Our Insights on eDiscovery

So many topics, so little time (again). In our webcast about millennials and their impact on eDiscovery last week, Tom O’Connor and I spent a lot of time talking about how millennials are quick to embrace new technology and certainly there have been few technology areas of growth like mobile device use. They’re everywhere and used by (seemingly) everybody and used (seemingly) all day long. Texts are the new emails, which means they have considerable importance from an eDiscovery perspective. So, who should you go to if you want to stay apprised of mobile eDiscovery trends? Craig Ball is “that guy”.

Our “nine clouds” logo is making a one-day comeback! If you read our blog yesterday, you probably noticed that our Throwback Thursday post was from the day eDiscovery Daily was launched. That was nine years ago today!

A while ago, I provided search strategy assistance to a client that had already agreed upon several searches with opposing counsel. One search related to mining activities, so the attorney decided to use a wildcard of “min*” to retrieve variations like “mine”, “mines” and “mining”. That one search retrieved over 300,000 files with hits. Why? Let’s take a look.

As we learned in Tom O’Connor’s recent five part blog series, millennials may be changing eDiscovery (depending on your point of view). Regardless, eDiscovery is changing and millennials may be a BIG part of that change. TODAY’S webcast will help you think like a millennial to address your eDiscovery needs.

You didn’t think companies that make a lot of their revenue in online advertising were going to just roll over when Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was enacted to protect personal information, did you? Apparently not, as this article discusses.

OK, today is the day that spawned a whole series of horror movies that have been a part of the Hollywood lexicon for nearly forty years now. But the decisions being made in California this week could impact data privacy considerations for…well, who knows how long? So, which is worse? Depends on your point of view, I guess.

Last week, we discussed the various permutations of names of individuals to include in your searching for a more complete result set, as well as the benefits of proximity searching (broader than a phrase search, more precise than an AND search) to search for names of individuals. Another way to identify documents associated with individuals is through their email addresses. Let’s take a look.