Our Insights on eDiscovery

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.

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.

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!

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.

Yesterday, I took a look back at two posts that comprised six eDiscovery predictions for 2014 that I wrote three years ago. I thought it might be fun to look back at those posts to see how those predictions fared. I covered the first three predictions yesterday, so today I’ll cover the last three.

Sometimes, in addition to the many other resources that I use to look for blog post ideas, I like to look back at my old posts from the past to see if there’s a topic that warrants a fresh look. When I did that yesterday, I stumbled on two posts that comprised six eDiscovery predictions for 2014 that I wrote three years ago. I thought it might be fun to look back at those posts to see how those predictions fared.

The proliferation of data in our society today makes the task of protecting sensitive and private data more challenging than ever. Without a doubt, privacy and data protection laws have evolved quite a bit over the past several years, especially internationally, with the striking down of the 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement back in 2015 over privacy concerns and subsequent adoption of the EU-US Privacy Shield last year. To help legal practitioners to have a better understanding of various data privacy issues and guidelines, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) has created a new primer to help with this growing issue.

We now have our first two approved states for CLE for our webcast “What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017” coming up on Wednesday, January 25! Also, if you’re reading an attorney blog, that attorney may or may not be a real person.