eDiscovery
4 Basic eDiscovery Search Habits to Break
1) Improper deduping practices When working with data filters within your eDiscovery search strategy, make sure that you only deduplicate your results AFTER running your keyword search. Failure to do this risks inadvertently excluding and missing items that fit your date range but were deduped against earlier copies of the same items outside of…
Read More6 Security Steps To Take With Laptops, Smartphones, and Flash Drives
Laptops, smartphones, and flash drives save lawyers from packing heavy briefcases stuffed with paperwork. However, this convenience comes with a price — the security risks are substantial. According to William Quick, a sole practitioner in Clayton, MO who teaches and lectures on technology topics, “Identity theft is a mushrooming problem that Congress and the states…
Read MoreConsidering eDiscovery Options? Understanding Time, Risk, and Cost
Balancing time, risk, and cost in the conduct of electronic discovery continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by legal professionals today. Technology advances, laws which further define electronically stored information (ESI), and current economic conditions all serve to increase both the importance and complexity of meeting this challenge of “balance”. With…
Read MorePrimer on Data Encryption Part One: (Categorizing the Data)
Data encryption is no longer a luxury add on for law firms ; it’s a requirement. Yet without an effective plan in place, encryption will be incomplete and vulnerable to risk. Encryption methods and practices vary will vary based on the location of your data but we will highlight three location categories for your data: Know…
Read MoreTERIS on Timing & Leveraging Technology to Lower eDiscovery Costs
The Earlier You Start, the More Technology Can Cut the Costs of Discovery Discovery used to mean sending a small army of associate attorneys and paralegals to a warehouse to pour through boxes of paper documents and flag items to scan that might be relevant to pending litigation. The process could take hundreds of hours…
Read MoreBasic Principles to Establish an Information Governance Policy
Information Governance programs are a growing and critical component of how organizations manage their data and records. Understanding information governance and the information lifecycle is important because data impacts all areas of an organization, including regulatory compliance, litigation, continuous improvement processes, IT infrastructure, and business strategies, to name a few. Additionally, an effective information governance…
Read MoreeDiscovery Market to Exceed $19 Billion by 2023: P&S Market Research
Article sourced from P&S Market Research via Global Newswire According to a new market research report titled “eDiscovery Market by Component (Software, Service), by Solution (Legal Hold, Early Case Assessment, Data Processing, Technology Assisted Review, Data Production), by Deployment Type (On-Premise, Cloud, Hybrid), by Industry Vertical (Government, Legal, BFSI, Energy & Utilities, Healthcare, IT & Telecom,…
Read More5 Important Legal Tech Trends
Change in the legal industry is undeniable and accelerating at a great pace. Historically, the legal industry is one of the later industries to adopt technologies but that seems to be changing. Not only is legal tech constant evolving but the amount of big data and different types of data have been on the rise…
Read MoreThe risks posed by handling personal identifiable information will be significant in 2018
GDPR compliance will bring a business mental shift in 2018 – specifically, the impact on the perception of data as a commodity Article sourced from Sheila Jambekar, GDPR spokesperson and associate general counsel at Twilio The GDPR deadline is now less than six months away, and businesses across the UK (as well as many more around the…
Read MoreTime To Change Your eDiscovery Mindset
We are living in a world where the lawyer’s job is now to understand where discoverable information is coming from, what form it is in and what new forms of data are out there. It has become more important than ever to keep track of the different sources of emerging ESI. Without having a solid…
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