Even though I work at one of those outside law firms, this has always made total sense to me: “The survey also found that bringing the e-discovery process in-house is a common and effective way to control spending. Seventy-five percent of the respondents said they are using the technique to control e-discovery costs, and it was given…
With the grain of salt that this is written by a company that makes a forensic email collection tool, I think reasons 2-6 in the linked list are very real issues for any eDiscovery collection, and why I would not rush into collecting any web-based email account. “On the surface, this looks reasonable—Outlook connects to…
This should be obvious, but I suspect that in the majority of cases, a whole lot of time and effort is spent just trying to figure out what data is out there, and where it is. “Anyone familiar with electronic discovery (e-discovery) and complex civil litigation knows that there is tremendous evidentiary benefit to quickly…
Yes, next question? Of course law firms are going to have to change their incentives in order to do real, serious, innovation. The all-mighty billable hour can’t be the measurement for success while you are also implementing tools and technology designed to make things more efficient. It’s actually a disincentive to using those resources, even…
This is an interesting ruling. I think they’re on to something too. “In the case of Commonwealth v. Mangel, No. 2018 Pa. Super. 57 (Pa. Super. March 15, 2018 Musmanno, S.J. Ott, J., Shogan, J.)(Op. by Musmanno, J.), the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that social media posts are inadmissible in criminal cases unless prosecutors can…
You know, we could ask the same question at many corporate law departments, and also at law firms. “When I came to Google my hypothesis was, what would happen if you really invested in the people?” she said. “And then I went out and found those people.” Often, eDiscovery is an offshoot of something else….