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Sloppy Redaction: To Err Is Automated Friday, August 7th, 2009
A few years ago, a federal agency was having problems with an individual who requested a large number of public records. Despite the fact that the agency took pains to edit, or redact classified information, this frequent requester had an alarming ability to read words that had been censored and publish them online. “They called us and said, ‘this guy must have some high-tech scanners or something, because he can read words we have clearly redacted,’” says Richard Huff, who served as one of two co-directors of the Federal Office of Information and Privacy from 1982 until his recent retirement
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Sloppy Redaction: To Err Is Automated
From Ernie the Attorney: On October 24th, Tom O’Connor and I will present a 2 hour seminar entitled: Electronic Discovery for Solo & Small Firms. T he seminar will provide practical information about making electronic discovery work for you, rather than against you. Tom and I will show participants how to avoid pitfalls inherent in producing E-mails, and also discuss important new trends that you need to pay attention to
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As if I needed another excuse to go to New Orleans…
In the Terminator series, the evil computer network Skynet leads the rise of machines in an effort to destroy humanity. Hopefully things won’t go that far in a new report called The Rise of Information Governance , which tackles the often complex, confusing and confounding issues of information management and all that it encompasses. The report, written by the 451 Group , attempts to define information governance, as well as examine the market dynamics and drivers, adoption trends and profiles of 15 vendors working towards information governance zen
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The Rise of Information Governance
Women in eDiscovery today announced that it is hosting an educational luncheon at ILTA ’09 on Tuesday, August 25, 2009, at 12:30 PM, featuring a presentation by Allison Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel and Director of Information Management & Strategy at Marsh & McLennan Companies, a publically traded Fortune 200 company. Women in eDiscovery will host a luncheon during the ILTA ’09 conference, Tuesday, August 25, 2009. The guest speaker is Allison Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel and Director of Information Management & Strategy at Marsh & McLennan Companies.
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Women in eDiscovery to Host Educational Luncheon at ILTA ’09 Conference
Electronic Discovery is with us, has been regulated, and there are now standards for its use in litigation. Attorneys for clients now have to advise on how to store, produce, resist demands, and comply with the appropriate rules. Whenever there is general agreement upon a standard of practice, the question of deviation from that standard arises. This is the central tenant of legal malpractice: if there is a standard, attorneys must adhear. Duane Morris reports on the Quallcom case: “Th
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Electronic Discovery and Legal Malpractice
As I wrote in this column last month, in-house legal departments are more pressed than ever to control legal costs, while at the same time they are being charged with assuming greater risk management responsibilities that come with increased government regulations and compliance workloads. In June, we announced the results of a recent LexisNexis CounselLink study conducted by Corporate Counsel and published by Incisive Media, which found that 68 percent of in-house legal professionals feel pressure to reduce the law department budget, and nearly 59 percent of them already have experienced actual reductions in total budgets. Meanwhile, a 2009 study by Corporate Executive Board found that in-house law departments at major corporations are thinly spread across multiple jurisdictions.
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Self-Managed Discovery Solutions: How Corporate Law Departments Are Reducing Costs And Increasing Control Of Data
This week’s “Top 10 plus …” E-discovery articles from Orange Legal Technologies. Strange Times: EDD $ is down 9% but should spike 30% this year - http://tinyurl.com/TCS9823 The Impact of E-Discovery on Arbitration – http://tinyurl.com/n4aqzs ILTA’s Annual Conference-A Not-So-Grimm Fairy Tale: The Conclusion – http://tinyurl.com/nh3gxz The Facebook Era is for Business – http://tinyurl.com/n8oxbb Is Electronic Discovery Wrong? – http://tinyurl.com/kpcbx9 Migrating from Old Applications Is the New Challenge – http://tinyurl.com/nqdtvr Q&A: Should Lawyers Tweet With Clients? – http://tinyurl.com/m4w29g A growing trend: Social media as legal evidence - http://tinyurl.com/munmz2 Free Market having its way with eDiscovery vendors – http://bit.ly/2zT0mm Mary’s Mack’s “Practical Guide” eBook on e-Discovery” - http://bit.ly/oGdmO eDiscovery Vendors News Masters Conference Sponsor Update – http://tinyurl.com/kublr8 Orange Legal Technologies Cites $ Spike – http://tinyurl.com/lwsstb O’Melveny and H5 Form Strategic Alliance to Offer Cutting-Edge Model for Document Review – http://tinyurl.com/lrz4ep GSA Outlines U.S
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August 5th: Our weekly “Top 10 plus ….″ E-discovery articles from Orange Legal Technologies
Corporate information technology appears to be moving toward “cloud computing” — an environment accessible to all over the Internet or other communication means, where the customer (or user) directly uses application programs made available by the service provider. The user’s data is then stored on the provider’s servers, i.e., “in the cloud,” [FOOTNOTE 1] and may be shared among many parties. Poor economic conditions have induced a multitude of companies to explore cloud computing as a means of reducing IT costs
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Data Breaches in the Cloud: Looks Like Rain?
