Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-02-13 18:06:26 The eDiscoveryJournal has been growing in both readership and content over the past few months (thank you to all of our wonderful readers). Our goal is to provide as much possible insight on the issues and trends related to the eDiscovery and Information Governance spaces. In order to expand that insight, we have three more independent [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Amber Scorah. Published: 2012-02-14 12:32:56 Policies are like laws… we need them, they give structure. But policies tend to be reactive, just like law enforcement.Take, for example, the war on drugs. Passing drug laws alone isn’t enough – we have programs in schools to teach kids, communities offer programs to help people get off drugs. This is, of course, because [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-02-15 08:55:34 As hinted to be forthcoming during the LTNY Man vs. Machine: The Promise/Challenge of Predictive Coding & Other Disruptive Technologies session, The Honorable Andrew J. Peck, United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York, is now on record on the topic of Predictive Coding – Technology Assisted Review (“PC-TAR”) in the Da [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-02-17 09:08:26 Most of the conversation these days in the eDiscovery arena has been around Predictive Coding, the Cloud, and Big Data topics, so I wanted to bring us back to one of the basic issues in the eDiscovery marketplace…pricing.The Predictive Coding/Technology Assisted Review (PC-TAR) makes the world a bit fuzzier as it blends the processing and review [...]
With budget constraints and reduced internal staffing putting pressure on in-house corporate departments that analyze and make decisions on an ever-increasing pool of potentially discoverable material, creating a solid in-house eDiscovery team is a big challenge.Even so, there are ways to leverage your current corporate organization structure to create a solid in-house eDiscovery team. In part one of this two part article, we offer some good strategies for getting multi-department collaboration, and advice on how to determine which eDiscovery procedures are more effectively and economically handled internally.
Matters like Pippins v. KPMG LLP, ---F.R.D.---, 2012 WL 370321 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 3, 2012) provide a unique opportunity to discuss eDiscovery, and many of the considerations involved. How do the seven Zubulake factors apply? How much data constitutes an undue burden? Can predictive coding be trusted, and at what point is human interaction required for review? Who is going to do all of the work? These are only a few of the questions brought to light by this matter. Though the Pippins case alone does not resolve any of these questions, it does offer a platform for discussion.
Big Data is a new paradigm for many professionals, and it is relevant for eDiscovery professionals as it is a new artifact to consider when pondering the collection and discoverability of content. Oracle defines Big Data as an aggregation of data from three sources, which include: traditional (structured data), sensory (log data, metadata), and social (social media)1 data. Big Data is often stored in non-relational, distributed databases using new technology paradigms, such as NoSQL (Not only Structured Query Language).
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-02-24 08:00:12 The commentary to Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure directs parties to discuss issues related to ESI. In 2008 the Sedona Conference® published the Cooperation Proclamation . Since that time, more than 100 members of the judiciary – both at the federal and state court levels – have formally endorsed the Cooperation [...]
Our LegalTech briefing schedule was pretty hectic and I did not want to drag you through all minutia and marketing messages (BIGGER-FASTER-EASIER). So I will try to make this easy to scan and only dive into details when there is real differentiated value.Symantec/Clearwell – This was our first combined briefing since Symantec acquired Clearwell last July. We had a lot of tough questions for the teams and were pleased to hear how these market leaders are tackling the real challenges around integration of technologies, sales, marketing, services and channel partners. The next major version of Clearwell should provide Enterprise Vault (EV) customers an advanced option to the venerable Discovery Accelerator product for direct search of the EV archives. Bi-directional application and management of legal holds within EV is further down the roadmap, but the Clearwell development team has a good track record for rapid dev cycles. Recent calls to traditional Symantec system integrator channel partners such as GlobaNet revealed multiple Clearwell certified consultants ready to support combined EV-Clearwell-LiveOffice implementations. That is a good sign that Symantec’s channel partners are engaged with these merging information governance-eDiscovery product lines. We look forward to seeing how Clearwell’s huge eDiscovery channel partners transition from volume based hosting sales to selling enterprise licenses and managed services.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Harris. Published: 2012-02-28 02:00:58 Are you facing a federal subpoena? The Joint Electronic Technology Working Group (JETWG) recently published a framework for handling eDiscovery in federal criminal cases “where the volume and/or nature of the ESI produced as discovery significantly increases the complexity of the case.” The framework is broken across three parts: recommendations, strategies and a checklist. The [...]