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by Julia Romero Peter, Esq. In re Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Prods. Liab. Litig., No. 3:12-MD-2391 (N.D. Ind. Apr. 18, 2013), the court held that defendant Biomet’s use of keyword culling and de-duplication in conjunction with predictive coding (technology assisted review) satisfied its discovery obligations.   In 2012, defendant Biomet began producing documents in…

This month marks the 17th anniversary since the founding of what is now TERIS. On June 5, 1996 company founder and CEO Stefan Wikstrom took the plunge into entrepreneurship with the founding of what was then “American Legal Corporation” (or ALC). The company later morphed into ALC Legal Technology before successfully rebranding itself as TERIS…

By Julia Romero Peter, Esq. The Federal Trade Commission and International Trade Commission recently have revised its ediscovery rules.  Both sets of rules aim to expedite the ediscovery process, ease discovery burdens and clarify privilege procedures.  FTC’s Revised Rules  On November 9, 2012, the FTC’s revised rules on ediscovery went into effect. These rules cover…

The knowledge and content management magazine KMWorld listed Relativity, an eDiscovery platform developed by kCura, as a trend-setting product of 2012.  But Relativity is more than a trend.  This software has become a game-changer and labeling it as a trend elicits an impermanence that undermines the credit this product deserves.  Like the Ford Model T…

by Greg Behan, Esq. A technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is moving forward with the development of standards for legal discovery involving electronically stored information (ESI).  Previously, the committee generated international standards guidelines for the identification, collection, acquisition, and preservation of digital evidence with the goal of creating an impartial global…

When the world of eDiscovery was young, it made sense to charge per gigabyte, much as a laundromat charges per shirt. Although the presence of electronic data, devices, and storage were becoming increasingly prevalent in daily life, the litigation industry was a bit slow to catch on at first, and the per-gigabyte pricing model stuck…

by Greg Behan, Esq. “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.”                        -Stewart Brand- The information substructure of society—the way information is captured, shared, and communicated[i]—is evolving at an exponential rate and most institutions are not prepared to adapt to this rate of…

TERIS Director and ESI Consultant Alexander Lubarsky will be speaking at the upcoming California Judicial Attorneys Conference May 28-29, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA. This event serves as an annual retreat for District Court and Supreme Court Justices with their research attorneys. Mr. Lubarsky’s topic will be “Electronic Evidence: The Wave Is Coming—Ride It Or Wipe…

It’s no secret that the use of social media has skyrocketed. In 2012, according to Burson-Marsteller, eighty-seven percent of Fortune Global 100 companies used some form of social media. In 2009, more communications occurred via social networking sites than e-mail. Increased use has created a plethora of information that quickly has become a highly-desired source…

TERIS partner Nuix, and EDRM, the leading standards organization for the eDiscovery and information governance market, announced yesterday that they republished the EDRM Enron PST Data Set after cleansing it of private, health and personal financial information. Nuix and EDRM have also published the methodology Nuix’s staff used to identify and remove more than 10,000 high-risk…