partner and chair of the Information Governance and eDiscovery Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, will discuss this subject under the heading Achieving strategic advantage through visibility into information.

The closing session brings us back to electronic discovery / eDisclosure with a Q&A session called Litigation support – trends, challenges and changes for the year ahead. I am moderating this panel, whose members are Bennett Borden, Andrew Moir of Herbert Smith Freehils, Mark Simmons of Ashurst, and Bill Onwusah of Hogan Lovells.

The target audience for the symposium includes litigation and eDiscovery support professionals, eDiscovery partners and associates, and consultants involved in any aspect of eDiscovery or information governance.

The event is by invitation. You can telephone Amie Rogers on (020) 3627 6092, send an email to Amie.Rogers@Recommind.com
or use the simple registration form here.

I have been travelling, and nearly missed the announcement of a webinar taking place today at 1:00pm Central with the title Getting Cloud Data from the New Big Three: Google, iCloud & MS Office 365 in which one of the speakers is Ian Campbell of iCONECT.

Data which is potentially discoverable now goes well beyond conventional email and Word documents created locally and sitting on corporate servers. Data is created and stored in the cloud – in Gmail or Office 365 for example – and now includes less conventional forms, including social media.

As well as Ian Campbell, the speakers in this webinar are Jason Pill of Phelps Dunbar and Andrew Wilson of Logikcull. The moderators are George Socha and Tom Gelbmann of EDRM.

There is more detail about this webinar here, together with registration information.

AccessData is offering a test drive demo to allow prospective users the opportunity to try its full products for 20 days.

The idea is to allow people to evaluate features and benefits and to see how the products can help solve business problems.

The offer applies to MPE+ and (shortly) to FTK and MPE+ nField.

I am constantly urging people to sign up for web demos. This is an opportunity to go one step further and actually try the products out.

You can download them from here.

CEIC 2015, run by Guidance Software, takes place at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas from 18 to 21 May. Its agenda is now live online and ready to be explored.

I will be there, talking about data protection, privacy and cross-border discovery issues.

You can find more information and registration details here.

UBIC is the sponsor of an EDRM / Apersee webinar called Cross-border issues in eDiscovery to be broadcast on 18 February, at 1:00pm Central / 7:00pm GMT.

The broad issues arising in this context are reasonably clear, deriving not merely from broad questions of conflict of laws, but from the clash between the very broad eDiscovery requirements of US courts and regulators and the restrictions placed on the collection of data by the EU and other jurisdictions. The webinar aims to address the practical issues which arise.

Paul Starrett of UBIC is one of the panel members, along with Matthew Davis of Hogan Lovells and Brian Corbin of JPMorgan Chase. As usual with the EDRM webinars, the moderators are George Socha and Tom Gelbmann.

You can register to attend this webinar here.

kCura is participating in a webinar today, 17 February, called Text Analytics in Action: Finding the “Killer Patent”.

eDiscovery people tend to think of “discovery” purely as a component of disputes. The origin of the word in that context is, obviously, the procedure rules in most common law jurisdictions, and the term has been extended to cover regulatory investigations, internal investigations and other matters where one party is responding to a formal demand by another.

Some very sophisticated tools have been developed whose focus is on finding every last document in order to comply with the rules. Most of this technology, of course, is derived from search tools used in wider contexts. We can continue the circle further by using the advanced tools developed for defensible eDiscovery for other purposes.

The US Patent and Trademark Office has a very large public database. A webinar to be broadcast today considers the use of kCura’s text analytics tools to query this database for purposes which, whilst broadly legs in naturel, are not necessarily for a litigation or regulatory purpose.

Ryan Hynes and Evan McAlpine of kCura are the main participants, and the webinar is moderated by Andy Moore, Publisher of KMWorld.

The webinar takes place at 11.00am PT / 2:00pm ET. You can find further information about this webinar here.

Xerox Litigation Services is sponsoring and participating in two panels on the Big Data Analytics Track at LegalTech on Wednesday 4 February. Both are described on the press release here.

One, at 10.30 is called Legal’s new role in enterprise risk management: using “big data” analytics to identify hidden risks. The main theme here is that Big Data Analytics gives us the potential to identify sources of risk before they turn into problems, including potential violations of regulations as well as fraud.

Speakers include Bennett Borden of Drinker Biddle i& Reath and the Information Governance Initiative with speakers from Credit Suisse, Aviva Spectrum and Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The discussion will be led by Rob Hellewell of Xerox Legal Services.

The second panel, at 12.15, is called Protecting employee and customer privacy in an area of big data monitoring.