BELLEVUE, Wash., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Applied Discovery(R), a leader in comprehensive electronic discovery products and services today announced that it has partnered with Microsoft/FAST to implement FAST ESP(TM) advanced document search and retrieval in the Applied Discovery Online Review Application (ORA). The ORA is a web-based, Software as a Service (SaaS) application most preferred by NLJ200 Law Firms and Fortune 500 organizations for search, review and tagging of documents in response to
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Press Release – Applied Discovery Selects Microsoft FAST for Advanced E-Discovery Document Search
The City of New Orleans has filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Technology Council, the firm hired to perform a forensic audit to locate Mayor Ray Nagin’s missing e-mails. The city asked for a temporary restraining order and permanent injunction. The LTC was fired July 3 for violating the city’s confidentiality agreement, after Mark Lewis and Christopher Reade went public on July 1 with their findings by holding a press conference, officials from city contend.
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City files lawsuit against LTC over mayor’s emails
Authors of the new book eDiscovery Plain & Simple , Allison Brecher, Corporate Counsel for a Fortune 200 and Shawnna Childress, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Women in eDiscovery, are teaching an eDiscovery educational webinar on Tuesday, August 4 at 1:00pm EST/10:00am PST. This free webinar is a “crash course” in electronic discovery and the information technology — all explained in a “plain and simple” way.
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Tuesday, August 4th: free webinar “eDiscovery Plain & Simple” — a “crash course” in electronic discovery
Rey Anzaldua, Co-Author of “Computer Forensics for Dummies” Is This Week’s Guest on Talk Forensics Sunday August 2nd at 4pm eastern. Talk Forensics welcomes Rey Anzaldua, Co-Author of “Computer Forensics for Dummies” to Talk Forensics this Sunday, August 2nd at 4pm eastern. Rey Anzaldua has been doing computer work since 1987 and has worked in the computer field in jobs ranging from university lab assistant to IT Director
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Rey Anzaldua, Co-Author of "Computer Forensics for Dummies" to be on Talk Forensics
Does concept searching handle foreign languages?Its an important question for those operating in an international enviroement. Most tools in the electronic discovery industry are driven by the US market and so, unstandably, are US centric .For concept searching tools this means that they tend to strongly favour the English language.But what if your dealing with a case in Switzerland or Mexico? Will concept searching really work for documents in spanish?It will depend on the tool and the operato
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Electronic Discovery: Concept Searching and Languages
Clearwell Systems has provided on its website a sample e-discovery request for proposal (RFP) created for the acquisition of an in-house e-discovery solution. It includes over 100 questions from real RFPs and promotes many concepts from the Best Practices for the Selection of Electronic Discovery Vendors published by the Sedona Conference Working Group.
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Sample E-Discovery Request for Proposal (RFP)
Its a small sentance, but a big questoin “Is concept searching a reasonable search?”.In the UK the process of electronic discovery is defined by the Civil Procedure Rules, Part 31. 31.7 defines the duty of search and states:1) When giving standard disclosure, a party is required to make a reasonable search for documents falling within rule31.7 then goes onto state(2) The factors relevant in deciding the reasonableness of a search include the following –(a) the number of documents in
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Electronic Discovery: Is Concept Searching “a reasonble search”?
While navigating the electronic discovery rules put into effect in 2006 can still be murky, one thing is clear: Failing to adequately comply with discovery requests is a costly mistake. Take this recent lawsuit: In 2007, Dell was sued over an alleged misappropriation of funds related to a surveillance camera system developed for the city of New Orleans. The suit claimed Dell was part of a conspiracy to fraudulently sell the system
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Ouch! Missing e-mails get company socked with big fine
The report by Lord Justice Jackson into litigation costs in the UK, published last month, is seen as a major factor in influencing electronic discovery in the UK, with Chapter 40 dedicated to Electronic Discovery.It may well be as critical as commentors suggest, but that does not mean it’s going to be influencing the industry in the correct way.In Paragraph 5, Chapter 40 (Volume2) of the report, Lord Jackson states that:5.10 Format of disclosure. Parties sometimes make disclosure in a format whi
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Electronic Discovery: Lord Jackson Report
Phoenix, AZ, July 15, 2009 – Encore Discovery Solutions, an industry leading knowledge-based provider of electronic discovery and related services, today announced that it has retired its long-term debt and, except for a revolving line of credit to finance accounts receivable, now operates 100% debt free. With no long-term debt, Encore is better positioned than most electronic discovery service providers to fulfill long-term obligations to its clients. “Our clients can remain secure in the knowledge that Encore will be here to serve them,” said Greg Mazares, Encore’s CEO
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Encore Discovery Solutions Retires Long-Term Debt
Litigation Support Specialist A boutique litigation firm is seeking an experienced Litigation Support Specialist in their Raleigh, North Carolina office. Duties include:Maintain document databases and assist in electronic discovery. Continued here: Litigation Support Specialist – Raleigh/Durham, NC US Technorati Tags: best-practices , boutique-litigation , document-databases , electronic-discovery , Legal Services , litigation , north , north-carolina , raleigh , support
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Litigation Support Specialist – Raleigh/Durham, NC US
E-discovery guru Mary Mack, Corporate Technology Counsel for Fios Inc., has a free ebook for you to download. The book is titled A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery. In this updated version, author Mary Mack does a masterful job of organizing, sharing, and explaining key information related to the expanding field of expertise we all know as “electronic discovery”. Her examples, checklists, and references provide quick and concise “snapshots” of electronic discovery centric “perishable knowledge” (i.e.
