Historical Essays

Technology-Assisted Review (TAR) stands to change the way traditional linear legal review functions in a significant way. The fallout of this change will impact corporations, law firms, legal technology and service providers, and eDiscovery professionals everywhere. What will that change look like? There are plenty of ideas – fewer contract reviewers, more high-margin TAR specialists, greater reliance on managed services – but it is not clear just yet which path will be the road more traveled.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2012-07-18 08:53:48   My research on mobile device discovery has led me to review existing surveys on corporate policies, practices and trends. Across multiple surveys, the statistics agree that the vast majority of businesses now allow the use of personal mobile devices, otherwise known as the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy. Apple appears to have started [...]

The main message from attendees at The Cowen Group (TCG) Leadership Breakfast in New York last Thursday is that technology-assisted review (TAR) is a game-changing, disruptive force in eDiscovery and information governance (IG). TAR has the potential to change the way that law is practiced, according to one distinguished panelist. To harness the power of TAR, however, the legal industry must change. Instead of slowly adopting new technologies and ways of conducting business, the industry must begin experimenting with innovative solutions in order to keep pace with the demands of corporate clients.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Lynn Frances Jae. Published: 2012-07-24 11:27:21  I attended the Executive Counsel Institute’s “eDiscovery for the Corporate Market” conference last week. The event was quite educational, with 26 presenters including Gene Eames, Director, Search & Analytics Legal Division of Pfizer, Daniel Kulakofsky, Managing Counsel-Director E-Discovery of Travelers and several other members of corporate legal departments. The inclusion of corporate legal people [...]

In the wake of our article on the winners and losers in the eDiscovery software market, a client recently suggested to us that the software giants are not yet the best landing spots for eDiscovery software vendors. The impetus for this observation was news from two vendors – Symantec and HP – that software acquisitions in the eDiscovery market had underperformed. The revenue from Symantec’s Clearwell business was less than expected in calendar Q1 2012. HP’s executives admitted on their last earnings call that the Autonomy license revenue had a significant decline year-over-year.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-07-27 09:23:38  Just days before trial, The Honorable Paul S. Grewel granted in part Apple’s Motion for Adverse Inference Jury Instruction against defendant Samsung.  According to the Order filed on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, “At issue is whether Samsung took adequate steps to avoid spoliation after it should have reasonably anticipated this lawsuit and elected not to [...]