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- February 27th
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Buckles LegalTech Micro Briefs – Part 2
Our LegalTech briefing schedule was pretty hectic and I did not want to drag you through all minutia and marketing messages (BIGGER-FASTER-EASIER). So I will try to make this easy to scan and only dive into details when there is real differentiated value.
Symantec/Clearwell – This was our first combined briefing since Symantec acquired Clearwell last July. We had a lot of tough questions for the teams and were pleased to hear how these market leaders are tackling the real challenges around integration of technologies, sales, marketing, services and channel partners. The next major version of Clearwell should provide Enterprise Vault (EV) customers an advanced option to the venerable Discovery Accelerator product for direct search of the EV archives. Bi-directional application and management of legal holds within EV is further down the roadmap, but the Clearwell development team has a good track record for rapid dev cycles. Recent calls to traditional Symantec system integrator channel partners such as GlobaNet revealed multiple Clearwell certified consultants ready to support combined EV-Clearwell-LiveOffice implementations. That is a good sign that Symantec’s channel partners are engaged with these merging information governance-eDiscovery product lines. We look forward to seeing how Clearwell’s huge eDiscovery channel partners transition from volume based hosting sales to selling enterprise licenses and managed services.posted at 9:00am on Feb 27th
- February 8th
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eDJ’s Greg Buckles’ LegalTech Micro Briefs – Part 1
This was my first LegalTech where I could put on my analyst hat without needing to manage corporate clients or speaking panels. It brought home to me just how hard it was to switch mindsets and reminded me of the 2010 PBS special, “Digital Nation” that shattered my personal myth of multitasking. It is safe to say that I brought more to my hectic briefing schedule this year and took a lot more out of them as well. The other new element was taking digital notes on the iPad. Barry liked the Penultimate app, while I finally settled on PhatPad with the hope that I could leverage it’s handwriting recognition, photo and audio recording features.
posted at 11:09am on Feb 8th
- January 24th
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Planet Data Receives SSAE 16 Certification
Certification Highlights Planet Data’s Dedication to the Security of Client Information
posted at 1:16pm on Jan 24th
- January 20th
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Unexpected Challenges of Enterprise Remote Collection
The astronomical growth in corporate data has driven the practice of eDiscovery away from just the forensic imaging of physical hard drives. The first systems for remote collection of email containers, Office files and other ESI from desktops, laptops and servers appeared in the 2004-2006 time period. I might have been one of the earliest beta testers for Guidance’s Encase Enterprise platform when I was managing the litigation technology for El Paso Corporation back then. Since then, the market has seen a wide variety of new appliances, just-in-time apps and other remote collection technologies. Most appear to promise a ‘push button’ automated collection by IT or Legal with minimal or no impact to working users. Legal sets the scope (date ranges, file types, names or search terms), and the system does all the work in the background. I just wish that it was that easy in the wild west of real world enterprise environments.
posted at 11:00am on Jan 20th
- January 9th
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Planet Data to Demonstrate New Exego3 Platform at LegalTech® New York 2012
Planet Data will present the newly launched proprietary early cost assessment eDiscovery platform, Exego3.
posted at 1:49pm on Jan 9th
- December 14th
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So let’s get to the heart of this Predictive Coding – Technology Assisted Review thing
One recurring topic that keeps popping up was Predictive Coding, or Technology Assisted Review (we’ll use the defined term “PC-TAR” to avoid controversy from this point on). We know that using PC-TAR will help save money in the overall eDiscovery process. Albert Barsocchini recently did an article on “Ediscovery Production Without Review” last week and quoted an attorney at a major law firm that said they are producing documents without any reviewing any documents in a linear review process. This immediately raised the mental flag in my head as this was the first that I’ve heard of someone going straight to production using PC-TAR technology without first doing a human review of the responsive documents.
posted at 3:13pm on Dec 14th
- December 13th
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Is Preservation “In Place” Technology the Panacea to the Preservation Headache?
I have spent countless hours over the last 5 years searching for the cure to many of my e-discovery ills: technology that will hold data in place for purposes of complying with preservation obligations in litigation. I am not referring to sending legal hold notices to custodians of data or self-collection. I am referring to actually locking down data…In a diverse technology environment…Without interrupting the business…And while we’re at it, can we apply retention policies? Based on my own experience and on multiple discussions with in-house practitioners, I strongly believe in-place preservation would take many of the headaches out of the preservation burdens faced by serial corporate litigants. Last week at the The Exchange event in Los Angeles Laura Kibbe, a thought leader in the industry, brought the topic up in one of the sessions. While acknowledging that we simply aren’t there [...]
posted at 4:21pm on Dec 13th
- December 12th
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Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 2
Continued from Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 1…
The second concern regards how to move the actual data to and from the Cloud storage. Many providers will tell you that you can just upload your data directly via web or ftp. STOP HERE. Normal File Transfer Protocol or web page upload is NOT protected. So use an SFTP equivalent or better yet look at the previous paragraph and only send encrypted packages. Internet backbone speeds still limit the practical size of uploads to 5-10 GB unless you have a dedicated pipe to your provider. Data uploads that take longer than 1-2 hours may crash or bog down your own network. eDiscovery performance is all about getting that large collection on line for review as fast as possible. But just as the speed and performance wars died from lack of interest, I think that most legal users have come to understand that it may take a day or two to properly handle and process potential evidence. While service providers and certain global corporations may have a high proportion of large (>10 GB) collections or productions, a quick check with a couple clients revealed that only 10-15% of their collections might need to be loaded directly by the host. I wrote a piece last year about how Fedex may be the true winner in the migration to the cloud.
posted at 9:10am on Dec 12th
- December 5th
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Why Not Move Your eDiscovery to the Cloud? – Part 1
In my last post, we explored the relative cost of Amazon S3 Cloud storage compared to traditional hosting provider costs. Despite the potential cost savings of servers and storage in ‘The Cloud’, I am not yet seeing many firms or corporations jumping to move their eDiscovery to the Cloud. In a recent analyst briefing on our eDJ top 2012 eDiscovery Trends, Barry Murphy posited that legal and compliance resisted the leap beyond the firewall until they had more public success stories and caselaw. So what are they worried about? Data security was the first concern of a recent law firm client. “How can I assure my client’s that their sensitive ESI is safe and that we are not inadvertently waiving privilege?” Good question. So I went looking for a good answer.
posted at 9:46am on Dec 5th
- November 29th
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10 Handy Things to Know about the Lucene / Solr Source Code
It’s funny how certain facts are "obvious" to some folks, stuff they’ve known a long time, but come as a pleasant surprise to others. Chances are you know at least half of these, but no harm in double checking! Although…
posted at 10:28am on Nov 29th