“In our experience, legal teams often ignore or avoid any data analysis. Too often, they rush into processing and review without a significant understanding of the content of their ESI. This avoidance is a disservice to clients and staff. Data analysis is an activity that yields significant cost savings to the client. With good tracking and reporting, the return on investment (ROI) can be proven in every case.
We see legal team spending on discovery increase unnecessarily when issues with ESI are uncovered too late in the e-discovery process, requiring work to become reactive instead of proactive. While remediating these issues, we find almost uniformly that time and expense of remediation could have been avoided had data analysis been performed on ESI at the beginning of the project. We find this holds true even in the smallest e-discovery matters.”
I do find it bizarre how often people in this industry take a “fire, aim” approach to eDiscovery. Go get everything and then we’ll figure out what do to with it once we start reviewing, instead of taking a long, hard, look at what we have and then deciding what’s worth reviewing.
Analytic tools are one way of figuring it out. This article does a good job of explaining how they can point us in the right direction up front, instead of after we’ve made a bunch of wrong assumptions.
It’s easy to point at the Facebook or Google’s of the world, and blame them for violating our privacy when they’ve been tracking our personal information all over the web, but it’s not just them. It’s also all the organizations that promised us the data they were tracking was “safe” because it’s all aggregated and…
“Out in Atlanta, GA, Christina Lee and Michael Saba have been receiving a lot of knocks on their door for the past 11 months. These visitors all have one thing in common: they’re looking for their lost/stolen smartphone. At least 12 visitors have shown up at the couple’s Atlanta home, many with police officers, looking…
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I think this article, while helpful, also hints at a larger societal problem that many of us have been thinking about and that is what role our work plays in our overall lives and our sense of work. Working all the time isn’t just something we sometimes do. It’s part and parcel of being “important” in our society. Let’s face it, when someone tells us they disconnect in the evenings and weekends, our first thought is not “Oh how healthy”, it is much more to be “Oh you must not be very important then”.
Until that perception changes, I don’t know that we’ll make much progress, but it does need to change. Our work plays far too much of a role in our self-worth and therefore is it is far too easy to take advantage of employees.
I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy using OneNote on my home machine and laptop. It’s a great tool for keeping track of all kinds of information in one place. Unfortunately, the one place I’ve really seen a need for this lately, is at work, where OneNote is not available to me. So a couple…
At some point, everyone who wants to have an Instagram account has an Instagram account and is using it as often as they want to. You can’t have huge growth spurts. You can only play around the edges and manipulate users to stay online to grow and that’s not a winning strategy. Yet it’s what shareholders and venture funds require. They’ve created a world where growing less than 20% per year might as well be failing. It’s sure going to look like failing when you start cutting jobs and doing stock buybacks. Those used to be desperate measures, but now they’re just a Tuesday at the office.
