Sitting with the C-Suite: eDiscovery Observations – Historical Lookback to 1990s and 2000s
It goes without saying, workplace communication has transformed. Gone are the days when structured emails dominated business interactions. Today, collaboration tools like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Chat have taken...more
When it comes to investigating potential insurance fraud, social media platforms can be a tremendously useful resource....more
Businesses generate documentation and data at a rapid pace, both on and offline. Industries like banking and the financial sector regularly manage thousands of different types of documents. Keeping up with this cumulative...more
When Steve Davis was starting out as an investigator 30 years ago, forensics work required travel by, as he says, “planes, trains, and automobiles.” Forensic investigators lugged around pelican cases – sturdy,...more
In the fourth installment of our series on the 2023 Legal Industry Collaboration Data Survey, we turn our attention to an intriguing aspect revealed by the survey: the fluctuating confidence levels in managing legal data...more
The International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that by 2025, the world will have 175 zettabytes of digital data—which, if stored on DVDs, would create a stack tall enough to circle the earth 222 times. As organizations...more
It’s an ever-present threat in our digital world: You get sued, and the case involves your software, website, and/or customer data. The first step in any filed or threatened litigation is to implement a litigation hold to...more
Boshea v. Compass Marketing, Inc., 2023 WL 2743333 (D. Md. Mar. 31, 2023)(Hollander, J.), involved authentication of disputed electronically stored information. “Authentication” is a necessary predicate to all uses of ESI:...more
By using our smartphones, tablets and computers, we create and exchange a vast amount of electronic data every day, but what some may not know is that there is a whole other world of information hidden beneath the surface —...more
Information governance (IG) has bever been needed more than in today’s workplace. It is clear that remote and hybrid workforce models are here to stay, and emerging technologies to support this way of working are creating...more
I spent over 22 years in the FBI performing criminal cyber and forensics investigations. Many of these investigations led us to people who were innocent of the alleged crimes but who were guilty of unknowingly allowing...more
The submission of digital evidence traditionally required a sponsoring witness—something that could be time-consuming and expensive. Thankfully, as more and more online content, such as social media posts and chats, play a...more
The term “dark data” is tossed around often in the corporate sphere, but does anyone really know what it is? Dark data encompasses all data that organizations create and store as a part of regular business operations and...more
Rakesh Madhava, the chief executive officer of Nextpoint, has extensive litigation experience, first as a litigation paralegal at, among other law firms, Kirkland & Ellis, and then as a litigation data consultant at FTI...more
As eDiscovery professionals, we all understand the use of digital technology, from laptops to smartphones to apps. As the use of all manner of devices continues to increase exponentially, their important role in litigation...more
As the world continues to evolve electronically, it oftentimes seems like the courts take longer to catch up. This past December lawmakers took another step into the digital age by amending Federal Rule of Evidence (“FRE”)...more
Digital evidence has effectively changed every aspect of the modern courtroom and litigation process. We constantly communicate electronically in our daily lives by texting, emailing, and using social media – and there’s an...more
The fight over whether the government may access the data of companies and individuals that is stored overseas has officially made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. On October 16, the Supreme Court agreed to review the...more