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The eDiscovery Institute is hosting its 5th Annual Gourmet Pizza After Party on November 12th in Washington DC Monday, November 2nd, 2009
The eDiscovery Institute is hosting its 5th Annual Gourmet Pizza After Party* at the Newseum in Washington DC on Thursday, November 12th, 2009, after the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced eDiscovery Institute CLE Program. It’s a great opportunity to interact and mingle with some of the leading e-discovery jurists, lawyers and providers. Last year’s party drew 150 participants, and it looks like this years party will have an even larger crowd
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The eDiscovery Institute is hosting its 5th Annual Gourmet Pizza After Party on November 12th in Washington DC
Editor’s Note: Benton Armstrong and Andy Ruckman are principals in Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Deloitte FAS). Andy leads the Analytic and Forensic Technology (AFT) practice in the Southeast and Benton is the practice’s global and West Coast leader. Deloitte’s practice consults with global corporate clients and law firms regarding approaches to addressing technology and process challenges related to e-discovery, record retention, and enterprise information management
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ECA And Over-Collection Solutions In E-Discovery
The blurring lines between different types of content mean IT organizations needs to adapt their strategies. The realms of collaboration, social software, and document management are coming together, and your company is at the center. Your strategy over the next 12 to 18 months will determine whether these three pieces can slide together reasonably neatly–or end up scattered all over the floor
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Content Management: Collaboration And Social Networks Change The Game
Daniel Barr, a partner in Perkins Coie Brown & Bain’s Phoenix office, was sitting in a dentist chair during an appointment last year when he read an e-mail update on his BlackBerry about an obscure public records case. The issue: Should metadata, the information that reveals the history of a document, be considered a public record like most other government documents? A state appeals court in Arizona said no earlier this year in denying a police officer access to performance reviews written by his superiors, but the state Supreme Court reversed the decision Thursday in what is believed to be the first metadata ruling from a state’s highest court, the Associated Press reports
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Ariz. Supreme Court Sees the Metadata
JD Supra is rapidly emerging as the legal profession’s deepest and most credible online repository for legal articles, precedents and documentation. A recent experience with the site, however, reveals that JD Supra also offers the added benefit of a truly personal touch that demonstrates, quite unexpectedly, another manner in which the site appears to be a cut above its many social media competitors. A few weeks ago, after uploading an initial draft of my paper, Lawyers in the Cloud – A Cautionary Tale , to the site, I noted a few, remaining formatting issues.
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Cudos to JD Supra
There’s an interesting article this week in Texas Lawyer about how judges are using social media. On one level, having judges who are familiar with social media can be helpful in dealing with certain issues that may arise at trial, like tweeting jurors or electronic discovery involving sites like Twitter and Flickr. But on another level, some of the judicial Facebook usage described in this article seemed a bit intrusive, in my view.
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Lawyers Beware: Judges May Be Watching You on Social Media
Orange Legal Technologies and BlackStone Discovery Partner to Deliver SaaS-Based Rapid Response E-Discovery Services to Silicon Valley Firms Orange Legal Technologies has announced a technology partnership allowing BlackStone Discovery to integrate the OneO® Discovery Platform into its existing electronic discovery service portfolio. “Based on the fact that BlackStone Discovery serves as the preferred electronic discovery consultant for many of the leading international law firms and corporat
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CloudNews for 24th August, 2009
LOS ANGELES, August 24 /PRNewswire/ — Integreon, the global leader in integrated discovery solutions and legal process outsourcing (LPO), today announced the launch of its eView(TM) 3.0 platform for hosted document review. eView is Integreon’s marquee offering for efficient workflow management and productivity tracking of complex attorney document review. The new eView release enables legal professionals to better manage the risk of electronic discovery and lower the cost of document revie
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Press Release – Integreon Releases eView(TM) 3.0 for Increased Productivity of Attorney Document Review
Below are a few interesting comments from a recent e-discovery article in the ABA Journal , which mentioned the following companies: SPI Global Solutions, Onsite3, Integreon, Discover-e Legal, D4, Ivize, TechLaw Solutions and Kroll Ontrack. From the article: A funny thing happened on the way to amending the federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006: That watershed event triggered a surge of investment in e-discovery software and services, fueling a mini tech bubble. The number of players exploded from a few dozen in 2000 to about 600 these days
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E-discovery industry seeing slower growth, more mergers
Psystar wants judge to force Phil Schiller to explain how clones injure Apple The Mac clone maker battling with Apple over copyright infringement allegations complained to a federal judge Tuesday that a top Apple executive was “unprepared” and “unwilling to testify” during a recent deposition. In a separate brief, Florida-based Psystar also revealed the “bootloader” it initially used to start up Mac OS X 10.5, aka Leopard, on the generic Intel-based machines it sells. On Tuesday, lawyers for Psystar told U.S.
