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Bridging the Communication Gap in E-Discovery Friday, July 30th, 2010
Several years ago, I was the technical lead for a mission-critical application at a Fortune 100 insurance company. The application quoted and issued policies for the company’s largest commercial line of business, booking revenues upward of $28,000 per minute of scheduled uptime. One day, I received a request from the chief litigator to stop automatic deletion from the system.
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Bridging the Communication Gap in E-Discovery
Time and again, in jury research and in juror interviews following verdicts, contemporaneous writings by persons with the closest relationship to the litigated dispute—those who negotiated or implemented the contract, who made the employment termination decision, who engaged in price negotiations, and the like—receive dispositive weight. Internal memos, e-mails, text messages and even postings on social media have overridden percipient testimony no matter how credible.
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Litigation: E-mails, Texts, and Tweets: Killer Evidence
Intel on Tuesday announced it has developed a prototype high-speed optical data link, which is integrated onto silicon. The Silicon Photonics Link supports transfers of up to 50 gigabits of data per second, a speed Intel compared to transmitting an entire HD movie every second
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Intel Demos 50Gbps Silicon Photonics Laser Link
Taking disciplinary action against employees for objectionable postings on social media websites or for spending too much time on networking sites can pose legal pitfalls when companies don’t have set policies, yet almost half of all employers are without a policy. Charles H
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Employers Advised to Enact Social Media Policies
Amazon Web Services poster child, Eli Lilly has walked away from using the cloud computing service after failing to come to terms over legal indemnification issues. Sources close to Eli Lilly say the pharmaceutical giant was at its wits end trying to negotiate a contract with AWS that would push some accountability for network outages, security breaches and other forms of risk inherent in the cloud, to Amazon Web Services
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Eli Lilly dumps Amazon Web Services over legal struggle
News that details of 100 million Facebook users was understandably met with some panic – particularly because the data was then dumped on file-sharing service BitTorrent alongside pirated music, bulk credit card details and the odd bit of legal content. The real story was a little more curious
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How 100 million Facebook users ended up in a list on BitTorrent
In today’s electronic world, where filing cabinets of information can be copied onto a device small enough to swallow, litigators are increasingly turning to forensic investigators to help identify the data that could make or break their case. This is creating a growing industry, from specialist teams within the big four accountancy giants, to individual consultants
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What litigators need to know about the forensic investigation process
The designation reads – Business Woman, Independent Sales Consultant, Entrepreneur & Agent of the Russian Federation of the ‘Hot’ Anna Chapman. And, sure, she has a social media presence too on Facebook & LinkedIn. The reason I am writing this post is that I am excited if social media can actually prove that Anna Chapman has criminal backgrounds and let the populace know about her physical existence at this point of time.
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Can Social Media Find The Criminal ‘Anna Chapman’ ?
Stockpiles of historical backup tape stored in offsite vaults cause unnecessary risk and avoidable expense for many corporations. By implementing direct indexing, IT teams are now empowered to manage these tapes in a way not possible before
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Remediate Backup Tapes to Limit Liability & Reduce Storage Costs
Case highlights importance of clear privacy policies The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Ontario, Calif., officials did not violate a police sergeant’s right to privacy by acquiring personal text messages he sent on city-owned equipment. Meanwhile, experts connected to the case say it illustrates the need for clarity in privacy, or no-privacy, policies
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Supreme Court sides with city in Ontario v. Quon
It’s no secret that the relationship between corporate IT and legal departments isn’t as cohesive as it should be. A recent survey released by Recommind, a leader in search-powered information risk management (IRM) software, revealed that a lack of collaboration between both teams was greatly hindering e-Discovery efforts. 2009 v.
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Disconnect Between Legal and IT Getting Worse, Recommind Survey Reveals
Growing corporate use of Twitter, Facebook, and cloud-based applications are creating new e-discovery demands, but c-level awareness of risks remains scarce. Two-thirds of businesses worry about the e-discovery risks posed by social networks, but 25% say they’re not prepared, and 33% think they’re only partially prepared, to meet related e-discovery requests. Furthermore, only 9% of companies think they’re well prepared to deal with e-discovery requests for information stored in cloud-based applications
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Social Networks Pose E-Discovery Risks
Enterprise 2.0 strategies are becoming more popular among companies today, but there are serious logistical and legal challenges along with the expected benefits of using social collaboration tools. This is especially true for companies like Vanguard, a mutual fund with roughly 12,500 employees and US$1.3 trillion in assets under management, said Abha Kumar, principal in the information technology division, during a presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week
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Security, Compliance Come Before Collaboration
Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) June 15, 2010 — Precise, Inc. ( www.precise-law.com ), a trusted provider of electronic discovery solutions and trial support services, today announced the completion of an agreement whereby it has acquired LitSoft LLC , a provider of eDiscovery software as a service (SaaS) founded in 2006 in Annandale, VA. The purchase of LitSoft is a strategic addition to Precise’s rapidly expanding suite of eDiscovery solutions
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Precise, Inc. Acquires eDiscovery Software Provider LitSoft LLC
Companies Need Legal and IT Teams to Communicate More Effectively to Tackle Challenge Roughly two-thirds (62 percent) of respondents surveyed who expressed an opinion say their company is concerned about e-discovery challenges posed by online social media forums, according to a survey commissioned by the Deloitte Forensic Center.
