Our Insights on eDiscovery

I was asked to tackle this topic after a question in a recent webinar. It seems to imply that millennials are or will be using some forms of technology that will present significant challenges to ESI preservation and production as the member of that social group enter the work force. In this series, we will take a look at millennials, how they differ from previous generations, the impact of millennials on legal technology and eDiscovery and provide some conclusions and recommendations for how to address that impact in your eDiscovery practices.

We’re less than six months away from the scheduled start of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) on January 1, 2020. So, what are the law’s prospects when it goes into effect next year? According to one article, there are ten reasons why CCPA is going to be a “dumpster fire” when it goes into effect next year.

Don’t feel bad – neither did I until after the fact. But, the first ever Legal Geek North America conference happened last week in Brooklyn and it sounds like it might be one to check out in the future – if you can get in.

Not since Clubber Lang predicted “pain” in Rocky III has the state of legal tech consolidation been stated quite this way. Is that good news or bad news for consumers of legal tech software and services?

Here is the third and final part in our Throwback Thursday series on sampling. Two weeks ago, we talked about how to determine an appropriate sample size to test your search results as well as the items NOT retrieved by the search, using a site that provides a sample size calculator. Last week, we talked about how to make sure the sample size is randomly selected. Today, we’ll walk through an example of how you can test and refine a search using sampling.

As we learned in Tom O’Connor’s recent five part blog series, it seems as though the eDiscovery deck is stacked against plaintiff’s attorneys. Defendants seem to have all the resources, the technical know-how and the interest of the major eDiscovery vendors while the plaintiffs often have few resources, technical knowledge or eDiscovery experience. How do plaintiff’s attorneys bridge that gap? Today’s webcast that will help put those plaintiff’s attorneys on a more equal footing with their defendant counterparts.

There are plenty of reasons that organizations experience a data breach, including weak or stolen passwords (despite the availability of two factor authentication technology to thwart those efforts). Here’s another common cause of data breaches: unpatched vulnerabilities in your software.