Essays

Information Governance (IG) was much simpler when information existed in paper form. Important documents were classified as records and sent to a central location to be filed and stored. That central information store was the go-to source for information when litigation or regulatory requests arose. There was a certain comfort in having that central control over information. Today, however, times have changed and that comfort level has been destroyed.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2013-02-21 09:00:55  This post will close out the Legal Hold FAQ’s blog series.  As I wrote in Part I, I started the series due to the significant number of questions I had been asked on the topic in recent months.  I received quite a bit of additional questions and feedback in response to both Parts I and [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-02-25 11:38:12   I wanted to kick off the eDiscoveryJournal Profile Series by interviewing someone working in the eDiscovery trenches:  Kerry-Ann Reid-Brown is the Litigation Support Coordinator of Outten & Golden LLP, a Plaintiffs’ firm specializing in employment law.  Kerry-Ann and O&G are getting a lot done with a lean head-count by empowering the whole firm, embracing [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Marilyn Gladden. Published: 2013-02-26 09:43:38  Since the eDiscoveyJournal’s beginnings, education has been a topic of conversation that has consistently come up internally and with our clients. As we began asking more questions about this subject, such as what people like and don’t like about the educational events in the industry, we started to imagine a program that would not only [...]

Yesterday, Marilyn Gladden introduced the eDiscoveryJournal Bootcamp Program. We are excited to bring pragmatic, in-depth, and actionable advice to eDiscovery professionals in an intimate environment. The current boot camp series covers some great topics: selecting an eDiscovery service provider; BYOD and mobile forensics; Legal Hold; and Predictive Coding. In this article, I would like to go a bit deeper into the Predictive Coding boot camps.

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-02-27 19:02:15  I’ve been helping several organizations with their vendor selection process, recently, as well as writing on the topic.  Many eDiscovery-ites may be wondering, “Haven’t we bought everything, already?” Of course the answer is that eDiscovery is a cyclical endeavor, which includes periodically reassessing technology, pricing and staffing as practices evolve and technology improves.  I recall [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Greg Buckles. Published: 2013-03-05 10:37:02   Counsel have always struggled to balance preservation obligations against unreasonable interference in the custodian’s ability to function in day to day business. To put it simply, the preservation effort and user impact has to be in proportion to potential risk of loss and subsequent legal consequences. In the decade since civil litigators and criminal [...]

Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: . Published: 2013-03-06 09:00:12  I recently had the opportunity to work as a Court appointed expert working on behalf of the judge, to advise the parties on eDiscovery issues when they couldn’t agree on a protocol.  The case has since settled and I can’t disclose the details of the matter, but the case definitely got me thinking more about using [...]

Are you ready for Predictive Coding? Few topics have been as hyped over the last two years in the eDiscovery world. So hyped, in fact, that the mere mention of Predictive Coding can be cringe-inducing. Too often, the focus is on whether or not there is a case where Predictive Coding has been allowed or disallowed. The back and forth of whether or not Predictive Coding is acceptable and defensible has made people weary, and understandably so.

Towards the end of Q1, we plan to do some more research on “social business” and eDiscovery. As I posted about previously, we are expanding our social media governance topic to include “social business.” Email as long been a primary target of eDiscovery because so much communication travels through email. Increasingly, though, people use more types of “social” interactions including instant messaging (IM) and both internal (e.g. Jive) and external (e.g. FaceBook, Twitter) social media. eDiscovery and information governance (IG) professionals need to be able to govern, collect, preserve, review, and produce all records of collaboration within an organization.