Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Karl Schieneman. Published: 2012-12-18 16:23:27 On September 9, 2011 I presented to a blue ribbon panel of in-house lawyers, outside counsel and judges at the Committee Meeting on Preservation and Sanctions in the Western District of Pennsylvania who were in agreement with my thesis that we over preserve, collect and process ESI in proportion to what is eventually used. My [...]
The analysts at eDJ Group periodically like to share perspectives on the solutions providers in the eDiscovery market. Last spring, we wondered if the winners and losers in the eDiscovery software market had already been determined. This summer, we looked at whether or not the software giants are dominating the eDiscovery market. With the launch of http://www.ediscoverymatrix.com (our service & technology comparator and research engine), eDJ Group now has the ability to truly cover all eDiscovery solutions providers; be they software providers, service providers, or a combination of both. As we ramp up all of the eDiscoveryMatrix.com listings, we wanted to share some of our thoughts and perspectives on many of the providers we cover throughout the year.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2012-12-28 09:00:34 Winter is the perfect time to implement your personal retention policy. When I say personal, I mean the records in your home: taxes, warranties, IDs, credit cards, etc. Not only is it helpful for you and your family to get rid of paper and data clutter in order to free up space, but can you [...]
The cost of eDiscovery and document review specifically, has encouraged many corporations and law firms to begin working with Technology Assisted Review (“TAR”) solutions. The corporations are interested in leveraging recent analytical improvements to review applications, their law firms are sensitive to higher expectations regarding legal process efficiencies, and legal service providers are striving to provide the brightest reviewers and best-of-breed applications. One such corporation revealed to eDJ its efforts to reduce legal review costs using a form of TAR known as predictive coding
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2013-01-07 09:00:13 This is the second in a series of blogs about legal hold. As I wrote in Part I, I have received an influx of questions about legal hold over the last several months. More specifically, around how legal hold really works on the corporate side of the fence. All of these questions have come from [...]
To date, the discussion around predictive coding has mostly been at either a 10,000-foot level, centered around hype, or about twisting case law to suit a particular party’s needs. What has been lacking is some real, ground-floor advice about how predictive coding actually works, when it works best, and how it is being used today. The predictive coding discussion in 2013 should move from 10,000 feet to about 100 feet, with emphasis on more experimental use and results in addition to common mistakes and some best practices. In order to help facilitate a more pragmatic discussion, we at eDJ Group have launched a survey to understand attitudes towards and plans for predictive coding.
IBM made a commitment to the unstructured Big Data management challenge today, announcing its intent to acquire StoredIQ (SIQ). The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Nowhere is the unstructured Big Data challenge more pronounced than in eDiscovery and information governance (IG) projects. The addition of SIQ does give IBM a valuable component to be able to apply policy to new content sources (fileshares, etc.) in-place and do pre-collection analysis for eDiscovery in-place.
Throughout 2012, a not-so-new concept began to surface in earnest: deletion of information. eDJ’s consultants have supported expiry initiatives for years, but until 2012 few corporate counsel and IT were ready to take responsibility for the potential consequences of expiring ESI that might turn out to be relevant to an evolving matter. This year brought a change of attitude to these initiatives. eDJ consultants have been involved in recent projects that have purged terabytes of non-record files and email. Our new report provides an overview of the defensible deletion topic.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-01-14 09:00:56 I recently hit a snag during a migration project when a client’s back up tapes could not be restored due to physical tape failure. At the time I thought, “here we go again, unreliable tape backup”. Then I started to wonder, was this a real problem or just an urban legend like alligators in the [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2013-01-15 09:00:02 With Legal Tech New York fast approaching, the eDJ team has been working overtime to roll out all the functionality for the new eDiscovery Matrix site and expose our analyst engine via the eDJ Analyst Notes featured on company profiles. I created the first version of the eDiscovery Matrix in 2008 to track the features [...]