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New Importance In Metadata Collection
December 07, 2009 4:34 PM
Metadata has been around for a long time but is garnering new attention in the eDiscovery world. Metadata contains information about the creation and editing of electronic documents. E-mail, word processing documents, spreadsheets, database records - all of these and more will have some level of metadata attached to it. Basic metadata includes information on the document's creator and modifiers and the date and times that it was created and acted upon. Metadata matters in eDiscovery because it goes to prove pesky details like the actual dating of an email message as opposed to a modified hard copy, or the fact that a government-produced Word document was reviewed by a lobbyist firm. Interesting, and information that could be crucial to litigation.
eDiscovery And The Law Firm
November 23, 2009 2:03 PM
Outside law firms are uncomfortably aware that their eDiscovery clients are making tracks and taking their pocketbooks with them. The trick is for traditionally tech-averse law firms to change, and fast.
Cloudy Thinking: eDiscovery In The Cloud
November 12, 2009 12:34 PM
The phrase "eDiscovery in the cloud" is so vast as to be meaningless. You have got to pin down your definitions of what kind of cloud you're talking about before you can talk about doing eDiscovery in it.
IT and General Counsel Together At Last - Or Not
October 30, 2009 1:23 PM
General counsel and IT need one another. The GCO needs IT to provide guidance on technology choices near the beginning of the eDiscovery cycle, and IT needs GCO for guidance on legal and business considerations.
ECA: Value Is In The Eye Of The Beholder
October 19, 2009 11:33 AM
eDiscovery vendors and analysts - including myself - are coming out with a raft of product and commentary about Early Case Assessment (ECA). However, we might be assuming a lawyerly acceptance of ECA that just isn't there.
When It Comes to eDiscovery, Even Walmart Can Get It Wrong
October 12, 2009 11:51 AM
Mimosa Systems' excellent (and entertaining) Know-It-All Guide recently reminded me of an older but still relevant case, Testa vs. Walmart, and the giant retailer actually lost it. The mid-90s case is still relevant because the same practices that led to Walmart's loss happen every day in business. The settlement was small at $50K and Walmart could readily afford it, but do you really want to go there by making the same mistake they did?
Stratify Tells You What You've Got
October 07, 2009 11:25 AM
In this morning's announcement, Stratify used a catchy phrase for their integrated ECA/review platform: "Know What You Have." They are not the first vendor to use a phrase instead of a coined name to identify a product's function, especially when the function combines multiple products or services.
What Do You Do When the Fire Hits?
October 06, 2009 2:14 PM
Go proactive with your eDiscovery purchases. Form interdisciplinary teams, vet eDiscovery vendors, and purchase the optimum tools you need to tame your litigation wildfire.
Foundational eDiscovery
September 25, 2009 2:31 PM
Legal concentrates on the review stage of eDiscovery with good reason. But if collected data was badly searched and poorly preserved, then the review process - and the reviewers - will suffer for it.
eDiscovery Pros Circle the Wagons
September 23, 2009 5:03 PM
A new non-profit calling itself the Organization of Legal Professionals (OLP for short) has formed to establish global standards and certification for the eDiscovery process.
ECA: A Big Trend For An Old Topic
September 11, 2009 12:06 PM
Early case assessment (ECA) is moving farther and farther to the left of the EDRM. This means big business for ECA vendors new and old.
Top Trends in eDiscovery
August 31, 2009 8:09 PM
My time at ILTA '09 helped me to crystallize some important eDiscovery trends.
ILTA '09 And eDiscovery Trends
August 28, 2009 7:09 PM
As an analyst, I spend most of my trade show time talking to eDiscovery vendors. Since a majority of these conversations are under NDA, if I told you what they said, I'd have to kill you. So I will share with you the market trends that I discussed with show vendors and attendees.
Managing Archives for eDiscovery
August 19, 2009 4:49 PM
The e-Discovery identification/collection process is no slam dunk. With huge volumes of corporate data to search through - and little time in which to do it - identification and collection can be extremely challenging.
Is Legal Stepping Up To The eDiscovery Plate?
August 12, 2009 8:35 PM
If IT is unable to retrieve and protect the proper amount of relevant data - all within the short period of time mandated by FRCP - then it's not IT that suffers. It's the Legal department.
Fun With Electronic Redaction
August 06, 2009 8:39 PM
In the good old days of simple paper production, redaction was simple. The reviewer read the documents with a black marker in hand and slashed away. Now redaction is a lot -- a LOT-- harder.
How NOT To Do eDiscovery - Especially If It's On Purpose
August 05, 2009 8:09 PM
If the city of Washington DC could do anything to foul up eDiscovery then that's what they did. No one seemed immune to misconduct: not law enforcement, not the district attorney's office, not IT.
Records Management and eDiscovery
July 31, 2009 6:01 PM
Records management has always been painful but now it's nearly impossible given the unending growth in ESI. Since corporations are infamous for keeping every stick of data, we're looking at hundreds of terabytes of data just in the data center with many more hundreds of TBs on servers, SAN, NAS, tape, and workstations scattered throughout the enterprise. These terabyte-to-petabyte levels represent a lot of records to manage for multiple business needs including eDiscovery, compliance and data retention.
The Cloud and eDiscovery
July 30, 2009 1:13 AM
As far as eDiscovery goes, cloud-based computing primarily presents as a cloud-based hosting site with eDiscovery services running over the hosted data.
Plowing the Road: Mapping and eDiscovery
July 24, 2009 7:36 PM
Retention policies should do three things: protect business value, comply with regulations, and an infrastructure that streamlines content searches. This is IT's domain but impacts the legal arm as the attorneys are often the bearers of the torch for compliance,...
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