Part of me can’t help but wonder how much training the attorneys at this firm attended, or if they were “too busy” to be bothered with learning how the eDiscovery review platform worked, or what the scope of work agreement with the vendor actually was? The event highlights the increasing risks of relying on unfamiliar…
As more organizations switch to BYOD policies, where people use their personal devices to get work email, for example, this is becoming a real concern for me. “No matter how in-house counsel choose to handle text messages, it’s wise to recognize employees’ privacy concerns, said Julia Brickell, executive managing director and general counsel at e-discovery…
This isn’t a great statement on the security of sensitive data, and the last sentence isn’t a great statement in terms of the litigation readiness of organizations either. “Polling a little over a thousand IT professionals around the world, the survey found that 76 percent had reported that their companies had increased investments in perimeter…
If you’ve ever taken one of the classes I taught back when I worked for eDiscovery software companies, there’s a fairly good chance you’ve seen me get up on my proverbial soapbox about this. “The process involves utilizing various techniques in tandem to remove as many documents as possible from a collection before processing the…
The implications for this truth are quite far-reaching, no? Whether we want to talk about in a training environment or have a discussion about lawyers and eDiscovery technology, there’s a lot to think about here. I have always said, in fact I just said it a couple of days ago, that I’d much rather have…
This was obviously, inevitable. Wherever you have groups of people interacting, and generating data, you will have legal issues. That can be good for the legal profession, assuming we are willing to get our heads out of the sand and embrace the technology. “The new survey shows what lawyers already knew: millions of people are…