eDiscovery Journal

Contemplating Collaboration Components and Custodianship

Google Docs hit the consumer market in 2010, providing one of the first widely available web collaboration platforms that allowed multiple people to work on the same document simultaneously. The eDJ Group team monitored the slow adoption of GSuite by corporations and wondered when the use of web collaboration tech would seriously impact significant #eDiscovery collections. It took the Pandemic and Microsoft SharePoint-OneDrive(SPOD) sharing [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-04-18T18:00:27-05:00April 18th, 2022|Essay, Content Management, ESI Sources|0 Comments

eDiscovery and New Cloud Apps

The Pandemic driven move to hybrid and remote work has created an explosion of apps addressing the myriad challenges facing digital professionals. Once upon a time I knew every search engine, indexing technology, task manager, note taking or similar productivity product on the market. Those days are long gone. Clients and peers regularly ask my opinion of tools that I have never heard of. [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-04-04T19:05:14-05:00April 4th, 2022|Info Gov, Essay, Content Management, ESI Sources, Purchase, Search|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, Analytics, Essay, Collectors, Content Management, Architecture, Search|0 Comments

LegalWeek 2022 eDJ Briefings – Take 1

For some of the new readers, eDJ Briefings are a chance to catch up with the latest from providers kind enough to sit down with me and talk candidly. At Legal Week I no longer do formal presentations or demos. Instead I ask execs to give me the top three points they would like to convey to you and the market. We sometimes get [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-03-17T15:37:29-05:00March 17th, 2022|Platform, Provider, Analytics, Essay, Collectors, Legal Holds, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture, Purchase, Search|0 Comments

Remember Flight Time Productivity Flow?

After a crazy week juggling too many deliverables and deadlines, I settled into our outbound vacation flight and resumed reading my latest homework, Keeping Found Things Found by William Jones. It is so dense that I have had to consume it in small bites with lots of time to digest Jones’ thoughts on Personal Information Management. The landing announcement broke me out of an [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-02-21T17:51:14-06:00February 21st, 2022|Info Gov, Essay, Content Management|0 Comments

Veritas Compliance Winter Release Announcement Webinar

I hope that you join Dave Scott and myself for the Veritas Compliance Portfolio Winter Announcement webinar this Wednesday January 19th at 10am CST. Join us to hear about all the new capabilities of Veritas (formerly Symantec) Digital Compliance portfolio. Dave will cover all the new data sources and features from Enterprise Vault, eDiscovery Platform and more. I have been invited to discuss the [...]

By Greg Buckles|2022-01-17T14:21:04-06:00January 17th, 2022|Info Gov, Platform, Investigation, Essay, Analytics, Preservation, Collectors, Collection, Processing, Analysis, Content Management, ESI Sources, Review, Architecture, Production, Purchase, Search, Expiration, Management|0 Comments

100% Retention as a Knowledge Strategy – Case Study

The majority of corporate professional knowledge workers shifted to remote or hybrid working in 2020. Working from home has challenged many HR, legal and compliance departments to adapt their policies and acceptable use guidelines. Video online meetings and continuous chat channels are essential tools to keep internal/external teams virtually connected. Prior to the pandemic, most of my clients viewed meeting recordings and multi-party chat [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-12-28T11:00:37-06:00December 28th, 2021|Info Gov, Corporate, Essay, Investigation, Analytics, Content Management, Analysis, ESI Sources|0 Comments

The Video Dilemma, Risk vs. Value

The Pandemic continues to change how we communicate, do business and manage our lives. Teams and Zoom video meetings from our home offices are the new business casual. Invitations to webinars, vblogs, online classes and conferences fill our feeds. A quick search for eDiscovery webinars in the last three weeks yielded 4,290 hits. Marketing and sales executives are franticly creating online video content that [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-11-23T08:57:45-06:00November 23rd, 2021|Essay, Content Management, ESI Sources, Architecture|1 Comment

Post Pandemic Paradigm Shift in Corporate Discovery?

2020 was a write off for many in the eDiscovery market. Client initiatives held or cancelled outright while the judiciary granted mass continuances as they struggled with the transition to remote hearings. Many of my long-term clients issued work stoppages that lasted more than six months. 2021 arrived carrying all those backlogged matters and projects. After a few quarters scrambling to catch up and [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-11-16T14:35:42-06:00November 16th, 2021|Essay, Corporate, Matter Management, Content Management, ESI Sources|1 Comment

Is Deletion Dead?

Over the decades I have driven far too many defensible deletion, classification or similar initiatives aimed at removing the ROT from corporate local, network and cloud data stores. I have wondered many times whether these were Sisyphean tasks even as I generated ROI estimates based on data reduction to justify the technology and labor costs. Most of these projects achieved tangible short term corporate [...]

By Greg Buckles|2021-10-13T12:24:33-05:00October 12th, 2021|Essay, Preservation, Content Management|2 Comments