Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Mikki Tomlinson. Published: 2013-03-13 09:57:25 A discussion was started on the Yahoo! litsupport list serve earlier this month about tools that support the eDiscovery project management (PM) function. PM tools have been a renewed point of focus for me recently, and the Yahoo! discussion proves the point that the topic is on others’ minds as well. PM is not a [...]
Producing eDJ research is a team effort. As always, you can find our latest report on the eDJ Research Reports page of the site. We have a great group of analysts, each of whom has deep knowledge within very specific topic areas. There is a natural synergy between those topics areas and we capture those synergies and tie all eDJ research together into themes. Many clients and readers ask what kind of research we are focusing on, we we pooled our research agendas to create a broader, company-wide one.
Coming out of LTNY 2013, it was clear that Information Governance (IG) was a hot topic. In fact, ARMA ran a whole-day track at the show that was dedicated to IG and the attendance was great. The number one question I get about IG is, “how do I get started?” People want to know where the rubber meets the road when it comes to IG. There is a thirst for pragmatic knowledge versus theoretical outcomes. One of my stock answers is that eDiscovery projects are a great place to start IG programs. At eDJ, we talk regularly to clients that are working on these projects and we understand the lessons they have learned. We have taken those lessons and combined them with survey data we have to create the new report “A Green Light at the Intersection of Information Governance and eDiscovery.”
Many clients have asked for the raw data from eDJ’s surveys and traditionally, we have held those data sets for our own analysis. Recently, though, we decided that making our data sets available to Platinum Research subscribers could actually extend the power of analysis. After all, eDJ’s analysts will look at the data from many different angles, but not necessarily every single angle. Rather than have clients have to ask us for custom cuts of the data, we want to be flexible and allow clients to analyze the data for themselves.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-03-26 09:00:10 Early in my consulting career I had an experience that helped shape my approach to RFI/RFP design and management. I was tasked with procuring software and services for a large government-managed litigation team. Although I was not under the same rules and regulations as my government clients, I wanted to manage the process in a [...]
Throughout 2012, social media in eDiscovery was an emerging topic of interest. While most of our clients and readers were not actually collecting and preserving social media often, there was a clear interest in the topic and a desire to be ready when the need arose. Earlier this years, we at eDJ alluded to the fact that we would be expanding our coverage of “social” issues in eDiscovery. By expanding coverage, we do not just mean looking further into best practices for social media collection and preservation; instead, we are expanding the topic to cover more of the “social experience.”
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-03-28 09:00:15 I interviewed Dr. Roitblat last month and I started out my questions with, “what’s with all the technology named for residents of SeaWorld®?” But, quickly changed my inquiry to, “what’s a nice bio-psycho-acoustician doing in an industry like eDiscovery?” And I’m glad I started this research as early as I did in order to coincide [...]
One of the most important benefits of having been a member of the Litigation Support/eDiscovery community so long, is having made many industry friends. When I say friends, I don’t mean people you wave to at LegalTech but folks you trust no matter where they’re working or what they’re doing. People you make an effort to spend time with and whom you know you can tell your work and life truths and secrets. The reverse of this benefit is that, being in the industry as long as I have, you start to lose these friends to illness and age. We lost Laura Bandrowsky, Practice Support Director of Duane Morris LLP, last week after a long battle with cancer.
Migrated from eDJGroupInc.com. Author: Babs Deacon. Published: 2013-04-01 10:59:27 Several eDiscoveryJournal readers have emailed us asking when we are going to write about last week’s announcement by eDiscovery software developer, eDocBadger, of their newest TAR enabled application, SeedSense, for Google Glass™. SeedSense made a huge splash last week, as a finalist in Google’s Glass Explorers program (#ifIhadglass), and many prophectic coding experts have already [...]
As Barry Murphy announced in The eDiscoveryJournal 2013 Research Agenda blog published last month, Legal Hold is one of my research focuses this year. It has been a decade since the landmark Zubulake vs. UBS Warburg decisions around legal hold, and 7 years since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended in relation to eDiscovery, yet, legal hold still remains a mystery to many. Caselaw resulting from ineffective or complete failure to issue legal holds continues to be regular news in litigation circles.