Posts Tagged ‘international’
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- February 1st
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EDD in the EU: Proceed With Caution
“Don’t assume anything about technology systems when your firm is working outside of the United States,” was one insight reporter Evan Koblentz gleaned from the LegalTech New York panel, “A GC’s Nightmare: A U.S. E-Discovery Request Into Europe.” The risks and problems that follow from wrong assumptions about multinational e-discovery were laid out in detail by panelists from both the U.S. and the European Union. “The biggest concern that I have is the competing interests of the U.S.courts versus the EU privacy concerns,” said Craig Cannon, discovery counsel at Bank of America. Read the full article, “LegalTech Panel Examines E-Discovery Challenges in Europe.”
posted at 5:09pm on Feb 1st
- January 17th
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Legal Project Management in Spain
Is legal-project management gaining traction in Spain? If Anna Marra has any say in the matter it will. Anna recently published an article in Lawyer Press, an on-line, Spanish-language publication for lawyers. I don’t read Spanish, but could make out most of the article using Google Translate. The article provides a brief introduction to LPM, why lawyers should use it and how they can deploy it it and apply it to their daily activities. Anna also mentioned in a recent discussion posted to the PMI LPM Community Group on LinkedIn that she is writing a book on the subject.Related articlesLPM 2012 and…
posted at 6:04am on Jan 17th
- January 14th
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E-mails sent to in house counsel for “simultaneous review” not privileged
Master Short of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued a decision on December 21st in which he held that e-mails merely copied to in house counsel were not subject to solicitor-client privilege. Here is the principle Master Short endorsed: If the document was prepared for purposes of simultaneous review by legal and non-legal personnel, [...]
posted at 12:04pm on Jan 14th
- January 10th
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The Sedona Conference® Issues "International Principles on Discovery, Disclosure & Data Protection"
In December, the Sedona Conference® made available its latest publication, International Principles on Discovery, Disclosure & Data Protection: Best Practices, Recommendations & Principles for Addressing the Preservation & Discovery of …
posted at 7:36pm on Jan 10th
- December 19th
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Trans-Atlantic video panel: The differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe
The American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law organised a lunchtime panel session in Washington last week. Its topic was the differences in approaches to eDiscovery in the US and in Europe and how those differences might af…
posted at 10:31am on Dec 19th
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How the Proposed 2012 EU Directive on Data Privacy Could Impact Social Media
Last week we held a senior executive round table event at Claridges and one of the topics of discussion was about the proposed European Union (EU) directive on data privacy and the potential impact of this on social media.As current EU data laws were c…
posted at 9:33am on Dec 19th
- December 6th
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European cloud customers worried by US privacy laws
Local vendors offer protection from Patriot ActConcern in the European Union that US data protection laws are too lax may have created a new market for European cloud computing services.A recent survey indicated that 70% of Europeans have concerns abou…
posted at 7:31am on Dec 6th
- November 29th
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Department Of Justice Canada Deploys PowerSearch Software For E-Discovery Collection
PowerSearch Software, the leading developer of affordable and accessible search technologies, recently announced that the Department of Justice Canada has purchased tokens allowing the government agency to export one million files as needed for purpose…
posted at 1:07am on Nov 29th
- November 22nd
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Department of Justice Canada Deploys PowerSearch Software for E-Discovery Collection
TORONTO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–PowerSearch Software today announced that the Department of Justice Canada has purchased tokens allowing the government agency to export one million files as needed for purposes of litigation.
posted at 5:58am on Nov 22nd
- November 21st
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More on risk appetite as US and UK eDiscovery are compared
Recommind’s Howard Sklar was kind enough to comment on my blog post Assessing risk rather than trying to eliminate it in his post Risk Appetite: no thanks, I’m full on the InfoRiskAwareness site.. My article drew parallels between attitudes…
posted at 7:42pm on Nov 21st