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<b>Product Review</b>Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform
Imagine you have received 35 gigabytes of data consisting of normal office documents and e-mail. You have agreed with your opponents to deliver rolling productions starting in 4 weeks, and completing your production of all the relevant material in 12. You have 12 junior associates with plans to work 10 hour days, 5 days a week. Not a problem. You have a sophisticated review system where documents are converted into images and their metadata is collected into a tidy database that you can neatly parcel into review sets for your attorneys. Using the standard 70,000 pages per gigabyte, seven pages per document, your 12 attorneys will only need 50 days to complete the review, which would be 10 days ahead of schedule, barring any major delays or distractions.
Now imagine that your data doubles. There were forgotten back-up tapes. Also, you discover that the original 30 custodians from whom you gathered data are insufficient to satisfy your discovery burden, and you need to go back out on week 3 and pull files from an additional 30 custodians. By the end of week 4, you have 300 gigabytes of data and no let up in your deadlines. Your initial cost and time estimates have just been multiplied by 10.
In the old world of document review, this might have posed an insurmountable problem, but at Jones Day we have been exploring the use of a new software tool that makes the above scenario inconvenient, not disastrous. The product is the Attenex Patterns E-Discovery Platform (Patterns). Like some other products, Patterns performs concept analysis on a set of documents. What sets it apart is that Patterns uses the results of concept analysis to organize a set of documents into a structured visual snapshot of the documents and how they relate to one another. Patterns has enabled our review team to increase review rates, efficiency and accuracy by grouping similar documents together by concept. In the real-world situation outlined above, with the help of Patterns and a dedicated review team, we were able to complete the review on time, and more important for our client, at a fraction of the cost the same type of review would have been 6 months ago.
Major Differences In UK, U.S. Copyright Laws
This article highlights how copyright law in the United Kingdom differs from U.S. copyright law, and points out differences that may be crucial to entertainment and media businesses familiar with U.S law that are interested in operating in the United Kingdom or under UK law. The article also briefly addresses contrasts in UK and U.S. trademark law.
The Article 8 Opt In
The Article 8 opt-in election adds an additional layer of complexity to the already labyrinthine rules governing perfection of security interests under the UCC. A lender that is unaware of the nuances created by the opt in (may find its security interest vulnerable to being primed by another party that has taken steps to perfect in a superior manner under the circumstances.
Strategy vs. Tactics: Two Sides of a Difficult Coin
With each successive large-scale cyber attack, it is slowly becoming clear that ransomware attacks are targeting the critical infrastructure of the most powerful country on the planet. Understanding the strategy, and tactics of our opponents, as well as the strategy and the tactics we implement as a response are vital to victory.
Legal Possession: What Does It Mean?
Possession of real property is a matter of physical fact. Having the right or legal entitlement to possession is not "possession," possession is "the fact of having or holding property in one's power." That power means having physical dominion and control over the property.
The Anti-Assignment Override Provisions
UCC Sections 9406(d) and 9408(a) are one of the most powerful, yet least understood, sections of the Uniform Commercial Code. On their face, they appear to override anti-assignment provisions in agreements that would limit the grant of a security interest. But do these sections really work?