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Free e-discovery book — A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery
This week’s “”Top 10+1″ electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies. How To E-Discover Someone In the Age of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/nt3kr8 The Intelligence Behind Email Patterns – http://tinyurl.com/kq4gjp The Trouble With Discovery of ESI Abroad – http://tinyurl.com/nsd4z3 A Closer Look at California E-Discovery Law – http://is.gd/1HNtk Four Steps to Reducing the Cost of Compliance – http://tinyurl.com/lf42nd Software that spots hidden networks – Electronic ties that bind – http://tinyurl.com/kwww8z How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part II: Document Retention Policies and Information Management – http://tinyurl.com/mce3yq How to Reduce Electronic Discovery Costs Part III: Early Case Assessment – http://tinyurl.com/lkoemk The Critical Role of Preservation in Electronic Discovery – ESIBytes Podcast with David Ries http://www.esibytes.com/?p=228 Analysis of the Legality of Downloading in Canada http://is.gd/1jNEt Comparing Comprehensive Solutions vs.
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July 22nd: Orange Technologies Weekly “Top 10+1″ E-Discovery articles
Metalogix Software (http://www.metalogix.net), a privately held Microsoft Exchange™ and Microsoft SharePoint™ migration and archiving company, today released the eCompliance and eDiscovery Report 2009, which identifies email archiving trends for 2009 (1). The report presents the results of a recent survey of over 1,500 U.S. and international corporate executives.
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CEOs Risk Damaging Violations By Lagging Behind Latest eDiscovery Regulations Over 60% of Respondents in Metalogix Survey Cite Lack of Direction
If you’ve been thinking about moving your applications into the cloud but weren’t sure how to best justify the investment, you can probably thank the North Koreans for helping to write your business case. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks – allegedly instigated by North Korea or its backers – that disrupted service for many federal agencies this month were successful because most of these agencies still publish web content on small, easily-saturated network links
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Can Cloud Defend Against DDoS Attacks?
BC Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennett has ruled that the emails of Premier Gordon Campbell, most cabinet ministers and political staff are “likely relevant” to the defence in the Basi-Virk case and ordered they be disclosed to the defence. The precedent-setting ruling will see for the first time the emails of a sitting premier turned over to defence lawyers for three former BC government aides facing corruption charges connected to the $1 billion sale of BC Rail in 2003
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Basi-Virk: Court orders disclosure of Gordon Campbell’s emails
There is an expanding need for temporary attorneys across Europe as many European companies and law firms have been adopting the use of temporary workers on a wider basis, as well as many U.S. companies and law firms which have applied the known U.S. model to their European operations. Much of this is attributable to the use of blocking statutes and the impact of European privacy laws (for explanations click here ). Most projects are more appropriate for attorneys based in Europe or U.S. attorneys that have a “home base” in one of the busier markets (see paragraph 10 below). These projects are often suitable for sole practioners based in Europe (many are special projects seeking EU law expertise) as well as stagiaires who have done a stint with any of the EU institutions The first preference is always EU-based/EU admitted attorneys with multi-language ability
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The European Posse List and Working in Europe
We have launched the Asia-Pacific Posse List which will include our Asia job listserv (to get on the Asian-Pacific job list click here ) and this page. Our focus will be the legal markets in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan and Singapore but we will include other Asian locations as they develop. This page is sponsored by our strategic partner in Asia, CCH Workflow Solutions. You can learn more about CCH Workflow Solutions in some articles we have linked at the top of this column as well as by clicking their logo in the upper right hand corner of this page.
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The Asia-Pacific Posse List and Working in Asia
There has been much discussion recently about the emerging litigation support profession. The profession has evolved over the last 10 years right along with the growth of electronic discovery. Estimates indicate that there are over 10,000 litigation support professionals (LSP) in the U.S. They operate at the intersection of law and technology, helping to steward ESI through processing, analysis, review and production. You will also find litigation support professionals increasingly involved in earlier phases of the e-discovery process, such as identification, preservation, collection and discovery conference preparation. And many of these positions are held by Posse List members/contract attorneys who have moved full-time and part-time into the field.
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The Rise of the Litigation Support Professional