This discussion will be led by Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath and it covers one of the subjects which Jason Baron has highlighted as being of increasing significance – he did so in a recent interview with me, for example, which will be published shortly.

The Internet of things has given rise to data collection mechanisms all around us. Each adds something to business and personal lives but, when aggregated, they pose a serious privacy risk. How do you reconcile their value with reasonable expectations of privacy?

Nuix and iCONECT have completed delivery of “Direct to Database” (D2D) integration between Nuix eDiscovery and iCONECT-XERA®.

Nuix users can now automatically create an iCONECT-XERA database and transfer extracted document data for review from within Nuix eDiscovery Workbench.

iCONECT-XERA databases are configured and populated at the touch of a button; users no longer need to leave the Nuix application to create and configure the database, populate the database, or append additional documents.

There is more information about this here.

HP has a series of panel sessions at LegalTech on the related themes of information governance and eDiscovery.

Titles include Information Management in the Age of the New Attorney, Counsel’s Secret Weapon in the Information Wars: Governance Strategies and Tactics and How to Take Advantage of the Cloud for eDiscovery.

In addition to an array of HP speakers, the speaker list includes Jason Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath and the Information Governance Initiative and Johnny Lee of Grant Thornton.

Earlier generations of eDiscovery software focused on the mechanics of the eDiscovery task – the assimilation, culling, analysis, search and production of data.

Newer generations of software recognise that electronic discovery is not just a technical process nor merely a legal process but a business process, and that clients and their lawyers need to need more information about projects in order to make business decisions about them.

Recommind has added new functionality to Axcelerate 5 which gives visibility into the time, cost and quality of document review, showing everything from project expenses to staffing levels and performance, resource allocation and other factors fundamental to business decision-making.

There is a press release about the new version here. As David Horrigan of 451 Research says in the press release, industries use business intelligence to balance risk against cost. Quite apart from the wider business context, these are the elements of proportionality, part of the information needed to persuade an opponent or the court whether an exercise, or a phase of an exercise, is worth doing.

Iram Arras of iCONECT is to lead a presentation at LegalTech called Seeing is believing: machine learning powered content visualisation for the enterprise on 4 February at 3:45 PM.

The session will focus on how machine learning makes it possible to use visualisation to find, navigate, organise and discover large amounts of unstructured, textbased content where the ambition is not just to find documents but to do so efficiently.

The the other speakers are Ari Kaplan of Ari Kaplan Advisors, Mike Schubert, VP of Software Development at Ipro, and Mark Gianturco, VP of Engineering at Content Analyst.

There is more information about this event here.

Jason Baron has been quoted as saying that there is a race between growing data volumes and improvements in smart data analytics. He says that the volumes are winning despite the rate at which computer science is generating ever smarter analytical tools.

The subject is obviously of great significance to any company with large volumes of data (which, in practice, means any company) and particularly those who face eDiscovery and regulatory demands for information.

Huron Legal is sponsoring the Day 2 track at LegalTech called Cost control and using analytics to proactively manage. There are three sessions, Analytics and information governance, Analytics to enhance litigation and discovery strategy, and Analytics for progressive law department management.

Laurie Fischer, Nathalie Hofman and Jim Michalowicz are the speakers. There is more information about this track here.

Information governance is a label which covers a wide range of functions. The overarching concern is the mitigation of risk and cost whilst uncovering value in the ever-growing volumes of data kept by corporations.

Those with eDiscovery technology skills are better placed than most to apply their knowledge and their technology to information governance. There is more to it, of course, than merely pointing technology at the problem. The management of data requires people who are skilled in the search, categorisation and all the other components of data management with experience of developing processes and workflows and of adapting these to the needs of companies and organisations.

Sometimes, this is best achieved by bringing together the attributes of companies with different skills to deal with different parts of the problem. The most recent example of this is a global partnership between Epiq Systems and Contoural.

Epiq Systems is known worldwide for delivering integrated technology solutions for lawyers. Contoural is an independent provider of information governance consulting services. The partnership aims to bring these things together to offer an integrated solution.

The Epiq press release here sets out a range of issues which can be addressed by this partnership together with other information about the new partnership.

eDiscovery software company Cicayda has built up a set of applications designed for specific functions during the eDiscovery process. They each have distinctive names – fermata legal hold, drone intelligent search, staccato ECA and reprise review, applications whose functions can be deduced from their names.

Cicayda has now announced that it is unifying all these applications and its search engine into one platform, called Reprise which embraces its cloud-based review software and workflow engine, search and analytics and other functions. Cicayda emphasises that it has developed all these tools itself and that there are no extra charges for the advanced analytics.

