Essays

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Steve Markey. Published: 2012-03-12 09:00:47  The topic of assimilating one’s electronic content/document management (ECM/EDM) solution into the organization’s eDiscovery strategy came up the other day while working with one of my financial services clients, so I thought I would share some insight.  This topic came up while sitting down with IT, Compliance, and Operations to discuss implementing Microsoft’s SharePoint into [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Amber Scorah. Published: 2012-03-13 09:00:11  The paradigm of review is changing.  Predictive coding has made a huge impact in the e-discovery and document review world.  In this interview, I speak with Jeff Nadalo, Litigation Counsel at TransCanada Pipeline.  He helps cut through all the marketing jargon to give an understanding of the technical and realistic implications of predictive coding, and how it can [...]

There are some that believe social media is replacing email. In reality, it will take time for social media adoption to occur and for everyone to abandon email – lots of time perhaps. As companies transition and begin to leverage social media, there is the opportunity to avoid the mistakes made in the email generation. One thing is clear: companies that dive into social media without the right policies and solutions to govern usage will encounter information governance and eDiscovery nightmares down the road.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Chuck Rothman. Published: 2012-03-14 08:00:27  Anyone who has read about e-Discovery in the past year has almost certainly come across the term “Predictive Coding” or one of its aliases. As exemplified by the number of seminars and vendor’s banners at Legal Tech in New York this past month, it’s definitely this year’s e-Discovery craze.However, like most technology trends, the term [...]

Thanks to all who attended our technology-assisted review (TAR) for eDiscovery webinar. There was a great turnout and our guests – Chuck Rothman of Wortzman Nickle and Thomas Gricks of Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis – offered valuable insights on how to use TAR and get value from it. Chuck also contributed an article to eDiscoveryJournal this week on what predictive coding really is. Chuck’s article title points out the confusion in the market about what different terms actually mean.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Harris. Published: 2012-03-16 09:00:05  The following article is based on notes taken during The Cowen Group’s Leadership Breakfast hosted in Atlanta on March 2, 2012.The guest list for the morning event included forty professionals with responsibilities ranging from Litigation Support staff and eDiscovery Technologists to Staff Attorneys and Partners in large law firms.   Some of the industries represented in [...]

One of the bright points of designing the new eDJ Matrix has been our analyst sessions over what functionality is required for software and services to qualify for our market categories. It may sound geeky to you, but I have grumbled over ‘waves’ and ‘squares’ that were real apple-orange comparisons too many times. I want to get this right in our next big release. The ‘eDiscovery Platform’ was a prominent theme at LTNY 2012, but what do providers mean when they call their software a ‘platform’. They want to give buyers the impression that they cover the entire eDiscovery lifecycle, generally by showing the EDRM diagram covered by their software logo. As nice as that sounds, no one covers document creation through trial presentation in one program, NO ONE. But a more realistic corporate eDiscovery platform seems to be attainable. We spoke with the litigation and compliance team at Autodesk about their selection of Symantec’s Clearwell software.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-03-21 11:07:17  Buzz about new technologies always precedes adoption.  And one of the outcomes of  “technology buzz” is development of the market definition to its consumers.  The market message and definition of Predictive Coding or Technology Assisted Review  (“TAR”) is, without a doubt, still evolving and there is certainly a plethora of buzz.The simple fact that we, [...]

The Da Silva Moore case is quickly becoming a landmark matter in the eDiscovery realm. The use of Technology-Assisted Review (TAR), specifically predictive coding, in the case is the subject of much scrutiny at the moment. eDiscoveryJournal has covered the case extensively, including being the first to note that early headlines got Judge Peck’s opinion wrong – he had not ordered the use of predictive coding in the case or endorsed the technology of any single vendor; he had simply approved of the defendant’s use of predictive coding in this case.

Last week I was a panelist at the 2012 Masters Series event in Houston and enjoyed the lively and frank discussions about purchasing trends, privacy issues and more that continued into the social gathering afterward. As you might expect, predictive coding and the latest Da Silva filing were a hot topic, especially amongst providers of managed review. One remark by Jim Wagner, CEO of DiscoverReady, resonated with me and I told him that I was going to steal it for a blog. To paraphrase, “The market sees linear review as disorganized review.” He was right on target. Linear review has become synonymous with plowing through millions of randomized email/documents in the least efficient or effective manner. I ask you, “In the last 5 years, have you reviewed collections that had not been culled, searched, prioritized, deduplicated, email threaded or otherwise optimized for review batching?”