Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t – gleaned from recent publications
ABOVE THE FOLD
Join Mary Mack and me for a new ACEDS webinar series, Monthly Insights with George Socha & Mary Mack, starting Wed. Sept. 11.
Relativity Fest Oct. 20-23 – Join us this fall at Relativity Fest in Chicago where I will be speaking on three sessions:
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
Musings on the future of legal technology conferences – In a three-part series hosted by eDiscovery Daily Blog (part 1, part 2, and part 3), Tom O’Connor offered his throughs on the future of legal technology conferences.
News from ILTACON –
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
CCPA –
New York –
GDPR –
LEGAL TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Non-lawyer ownership of law firms coming to Utah? – Bob Ambrogi reported that a task force appointed by the Utah Supreme Court to study innovative approaches to increasing access to and affordability of legal services has issued a report, Narrowing the Access-to-Justice Gap by Reimagining Regulation, in which it proposes a regulatory structure that would include non-lawyer investment in and ownership of business entities that provide legal services.
E-DISCOVERY CASE LAW
Recent e-discovery decisions
8/6/2019 – U.S. District Judge Jodi Jayne denied both plaintiffs’ and defendants’ motions for spoliation sanctions. Each side alleged that the other have spoliated evidence concerning an accident between two tractor/trailers. Defendant Swift failed to preserve and was unable to produce electronic control module data, mobile communications data, and electronic driver logs. Swift, thinking it had no reason to preserve the data because plaintiff Cox caused the accident, did not preserve the data the ECM and communications data, which were overwritten automatically before Swift received plaintiffs’ spoliation letter. The Court, finding that Swift did not act with the intent to deprive plaintiffs of the use of that data in the litigation, declined to impose sanctions. Swift did place a litigation hold on the driver logs but failed to retain 1.5 hours of logs. The Court found this failure to be negligent but ruled that the negligent failure was not sufficient to support the requested sanctions. Plaintiffs Adams and Cox failed to preserve and were unable to produce ECM data from Cox’s vehicle as well as Cox’s paper driver logs. Relying on an analysis akin to that applied with respect to Swift’s failure to preserve data, the Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to show intentional acts aimed at depriving defendants of evidence. Cox v. Swift Transportation Co. of Arizona, LLC, No. 18-CV-117-CVE-JFJ (N.D. Okla. Aug. 6, 2019).
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
UPCOMING EVENTS
Conferences, webinars, and the like can provide insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading
8/29/2018-9/20/2019 EVENTS
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TZ |
Type |
Location |
Host |
Title |
8/29/19 1:00 PM |
8/29/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
Automate the Review Process and Increase Efficiency with Everlaw |
9/2/2019 |
9/3/2019 |
AEST |
Conference |
Sydney, Australia |
CLOC |
CLOC2019 Sydney Institute |
9/3/2019 |
9/5/2019 |
CT |
Conference |
Austin, TX |
Mitratech |
Interact 2019 |
9/3/19 12:00 PM |
9/3/19 1:30 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
High Performance Counsel |
HPC #ThinkTank: State of the Legal Industry |
9/4/19 12:00 PM |
9/4/19 1:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Manatt |
Preparing for the Open and Hidden Litigation Risks of the CCPA |
9/5/19 8:00 AM |
9/5/19 5:00 PM |
SAST |
Conference |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
ALM |
Corporate Counsel Forum Africa 2019 |
9/5/19 8:00 AM |
9/5/19 5:15 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
The Masters Conference |
Disclosure Is Always Changing When It Comes To Privacy, Cybersecurity, And Artificial Intelligence. |
9/5/19 1:00 PM |
9/5/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
ACEDS |
How Automating Early Case Assessment Saves Legal Teams Time & Money |
9/5/19 2:00 PM |
|
ET |
Webinar |
|
ARMA |
How to Balance Information Access Demands and Risk Management Throughout the Information Lifecyle |
9/9/19 8:45 AM |
9/13/19 12:45 PM |
CEST |
Conference |
Trier, Germany |
ERA |
Summer Course on European Data Protection Law |
9/10/19 1:00 PM |
9/10/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
MER |
Smart Office 365 Strategies for Information Governance |
9/10/19 1:00 PM |
9/10/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Lexbe |
How to Solve the Challenges of Reviewing Large Email Sets |
9/10/19 2:00 PM |
|
ET |
Webinar |
|
DATAVERSITY |
Getting Started with Data Stewardship |
9/10/19 2:00 PM |
9/10/19 2:30 PM |
ET |
Podcast |
|
ACEDS |
Musings with Marc & Mary: Part One |
9/10/19 2:00 PM |
9/10/19 2:30 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Redgrave |
The eDiscovery Playbook: Modernizing Your Litigation Response Plan |
9/10/19 6:00 PM |
9/10/19 8:00 PM |
CT |
Meeting |
Austin, TX |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Central Texas Chapter Networking Event |
9/11/19 8:30 AM |
9/11/19 6:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
New York, NY |
The Cowen Group |
SOLID East, New York |
9/11/19 11:00 AM |
9/11/19 12:00 PM |
BST |
Webinar |
|
ACEDS |
Leveraging Automation to Manage Cross-Border Legal Holds |
9/11/19 1:00 PM |
9/11/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
ACEDS |
Monthly Insights with George Socha and Mary Mack |
9/12/19 8:30 AM |
9/13/19 2:30 PM |
CEST |
Conference |
Surrey, UK |
ALM |
Corporate Counsel Forum Europe |
9/12/19 9:30 AM |
9/12/19 3:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Columbus, OH |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Ohio Chapter: eDiscovery in Ohio – An Education Event for Litigators and Support Professionals |
9/12/19 4:30 PM |
9/12/19 6:30 PM |
CT |
Meeting |
Dallas, TX |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Dallas Chapter: Back to School – Lessons on the EDRM |
9/15/19 9:00 AM |
9/17/19 9:00 PM |
PT |
Conference |
Huntington Beach, CA |
Nuix |
Nuix User Exchange |
9/17/19 8:00 AM |
9/19/19 3:30 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Chicago, IL |
Zapproved |
PREX 2019: Actionable Strategies for In-House Ediscovery |
9/18/19 |
9/19/19 |
CEST |
Conference |
Munich, Germany |
IAPP |
IAPP Data Protection Intensive: Deutschland 2019 |
9/18/19 8:30 AM |
9/19/19 1:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Montreal, Canada |
The Sedona Conference |
2019 Midyear Meeting of Working Group 11 |
9/18/19 11:30 AM |
9/18/19 12:15 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Concept Searching |
Digital Waste and Dumpster Diving – Driving Down the Costs |
9/18/19 1:00 PM |
9/18/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
ACEDS |
A New Approach for a Faster Document Review Workflow |
9/19/19 8:00 AM |
9/19/19 5:15 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
The Masters Conference |
Disclosure Is Always Changing When It Comes To Privacy, Cybersecurity, And Artificial Intelligence. |
9/19/19 8:30 AM |
9/19/19 4:30 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
Hogan Lovells |
All-Day Workshop: Privacy and Cybersecurity KnowledgeShare |
9/19/19 11:30 AM |
9/19/19 9:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Boston, MA |
ACEDS |
ACEDS New England Chapter: E-Discovery Education Day – Legal Technology Education & Sunset Cruise |
9/19/19 1:30 PM |
6/19/19 5:00 PM |
HKT |
Conference |
Hong Kong |
The Sedona Conference |
The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 Meeting |
9/19/19 2:00 PM |
|
ET |
Webinar |
|
DATAVERSITY |
Stay Non-Invasive in Your Data Governance Approach |
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