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- January 23rd
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Welcome the Newest eDiscoveryJournal Contributors
I have spoken to many of our readers over the past several months and have received a great deal of feedback about the eDiscoveryJournal. The readers appreciate the perspectives of Greg, Barry, Mikki and I…and they want more. Because eDJ analysts are working analysts – out in the field experiencing the real thing, we thought the best way to keep the content coming is to add some other independent perspectives. With that in mind, I started a campaign to find new contributors to the eDiscoveryJournal site. Today I’m proud to announce our newest group of contributors. Greg Harris has worked in eDiscovery and Computer Forensics for over four years and in the Information Security field for more than eight years. In his current role, Greg works in the eDiscovery and Investigations department for a large corporation in Alpharetta, Georgia. His duties span [...]
posted at 10:30am on Jan 23rd
- January 4th
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New Law Course on eDiscovery & eEvidence
eDiscovery has transformed litigation and required that all lawyers understand Information Technology since more than 95% of all information is now electronic. I am happy to report that staring January 9, 2012 I will begin teaching a brand new course o…
posted at 6:30am on Jan 4th
- December 7th
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Review of Executive Counsel Institute’s “The Exchange” Event in Los Angeles
Another successful Executive Counsel Institute – eDiscovery for the Corporate Market event (“The Exchange”) was held in Los Angeles December 5 and 6. I have participated in this conference multiple times in the past and, once again, was not let down. The Los Angeles meeting, lead by Browning Marean of DLA Piper and Robert Brownstone of Fenwick & West, was the last of the five held across the U.S. this year. The round-table format sets this event apart from other conferences. The Exchange, which is a strictly “PowerPoint free” zone, is rich in content and participation. While there is an agenda and moderators for each session, the meeting is steered by participant needs. The Exchange is kicked off with an audience poll of pain points and goals for conference take-aways, all of which are included in the 1-½ day discussion. [...]
posted at 1:24pm on Dec 7th
- November 22nd
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Announcing the eDJ Peer Group
This is my first entry as a contributor to the eDiscoveryJournal so I wanted to make it special with an announcement about a new initiative I’m leading with the eDJ Group. While you and I may not have met yet and we may not have met the other professionals that are reading this blog at the very same time, we are all bonded by this special community of eDiscovery and information governance professionals. Wouldn’t you agree that we could all grow from each other’s knowledge? Of course we could!
The ability to share knowledge, pain points, successes and challenges, and state of the market with peers is invaluable. The challenges, however, include: opportunity, confidentiality, competition and facilitation. In recognizing both the need for knowledge sharing in our industry and the challenges associated therewith, eDiscovery Journal and eDJ Group have created the “eDJ Peer Group” and I am proud to lead its launch.
posted at 10:20am on Nov 22nd
- November 3rd
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Review on the IQPC Bio-Pharma Event in Philly
I had the opportunity to attend and speak at the IQPC 6th Annual eDiscovery for Pharma, Biotech, and Medical Devices in Philadelphia last week (October 24-26, 2011). I have been to several IQPC eDiscovery events in the past and this one was very much on par with the others I’ve seen over the years. IQPC events typically have a pre-conference workshop day and then two main conference days. The workshops on Monday were very intimate which I find to be a good educational situation. There were three workshops on Monday including the one I led on Global Matters: From International Data Collection to Foreign Language Review. It always surprises me on the complexity of the issues surrounding data privacy especially in the E.U. (Click here for a copy of the presentation – IQPC_IntlDataPrivacy_IQPC_Pharma_Oct2011.) As I was preparing for the [...]
posted at 6:13pm on Nov 3rd
- November 1st
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EDRM Mid Year Meeting Update
Recently I had the opportunity to participate in the EDRM Mid Year Meeting in St.Paul, Minnesota. The midyear meeting is a great opportunity for all of the individual project groups to come together and evaluate the progress made on key projects for the year. Although a midyear review may be standard operating procedure for large corporations, few industry groups that I’ve been exposed to have the discipline to insist on such a midyear checkpoint.
posted at 10:03pm on Nov 1st
- August 1st
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Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat – Buckles Part 1
The breaking Casey Anthony forensic story has delayed my recap of the first Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat last week. Luckily, Barry Murphy managed a good post on day one. Chris LaCour, the event organizer, deserves congratulations for breaking the LTNY event mold. He dared to plan a small scale interactive format heavy with experts in a beautiful venue that encouraged open social dialogue. He recruited Browning Marean, George Socha, Barry Murphy and myself to create focus tracks featuring cutting edge topics for the panelists to debate. This was not the typical sponsor driven marketing messages, but real discussion that actively engaged the audience. I moderated three of my CLE sessions and passed the microphone to Kevin Stehr of Lexis Nexis for the “Defining the eDiscovery Platform” session. The participating providers generally limited themselves to sponsoring meals and social events, which kept the event relatively free of the marketing madness that has dominated the big NY show. I hope that this retreat signals that the eDiscovery market is willing to consider alternative academic, market and social events.
posted at 12:09pm on Aug 1st
- July 18th
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DISH Network® Sponsors "Best in Class" eDiscovery Legal Research and Writing Competition
DISH Network L.L.C., a subsidiary of DISH Network Corporation , announced today that it is sponsoring an electronic discovery legal research and writing competition aimed at encouraging U.S. law students to develop a more thorough understanding of the …
posted at 1:00pm on Jul 18th
- June 21st
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eDiscovery in the Cloud – Who Owns Your ESI?
I recently had the opportunity and privilege to give my perspective to the international working group of the Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2). The commission has a three month mandate to provide the Obama Administration with recommendations to support our growing cloud industry. Many of my global corporate clients have struggled to reconcile their eDiscovery, regulatory and storage requirements across their diverse business units in various countries. Preparing for my presentation brought me the realization that we really are moving to the cloud, dragging the luddites along kicking and screaming. I gave a bit of background on the challenges I saw facing global corporations and moved on to why even large enterprises are exploring migrating their systems and data to cloud or hosted services.
posted at 2:10pm on Jun 21st
- June 15th
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Georgetown Law eDiscovery Training Academy crosses the bridge
The technology I really want to see is a time machine or some kind of teleportation device. I once attended conferences in Barcelona and Sydney in the same week. I have had breakfast in Sydney and dinner in Washington on the same day and, later this ye…
posted at 8:48pm on Jun 15th