Our Insights on eDiscovery

As we’ve recently noted, data breaches are happening within organizations at an alarming rate, and sensitive data is being compromised regularly. It’s enough to make you wanna cry. Here’s where you can find out what you can do to protect yourself, your firm and your client from becoming a victim and also what you need to do to keep up with ever-changing requirements for data security, both within the US and internationally.

The Legal Technology Resource Center (LTRC) of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) web site has a great resource for those who want more information regarding a variety of technical topics, including the ethics for lawyers in using and storing client data in the cloud. However, few states so far have published ethics opinions on the topic.

At a session at The Master’s Conference Chicago event this week, there was an entire session dedicated to international eDiscovery and privacy considerations. Some of the discussion centered around the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is set to take effect next year (in almost exactly one year). Most of the rest of the discussion centered around the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks. Here’s how U.S. businesses can become Privacy Shield certified and how many eDiscovery providers currently are certified.

Needless to say, cybersecurity and its challenges have become even more of a hot topic than ever, with ransomware stories becoming more prevalent. If you want to learn more about how to prevent ransomware attacks, check out the bottom of this post. Regardless, based on a recent article, the currency used to pay those hackers their ransom is easier to come by than ever.

For the second year in a row, I’m participating in The Master’s Conference 2017 Chicago event, which happens to be today. If you’re in the Chicago area today, join me and other legal technology experts and professionals at The Master’s Conference event for a full day of educational sessions covering a wide range of topics!

I’ve been remiss in not covering this before now, but the 10th Annual eDiscovery Training Academy will be coming up in a couple of weeks at the Georgetown University Law Center. If you want a really in-depth training course with highly respected and knowledgeable instructors, this is as good a course as there is.

An age old issue in eDiscovery has been understanding and comparing pricing between various vendors and service providers. It’s the old “apples vs. oranges” comparison when considering pricing. A new article, which references a terrific benchmark test, may show that pricing transparency by at least two eDiscovery providers may be finally helping put eDiscovery pricing on common ground.