Six Simple Steps to Avoid Sanctions for Failure to Preserve Electronic Evidence - I’m not a lawyer, and far be it for me to give legal advice, but I’ve lived and worked around lawyers for all of my professional legal career,...more
8/23/2024
/ Anticompetitive Behavior ,
Antitrust Violations ,
Data Preservation ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronic Communications ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Failure To Preserve ,
Google ,
Monopolization ,
Search Engines ,
Sherman Act ,
The Clayton Act
Many people are expressing uncertainty regarding how emerging technologies will develop in the short term. Take generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) as an example. By almost any measure, Gen AI invaded the legal...more
It seems like every other day there’s a new messaging application that individuals may use to communicate. Applications like WhatsApp, Confidence, CoverMe, Dust, Hash, Signal, Snapchat, Telegram, and Viper, all use encryption...more
For most of the last year, the world has witnessed unprecedented growth in the development and use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools. This technology has only just begun to shape various aspects of our...more
The Future Society, an independent nonprofit organization based in the U.S. and Europe, together with IEEE, has developed and launched this week their Model Protocol for Electronically Stored Information (ESI).
Many months...more
Hanzo & ACEDS Release Results of Third Annual Collaboration Data Survey -
As collaboration applications win love from users, and these communications are increasingly in scope for discovery, enterprises are gaining...more
11/18/2022
/ Archived Data ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Preservation ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Enterprise Risks ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Information Governance ,
Information Technology ,
Risk Management ,
Surveys ,
Webinars
The development and use of technology in the legal industry are moving at break-neck speed. Technologies are changing, and thus, the sources of data are constantly evolving as well. Email was once the most common form of...more
The annual ILTA conference is back with a vengeance! At least, that is the word we hear on the street and throughout the industry. For the uninformed, the International Legal Technology Association Conference (ILTACON) is the...more
The International Organization for Standardization, known as ISO, has been setting standards in the business world since the 1940s. Expert teams at ISO have developed more than 24,000 international standards impacting...more
No matter where you are in the legal world, at each stage of any e-discovery project there are a handful of things you need to get right to have a successful outcome. Clients of course want to save money, but a successful...more
Understanding the things that drive costs in e-discovery, knowing how to design and execute the project with those drivers in mind, and developing the scope of an e-discovery project to be commensurate with the value of the...more
One of the things I love about e-discovery is the passion of the people who work in the industry. For those not following the impassioned debate between Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today, and myself (along with many...more
I’m a big believer in rules. Rules bring order to what otherwise might be chaos. Rules set expectations. Rules guide human behavior (and sometimes non-human behavior). Heck, rules guide how machines perform calculations,...more
The job market in e-discovery and across the legal industry is definitely in the middle of something. It’s not clear whether it’s the beginning, middle or end of something, but it’s definitely something.
At ACEDS, we have...more
A recent decision from the Supreme Court of British Columbia illustrates how litigants may find themselves in trouble with the court and opposing counsel when they fail to properly preserve and produce electronically stored...more
Parties in the US are allowed broad and liberal discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) relevant and proportional to the claims and defenses in a legal action. When a US-based litigant seeks ESI stored in other...more
10/7/2020
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
Consent ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Cross-Border ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Sets ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Hague Convention ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Laws ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
Recently, ACEDS hosted a webinar entitled “Point|Counterpoint: A Proposed TAR Framework,” during which a stellar panel of lawyers, including Redgrave’s Christine Payne and Kirkland & Ellis’ Michele Six represented the defense...more
8/13/2020
/ Analytics ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Technology-Assisted Review ,
Transparency
I wrote this piece a few years ago for my own personal blog because I thought then and I still think now that paralegals are e-discovery project managers. I also wrote something similar for NALA’s Facts & Findings...more