Essays

The astronomical growth in corporate data has driven the practice of eDiscovery away from just the forensic imaging of physical hard drives. The first systems for remote collection of email containers, Office files and other ESI from desktops, laptops and servers appeared in the 2004-2006 time period. I might have been one of the earliest beta testers for Guidance’s Encase Enterprise platform when I was managing the litigation technology for El Paso Corporation back then. Since then, the market has seen a wide variety of new appliances, just-in-time apps and other remote collection technologies. Most appear to promise a ‘push button’ automated collection by IT or Legal with minimal or no impact to working users. Legal sets the scope (date ranges, file types, names or search terms), and the system does all the work in the background. I just wish that it was that easy in the wild west of real world enterprise environments.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-01-23 10:30:32  I have spoken to many of our readers over the past several months and have received a great deal of feedback about the eDiscoveryJournal.  The readers appreciate the perspectives of  Greg, Barry, Mikki and I…and they want more.  Because eDJ analysts are working analysts – out in the field experiencing the real thing, we thought the best [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Amber Scorah. Published: 2012-01-24 11:42:27  In the highly litigious oil and gas industry, outside counsel must ensure that they have conducted adequate due diligence in managing and producing electronic evidence.  The line of transparency and privilege is a difficult one to walk.In part one of this two-part interview, Sarah Jane Gillett, Partner at Hall Estill, gives an overview of the [...]

The eDiscovery year tends to begin with a bang at the LegalTech Conference in New York (LTNY). LTNY 2011 promoted some pragmatic ideas such as managing eDiscovery as a process and taking control of Information Governance (IG), while also hinting at forthcoming heat around “the Cloud” and predictive coding. If my pre-briefings from vendors this week are any indication, LTNY 2012 will feature similar issues, albeit flavored a bit differently to taste.

As most of us are getting ready to brave the cold and crowds of LTNY 2012, I received sad news that Ursula Talley passed away last night while fighting recently diagnosed cancer. As the VP of Marketing for StoredIQ, Ursula was the outward face of StoredIQ and a key player in the platform’s evolution since 2007. I always enjoyed working with Ursula, first as a Symantec business partner during my Product Manager days and then later as an analyst client. I last visited with Ursula at her October StoredIQ Industry Advisory Board and was lucky enough to get there early for a talk before round table kicked off. She will be missed and I encourage everyone who knew her to raise a glass to her memory and to appreciate the relationship opportunities that our business and life presents us.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-01-30 06:32:24  The LegalTech NY is gearing up for an excellent week of networking and education.  I already grabbed my lamb and rice dish from the street vendor around the corner and am ready for a full week of eDiscovery fun.My week kicked off with a great chat with Chris Dale before heading out to an impressive event [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Barry Murphy. Published: 2012-01-30 21:55:14  The first day of LegalTech NY 2012 was a whirlwind, to say the least.  The day began very early with a breakfast kick-off meeting for the eDJ Peer Group.  It was great to hear actual eDiscovery professionals – those who are on the ground dealing with the day-to-day issues – talk about the topics they [...]

In case you could not make THE legal technology conference, LTNY 2012, I thought that I would bring the show to life for you. The eDJ Group’s day kicked off far too early with our eDJ Peer Group breakfast, but we had good attendance and great participation in the open discussion. The team then dove into analyst/press briefings on many (but not all) of the new product releases, which we will boil down for you in the days following the show. I decided to try to abandon my laptop and Moleskine notebook this time. I tried out every iPad note taking app I could pay for that promised to accurately recognize my sanscrit scrawl and render it into searchable text. Utter failure. For those of you from the early EDD days, remember the first generation of OCR programs and wince. That’s about how bad they are. To make it worse, I became obsessed with ditching the ever-present backpack or LTNY trash bag. So I actually shopped for an iPad ‘holster’ and bought an STM sleeve that promised to provide easy, safe storage without the ever present shoulder strap. However, my fashion faux-paux was quickly spotted by my kind team-mates who reminded me that I was wearing a geek man-purse.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-02-01 19:54:19  Whew!!  I’m sitting down for the first time in hours…I have a glass of cabernet sitting in front of me next to a significant stack of business cards and marketing materials.  The whirlwind known as LegalTech NY is over and it’s time to decompress and absorb all of the information that I’ve taken in over the [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-02-02 18:04:13  The Honorable Andrew J. Peck, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, graciously allowed me to interview him after the LTNY Man vs. Machine:  The Promise/Challenge of Predictive Coding & Other Disruptive Technologies session in which he participated as a panelist.  Judge Peck shared the panel with industry luminaries Maura Grossman [...]