Historical Essays

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2012-06-07 09:16:53  eDiscovery events usually evoke images of packed exhibit halls, panels of guru bobble heads and offsite gatherings of social butterflies. I love and hate the iconic February migration to chilly New York. That is why Barry Murphy and I jumped at the chance to contribute to last year’s Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat (CVEDR). Little did [...]

This week, I attended and spoke at InnoXcell’s Asia eDiscovery Exchange. Jeffrey Teh at InnoXcell gathered a great group of speakers and an audience of active eDiscovery and investigatory professionals. Conferences are great when the audience asks hard questions and the attendees here certainly weren’t afraid to speak up. It is great to see the interest level in eDiscovery and Information Governance (IG) rising in Asia.

When working with eDiscovery professionals, eDJ analysts encounter a common question: which education and certification programs are worthwhile for advancing my career? It is a question for which there is not an easy, straightforward answer. First, the practice of eDiscovery is just starting to gain some maturity and training and certification in the market is relatively new. That creates an opportunity for educational programs and certifications to potentially thrive – and because of that, many programs have come to the market. In order to provide an answer to our clients, eDJ seeks to understand the available eDiscovery and related information governance education, certification and training programs.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Amber Scorah. Published: 2012-06-13 09:00:31  The best way to avoid costly disputes over the adequacy of eDiscovery processes and collections is to build a defensible litigation hold business process.  In Part One of this series, we talked about using information security management techniques as an aid in building a defensible process around the execution of the duty to preserve.  In [...]

In our recent post on the winners and losers in the eDiscovery software market, we called out Access Data for seemingly abandoning the desktop license market. That one comment prompted quite a few spirited responses from a number of software providers who wanted to make sure that eDJ was clear that they were still focused on the sale of traditional desktop license software. First and foremost was the Access Data product management team who were happy to dive into their Summation Express product (more on that below) as proof that they were committed to their stand alone customer base. Sherpa Software stepped up to tell us that their primary customer base has always been corporate and law firm IT departments who need a simple solution for search, processing and export of email and native files that can be run from a desktop or workstation. I really appreciated Rich Ruyle’s point about why IPRO continued to develop an enterprise and desktop version of their Eclipse product. The IPRO enterprise version is based on a relational database while the desktop version uses IPRO’s proprietary flat file database. It is clear to eDJ that the market for desktop discovery software is strong and vital.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-06-15 08:00:29  A discussion between parties on form of production prior to data production really isn’t that difficult. So, why don’t we do it more often?  The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as many state court rules, tell us we should.  Yet, in practice, it still seems that parties oftentimes skip this conversation and end [...]