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- May 16th
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Federated Search – Behind the Covers
Businesses of all sizes are migrating files from unstructured file shares to onsite and cloud based content collaboration systems at a remarkable rate. Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 and 2013 are finally seeing rapid adoption and eDJ working analysts have seen increasing inquiries on managing eDiscovery and compliance risks in these new environments. Almost all of these new ESI repositories come with search indexes to support the end user experience and to satisfy new information governance requirements like the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. We will be publishing a research report on the IT impact of the new ‘corporate transparency’ mandates shortly, but I wanted to explore the risks and benefits of leveraging the ‘in-place’ search indexes.
posted at 11:28am on May 16th
- February 5th
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MyCase: An Almost Complete Cloud-Based Practice Management Solution
We recently discussed what the future of law firms might look like when previewing Thomson Reuters’ (FindLaw’s parent company) upcoming product, Firm Central. We hoped it might fill the void in our legal tech-geek souls. It’s not the first of…
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posted at 2:59pm on Feb 5th
- December 11th
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eDiscovery Education Comes to San Francisco at the Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Conference
I just returned from the Thomson Reuters eDiscovery Conference in San Francisco where I chaired the one-day event with Robert Brownstone (Technology & eDiscovery Counsel/Co-Chair EIM Practice of Fenwick & West LLP) and Amor Esteban, partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon. The Thomson folks were nice enough to allow the program chairs to build the curriculum from scratch and pull together an excellent faculty. We tried to avoid the pitfalls of the typical “Death by PowerPoint” panels that we so often see at eDiscovery programs and only had to use about 15 slides the entire day. The attendees were encouraged to ask questions and contribute throughout the program; and they often did so. The day started with a discussion moderated by yours truly with Amor Esteban, Deborah Baron (Vice-President of eDiscovery & Compliance, HP), and Kevin Nichols (Principal, KLN Consulting [...]
posted at 10:53am on Dec 11th
- November 26th
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Legal IT Professionals publishes results of Global Legal IT Cloud survey
The tide has turned and the cloud is here – A free report by Legal IT Professionals
Cloud computing is a hot topic. We at Legal IT Professionals brush away the hype and take a look beyond marketing, to find out what the global legal services secto…posted at 5:56pm on Nov 26th
- November 19th
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Not Your Grandfather’s Restoration
Best practice or not, many companies rely on disaster recovery systems for business retention and discovery compliance needs. I have written several times about how this can impact your accessibility strategy and discovery obligations, but I wanted to take a look at how the restoration market has evolved as eDiscovery has matured. Historically, litigants have made successful undue burden arguments against mass tape restorations on the basis that the content would be mostly duplicitous or not relevant to the key facts under dispute. The trend to migrate files from unstructured network shares or desktops to SharePoint or other Cloud repositories means that many corporations are finally cleaning up their digital landfills. This can have the unintended consequence of actually making those yearly snapshots or tape collections the only source of unique ESI. So when you find yourself in the unintended [...]
posted at 9:00am on Nov 19th
- November 14th
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Cloud Providers and the Fog of War
Migration to the Cloud is one of the key trends that eDJ Group is calling out for 2013. Almost every major corporate and law firm eDJ client in 2012 either already has data in Cloud services or is exploring the options. As CTO of the eDJ Group, I finally retired my Exchange box and put the eDJ Group on MS Office 365 last year. The potential savings are undeniable, but what happens when your legal department is under the gun to collect from these sources and they go offline? Every one of those Cloud providers will talk about 99.9% uptime guarantees and most will deliver. At the recent Masters Conference, my friend, who also happened to be keynote, Google’s Jack Halprin, pointed out that eight hours of downtime in a year is really just a drop in the bucket. He [...]
posted at 9:10am on Nov 14th
- November 13th
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Amazon cloud entry poses legal concerns to business
E-commerce giant Amazon’s plans to offer data and computer hosting services through Australian data centres from this week will not indemnify customers from legal action in the United States, legal experts have warned. Amazon’s hosting division w…
posted at 10:21am on Nov 13th
- November 9th
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70% of cloud data centers keep customers in the dark about storage locations
As more companies turn to the cloud to provide redundancy and back-up services for mission-critical business functions, connectivity and applications, new research has revealed that a full 70% of cloud backup providers do not inform customers of where …
posted at 8:40am on Nov 9th
- November 8th
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BIA Updates TotalDiscovery to Include Notification Features
At-a-Glance Administrator Reports Keep Users More Aware NEW YORK CITY – November 8, 2012 – Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (BIA), the leader in online eDiscovery software, today announced the release of newly updated notification functionality for its cloud-based eDiscovery solution, TotalDiscovery. “One of the problems with the way eDiscovery projects are managed today is that most solutions require the person responsible for managing the process to call their vendor or login to a system to get status updates about what’s going on, thus forcing the legal department to babysit the process in a manual way,” said Zachary Drummond, BIA Senior Vice President of Product Development. “We’ve solved that with our Notification features and have now expanded that power with this new round of updates – now everyone involved in supporting the preservation and eDiscovery processes will have information critical to [...]
posted at 3:17pm on Nov 8th
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Megaupload Case Has Far-Reaching Implications for Cloud-Data Ownership Rights
There’s more at stake in the Megaupload case than the freedom of founder Kim Dotcom and his indicted file-sharing associates. The privacy and property rights of its 60 million users are also in jeopardy, as well as the privacy and property rights of…
posted at 1:40pm on Nov 8th
