Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2013-01-07 09:00:13 This is the second in a series of blogs about legal hold. As I wrote in Part I, I have received an influx of questions about legal hold over the last several months. More specifically, around how legal hold really works on the corporate side of the fence. All of these questions have come from [...]
To date, the discussion around predictive coding has mostly been at either a 10,000-foot level, centered around hype, or about twisting case law to suit a particular party’s needs. What has been lacking is some real, ground-floor advice about how predictive coding actually works, when it works best, and how it is being used today. The predictive coding discussion in 2013 should move from 10,000 feet to about 100 feet, with emphasis on more experimental use and results in addition to common mistakes and some best practices. In order to help facilitate a more pragmatic discussion, we at eDJ Group have launched a survey to understand attitudes towards and plans for predictive coding.
IBM made a commitment to the unstructured Big Data management challenge today, announcing its intent to acquire StoredIQ (SIQ). The price of the acquisition was not disclosed. Nowhere is the unstructured Big Data challenge more pronounced than in eDiscovery and information governance (IG) projects. The addition of SIQ does give IBM a valuable component to be able to apply policy to new content sources (fileshares, etc.) in-place and do pre-collection analysis for eDiscovery in-place.
Throughout 2012, a not-so-new concept began to surface in earnest: deletion of information. eDJ’s consultants have supported expiry initiatives for years, but until 2012 few corporate counsel and IT were ready to take responsibility for the potential consequences of expiring ESI that might turn out to be relevant to an evolving matter. This year brought a change of attitude to these initiatives. eDJ consultants have been involved in recent projects that have purged terabytes of non-record files and email. Our new report provides an overview of the defensible deletion topic.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-01-14 09:00:56 I recently hit a snag during a migration project when a client’s back up tapes could not be restored due to physical tape failure. At the time I thought, “here we go again, unreliable tape backup”. Then I started to wonder, was this a real problem or just an urban legend like alligators in the [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2013-01-15 09:00:02 With Legal Tech New York fast approaching, the eDJ team has been working overtime to roll out all the functionality for the new eDiscovery Matrix site and expose our analyst engine via the eDJ Analyst Notes featured on company profiles. I created the first version of the eDiscovery Matrix in 2008 to track the features [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-01-17 09:00:33 On behalf of the eDiscoveryJournal, I am very excited and proud to announce the initiation of our eDJ Profile Series.In this series of articles, we will be focusing on the people involved in all facets of the eDiscovery business: lawyers, techs, sales reps, consultants, judges, authors, project managers, developers, marketing people, eDiscovery/litigation support managers, bloggers, [...]
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Michael Fluhr. Published: 2013-01-21 09:00:14 In my last article, I covered the costs and potential savings associated with bringing eDiscovery software in house. This article will continue my analysis on whether or not bringing software in house is the best choice for most firms.How Do I Use It?Another consideration when deciding whether to purchase eDiscovery software is expertise. Using eDiscovery [...]
It was just over a year ago that I wrote an article about whether or not the evolution of eDiscovery was forcing law firms to change business models. The question that article proposed was: would law firms become eDiscovery service providers, bringing technology solutions (either their own or partner-provided) to the table, focus on the practice of law, or both? Certainly, we have seen law firms get into this business before, back when it was possible to command over $1,000 per GB for processing data. Many firms got addicted to this revenue, only to be disappointed as processing got commoditized and margins disappeared.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2013-01-23 13:40:22 Are you ready for next week at LegalTech New York? I can’t say that I am ready yet, but I and the eDJ team will be there, ready or not. We expect that this year will see record attendance, at least for the exhibit halls and sponsored sessions. With the eDiscovery market in full recovery [...]