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Apple exec balks at testifying, Mac clone maker claims
EMC looks set to expand its document management and storage business with the adjunction of ediscovery specialist Kazeon Systems. EMC and Kazeon are already partners, so EMC knows exactly what it’s getting, and an acquisition would ensure that Kazeon doesn’t get snapped up by rivals like Oracle, HP or Microsoft, which also provide application suites intended to help enterprise customers manage their vast stores of data. The deal also illustrates the success that vendors are having in convincing enterprise customers that ediscovery software can be a more strategic tool than simply a way to ensure compliance with government regulations and litigation rules.
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EMC Rumored Buying eDiscovery Vendor Kazeon
The 32nd annual educational conference of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) starts today, August 23rd. This year it is at the Gaylord National just outside Washington, DC in National Harbor, Maryland. It is considered one of the premier events for ILTA members and decision-makers to come together to share their experiences as technology leaders to talk about how they best use leading technologies, and how to best optimize the value of IT in law firms and law departments
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Starting today (August 23rd): 32nd Annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA)
by Eric Sedwick, Professional Services, Fios, Inc.A few years ago, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model developed its signature framework – taking the term signature literally as it named the model after itself – and delineated management guidelines for the primary phases of the e-Discovery process. After adding two new projects for 2009-10, some might say the EDRM just can’t leave well enough alone. Among the new projects is the Information Management Reference Model (IMRM), a project des
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Models Beget Models – The Information Management Reference Model
On August 11, Randi Levin, the chief information officer of the city of Los Angeles, stood before City Council members at a hearing of the information technology committee and made her case for why the nation’s second-largest city should adopt Google Apps. “The ability to get whatever information the city needs, whenever they need it, on whatever device they need it on will fundamentally change the way the city works and enhance productivity greatly,” she said
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Los Angeles gets its Google Apps groove
Apple has been attracting significant attention from regulators and the press for some of its actions: alleged product safety issue with iPods and iPhones and its relationship with Google, including having Eric Schmidt on the board, banning Google Voice from the iPhone app store, and engaging in an unofficial policy of not hiring people away from each other. Now Connie Guglielmo at Bloomberg has a story claiming that Palm’s ex-CEO Ed Colligan rejected overtures from Steve Jobs to similarly implement a no-poach policy. Colligan, who stepped down as CEO in June, discussed the matter with Jobs in August 2007, as the mobile-phone war heated up, according to the communications.
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Apple Involved in Second No-Employee-Poach Mess
According to a new report by researchers in Australia, stress tests have revealed that the “infrastructure-on-demand services offered by Amazon, Google and Microsoft suffer from regular performance and availability issues.” The seven month study of Amazon’s EC2, Google’s App Engine, and Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services simulated 2,000 concurrent users connecting to services from each of the three providers, with researchers measuring response times and other performance indicators.
