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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Summer 2020’s Most Interesting E-Discovery Cases
Mike Hamilton
Social Media & Cell Phones Still Represent an E-Discovery Battleground
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
The State of the e-Discovery and Data Privacy Job Market: Pre- and Post-COVID-19, Part 1
Jared Coseglia
Part One of a Two-Part Article
This deep dive into the specific cause-and-effect paradigms impacting the data privacy and e-discovery verticals illustrates broader trends in the overall legal technology job market while simultaneously giving professionals in (or eager to be in) those disciplines a clear roadmap of where the legal technology, data privacy, and ESI job market was, is today, and where it will be in the future.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Six Years of Tracking E-Discovery Trends and Providers
Ari Kaplan
For the past six years, the E-Discovery Unfiltered report to identify pricing patterns and preferences in electronic discovery, highlight projected investments in the sector, gauge the impact of the cloud, track shifting preferences in outsourcing and remote review, understand vendor selection criteria, and focus on the need for international ediscovery, among other trends.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: The Intersection of E-Discovery and Cybersecurity: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Kenya Parrish-Dixon and Joe Schatz
Data is an asset and a liability. It fits into both accounting columns and will not fail to be used against a corporate entity if not secured properly. Databases contain trade secrets, personally identifiable information, HIPAA-protected health care information, proprietary information and classified data. As the size of databases grew and the importance of data became more evident, one thing became apparent: the information stored in those repositories had to be kept secure.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: How to Streamline Your eDiscovery and Plan for the Future
Brian Schrader
At law firms, attorneys will need to sustain the high quality of work they do in normal times, albeit with reduced budgets. The good news is that with ediscovery — an essential but expensive part of the litigation process — advances in technology since America’s last recession have made it possible to save money and time by adopting a more modernized and comprehensive approach.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Embracing Diversity in the E-Discovery New Normal
Dionysia Johnson-Massie and Kimberly J. Duplechain
The COVID-19 pandemic creates opportunities for the ediscovery industry, like the law and technology industries, to expand its engagement and retention of diverse talent. Here are some actions that can be taken today.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Spring 2020 E-Discovery and Privacy Case Review
Mike Hamilton
This quarter’s review will take a look at data in three formats: text messages, paper records and overseas email disputes.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Legal Departments Leaving Light On for E-Discovery Providers Willing to Renegotiate
Frank Ready
In the COVID-19 economy, in-house legal departments will likely continue to insource many of their e-discovery needs since the same staff can often be used to perform other vital office functions. However, some departments may use this as an opportunity to try and negotiate lower prices with outside e-discovery providers.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: As Bankruptcies Grow, E-Discovery Counsels’ Work May Become More Challenging
Victoria Hudgins
Businesses reeling after multiple international stay-at-home mandates are finding themselves out of options and filing for bankruptcy. The situation has led some law firms to cash in on bankruptcy service, and made many cautiously optimistic that the bankruptcy practice will be in high-demand during the current recession.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Preparing for Internal Investigations to Mitigate Risk
David Carns
How Advanced E-discovery Tools Can Help Simplify Information Gathering, Unify Disparate Information Systems, Standardize Workflows Across Departments, and Reduce Both Costs and Risk
The stakes in internal investigations can turn out to be very high. Companies can often respond effectively if they proactively plan for investigations and leverage technology that can comb through large amounts of data quickly at low cost.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: 7 Steps to Make Your E-Discovery Process Pandemic and Recession-Ready
Brian Schrader
For the legal profession in general, and e-discovery specifically, one of the biggest ways a recession is felt is through litigation budget pressure. To weather a recession, we need to be prepared to do more with fewer resources.
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Accounting And Financial Planning For Law Firms
Recovery Models for e-Discovery and Litigation Support Services that Make an Impact
Nathan Curtis
In 2019, Mattern went to the market to conduct its first deep dive into e-discovery and litigation support cost recovery in the 2020 e-Discovery and Litigation Support Cost Recovery Survey. Some of the results surprised us.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Recovery Models for e-Discovery and Litigation Support Services that Make an Impact
Nathan Curtis
With big data and the resulting explosion of electronic documents, texts, images and voicemails that are subject to discovery, the cost burden was increasing at a pace that required firms to reconsider their recovery approach. This is why in 2019, Mattern conducted its first deep dive into e-discovery and litigation support cost recovery in the 2020 e-Discovery and Litigation Support Cost Recovery Survey. Some of the results were surprising.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Will the U.S. Become a Haven for International Discovery Under Section 1782?