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Two-Thirds of Respondents Are Concerned About E-Discovery Challenges Posed by Social Media
Discovery – for most, the word evokes feelings of excitement and wonder, images of Einstein or Jacques Cousteau, the voice of Leonard Nemoy or Patrick Stewart introducing a Star Trek episode. But for those who must navigate not the seas or the stars, but our tortuous civil justice system, the term conjures epic nightmares.
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America’s True Growth Industry: Legal Discovery
What’s not to like about laptops? They’re powerful, connected, portable, have great graphics and sound – and they don’t cost much more than their desktop counterparts. So it’s no surprise that laptop shipments rose by 16% in 2009
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How do you protect your data when it’s out of your hands
Fortune Magazine reported earlier this year [that] 79 percent of the United States’ best companies use at least one of the most popular social networking services on the web to interact with customers. As often happens in the corporate world, smaller companies have followed suit and started using Twitter and Facebook to expand brand visibility and expand their customer base
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Social Media, eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Earlier this month I sat down with Deepak Mohan, senior VP of Symantec’s Information Management Group, and Anil Chakravarthy, senior VP of Symantec’s Storage and Availability Management Group, to discuss the growth of digital information and topics that InformationWeek Analytics will be covering in the second half of the year. Some headlines: Mohan estimates that up to 70% of the data enterprises store is duplicative. “We are saving a lot of junk,” he said
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Storage Outlook: Cloudy, No Swimming
In a March 15 decision in Wilson v. Thorn Energy LLC, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of New York Frank Maas sanctioned defendants for spoliation after they could not produce an accounting because the USB flash or thumb drive on which their records resided failed.
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EDD ‘Safe Harbor’ Defense No Laughing Matter
As if complying with current e-discovery rules is not challenging enough, social networking Websites such as Facebook and Twitter are creating new headaches for corporate compliance and legal departments. “The old ways of addressing electronic discovery and preservation don’t necessarily work when it comes to social media,” says Timothy Gordon, a partner with law firm Holland & Hart.
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e-Discovery Challenges of Social Media
Google has told US Congress that it broke no law in collecting data from unsecured private Wi-Fi networks as the company recorded images for its Street View service in over 30 countries. The company claims that it has never analysed or reviewed in detail the content of the data collected since 2007, according to US reports. When the collection of WiFi data was exposed by an audit ordered by German privacy authorities, Google said the data had been collected unintentionally by experimental code included “by mistake” in software used by Google’s Street View cars
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Google denies WiFi data collection broke law
Judges, lawyers and prosecutors are welcoming a new rule warning jurors against using social media to gather information during trials. The standard instruction, not to talk about a case, has changed with the times, said Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge Vincent Culotta. Judges now must take into consideration social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, video sharing sites such as YouTube, powerful search engines such as Google, and smart phones that allow instant access to the Internet
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Courts welcome new jury rule for social media
As a criminal trial juror three weeks ago, Peggy Wickert had to resist the urge to search the Internet for some of the legal terms she heard. Although seemingly innocent enough, many judicial officials would agree that kind of curiosity can lead to a mistrial. In May, the Ohio State Bar Association issued new jury instructions to directly address modern technology and social media.
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Courts adapting to technology
You thought Facebook and Twitter were ways to tell the world what you had for breakfast? Or that cellphone texting means you can ask your spouse what’s for dinner? Well, what about school board and City Council members who use those social media and communication tools to subvert the concept of open government?
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Public officials’ use of social media sparks debate
Recently, I attended a conference in Washington DC with a large number of government agencies, including (I must confess) many Clearwell customers like the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Veterans Administration. It will probably come as no surprise that, during our conversations, it became abundantly clear that they had substantial electronic discovery technology needs
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Go With the (Work)flow in Electronic Discovery
A Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Software AG has revealed that most public sector bodies have no idea about secure data transfer Research by enterprise software provider Software AG has revealed that 50 percent of public sector organisations are unable to provide information on secure data transfer procedures and costs. This is down to the fact that they are failing to keep records on inter-organisational secure data transfer procedures and costs.
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Public Sector Clueless On Secure Data Transfer