Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
eDiscovery Case Law Podcast: How Failing to Meet and Confer Effectively Can Lead to Sanctions
Data Retention and Document Holds
Key Discovery Points: Should Hyperlinked Files Be Treated as Modern Attachments?
Podcast: Are Legal Holds Protected by Privilege? Insights from the FTC's Battle with Amazon
No Password Required Podcast: Senior Security Researcher at Nokia and Guardian of Secure AI Networks
eDiscovery Needs Digital Forensics for a Mobile World
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 31: Trade Secrets and Protecting Confidential Information with Jennie Cluverius of Maynard Nexsen
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast | Episode 15: eDiscovery for Employers with Angela O’Neal, Nextra Solutions Director
Record Retention and Information Governance
California Employment News: Synthesizing Evidence in a Workplace Investigation (Part 3)
A Look at the Metaverse’s Legal Implications, with Special Guest Samantha Green, Director of Content Marketing, Epiq
Evidence Preservation: Handling the Issues in New York and New Jersey
Keeping Up with M365 Software Updates
Sitting with the C-Suite: Best Practices in Mobile Device Data Preservation
Sitting with the C-Suite: Remote Work - Increasing Communication on Collaboration Platforms
Video | Tips for Managing the Preservation of Mobile Device Data
In the ongoing copyright infringement case brought by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft (The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation et al., Case No. 1:23-cv-11195 (S.D.N.Y.)), Judge Ona T. Wang recently...more
Since 2019, the number of users on Microsoft Teams has risen 1500%, from a modest 20 million users in the pre-pandemic year (2019) to over 320 million users in 2024. Microsoft's collaboration platform is now the default...more
From access control to data retention, if you are trying implement a new enterprise collaboration or internal chat platform, your compliance team will have critical questions that must be addressed to avoid potential legal...more
Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) allows attorneys to build cases that require delving into relevant ESI, or electronically stored information, such as emails, audio and video files, and social media, in addition to hard-copy...more
In the evolving landscape of the legal industry, the management of electronically stored information (ESI) has become a focal point of discussion and strategy. With the digitization of records and communications, legal...more
In the third post of our series on the 2023 Legal Industry Collaboration Data Survey, we delve into the evolving strategies for data retention and preservation that have emerged in response to the growing use of digital...more
The FTC and DOJ’s Antitrust Division recently announced that they are updating their guidance regarding how parties in enforcement and investigative matters must preserve electronically stored information (“ESI”) from...more
What is a Gigabyte? Seems really obvious, right? But maybe not. At the time of collection, a gigabyte may be data downloaded from O365 or Gmail, information extracted from a cell phone, or even (historically) a whole disk...more
I recently had the opportunity to visit with Alex Cotoia, Regulatory Manager, and Daniela Melendez, an Associate at The Volkov Law Group, on the importance of addressing electronic communications preservation and management...more
Collaboration platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams have transformed enterprise communication. However, this shift has posed new challenges for eDiscovery processes, raising concerns about data management, retention, and...more
In CSX Transportation, Inc. v. Spiniello Global, Inc., 2023 WL 5515979 (D. Md. Aug. 25, 2023)(Bredar, C.J.), the Court denied spoliation motions, in part because they were filed too late. The plaintiff owned and operated...more
Workplace collaboration and communication solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams have firmly established their place in the enterprise and can be requested during ediscovery just like email and other electronically stored...more
As 2023 begins it is time once again to reflect on the most interesting eDiscovery cases from last year. Trends are always evolving in this dynamic space and eDiscovery professionals cannot afford to snooze on this review....more
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been about 27 months since most office workers started working remotely full-time—and probably only slightly less time that we’ve been wondering about what the “return to the office” would...more
When it comes to making sure financial data is safe and meets compliance regulations, understanding the different regulatory bodies and how they affect your organization is a vital first step. Two of the most common...more
This post explains the search techniques that will uncover responsive documents in discovery and optimize your document review process. If you’ve read parts one and two of our three-part Document Review series, you can...more
If your organization uses Slack for business communications, how are you preserving Slack data for potential litigation? Until this year, there was only one way to guarantee the preservation of Slack data: by collecting it...more
Placing defensible legal holds on Slack data has always required collecting the data to an external repository to preserve it while maintaining information governance policies, until now. Slack has added the ability to create...more
From communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, to collaboration tools like Box, Dropbox, and GSuite, organizations across the globe are relying heavily on cloud applications to get their work done. This is causing...more
Hanzo hosted the CLE, "A Brave New World — Mapping Your Course for Managing Discovery With Collaboration Data," during the first virtual session of Legalweek(year) featuring corporate ediscovery experts, Andrew Amoranto,...more
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one another, there is a corollary impact on other areas of the business such as how does legal determine...more
Most knowledge work these days demands some form of collaboration. You draft a document; your colleagues comment on it and make suggestions for how it could be better. You chat on Slack about how to incorporate those...more
Modern business communications and the way people interact have rapidly evolved and continue to change. Multimedia, collaborative workspaces, and social media are making communications more dynamic, interactive, and...more
A lot of attention is now being paid to the topic of data governance, and what it means versus data management. Within the last few years, data governance has leapt from an esoteric term bandied about only by IT...more