Our Insights on eDiscovery

Welcome to LegalTech New York 2017!: eDiscovery Trends

January 31, 2017

Today is the start of LegalWeek 2017 – which includes of course the marquee event LegalTech® New York (LTNY) – and, for the seventh(!) year in a row, eDiscovery Daily is here to report about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. Over the next three days, we will provide a description each day of some of the sessions related to eDiscovery to give you a sense of the topics being covered. Here is a look at today’s sessions.

At LegalTech, Word Clouds are the Word: eDiscovery Trends

January 30, 2017

For many people (including me), today is a travel day for LegalTech New York (LTNY), er, LegalWeek. On a day like today, it helps me to have an easy topic to write about. So, thanks to InsideLegal for a great LegalTech observation!

Webcast: Outpost for Relativity from CloudNine Demonstration

January 28, 2017

CloudNine’s eDiscovery automation integration provides Relativity users with a tool that accelerates the upload, processing, and ingestion of electronically stored information (ESI). This complementary capability allows Relativity users to immediately ingest ESI directly from their desktops and automatically move ESI into Relativity.

Forgetting about the Other Side of the Law is Criminal: eDiscovery Case Law

January 27, 2017

In our webcast on Wednesday titled What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017 (if you missed it, you can watch it here), we covered (as we always do) several key cases that established eDiscovery best practices and trends (and a few with litigants behaving badly). One of the questions from the audience was to ask whether we could provide any eDiscovery case law related to criminal cases. That got me thinking, so here are a few posts related to criminal law cases.

Webcast: Best Practices for eDiscovery Searching

January 26, 2017

With all of the hype about Technology Assisted Review, does keyword search still have a place in eDiscovery? You bet it does – if it is conducted properly. This webcast session will cover goals, considerations, techniques, and challenges to effective eDiscovery searching.

Court Orders Plaintiff to Produce Native Format Version of Email Potentially Altered: eDiscovery Case Law

January 26, 2017

In Lifetouch National School Studios, Inc. v. Roles, Pennsylvania District Judge Kim R. Gibson granted the portion of the defendant’s motion to compel associated with the request for the plaintiff to produce all copies of a potentially altered email in native format circulated within its organization or any of its agents.

What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017: eDiscovery Trends

January 25, 2017

Early this year, I asked if we’ve (finally) reached the age of technical competence of attorneys. Perhaps we’re not there yet. However, CloudNine is sponsoring a webcast today which may help bridge the gap.

“Legalweek, The Experience” 2017 is One Week From Today!: eDiscovery Trends

January 24, 2017

What is “Legalweek, The Experience”, you say? LegalWeek is LegalTech New York, along with six other “events-within-an-event” that will be going on next week in New York at the New York Hilton Midtown, starting next Tuesday, January 31 and concluding on Thursday, February 2. Let’s take a look at some of the sessions and events worth particular note for eDiscovery professionals.

(The) Winter (eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey) is Coming: eDiscovery Trends

January 23, 2017

Winter is Coming! And, by “winter”, I mean the Winter 2017 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey created by Rob Robinson and conducted on his terrific Complex Discovery site. It’s the second year of the quarterly survey and we covered all four rounds of the survey last year. Now, it’s time for the Winter 2017 Survey to start a new year!

Now, We Have a Privacy Shield with the Swiss Too: eDiscovery Trends

January 20, 2017

This appears to be our week to cover privacy stories on the blog. First, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) released the public comment version of its new Data Privacy Primer (which we covered on Tuesday). Also, last week, U.S. and Swiss authorities announced final agreement on the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.