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Report: Cloud services can’t handle the pressure
eMag Solutions, LLC, an international provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and electronic discovery solutions, announced today the company will introduce eMag PreVu 3.0, the latest version of eMag’s web-based data management portal to sort, search and filter electronically stored information (ESI) as well as manage early stage workflow. eMag PreVu helps customers manage costs and eliminate extraneous processing steps and shorten the time to complete projects. The introduction of ver
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eMag PreVu 3.0: Advanced culling technology reduces early stage data processing costs; streamlines workflow process
Lawsuits typically increase during a recession, but according to a recent article that is not the case during this recession (except for bankruptcy and employment suits of course). What’s different this time around?According to the report, Elizabeth Scully, a partner at Baker Hostetler, says the high cost of electronic discovery has a lot to do with it. “It’s a much more expensive process than it was even a few years ago,” she says.Scully’s observation is definitely true. The costs are huge th
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The recession’s impact on lawsuits
The exact definition of “Early Case Assessment” can mean different things to different people.For some those in the technical area of electronic discovery it can mean sampling data, to others it can mean a quick pass over the data, to see what’s there – a first review. For others it’s a method of using tools and technology to prod, poke, and manipulate the data to get the best out of it before going in full review platform.For those on the legal side, early case assessment can mean just that. L
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Electronic Discovery: Early Case Assessment
Despite all the headlines created by the high profile loss of data the problems still continue. Only last week a GP in Ipswich was found to be in breach of the Data Protection Act when a PC was found in a car park with both patient and employee records on it and last month HSBC were fined over £3 million for data protection failings in 3 areas of the business – the list is endless. Some of it is just out and out carelessness – firms have rules and procedures in place but people ignore them.
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Data Protection – It all starts with protecting your own!
Few things in the computing world are as gut-wrenching as the loss of data, and it’s often made worse when you learn how expensive it can be to retrieve your precious files. The process for recovering lost files from a failed hard drive can be quite extensive and time consuming, which generally causes the cost of recovery to be expensive. Hard drives are fairly complex mechanical devices that operate at very precise tolerances, and any failure in any of the mechanical or electronic devices will render your data inaccessible.
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Recovering hard drive data can be costly
I was once trial counsel for the water authority of a Mexican city seeking damages for delay in the mapping of a water system serving three million customers. I learned that most water entering the pipes never reached consumers because the patchwork system was riddled with leaks. The leaks were difficult to repair because the water authority didn’t know where its pipes were buried! Repair crews made Swiss cheese of streets, but the massive leakage limited water service to just a few hours a day.
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Leaks in ESI Searches Can Be Costly
Security pros should forget about addressing constant changes in their environment and instead work on ways to embrace cloud-based services, Web-based tools and consumer devices by reducing the risks they pose to the workplace. That’s the central theme of next month’s Forrester Security Forum, which will focus on “shifts” rather than changes that have transformed enterprises and are creating uncertainties among many security pros over how to secure the nuggets of data moving beyond company walls. The issue is more complicated than setting the right Web security policy or addressing cloud data security with a service provider
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Data has become too distributed to secure, Forrester says
Agreement with LexisNexis® will provide first step data analytics and culling for e-discovery Orlando, FL ( PRWEB ) August 13, 2009 — Orlando-based Wave Software announced today it has become the distinguished software that administers pre-processing and culling of electronic discovery data before it is loaded into award-winning LexisNexis Concordance® and LexisNexis® LAW PreDiscovery™. Wave Software is an
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Wave Software to Bring Industry-Leading Discovery Technology to Litigation Professionals
TERIS Director of Litigation and Professional Services Kelli Clark, Esq. brings eDiscovery expertise and consultative approach to the fast-growing firm. Kelli is responsible for overseeing TERIS’ consulting and project management groups and also works closely with the electronic sales team
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TERIS Director of Professional and Litigation Services Kelli Clark discusses eDiscovery trends
From Alex Rodriguez to David Ortiz, the same question is asked every time the name of a big-time baseball player on “the list” is leaked to the press: how come the records weren’t destroyed to begin with? The list, for those who don’t follow baseball, identifies players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) during a round of random — and supposedly anonymous — testing done during the 2003 season. The list was subsequently seized by federal agents as part of an ongoing investigation into the use of PEDs by major league baseball players
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e-Discovery Policy Could Have Stopped Steroid Leaks
Attorneys for the Louisiana Technology Council have issued subpoenas for Mayor Ray Nagin, city attorney Penya Moses-Fields and interim technology director Harrison Boyd, to appear in court Tuesday for a hearing on the dispute between the city and LTC over Nagin’s deleted e-mails. The city filed a civil lawsuit against the technology group on Monday, claiming LTC had breached a confidentiality agreement. The firm was hired to perform a forensic audit to locate Nagin’s missing e-mails, in response to lawsuit filed by WWL-TV and reporter Lee Zurik, following a public records request
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Tech firm attorneys issue subpoenas to Nagin, other city officials