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Orlando becomes one of first cities in country to switch to Google e-mail Monday, January 11th, 2010
In a multimillion-dollar move being watched by government agencies across the country, Orlando this week became one of the first cities in America to switch all of its employees to Google e-mail. The implications are vastly bigger than simply changing the icon that Orlando workers click on their computer desktops.
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Orlando becomes one of first cities in country to switch to Google e-mail
Over a hundred and twenty forms are available here to meet all your eDiscovery needs. Locate the form you need…
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Last week we posted an article by Robert Owen, a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski. He is head of the New York location’s litigation group, as well as co-head of the firm’s E-Discovery and Information Management practice group. Owen is part of the core team that conceived of and has administered Fulbright’s Annual Litigation Trends Survey since its inception in 2004. The article, titled “Seeking Ways to Set Limits on E-Discovery”, examines the current initiatives underway that re-examine full disclosure and the U.S. procedural rules focusing on the growing costs and complexity of federal civil pretrial discovery procedures. Is there a need for modifications or alternatives to our present system?
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Updated post: “Seeking Ways to Set Limits on E-Discovery”
Ralph Losey has produced a six minute video from the last day of his class on e-discovery at the University of Florida. Holland & Knight’s William Hamilton and Ralph serve as adjunct professors at the College of Law to try to pass on what they know about the subject to the next generation. According to Ralph “a basic understand of the subject takes a few hundred hours and, if a student works hard, can be accomplished in one semester.
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4 Reasons to Learn e-Discovery and Other Smart Aleck Advice
Excerpts from the December 2009 research report found on Gartner’s site . E-discovery is a maturing market with entrants from multiple categories, including storage and archiving, search and information access, content and records management, and workflow , as well as tools designed as end-user applications for legal professionals and forensic data collection tools aimed at security professionals, regulators and law enforcement agencies. All of these categories of software vendors have added e-discovery to existing suites or purport to cover various aspects of the e-discovery process
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Gartner MarketScope for E-Discovery Software Product Vendors
Current initiatives re-examine full disclosure and the U.S. procedural rules Several efforts are under way across the nation to focus attention on the growing costs and complexity of federal civil pretrial discovery procedures, and to consider modifications or alternatives to our present system.
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Seeking Ways to Set Limits on E-Discovery
George Rudoy provides an insightful look at the issue of insourcing vs. outsourcing for electronic discovery in his recent blog post, To Insource or To Outsource , at the Georgetown Law E-Discovery Law Blog. Rudoy writes that he has always believed in outsourcing of electronic data collection, processing, culling etc.
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E-Discovery: A Look at Insourcing vs. Outsourcing
Facebook and Twitter are in hackers’ crosshairs in the top social networking security stories of the year. Facebook and Twitter use skyrocketed in 2009, and naturally the social networking sites became magnets for hacker attacks and sparked other types of privacy concerns. CIOs have expressed doubts about the social networking sites, (see related story, Facebook, Twitter becoming business tools, but CIOs remain wary ) and these stories show there is good reason to be worried
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Social Networking Hacks: Top 10 Facebook and Twitter Security Stories of 2009
There is no doubt that cloud computing is dominating today’s IT conversation among C-level security executives. Whether it’s due to the compelling cost saving possibilities in a tough economy, or because of perceived advantages in provisioning flexibility, auto-scaling, and on-demand computing, CSOs are probing the capabilities, costs and restrictions of the cloud. At the same time, security and compliance concerns are at the forefront of issues potentially holding large enterprises back from capitalizing on the benefits that cloud computing has to offer.
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Is Compliance in the Cloud Possible
KANSAS CITY, January 4, 2010 — Iris Data Services , a leading provider of eDiscovery solutions, announced today that it has acquired Lexsum, Inc., a regional provider of litigation support including document services such as copying, scanning, imaging and coding. Lexsum’s downtown Kansas City location at 106 W. 11th Street, Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64105 will be Iris’ second metropolitan location; their national data center is in Olathe, Kansas.
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Iris Data Services Acquires Lexsum, Inc.
