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Legal Tech: Litigation Support, E-discovery and the Recovery of Costs
Nathan Curtis
The Data Explosion vs. Recovery Model Stagnation
For law firms, the pace of exponential growth of data is a substantial problem — mainly due to the fact that the law firm business model of processing, hosting and storing this avalanche of client data, however, has not evolved as quickly as the data itself.
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
The Data-Driven Law Firm: The Next Frontier
Marcie Borgal Shunk
The next generation of elite law firms may have little in common with today’s leading global providers of legal services. Whereas historically top-performing law firms combine stellar talent with marquee clients, brand reputation and client-focused excellence to rise to the top, future leading law firms are equally likely to rise to power using a distinctly different recipe: namely, a mixture of market savvy, strategic agility and operational effectiveness powered by data.
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Nina Cunningham
"There's really no such thing as the cloud, there are only other people's computers." This may have been true at first; but it is now worth some investigation if the present threat environment today demands a secure cloud.
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Big Data, Web 'Scraping' and Competition Law
Shepard Goldfein and James Keyte
The Debate Continues
Web "scraping" is one method of accumulating data that has sparked recent legal debate, both antitrust and otherwise. Legal challenges to Web scraping have involved privacy claims and claims under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, in addition to antitrust claims about the need to collect public data to be able to compete freely.
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Tim Anderson and JR Jenkins
While the threat of "big data" has cast a shadow over IT and legal departments for several years, the real challenge can often be the variety. The authors believe the real challenge is less about "big data" and more about "new data types" — that quickly defeat traditional collection and review tools and strategies.
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Best Practices in Data Security for Financial Institutions
Craig Nazzaro
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) recently revised its Information Security Booklet. The changes bring the financial services industry closer to the goal of having a clearly defined set of cybersecurity and data protection protocols to ensure regulatory compliance.
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WhatsApp, Encryption and the Battle with Law Enforcement
Domingo Montanaro
It is widely accepted that much of today's communications are digital — and as a result, the encryption of data, the privacy laws governing that data, and the role that governments play when national security and law enforcement issues are at stake is a very hot topic.
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PODCAST: Is 'Little Data' More of a Concern than Big Data?
Jason Thomas
In the first of a series, Jason Thomas, Chief of Innovation for Thomson Reuters Special Services, discusses the difference between big data and "little…
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