Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2012-10-16 08:55:11 Can you really place legal holds on email hosted in Microsoft’s Office 365 cloud offering? A recent request from a long time client made me think long and hard about this question. I will leave the many other questions to consider before migrating your data to the cloud for future articles so that we can [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2012-10-17 07:30:00 Job description: "Senior eDiscovery professional, JD preferred." To a non-attorney, this is an unsettling trend. During my career, I've spent many years working with litigation attorneys who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into using, not just automated discovery tools, but basic project management procedures. Based on that experience, this new trend seems to [...]
Before I get a string of emails from my fellow experts and friends in the field, I must add that creating new processes in law is never easy because of the barriers pointed out earlier in this post. Also, the additional skills of understanding technology, statistics and law does make each of us experts, even if we are throwing out competing preferred routes to complete a review and confusing the marketplace. Just like your GPS, the customers end up with three suggested routes to choose from and they all get you from A to Z crossing different types of terrain. But, since lawyers are trained to avoid risk and would rather use “precedent” as opposed to coming up with new solutions, there is a risk of following blindly a single route as gospel without doing some homework about the different routes and their applicability for the specific matter at hand.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Barry Murphy. Published: 2012-10-19 09:00:40 The heat around various topics in the eDiscovery realm ebbs and flows. Lately, eDiscoveryJournal has published perspectives on predictive coding, mergers & acquisitions in the eDiscovery space (with a focus on service providers), collection and preservation of social media, and mobile forensics. All are hot topics, all are deserving of the attention. Don’t think that [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2012-10-22 09:00:00 It’s always exciting when acquisitions occur as it is a gauge of the maturity of an industry. The eDJ Group analyst team believes that consolidations in the eDiscovery and legal technology space will accelerate over the next three to five years and we are continuing to track these events as they unfold. Would there be a [...]
It is not only research firms like eDJ Group that are interested in how law firms are building out eDiscovery practices. We now know of a student at John Carroll University doing a survey on this topic for a class. In an effort to help build a substantial set of data, eDJ Group will aware a $250 gift card to a randomly selected survey participant. It's not just about data, however - we are genuinely interested in this topic because it would seem that law firms are a crossroads. Corporations need law firms to be thought leaders on eDiscovery at the same time as needing to control costs. Law firms need to decide if they are providers of eDiscovery services or consumers of eDiscovery services...or both.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Michael Fluhr. Published: 2012-10-24 09:00:48 “Can’t We Just Do This Ourselves?”Increasingly, law firms and clients are asking whether they can avoid hiring an eDiscovery vendor by bringing eDiscovery software in-house. It’s a question worth asking. Many firms and clients have invested intelligently in eDiscovery technology and have seen a return in efficiency, profits, and client satisfaction. Others, however, have plunked [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2012-10-25 09:00:32 Last week, just as I posted about the eDiscovery job market in, “JD Preferred”, the Kadden v. Visulex decision flashed up on my screen. Today, as I was finishing my follow up post on Kadden and law school graduate hiring statistics, Law School Transparency broke the story that a former career services director at Thomas Jefferson [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2012-10-26 09:00:28 Last month Greg Buckles wrote a blog on the "Emerging Breed of eDiscovery Conferences" wherein he spoke of the shift away from the “big” eDiscovery conferences, where panelists seem more like talking heads, to the smaller settings focused on interactive learning and substantive content. I had the pleasure of moderating two panels at one such [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Karl Schieneman. Published: 2012-10-29 09:00:21 I recently read an assessment from a morning networking meeting held in Chicago about Technology Assisted Review (TAR), that those in attendance believed we needed more metrics around predictive coding tools to help end users grasp how to effectively use them. This assessment struck me as bizarre because metrics are the very essence of TAR.Common [...]