Paul Easton has been compiling some excellent sites that list project/matter management applications including Mark Kerzner’s “Legal Technology” blog. Last month Kerzner launched “LitSupport Q & A” that provides this information in a question and answer format as a free service to the litigation support community. One of the first answers published is a list of “EDD Project Tracking Dashboard software.” For Paul’s full post click here
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E-discovery project management software lists
We made a pledge to ourselves that we would not end the year in a depressed state of mind. But it has been hard. We have ended the year in what seems to us to be a concatenation of events – continued repercussions from the financial melt-down, two seemingly intractable wars, the usual seesaw national debate we always see between “them” and “us” (this time about health care), and the tectonic shift in the legal industry. And contract attorneys and their families dealing directly with the knock-on effects of the financial melt-down and legal workplace meltdown … less work, increased competition from India, and the continuing squeeze by the cost cutting vise of law firms and agencies, etc. But while those of us in the contract attorney brigade like to bitch and moan about our mistreatment as attorneys — poor wages, disrespect, cramped quarters, and cold pizza — those issues pale in comparison with stories about real challenges. This year we were inspired by a post by someone who has faced real challenges, who has real “attitude” and who succeed against real odds. Please read “On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas” ( click here ) written by Jon Morrow, associate editor of Copyblogger, a site to which we subscribe and follow on Twitter
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A Happy New Year to All
Earlier this month, Gartner published its third annual MarketScope For E-Discovery Product Vendors. Written by Debra Logan, Whit Andrews, and John Bace, the report is an excellent survey of this rapidly evolving market. It is also a useful buyer’s guide for anyone considering a purchase of electronic discovery software , since it analyzes and rates various e-discovery players
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Not Yet A Gartner E-Discovery Magic Quadrant, But Still A Gartner E-Discovery MarketScope
WITH THE countdown for 2010 on, it becomes more than necessary and desirable to look at the major events of the year going by and to assess our preparedness for the coming year. This year 2009 is testimony to a phenomenal growth in the offshore outsourcing of legal processes wherein a majority of deals were with Indian vendors
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Legal Process Outsourcing: 2010 challenges ahead
Magaña v. Hyundai Motor Am., 2009 Wash. LEXIS 1066 (Wash.
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Washington Supreme Court Affirms $8,000,000 Verdict and Instructs Multinational Company to Maintain Document Retrieval System
Tracking new regulations and compliance rulings from federal and state government can be dizzying—they include FRCP, HIPAA, GLB, and more. But now more than ever, the government expects all businesses to comply, not just large corporations
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Don’t Overlook Federal or State Data Regulations
Case/Rule Name: TR Investors, LLC v. Genger, 2009 Del.
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Delaware Court Imposes $750,000 Attorney Fees and Other Severe Sanctions for Destruction of Unallocated Space ESI
In choosing Howard Schmidt as cyber czar President Obama has gotten someone who has held a similar job in a previous administration, has varied experience at high-level corporate jobs, was a frequent panelist at security conferences and who has even written a book on defending the Internet. Schmidt served under President George W. Bush for three years, ultimately resigning after producing the “National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.” Because of his high profile past as CSO of Microsoft (MSFT) and CISO of eBay (EBAY), during which he spoke often at public forums, there is a broad record of his thoughts on network security, from smartphone threats to equating cyber security to physical security.Ten 2010 IT Security Predictions The new cyber czar favors government promotion of education, research and prodding vendors to produce more secure products that will work their way into everyday use.
