Does Privacy Matter? The Dark Side of the Force
The gathering and use of information to help achieve personal and professional objectives has been a task executed by individuals and organizations from the beginning of time. However, with the advent of tools and technologies that can greatly accelerate this gathering and use of information, it is increasingly important that one considers not only the positive things that can be accomplished from the greater understanding derived from increased information access, but also considers the potential dark side usage of this increased information access.
Drunks, DNA and Data Transfer Risk in eDiscovery
Just as there are many tasks in electronic discovery, many times there are multiple technologies and platforms involved in the complete electronic discovery process. When there are multiple technologies and platforms involved, data must be transferred from disparate technologies and/or platforms to other disparate technologies and/or platforms. This data transfer can be considered a risk factor that affects the overall electronic discovery process.
Focus, Influence, Frequency and Synchronization: Considering Social Media
In today’s “sound-bite” environment in which professional organizations compete for client attention through a variety of conduits and communications, it is increasingly important for marketing and sales leaders to consider and coordinate the use of all communications and communications tools in order to maximize impact and influence on potential clients.
eDiscovery Vendor Viability: Comparisons Beyond Technology and Talent
eDiscovery is rife with risk. Multiple parties, multiple jurisdictions, multiple ESI formats, multiple technologies and multiple vendors are all elements that can contribute to potential risk in an eDiscovery matter. With the prevalence of risk in eDiscovery, it is important that eDiscovery decision makers fully consider vendor viability during the vendor selection process.
Running Results: Predictive Coding One-Question Provider Implementation Survey
Provided for your consideration and use are the in-progress results of the One-Question Provider Implementation Survey launched by ComplexDiscovery on 3/3/13. The results consist of survey answers harvested directly from the online survey form as completed by provider representatives.
Predictive Coding: A Working List of Technologies and a One-Question Provider Implementation Survey
With the growing use of predictive coding in the legal arena today, it appears that it is increasingly more important for eDiscovery professionals to have a general understanding of the potential algorithm approaches that may be implemented by eDiscovery providers to enable predictive coding.
Predicting Discovery? Initial Results of 120-Second Provider Predictive Coding Survey
Provided for your consideration and use are the in-progress results of the Predictive Coding and Provider Survey launched by ComplexDiscovery on 2/10/13. The in-progress results consist of survey answers harvested directly from the online survey form as completed by provider representatives.
Predictive Coding and Providers: A 120-Second Survey
With the growing awareness and use of the technology-assisted review feature of predictive coding in the legal arena today, it is increasingly difficult to determine the origin and approach of the actual predictive coding technologies used by leading eDiscovery providers in their offerings.
11 Years of eDiscovery – A Quick Merger, Acquisition and Investment Update
Updated 6/11/13: Provided as a non-comprehensive overview of over 100 key and publicly announced eDiscovery related mergers, acquisitions and investments since 2002, the following listing highlights key industry activities through the lens of announcement date, acquired company, acquiring or investing company and acquisition amount (if known).
Got Technology-Assisted Review? A Short List of Providers and Terms
Based on a website review of leading providers in the electronic discovery arena, the following list provides a quick, non-all inclusive reference of firms that appear to have developed “technology assisted review” technology (one form of this being “predictive coding”) for their own and/or partner offerings.
A Basic eDiscovery Framework: One Way To Align Three Differing Approaches
The Basic eDiscovery Offering Framework is designed to help eDiscovery professionals cohesively consider how to share and compare service and product information as it relates to the conduct of eDiscovery regardless of the steps, model or best practices used by practitioners.
Considering eDiscovery Providers: Competencies, Attributes and Distribution Frameworks
Comparing and contrasting eDiscovery providers is a daunting task when one considers the multiple stages of eDiscovery, the many providers of eDiscovery offerings, and the fact that most provider comparisons today are based on solely on stage (EDRM¹) or feature/function capabilities.
Subjective Requirements?
Even with the current maturation of electronic discovery solutions (i.e. technology is far from mature), there are still many situations where pure customer service makes the difference between an organization’s ability to meet or not meet client needs. With that being said, truly subjective client service requirements may be very difficult to specify. In fact beyond service level agreements, timeline requirements, project management processes, and work product specifications, many vendors are at a loss when seeking to address the implied but all too real needs of the client.
Dialogue, Experts, and Social Media
The ILTA Annual Conference yearly provides attendees with an excellent forum for considering ideas and innovation centered around the legal profession. Last year’s “Strategic Unity” themed event was no exception – with one of the most interesting areas of discussion being the growth of professional communications through the medium of social media.
The Emotions and Logic of Behavioral Influence
In order to influence a customer, it is prudent to first become familiar with the components of customer behavior. There are both emotional and logical elements to client decisions –– and the impact of these elements changes over time.
Social Media: Growth, Risk, and Tactics
While the benefits of social media use in the workplace can be great, the risks associated with social media usage by organizational employees can also be great. These risks, many times grouped according to their origin as a data risk, a behavior risk, and/or a technology risk, can have a significant impact on key organizational areas.
CEDS Exam: Independent, Validated ‘Baseline of Knowledge’ is Critical to ‘Growth, Success of Professions’
One of the challenges of any profession is establishing a baseline of knowledge that allows for common reference points of understanding amongst participating professionals. This baseline of knowledge appears to be a critical element to the growth and success of professions.
What Might eDiscovery Cost?
Designed to help legal professionals in “rule of thumb” electronic discovery data reduction and pricing planning, the Electronic Discovery Pricing Estimator uses a combination of generally accepted industry assumptions and user determined pricing entries to provide users with a quick reference planning tool.
Now You See It, Now You Don’t
As informed eDiscovery professionals, it is reasonable to assume that there may be eDiscovery vendors whose systems and/or processes do not recognize and index all available ESI.
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.
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.
Does Size Matter?
Taken from a combination of public industry estimations as shared in leading electronic discovery publications, this chart shares market sizing data both the software and service areas of electronic discovery for the years between 2008 and 2013.
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.
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.
