Keeping my perspectives short and pithy. Expect a string of concise briefing writeups. Conference impressions: Uber in: City is packed with cars. So many shops shut down and being remodeled. City in rebirth. Conference branding/banners - Reveal, Disco, ONIT , Relativity, Consilio, Everlaw, Exterro Answers the question of who is spending external to the show? "Feels like ALM has auctioned off parts of LegalWeek." [...]
“Why not just use Microsoft?” That client question kicked off a research project to understand what the new M365 Purview Records Management modules delivered and what limits my global corporate clients might need to work around. My July blog sparked an expanded research engagement and the much-revised Microsoft 365: Information Governance in Place white paper. Before you download (free/no ID paywall), please be aware [...]
Do your employee transition workflows preserve critical communications and ESI under hold? Meta’s announcement of another 10,000 layoffs got me wondering how high the 2023 tech body count had reached. TechCrunch counts 123,000 in 10 weeks so far. Luckily ZipRecruiter says that 54% found new jobs within a month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says that 25-34 year old works average just 2.8 years [...]
Good survey points from IPRO/Acedes. I just wish the IPRO site was working to download the full survey data. Justifying technology and managed service investments requires understanding your overall eDiscovery lifecyle and unique profile. You have to look past the most recent monster matter to quantify your smaller dockets, investigations other discovery usage cases that fly under the radar. While I have indeed supported [...]
Interesting counterpoint to Twitter’s Slack outage killing productivity. Google’s internal Hangout’s have a default 24 hour purge that had to be manually changed to keep chats. ESI is more than just email and Word documents. Employees need the freedom to innovate and experiment with new technologies to be competitive. Legal, compliance and security teams must keep up with evolving business-communication practices to control risk. [...]
Time after time I have had client’s tell me that Yammer, Slack, Teams Chat, etc. are ‘not records’ and should have a minimal retention period. As a consultant, I can highlight the knowledge lost and quickly show them that their employees are using these platforms to get approvals, make decisions and communicate orders in contradiction of policies. In the end, the business managers need [...]
The tight time limits of FOIA(20 days) and Subject Access Requests(31 days) are forcing government agencies and global corporations to adopt cutting edge eDiscovery technologies and AI driven workflows. The EPA expanded RelativityOne Government usage to include FOIA requests, and—although this expanded RelativityOne use is by EPA’s eDiscovery Division and not EPA’s National FOIA Office. Deloitte seems to have played a role in the [...]
Teams Premium ($120/year) adds A.I. notes, suggested tasks and personalized highlights powered by GPT-3.5 to address meeting fatigue. The Pandemic drove a 252% increase in weekly meeting time along with WFH professionals. All these new meetings contributed to the 77% of full-time workers who reported experiencing burnout in a Deloitte survey. Yet meetings are where decisions and consensus happen, the heart of corporate strategy [...]
Remember when Exterro, Zapproved, Atlas and few others were specialized Legal Hold SaaS point products? They made traction with corporate legal departments at $50-100k+ annual subscriptions. Then every eDiscovery platform and M365 added simple Legal Hold notification features to check that RFP box. Exterro made the move into processing and review before Zapproved, but Zapproved always had better, simpler usability in the RFPs I [...]
Seeking peers for a confidential review and feedback on a paper focusing on M365 Purview Records Management from the large enterprise adoption perspective. This is such a complicated topic that I want to get the potential advantages and gotchas right. I also want outside perspectives to make sure that I am being fair and reasonable in my opinions before publication. The paper and potentially [...]