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New Survey Shows Biggest Concerns of Legal Professionals Regarding Cloud and Shadow IT: eDiscovery Trends
 New Survey Shows Biggest Concerns of Legal Professionals Regarding Cloud and Shadow IT: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

A big topic during LegalTech New York (LTNY) last month were the issues and concerns associated with information governance (IG) as it applies to the use of “Shadow IT” applications, including those that are cloud-based. A new survey, actually conducted during LTNY, was released earlier this week that sheds light on those concerns of legal technology professionals.

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Details Released on the New EU-US Privacy Shield: eDiscovery Trends
 Details Released on the New EU-US Privacy Shield: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As we discussed last month, the EU-US Privacy Shield, an important new framework for transatlantic data flows was announced on February 2. Within the same month, the European Commission released details on the new trans-Atlantic data transfer arrangement.

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Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis, LLP: eDiscovery Trends
 Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis, LLP: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

This is the eighth and final of the 2016 LegalTech New York (LTNY) Thought Leader Interview series. eDiscovery Daily interviewed several thought leaders at LTNY this year to get their observations regarding trends at the show and generally within the eDiscovery industry. Unlike previous years, some of the questions posed to each thought leader were tailored to their position in the industry, so we have dispensed with the standard questions we normally ask all thought leaders.

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Predictive Coding is Officially Approved in First English Case: eDiscovery Case Law
 Predictive Coding is Officially Approved in First English Case: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

Last month, in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd, citing the landmark DaSilva Moore case (among other authorities), Master Matthews approved the use of predictive coding, due to the “enormous” expense of manually searching through the three million electronic documents associated with the case. This is the believed to be the first time an English court has approved the use of predictive coding.

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Pete Feinberg of Consilio: eDiscovery Trends
 Pete Feinberg of Consilio: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Pete Feinberg. Pete is Senior Vice President of Product Strategy at Consilio, responsible for the overall product strategy and product management of Consilio’s products and services line. Prior to joining Consilio, Pete ran marketing for the largest vertical of Blackboard – a Washington DC-based education technology company. Prior to that, Pete served as vice president in various product, partner marketing and eCommerce roles at a variety of B2B software and B2C eRetail companies in the Washington DC area. Pete’s specialties are in guiding product strategy, bringing new products and services to market, representing the voice of the client as an executive “client advocate”, and guiding the service delivery organization to engage with clients not as a vendor, but instead as a trusted advisor.

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Chris Dale of The eDisclosure Information Project: eDiscovery Trends
 Chris Dale of The eDisclosure Information Project: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Chris Dale Chris is director of the UK-based eDisclosure Information Project. Chris qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure / discovery. The e-Disclosure Information Project disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He was a member of Senior Master Whitaker’s Working Party which drafted Practice Direction 31B and the Electronic Documents Questionnaire. Chris is also a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and other common law jurisdictions.

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Confidence in eDiscovery Business is Up and Here is the Most Comprehensive LTNY Review: eDiscovery Trends
 Confidence in eDiscovery Business is Up and Here is the Most Comprehensive LTNY Review: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

This is a rare two-topic day, but both of these topics are interesting enough that I decided neither could wait. So today, we’re covering the results of Rob Robinson’s eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey and also Andrew Haslam’s very comprehensive report on LegalTech, titled LegalTech 2016 – Cloud, Consolidation and Cybersecurity.

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Craig Ball of Craig D. Ball, P.C.: eDiscovery Trends
 Craig Ball of Craig D. Ball, P.C.: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Craig Ball. A frequent court appointed special master in electronic evidence, Craig is a prolific contributor to continuing legal and professional education programs in the United States and abroad, having delivered over 1,700 presentations and papers. Craig’s articles on forensic technology and electronic discovery frequently appear in the national media and he teaches E-Discovery and Digital Evidence at the University of Texas School of Law. He currently blogs on eDiscovery topics at ballinyourcourt.com.

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No Matter Where You Are, You Can Still Attend the UF EDRM E-Discovery Conference: eDiscovery Trends
 No Matter Where You Are, You Can Still Attend the UF EDRM E-Discovery Conference: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

This year’s University of Florida EDRM E-Discovery Conference is coming up on March 30. If you plan to attend in person, great! But, if you can’t attend in person, the good news is that you don’t have to be there, or even in the state of Florida, to attend.

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Tom O’Connor of Advanced Discovery: eDiscovery Trends
 Tom O’Connor of Advanced Discovery: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Tom O’Connor. Tom is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology. Tom’s involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation. Tom is the Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center in New Orleans and he is the Senior ESI Consultant with Advanced Discovery.

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