Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2013-03-05 10:37:02 Counsel have always struggled to balance preservation obligations against unreasonable interference in the custodian’s ability to function in day to day business. To put it simply, the preservation effort and user impact has to be in proportion to potential risk of loss and subsequent legal consequences. In the decade since civil litigators and criminal [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2013-03-06 09:00:12 I recently had the opportunity to work as a Court appointed expert working on behalf of the judge, to advise the parties on eDiscovery issues when they couldn’t agree on a protocol. The case has since settled and I can’t disclose the details of the matter, but the case definitely got me thinking more about using [...]
Are you ready for Predictive Coding? Few topics have been as hyped over the last two years in the eDiscovery world. So hyped, in fact, that the mere mention of Predictive Coding can be cringe-inducing. Too often, the focus is on whether or not there is a case where Predictive Coding has been allowed or disallowed. The back and forth of whether or not Predictive Coding is acceptable and defensible has made people weary, and understandably so.
Towards the end of Q1, we plan to do some more research on “social business” and eDiscovery. As I posted about previously, we are expanding our social media governance topic to include “social business.” Email as long been a primary target of eDiscovery because so much communication travels through email. Increasingly, though, people use more types of “social” interactions including instant messaging (IM) and both internal (e.g. Jive) and external (e.g. FaceBook, Twitter) social media. eDiscovery and information governance (IG) professionals need to be able to govern, collect, preserve, review, and produce all records of collaboration within an organization.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2013-03-13 09:57:25 A discussion was started on the Yahoo! litsupport list serve earlier this month about tools that support the eDiscovery project management (PM) function. PM tools have been a renewed point of focus for me recently, and the Yahoo! discussion proves the point that the topic is on others’ minds as well. PM is not a [...]
Producing eDJ research is a team effort. As always, you can find our latest report on the eDJ Research Reports page of the site. We have a great group of analysts, each of whom has deep knowledge within very specific topic areas. There is a natural synergy between those topics areas and we capture those synergies and tie all eDJ research together into themes. Many clients and readers ask what kind of research we are focusing on, we we pooled our research agendas to create a broader, company-wide one.
Coming out of LTNY 2013, it was clear that Information Governance (IG) was a hot topic. In fact, ARMA ran a whole-day track at the show that was dedicated to IG and the attendance was great. The number one question I get about IG is, “how do I get started?” People want to know where the rubber meets the road when it comes to IG. There is a thirst for pragmatic knowledge versus theoretical outcomes. One of my stock answers is that eDiscovery projects are a great place to start IG programs. At eDJ, we talk regularly to clients that are working on these projects and we understand the lessons they have learned. We have taken those lessons and combined them with survey data we have to create the new report “A Green Light at the Intersection of Information Governance and eDiscovery.”
Many clients have asked for the raw data from eDJ’s surveys and traditionally, we have held those data sets for our own analysis. Recently, though, we decided that making our data sets available to Platinum Research subscribers could actually extend the power of analysis. After all, eDJ’s analysts will look at the data from many different angles, but not necessarily every single angle. Rather than have clients have to ask us for custom cuts of the data, we want to be flexible and allow clients to analyze the data for themselves.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-03-26 09:00:10 Early in my consulting career I had an experience that helped shape my approach to RFI/RFP design and management. I was tasked with procuring software and services for a large government-managed litigation team. Although I was not under the same rules and regulations as my government clients, I wanted to manage the process in a [...]
Throughout 2012, social media in eDiscovery was an emerging topic of interest. While most of our clients and readers were not actually collecting and preserving social media often, there was a clear interest in the topic and a desire to be ready when the need arose. Earlier this years, we at eDJ alluded to the fact that we would be expanding our coverage of “social” issues in eDiscovery. By expanding coverage, we do not just mean looking further into best practices for social media collection and preservation; instead, we are expanding the topic to cover more of the “social experience.”