This post is based on remarks recently delivered during the 12th Annual University of Florida E-Discovery Conference. With only 10 minutes during the conference to squeeze in this massive topic, we thought it may be useful to...more
3/13/2025
/ Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Preservation ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Costs ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Information Governance ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Litigation Strategies ,
Technology-Assisted Review
The 80/20 Rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, is a guiding concept in project management. The rule posits that 80% of results stem from 20% of efforts. This principle has far-reaching implications for how project...more
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
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 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
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