Complex Discovery

News and views from the intersection of electronic discovery and social media.

    How many MBs in that Box?

    How many MBs in that Box?

    Designed to help legal professionals in “rule of thumb” data volume planning for electronic discovery, the Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Planning Calculator uses a combination of generally accepted industry assumptions to provide users with a quick reference planning tool that can help in the estimation of print-to-digital and digital-to-print data volume.

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    Considering ECA?

    Considering ECA?

    While much has been written and presented on “electronic discovery analytics” within the past several years, it appears to be difficult to find both a commonly accepted concise definition of electronic discovery centric analytics as well as a contextual example of where analytics fits within the field of electronic discovery.

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    EDD and Social Media

    EDD and Social Media

    When one considers the fact that the number of worldwide users of social networking surpassed users of email in July of 2009, it seems to reason that legal professionals considering enterprise communications in their electronic discovery audits, investigations, and litigation should, if they have not already, begin to view social networking based communications in the same way they consider email communications.

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    Communications 101

    Communications 101

    By answering eight key communication questions, this insightful presentation provides communications considerations that can make a difference for those seeking to effectively close “the last three feet” with their audience.

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    New Communications?

    New Communications?

    Based on transformation and technology, current principles of marketing communications require considerable rethinking in light of the available “conduits” to communicate with others. With a relook at past marketing communications principles in mind – the following new marketing communications principles are provided for your consideration, review, and use.

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    Leveraging Social Media?

    Leveraging Social Media?

    In today’s “sound-bite” environment in which professional organizations compete for client attention through a variety of communications conduits, it is increasingly important to consider and evaluate the potentially powerful benefits of new social media tools. However, to properly leverage their benefits, one must also understand that these new tools are just that –– tools.

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