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Houstonians, Here’s a Terrific Panel Discussion on TAR Right in Your Own Backyard: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Houstonians, Here’s a Terrific Panel Discussion on TAR Right in Your Own Backyard: eDiscovery Best Practices 300 300 CloudNine

Next month, I have the privilege of moderating a panel on the current state of the acceptance of technology assisted review (TAR) with three terrific panelists, courtesy of the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS). If you’re in Houston on April 3rd, you might want to check it out!

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Training Snapshot: Stemming and Synonym Searching from CloudNine
 Training Snapshot: Stemming and Synonym Searching from CloudNine 150 150 CloudNine

A snapshot demonstration of the process and syntax required to perform stemming and synonym searches within CloudNine to locate grammatical variations and synonyms of terms to catch additional potentially responsive hits for words that also may be responsive to your subject matter searches.

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According to the IGI, Information Governance Continues To Gain Traction: Information Governance Trends
 According to the IGI, Information Governance Continues To Gain Traction: Information Governance Trends 173 119 CloudNine

Last week, the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) released Volume III of their State of Information Governance Report – the third (annual) edition of the Report, which is based on “extensive” surveying of Information Governance (IG) practitioners and providers. So, is Information Governance gaining traction in organizations? (Well, duh, I gave the answer away in the title of this post, didn’t I?)

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Here’s a Conference that Can Be a SOLID Boost to Your Career: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Here’s a Conference that Can Be a SOLID Boost to Your Career: eDiscovery Best Practices 435 148 CloudNine

Actually, it’s not a “conference” so much as it’s a “summit” – the Summit On Legal Innovation and Disruption (SOLID). SOLID is an interactive exchange of ideas by doers, innovators and disruptors in the business of law. Speakers and participants will inform, instruct and inspire one another to design and apply solutions that will elevate and accelerate their careers from ‘now’ to ‘next’. The SOLID West 2018 summit is coming up this month in San Francisco on Thursday, March 15, 2018.

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NY Appellate Court Reverses Ruling on Discovery of “Private” Facebook Posts: eDiscovery Case Law
 NY Appellate Court Reverses Ruling on Discovery of “Private” Facebook Posts: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Forman v. Henkin, the Court of Appeals of New York reinstated a trial judge’s ruling requiring the plaintiff who was disabled in a horse riding accident to turn over “private” photos to the defendant taken before and after her injuries.

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Training Snapshot: Fuzzy Searching from CloudNine
 Training Snapshot: Fuzzy Searching from CloudNine 150 150 CloudNine

A snapshot demonstration of the process and syntax required to perform fuzzy searches within CloudNine to locate variations in spelling of terms to catch additional potentially responsive hits that may be otherwise missed due to spelling errors or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) inaccuracies.

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Tending Your Garden: Why Information Governance Should be an Ongoing Process in Your Organization: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Tending Your Garden: Why Information Governance Should be an Ongoing Process in Your Organization: eDiscovery Best Practices 696 517 CloudNine

Just as a garden needs tending regularly to make sure that the plant and flowers are current and vibrant, an information governance program also needs tending regularly to make sure that the information managed is current and useful to an organization. Here are some factors to consider when tending your information governance “garden”.

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93 Percent of Legal Professionals Surveyed by Consilio Think AI Will Be Helpful to Legal: eDiscovery Trends
 93 Percent of Legal Professionals Surveyed by Consilio Think AI Will Be Helpful to Legal: eDiscovery Trends 452 337 CloudNine

While the ultimate impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the business of law remains to be seen, legal professionals are largely positive about how it will affect the industry and their day-to-day jobs, according to a survey conducted by Consilio.

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Germany Finds that Facebook’s Privacy Settings and Terms of Service Violate Their Privacy Rules: Data Privacy Trends
 Germany Finds that Facebook’s Privacy Settings and Terms of Service Violate Their Privacy Rules: Data Privacy Trends 275 247 CloudNine

One of the things that Tom O’Connor and I discussed in last week’s webcast about the upcoming Europe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was how consent will be interpreted for use of data for its data subjects.  Last month, a German court may have given an early indication of how consent will be enforced.

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Court Rules on Scope of Plaintiff Discovery Requests: eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Rules on Scope of Plaintiff Discovery Requests: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Performance Pulsation Control, Inc. v. Sigma Drilling Techs., LLC, et al., Texas District Judge Amos L. Mazzant granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel in part, ordering the defendants to produce documents related to four specific categories, but within certain parameters.

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