There is more information on in the press release here. The new version will be available for demonstration at LegalTech.

ZyLAB, which specialises in eDiscovery and information governance solutions, has launched a Channel Partner Program and is looking for technology companies, systems integrators and service providers to help bring ZyLAB’s eDiscovery production solution to its end customers in the US.

There is more information about this here.

kCura is organising or taking part in a series of events at LegalTech, covering remediation in information governance, working whilst mobile using Relativity Binders and the use of Relativity Analytics.

kCura is also offering the opportunity to register for exams and educational sessions, and Relativity Ecosystem partners will be available to demonstrate their applications and integration is built on Relativity.

You can read more about this here.

I rather like some videos released recently by EY aimed primarily at encouraging people to join, and aspire to partnership at, EY. You can find them here.

I watched the one about Sanjay Bhandari, a partner in the fraud investigation and dispute services, partly because I know him (it was his tweet which drew my attention to the videos), and partly because his route to partnership is an unconventional one which should give encouragement to anyone, whatever their background.

I have my own interests in the use of video as a way of helping businesses, and particularly professional services businesses, to emphasise the human side of their services. Sanjay’s video is largely set in his office, but it includes snippets of his personal story and his home life which, to my eye, matter when a company is trying to make itself stand out in a competitive field.

You won’t like to admit this, but many businesses viewed from the outside (that is, from the viewpoint of prospective clients or customers) look very much the same, distinguished only by corporate branding. If you are going to place your commercial trust in a person, as opposed to merely to a product, then this matters.

We are in the media world now, and all those rolling polysyllables strung together by marketing departments no longer suffice to persuade clients to bring you their business. The recruitment point made by the EY videos is equally important, and the story of someone who went from Sanjay’s background (watch the video to see what I mean), to partnership at a major international firm is a story worth telling – and the “telling” is much better done by video than by yet more words on paper.

I offer you this video from Riverview Law for two reasons: the first is the reason for which they made it – to draw attention to their own willingness to offer fixed price fees and other alternative fee arrangements to their clients.

They do it amusingly, and in a way which will cause a stab of self recognition amongst those who can’t think beyond the billable hour (that “think beyond” bit is important – there are many circumstances in which hours remain the only sensible measure of input; perhaps not when a big client is overtly seeking something different, as in this video)

The second reason for bringing it to your attention is for the first-class use of video as a marketing medium. I am not suggesting that it is necessary to have mini-dramas with actors, but it is an inventive use of the medium.

Every month seems to bring us a new example of an eDiscovery services provider integrating Nuix into its client offerings. The most recent of these is Lighthouse eDiscovery which has incorporated Nuix Web Review and Analytics into Lighthouse ECA.

Lighthouse is already an established user of the Nuix tools. The new arrangement extends the collaboration between the two companies to enhance cooperation between users, to give fast access to key information and analytics, and to reduce the volume of data and thus the cost of review.

There is more information about this here.

iCONECT has announced an integration between its iCONECT-XERA document review platform and Opus 2 Magnum which makes Magnum transcripts available from within iCONECT-XERA via a common client interface.

There is more information about this here.

Resolution1 is the cybersecurity specialist company recently spun out of AccessData.

It has recently published a paper about the use of its cyber incident response by a UK-based global bank.

All cyber attacks have an adverse effect on the organisation and, often, on individuals and other businesses whose personal or commercial information is compromised by the attack. Cyber attacks on banks have a wider effect. The introduction to the Resolution1 paper quotes the British Banking Association as saying:

“If publicized, network security breaches can affect share prices, cause irreparable reputational damage and impact on the stability of the wider financial market.”

The paper shows how the bank uses automation and remote endpoint remediation to reduce incident response times from 10 days to 5 hours. It sets out the requirements in the RFI and explains how Resolution1 Security met the requirements, working with the bank’s security staff to develop further processes. Protection was obviously an end in itself, but the installation achieved the important secondary effect of saving money.

Consilio, which has a global presence as a provider of eDiscovery services, is looking for a marketing manager based in Washington DC.

There is a very full job description here with a list of primary duties and responsibilities, together with contact details.

AccessData is leading a discussion at LegalTech on 3 February at 1:00pm about the conjoined abilities of its forensic analysis and collection tools in FTK and its review and related tools in Summation.

In addition to these technical matters, the discussion will cover case law and trends relating to the use of computer forensics and civil litigation.

The speakers are Scott Lefton, senior sales engineer, and Keith Schrodt, Director of Product Marketing and Strategy at AccessData.

There is more information and access to registration form here.