Monica makes a compelling case for more organizations to bring their eDiscovery work in house. Despite my place in an outside firm, I actually agree with much of what she has to say. “Monica Enand: It all comes down to three components: control, security and cost. First, having a system that the entire legal team…
HashtagLegal put together this little video about the frustration of not getting complete instructions from clients and project managers. One, I found it pretty on point. Two, it reminded me of something I’ve often mentioned to attorneys and other folks in our industry. The “dirty little secret” of working in litigation support is that we…
I don’t know if you’ve seen this blog post from Exterro this week. They are starting a series of interview with eDiscovery professionals, describing what their days are like, and this week it was Christa Haskins, CEDS, E-Discovery/ESI Support Manager at Becton Dickinson. Being in-house with a legal department, Christa’s day looks a little different…
I hadn’t thought of this but it really does set a hard deadline for preserving data, doesn’t it? “The move puts a bit of a clock on attorneys and e-discovery professionals looking to salvage data from the platform that could be relevant to future litigation. Indeed, the impending closure illustrates just exactly how tricky taking responsibility…
Yes, that was my fortune earlier this week. In your personal life, I can think of a few doors that should be slammed shut. In your professional life though, maybe not so much. That’s not to say there aren’t companies, bosses, or even coworkers that you definitely do not want to go back to. I’m…
The problem is that to many people involved in litigation, this is too much work: “When requesting parties want all search hits in an email mailbox containing a common search term, they are asking for trouble. Requesting communications between specific people, over a set period of time, regarding specific subject matter, is one way to…