FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 444, Jim Murphy on the Dangers in Using Slack
At TransPerfect Legal’s third annual Antitrust Clearance and Merger Enforcement conference, a panel of esteemed antitrust attorneys and legal technologists examined how the latest developments in eDiscovery and legal...more
Collaboration during litigation is critical to ensure that all relevant information is discovered and reviewed. However, the emergence of various communication platforms like Slack and Teams has made the process more...more
The rise of collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams has brought about new challenges for legal departments. While these platforms have become the new water cooler in remote workplaces, they pose unique information...more
In the last few years, remote work has proliferated, and with it the discovery process has become more complicated. With work-from-home as an option (if not the norm) in many industries, company data is commonly being...more
Workplace collaboration and communication solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams have firmly established their place in the enterprise. Now collaboration data is requested during eDiscovery just like email and other...more
Discovery is hugely expensive, mainly because many organizations collect whatever data is available rather than only the information that matters. Governing and retaining your data will decrease eDiscovery costs by culling...more
Editor’s Note: On November 16, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the proliferation of enterprise messaging content in the COVID-era, a proliferation accelerated by the pre-existing industry trend of legal...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
Organizations of all sizes are experiencing a wave of data like they've never seen before. Increasing data types from collaboration and cloud applications, such as Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Drive, and more, are impacting...more
If your organization uses Slack, you’re already familiar with its benefits: rapid, streamlined internal communications without the hassle of emails. You can set up a meeting with a few quick messages and an internal Zoom...more
Last week, I provided a preview for the upcoming Legalweek event, which happened this Tuesday. Here are a few of the highlights from the event in terms of sessions I attended, including (of course) the Ipro happy hour! ...more
Enterprises who've adopted Slack know the content adds up quickly across channels, direct messages, and group communications. Information governance is critical for mitigating risk. However, making informed decisions about...more
Loaded with intricate, multi-faceted functions to boost productivity, Slack has certainly changed the way we work for the better. The more dynamic Slack’s workflows and integrations get, however, the more complex its data...more
Salesforce recently announced the acquisition of Slack, which is certain to drive new and exciting changes in the world of collaboration software. We wondered what the impacts might be, and what it may mean strategically for...more
Lawyers are accustomed to slow, gradual changes that unfold over months, years, or even decades. Since our legal system depends on court precedents and democratic mechanisms for regulatory and legislative change, we typically...more
AND WHY YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PRESERVE YOUR TEAM’S SLACK COMMUNICATIONS - Hanzo was proud to participate this year in Slack Frontiers, Slack’s annual user forum. Slack Frontiers went fully virtual, as most conferences...more
The pandemic has thrown an already chaotic eDiscovery and Compliance landscape into even greater disarray. Collaboration platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams, and file sharing solutions such as Box, Egnyte, OneDrive, and...more
When I first came across the collaboration platform Slack at my former company, I was, to put it mildly, not a fan. But I’m glad to say I gave it a try, and now I am a convert to the power of collaboration applications. ...more
Today’s organizations are faced with the overwhelming challenge of managing, finding, and leveraging their information. On average, organizations use 88 applications to power their workforce, a 21% increase from just three...more
With workplaces becoming digitalized with an increase in remote work, organizations are relying more heavily than ever before on cloud tools like Slack to get work done efficiently. As a result, legal teams want to know how...more
The collaboration platform that Slack launched led to an unprecedented shakeup in how organizations communicate internally—and that was before the coronavirus pandemic sent everyone home to work. Now that quarantining and...more
At Hanzo, we’ve been talking about Slack and other collaborative communication platforms for the last few years. These dynamic, channel-based applications allow colleagues to stay connected regardless of where or when they’re...more
In this work-from-home world, collaboration applications like Slack have gone from the relatively small domain of IT and Development to expand, almost overnight, across the entire corporation. This dramatic shift means two...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 what are the differences...more