“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.
I think the rise of ephemeral, or temporary, messaging, is fascinating, and I also think that many in the legal field are completely overthinking this. Take, for example the article below, where Pavan raises what he considers to be the “risks: Risks of Ephemeral messaging Preservation and spoliation of evidence: Information that is within the…
After I linked to something last week about how Sarahah seemed like maybe it was a bad idea, I’m glad to see someone figuring out the advantages of anonymity and doing something good with it. Even as reports about Sarahah app being misused by cyber bullies surface, Aware — a Chennai-based NGO that creates awareness…
I suppose this was inevitable, but does the world really need a social network for shopping? “Amazon Spark has one big advantage over Instagram. That’s because its e-commerce component is integrated directly into the social feed. Instagram can’t compete with that. In fact, Spark users can shop on Amazon without even leaving the social site.”…
A Rare Story of Survival – At 13, Alicia Kozak was lured from home by an internet predator. At 14 she decided she would use her story to educate and help others Biglaw Firm Urges Lawyers To #StopTheStigma When It Comes To Mental Health Surviving the Pandemic: Yes, You May Have to Pay a Ransom…
I don’t find either one of these things surprising, at all. “The results are largely what you’d expect, and what the authors predicted: People who felt simply the expectation of having to answer work emails during non-work hours were more anxious, and reported more relationship stress and poorer health. As the team writes, the “omnipresent…
This is an important thing to remember: “One of the major problems with complex jargon is that it makes the listener or reader feel isolated, like they “don’t belong” in the conversation. So they walk away feeling less interested and less knowledgeable on the subject.” If the effects of your communication is someone feeling less…