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Obama Cyber Czar Choice Worries About Smartphones, Social Networking
We made a pledge to ourselves that we would not end the year in a depressed state of mind. But it has been hard. We have ended the year in what seems to us to be a concatenation of events – continued repercussions from the financial melt-down, two seemingly intractable wars, the usual seesaw national debate we always see between “them” and “us” (this time about health care), and the tectonic shift in the legal industry. And contract attorneys and their families deal directly with the knock-on effects of the financial melt-down and legal workplace meltdown … less work, increased competition from India, and squeezed by the cost cutting vise of law firms and agencies, etc. But while those of us in the contract attorney brigade like to bitch and moan about our mistreatment as attorneys — poor wages, disrespect, cramped quarters, and cold pizza — those issues pale in comparison with stories about real challenges. This year we were inspired by a post by someone who has faced real challenges, who has real “attitude” and who succeed against real odds. Please read “On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas” ( click here ) written by Jon Morrow, associate editor of Copyblogger, a site to which we subscribe and follow on Twitter. Jon Morrow faced unbelievable odds … and succeeded. Beyond belief. As we have discussed in previous posts, Posse List members with far less challenges than those faced by Jon can reposition themselves and obtain something better than document review (if that is your choice) in the e-discovery market, or reposition themselves to find more creative ways to raise their profiles and make contacts.
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A Happy New Year to all … and Posse List plans for 2010
We have just completed what we call the trifecta — full coverage of the premier electronically stored information (ESI) events for the litigation industry: The Masters Conference , the ACC Annual Meeting and the Georgetown Law Advanced E-Discovery Institute . And if we learned only one thing about the explosion of ESI and corporate data it was this: Craig Ball, Jason R.
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A new series: “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares
HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–e-Discovery technology leader Lateral Data , LP today announced the availability of Viewpoint™ 4.5, an all-in-one e-Discovery platform that covers the primary components of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). Offered as a licensed solution for OEM or in-house installations, Viewpoint 4.5 gives e-Discovery service providers, corporate legal departments and law firms, a breakthrough in broad functionality, value, speed and advanced features for managing the large amounts of data associated with modern litigation. Viewpoint 4.5 does the work of multiple tools, lowering both costs and resource needs for anyone involved in litigation support.
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Lateral Data Unveils an All-in-One e-Discovery Software Platform: Viewpoint 4.5
Scenario A large corporation was named as a defendant in a product liability lawsuit. The corporation has preserved a massive amount of electronically stored information (ESI) in response to the suit and is now considering how much of the ESI, and which portions, to collect in order to review and produce it. Collecting ESI — Who, What, Where, When and How While preservation may prevent spoliation of ESI, before such ESI can be reviewed and produced, it must actually be collected.
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United States: Tip of the Month: Managing the Risks and Costs of Collecting ESI
It’s that time of year when it seems everybody has come out with predictions about e-discovery for the coming year. And the recent Gartner report on the upswing in e-discovery in the U.S. and around the globe ( click here and click here ) and Fulbright & Jaworski’s 6th Annual Survey ( click here ) comes as no surprise.
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2010: trends in e-discovery for contract attorneys
Automated attacks, cloud computing, regulatory compliance, insider threats and data storage practices top issues for coming year Sentrigo, Inc., the innovator in database security software, has announced its top data security trends to watch for in 2010. Exploiting Known Database Vulnerabilities Getting Easier In the coming year it will be easier to perform attacks, which will become more sophisticated and completely automated
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Sentrigo Identifies Top Data Security Trends to Watch for in 2010
IQPC’s eDiscovery event of 2009 focused on rapid early case assessment and review strategies, as well as realigning relationships between outside counsel, in-house counsel, legal, and IT. As organizations adopt e-discovery strategies for 2010, they should consider many of the issues covered at this year’s sessions that provided a perspective for the future. The IQPC event concluded a pivotal year in legal technology that “was all about moving left on the Electronic Discovery Reference Model and getting information management practices in order,” said attendee Stephen Ludlow, senior program manager for e-discovery at Waterloo, Ontario-based Open Text
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IQPC Puts a Wrap on E-Discovery 2009
Sprawl in a cloud environment costs the user extra for wasted resources and increases the risk of security breaches A host of substantial problems with porting legacy apps to the cloud will keep most companies from diving in for now, say analysts reporting on weaknesses in the cloud and ISVs trying to fill in the gaps.
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Legacy Apps in the Cloud: Six Details Worth Sweating
Microblogging site Twitter went offline for a while Friday after hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army apparently managed to change DNS records, redirecting traffic to another Web page. Instead of the usual Twitter Web site design, visitors to the site instead saw a black screen with an image of a green flag and Arabic writing.
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Hackers Take Twitter Offline