eDiscovery Journal

Executive Mobile Content Gone Rogue

In my experience, founders and C-level executives make the worst legal hold custodians. I have learned to review executive expense reports prior to supporting preservation interviews or issuing notices when possible. Too many execs shun email or messaging platforms that preserve communications. New generation technologies such as ModeOne can selectively preserve mobile via app or scheduled incremental collections while minimizing custodian impact. All too [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-06-05T12:06:08-05:00June 5th, 2023|Caselaw, News, Collectors, Compliance, Privacy, Legal Holds|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Veritas at LegalWeek 2023

Irfan Shuttari, Veritas Director of eDiscovery Strategy, briefed me on the new Veritas Alta unified cloud compliance and governance solution. When I joined the then Symantec PM team over two decades ago, it had been my dream to unify the solutions for universal discovery and governance in place. It looks like the enterprise team and technology are catching up to that dream now that [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-04-14T16:58:29-05:00April 14th, 2023|Platform, Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Matter Management, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: Microsoft Purview at LegalWeek 2023

Microsoft Purview It was a rare privilege to sit down with the nine Microsoft Purview eDiscovery product management and legal team experts to talk about their vision and roadmap. Five years ago, I made the decision to ‘bet on Microsoft 365’ when I realized that every one of my global corporate clients either had or would be migrating the entirety of their [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-04-10T10:31:32-05:00April 10th, 2023|Platform, Analytics, Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Matter Management, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

Ready for Teams A.I. ESI?

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 [...]

By Greg Buckles|2023-02-03T15:31:29-06:00February 3rd, 2023|Provider, Analytics, Essay, Corporate, Firm, Collectors, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Purchase|1 Comment

eDJ Brief: Casepoint

Casepoint entered the cloud eDiscovery platform market in 2008. I had always classified it as a firm focused large matter boutique hosting platform based on their good reputation and minimal marketing presence. David Carns and Athena Strasel updated me on Casepoint’s changing role and architecture in before and after the Pandemic pause. Casepoint’s successful bid to replace Recommind as the SEC’s primary eDiscovery platform [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-11-08T14:13:59-06:00November 8th, 2022|Platform, Provider, Essay, Analytics, Collectors, Legal Holds, Matter Management|0 Comments

eDJ Brief: FTI Technology and Jerry Bui

I enjoy meeting eDiscovery peers, especially those whose social media content bring me new perspectives and pro tips. Jerry Bui’s videos and articles attracted my attention and ILTA was a good excuse to catch up on FTI Technology. 7 degrees of eDiscovery It is always fun to share eDiscovery journeys and find common employers, friends and experiences. Jerry brings a fresh perspective to the [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-10-07T14:54:50-05:00October 7th, 2022|Platform, Provider, Analytics, Essay, Collectors, Collection, Processing, Tech, Analysis, Review|0 Comments

Barrera – Time to Update Corporate Travel Policies

The Inspector General’s seizure of John Eastman’s phone should be a wakeup call for corporate legal and security stakeholders. US v. Barrera ruling in 2019 opened the door for law enforcement to use biometrics (face or fingerprints) to unlock a seized personal device. Every domestic or foreign customs agent just added this trick to their interview protocol. Think about that. Putting aside politics, I [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-06-28T14:07:40-05:00June 28th, 2022|Essay, Investigation, Corporate, Collectors, Preservation, Collection|0 Comments

Real World eDiscovery Wisdom from Digital Mountain

#2 – What is interesting to me is how customers focus on negotiating lower processing/hosting prices while ancillary tech/service prices (collections, analytics, classification/organization, productions, etc.) are often ignored. I do ROI reports based on the true TCO per matter/custodian/GB to get a better measurement. Overall I agree that the $/GB has been steadily dropping for the last 20 years. #5 – I am not [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-05-31T16:28:27-05:00May 31st, 2022|Provider, Collectors, News, ESI Sources|0 Comments

The Great Resignation, Return or Reshuffle? Part 1

Microsoft’s 2022 Work Trend Index report should be a wake up for execs like JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon spouting, “We’re not going to pay your not to work in the office.” More than 31,000 respondents from 34 countries prove that “There’s no going back!” to pre-Pandemic Koyaanisquatsi cubicle work for professionals. The job security bubble has burst and 52% of Gen Z/Mellennials are considering changing [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-05-02T17:34:46-05:00May 2nd, 2022|Info Gov, Essay, Collectors, Preservation, Collection, Legal Holds, Content Management|1 Comment

LegalWeek 2022 eDJ Briefings – Take 2

Continuing my provider briefings from a hectic couple of days in NY. Enjoy. IPRO Dean Brown – CEO; Beckie Schuerenberg - Content Marketing Manager Dean Brown and ParkerGale Capital have transformed IPRO’s collection of overlapping #eDiscovery point products into a broader #InfoGov solution stack on a unified cloud architecture. IPRO seems to have integrated the NetGovern and ZyLab to broaden the platform to straddle [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-03-24T14:30:16-05:00March 24th, 2022|Platform, Essay, Analytics, Collectors, Content Management, Architecture, Search|0 Comments