eDiscovery Daily Blog
Our First Birthday! eDiscovery Daily is One Year Old Today!
Break out the birthday cake and the noisemakers! eDiscovery Daily is now a year old! One year ago today, we launched this blog with the ambitious goal of providing eDiscovery news and analysis every business day. And, we haven’t missed a day yet! Knock on wood!
Since we last reported, during our “sixmonthiversary”, we’ve almost doubled viewership (again!) since those first six months, and have increased our subscriber base over 2 1/2 times over that span! Clearly, there is no shortage of topics to write about regarding eDiscovery and we appreciate your continued interest and support!
We also want to thank the blogs and publications that have linked to our posts and raised our public awareness, including Pinhawk, Litigation Support Blog.com, The Electronic Discovery Reading Room, Litigation Support Technology & News, eDiscovery News, InfoGovernance Engagement Area, Ride the Lightning, ABA Journal, ABC's of E-Discovery, Above the Law, EDD: Issues, Law, and Solutions, Law.com and any other publication that has picked up at least one of our posts for reference (sorry if I missed any!).
Finally, a quick “thanks” to all who contributed to the blog in the past year, including Jane Gennarelli, Jason Krause and Brad Jenkins (my boss, got to thank him, right?), as well as Melissa Rudy for assisting with several of the posts.
For those of you who have not been following eDiscovery Daily all year (which is most of you), here are some topics and posts you may have missed. Feel free to check them out!
Case Law:
eDiscovery Daily has published 50 posts related to eDiscovery case decisions and activities over the past year! Victor Stanley v. Creative Pipe, commonly referred to as the “Victor Stanley” case was followed throughout the year, including our very first post, as well as here, here and here. More recently, the eDiscovery malpractice case involving McDermott, Will & Emery has captured considerable interest, with recent posts here, here and yesterday’s post here.
Also among the case law posts is Crispin v. Christian Audigier Inc., which seems to reflect growing interest in discoverability of social media data, as this post was the most viewed post of the year on our blog!
Project Management:
Project management in eDiscovery is a popular topic and Jane Gennarelli provided a couple of series of posts to address best practices in this very important area. The eDiscovery Project Management series was published over the October, November and December months of 2010, while the Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team series ran over January, February and into March.
Thought Leaders:
eDiscovery Daily was able to sit down with numerous industry thought leaders, including George Socha, Craig Ball, Tom O’Connor, Tom Gelbmann, Jack Halprin, Deidre Paknad, Jeffrey Brandt, Alon Israely, Jim McGann and Christine Musil to get their “takes” on the state of the industry and where it’s headed. Thanks to all of those individuals who agreed to speak with us this past year! We will continue to bring you more perspectives throughout the industry in the coming year.
Search Best Practices:
There were several posts on search best practices, including don’t get “wild” with wildcards, these posts on how to look for misspellings, a case study for using term lists, these posts on handling exception files and this post on the benefits of proximity searching. We also talked about the “STARR” approach for defensible searching and published this three part series on best practices for sampling and revising searches.
Cloud Computing:
As cloud computing has become a major organizational driving force (overall and as part of eDiscovery), we have addressed several topics related to it, including the importance to be able to load your own data, benefits of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for eDiscovery, the truth about security of SaaS and cloud-based systems, the Forrester and Gartner forecasts for tremendous growth in cloud computing, and even Craig Ball’s thoughts on the benefits of cloud computing for eDiscovery.
And many more posts over the past year on various other topics that are too numerous to mention…
Finally, it’s important to mention that we have yet to archive any old posts, so every post we have ever published is still currently available on this site! (I can see the Information Governance buffs cringing at that statement!) I believe that we are in the process of building an impressive knowledge base of information spanning all sorts of eDiscovery topics as well as the entire EDRM life cycle. If there’s an eDiscovery topic you wish to research, chances are that it’s been discussed here at some point. So, feel free to make eDiscovery Daily one of your first stops for your eDiscovery information needs!
So, what do you think? Do you have any topics that you would like to see covered in more depth? Please share any comments you might have or if you'd like to know more about a particular topic.