David R. Cohen and Bradley C. Whitecap
Second and Eleventh Circuit rulings are likely to expand refuge to discovery in the U.S., even for international litigation and arbitrations that don’t ordinarily include discovery rights.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: E-Discovery and Seizure Orders Under the Defend Trade Secrets Act
Philip Favro
Congress passed the Defend Trade Secrets with much fanfare, touting its potential to curtail both domestic and cross-border theft of American ingenuity and technology. The DTSA offers a unique and powerful remedy to aggrieved parties in their efforts to curb trade secret misappropriation: ex parte seizure of property containing trade secrets. This article provides a brief overview of DTSA seizure orders and discusses e-discovery considerations in connection with those orders.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Hybrid Legal Document Review: Where Human and Artificial Intelligence Meet
Brian Schrader
AI is in many ways still in its infancy, and it’s important to realize that platforms utilizing this technology are heavily dependent on constant human interaction and training.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
A Look Behind, A Look Ahead: Part Two - E-Discovery
Steve Salkin
Part Two of a Two-Part Article
Cybersecurity Law & Strategy partnered with our ALM sibling Legaltech News to ask cybersecurity and e-discovery experts what they thought the key trends of 2019 and what they expect to see in 2020. Part Two looks at e-discovery.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: E-Discovery Lessons from the Presidential Impeachment Proceedings
Joshua Hummel and Paul Fling
Whether we realize it or not, e-discovery has found a central place in the news during the Trump campaign and presidency, and in particular, during the impeachment proceedings.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
It’s Legalweek Time Again
This year, Legalweek will feature workshop boot camps, networking events, hundreds of exhibitors on the tradeshow floor and three conferences designed to address key issues at a functional level: LegalCIO, Legal Business Strategy, and, of course, Legaltech, the world’s largest and longest running trade show for legal technology.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: New Data Types Challenge E-Discovery to Keep Pace
Cliff Dutton
Expanding the Scope of Data Has the Potential to Slow Down Discovery and Increase Cost, But If New Data Types Contain Uniquely Dispositive Content, It Will Be Necessary to Include Them In Order to Achieve Just Determinations
Data types evolve faster than law. New data types are expanding the scope of discoverable data. The variety, velocity and complexity of electronic evidence challenge legal processes and the technology-enabled legal applications that are designed to support them.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Crisis Control: Best Practices for Emergency E-Discovery and Incident Response
Andrew Johnston
A set of steps and best practices that legal teams can follow to ensure thorough and efficient handling of e-discovery in crisis situations.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: A Closer Look At 3 Summer Cases Concerning Lost Data
Mike Hamilton
Summer 2019 put some interesting case law into the books. We’ll take a look at three cases having to do with lost data and whether spoliation sanctions were levied.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: New Cases Provide Insights on the FRCP 37(e) ‘Reasonable Steps to Preserve’ Requirement
Philip Favro
The Franklin and Culhane Cases Demonstrate the Importance of Both Implementing and Then Following Corporate Litigation Readiness Measures for Purposes of FRCP 37(E)
An evaluation of FRCP 37(e) necessarily entails examining key motion practice flash points that have arisen since the implementation of the rule. One of the most significant of these flash points is what constitutes “reasonable steps to preserve” relevant ESI.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Summer 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review
Mike Hamilton
A review of recent cases involving e-discovery.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: How E-Discovery Trends Are Reshaping E-Discovery Teams
Nishad Shevde
E-discovery, as an industry, is once again at an inflection point. What are the big trends that are exerting pressure on e-discovery teams today — and more importantly, what will an effective e-discovery team look like in the coming years?
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Spring 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review
Mike Hamilton
The amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2015 intended to clarify some of the ambiguities that caused inconsistent rulings in e-discovery matters. One such amendment was to Rule 37(e), which seemed to indicate that courts would not levee punitive sanctions without establishing “intent to deprive.” Despite this language, though, courts continue rely on their inherent authority to issue sanctions, meaning organizations must take their preservation obligations seriously.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: The 2019 EDRM TAR Guidelines — Recognizing the Evolving Role of the Subject Matter Expert
Erin Baksa
After reading the new Technology Assisted Review (TAR) Guidelines from EDRM, it is clear that the evolution of the underlying technology in TAR solutions is reshaping the role of the subject matter expert (SME).
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
E-discovery and Beyond: Facing Change in the Age of AI
Steve Salkin
A Roundtable Discussion
Experts share their experience and insight on the evolving acceptance and use of AI and advanced analytics tools for e-discovery — and beyond.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech -- Behind the Tech: Client-Centric Innovation: The Evolution of the Casepoint Platform
Vishal Rajpara
One In a Continuing Series of Articles Looking At Legal Tech Innovation and the Story Behind It
In seeing clients’ pain-points and becoming intimately engaged with their internal processes, my colleagues and I resolved to address a problem that many of our clients may not have even known they could fix. Our overriding goal from the outset was to fill the efficiency void that was so obvious in all of the feedback we were receiving from clients across the board by developing a fully integrated, end-to-end legal workflow platform.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Winter 2019 E-Discovery Case Law Review
Mike Hamilton
As a practice, e-discovery involves professionals from a variety of disciplines. For this case law review, we spoke with professionals who play different roles in the e-discovery process to identify three case law rulings from 2018 that stood out in the impact they have on how e-discovery is practiced today.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Cloud and Security Considerations for e-Discovery
Stephen Ehrlich
E-discovery presents some special considerations that need to be examined before deciding what is best for your organization and really taking a stand in the on-premises vs. cloud debate.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Cases Highlighting Judicial Discretion in Ordering E-Discovery Sanctions
Mike Hamilton
Three cases from the summer of 2018 reinforce some of the key themes of recent e-discovery case law
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
*BREAKING NEWS* Consilio Acquires E-Discovery Solutions Provider DiscoverReady
Zach Warren
Continuing its run of recent M&A activity, Consilio CEO Andy Macdonald said DiscoverReady has been on his radar for managed review he called “head and shoulders” above the competition.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Securing Each Link in the e-Discovery Chain
David A. Greetham
Cloud service providers to the federal government must meet the rigorous requirements of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP, as it’s known, is designed to help federal agencies follow the government’s “cloud first” policy, and includes detailed and strict encryption and other cybersecurity requirements.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Blockchain Will Bring Opportunities, Challenges to Legal Discovery
Adam Brill
As more and more data is in blockchains, attorneys will have to interact with it. Blockchain will also become part of litigation without being the central focus as systems move to blockchain implementation. Attorneys will have to take note.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Early 2018 E-Discovery Case Law Review: Sanctions and the Reasonableness of TAR
Mike Hamilton
Cases from early 2018 that stand above many others for the impact they will have on both sanctions and e-discovery review processes moving forward.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Approaches and Considerations for Discovery Cost Minimization and Recovery
John Koss and Daniel Pelc
The costs of litigation increase with ever more potentially responsive data, litigation technology options, and a truly global reach in the context of much litigation. In response, law firms must continue to consider viable approaches to broaching discussions surrounding the recovery of these costs both within the firm and, more importantly, with law firm clients.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: E-Discovery Case Digest
Mike Hamilton
A look at key court rulings on e-discovery matters from the winter of 2017-18.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
The Power of Certifications In the Legal Industry
Jared Coseglia
Part One of a Two-Part Article
The key paths and the corresponding certifications available for lawyers — and nonlawyers — to pursue to help successfully administer a career in the legal industry in the coming decade.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
E-Discovery: Streamlining the Admissibility of ESI: Amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 902
Maureen O’Neill
The new provisions of F.R.E. 902 bring the rule into the digital age, streamlining the process of authenticating electronically stored information and admitting it into evidence.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
A Roundtable Discussion: How Evolving Media Types and Cybersecurity Concerns Are Impacting e-Discovery
In this roundtable discussion, two law firm partners and two GCs share their experience and insight on the evolving nature of e-discovery and its intersection with AI, cybersecurity and privacy.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Four Lessons Learned from Exterro’s 4th Annual Federal Judges Survey
Michael Hamilton
For the fourth time, Exterro has conducted an in-depth survey of federal judges in order to understand better how they see e-discovery law and practice changing.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Who Owns e-Discovery’s Largest Companies?
Zach Warren
A rundown of the owners of 14 large e-discovery companies. Here’s a hint: A whole lot of private equity.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Online Extra: Catalyst Acquires TotalDiscovery
Zach Warren
The deal will primarily be used to expand Catalyst’s core offering to offer an integrated program, Insight Discovery, that spans the EDRM.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Online Extra: e-Discovery Pioneer, Judge Andrew Peck, Retires
Ian Lopez
One of e-Discovery’s Most Influential Figures
After over two decades as a magistrate judge for the Southern District of New York, Peck will retire and join DLA Piper.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
e-Discovery: Four Cases Highlighting e-Discovery Trends in the Second Half of 2017
Mike Hamilton
In the second half of 2017, case law served to clarify what does and does not constitute reasonable policies and procedures for preserving information subject to discovery — as well as the risks you run if you fail to follow through on those policies.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech: Peril in Paper: EEOC v. GMRI and the Digital Divide in e-Discovery Sanctions
David Horrigan
There was a time not so long ago when the term “e-discovery” didn’t exist. It was known simply by its legal name, discovery. We’re now entering an era where some observers feel the term will fade into history, returning us back to simply calling it discovery.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Top Cybersecurity Takeaways from Relativity Fest 2017
April Runft
Cybersecurity is a hydra of complexity. Keeping a grasp on it requires constant re-education. What no one tells you: managing your company’s cyber vulnerability demands a willingness for personal vulnerability. Being honest about our cyber risks is painful. And scary.
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech
Circumstantial Evidence vs. Speculation: What Warrants e-Discovery Sanctions
Mike Hamilton
In today's political climate, it has almost become "normal" that people frivolously make speculative statements without any proof that the statement is true. While this may be standard practice in the political world, in court this practice will not be convincing to any judge, especially when making an argument for e-discovery sanctions based on new rule FRCP 37(e).
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Cybersecurity Law & Strategy
Legal Tech
Sedona Conference Releases Finalized Third Edition of the Sedona Principles
Zach Warren
The Often-Cited e-Discovery Guidelines Were ‘Put Through the Ringer,’ and the Result Is Updated Principles and Expanded Commentary for a New Technological Age
Outside of guiding rules of evidence and procedure, the Sedona Principles are perhaps the most often-cited guidelines for handling electronic discovery today. But the Principles had not seen a full-scale rewrite since 2007. Since that time, electronic data sources have exponentially increased and e-discovery itself has morphed into a $10 billion business. The wait, though, has come to a close.
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