Opinions in United States District Courts during 2010 highlight the need for good faith preservation, collection and processing of electronically stored information. With more companies employing the use of technology in document creation and communication, e-discovery is becomes a larger concern for jurists, drawing the potential issues caused by mishandling these further into the light. Pension Committee v. Banc of America Securities In Pension Committee v. Banc of America Securities, Amended Order, No. 05-cv-9016 (S.D.N.Y., Jan 15, 2010), Judge Scheindlin … Continue reading
The Dangers of Self Collections in E-Discovery
As companies become increasingly technologically advanced, discovery of electronically stored information in litigation is becoming more common. Although companies have historically provided self-collected electronically stored information to their litigation counsel, such collection methods come with a good deal of risk. Pre-Collection Process is a Necessity When a company is involved in litigation where ESI becomes discoverable, custodians with relevant information should be identified and instructed on maintaining the integrity of their data, most commonly through a process called “litigation hold”. … Continue reading
A Look at the E-Discovery Trends of the First Quarter of 2011
Five topics that are proliferating in discussions about e-discovery. Project management as an approach to e-discovery continues to be discussed as a means of controlling the high cost of the process. Cloud computing is exploding making electronic data management more relevant than ever. Social media and compliance, do you really know what the court may require you to produce? Analytics can allow you to put the future to work for you today. Outsourcing for e-discovery can insure that the right … Continue reading
Not all Data Culling and Key Word Searches are Created Equal in E-Discovery
Failure to employ the proper method for a given search scenario may result in inadvertent disclosure of privileged or otherwise protected information to an opposing party, potentially waiving the privilege or protection. Failure to identify and produce relevant documents may result in sanctions. Key word searching is a basic technique employed to locate specific words or terms within a collection of documents. Key word searches have been historically used to identify documents that are either responsive to a document request … Continue reading
E-Discovery Service Providers – Apples to Apples or Apples to Melons?
The cost of e-discovery can be very high, and not just for services rendered. More important than the outright cost of e-discovery services is the return on investment cost. One should not need to choose a surgeon by evaluating only their price, the same holds true of e-discovery service providers. You need to know whether what you (and your client) are paying for is going to result in a complete set of at issue documents from having employed methodologies that … Continue reading
Maximizing Legal Technology for the Legal Professional – Pt. 3
Advanced Discovery finalizes our blog series on maximizing legal technology for the legal professional by making sure that you are prepared, in your day to day workflow environment, for the ever increasing technology duties that now fall on you as the legal professional. These tips and tricks will make you more efficient, more precise, and at the end of the day, empowered to do the best job! Keep your Electronic Assistants Running. Now that you have all these wonderful systems … Continue reading
Maximizing Legal Technology for the Legal Professional – Pt. 2
In our first post about maximizing legal technology for the legal professional, we spoke about some useful apps, such as iJuror, and talked about how to get the most out of electronic devices. This post will talk about internet efficiency and how to make the most out of the cloud! Advanced Discovery, just like for your electronic discovery needs, is your technology concierge! Add Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as additional Internet Browsers. The use of Internet Explorer is still … Continue reading
Maximizing Legal Technology for the Legal Professional – Pt. 1
At Advanced Discovery, we work day in and day out with many different job functions in the legal profession and hear a lot about legal technology. We stand on leveraging technology to ensure the success of our clients in the process of electronic discovery, data culling, analytics, workflow, and compliance for electronically stored information. We know how much the technology we use in our everyday jobs helps us and our clients. So, our next three blog posts will focus on … Continue reading
The Importance of EDRM and The Sedona Conference®; Drawing Comparisons
Taking on the Challenges In many ways our world is growing smaller with the growth of technology. Expanding public access to information creates many new challenges for legal professionals. The Sedona Conference® and EDRM were formed to bring together legal and electronic discovery industry leaders to address challenges such as this. These entities bring together the experience and expertise of those most often at the cutting edge, so that the whole might benefit in the new pathways created of thought … Continue reading
Utilizing Analytics for Review Efficiency in Litigation Document Review
The advent of intelligent technology has revolutionized litigation document review, increasing both speed and accuracy. Using analytics for review efficiency is the cornerstone of reviewing in 2011 and beyond. Advanced Discovery’s unique analytics workflow design provides an easy-to-use path for utilizing analytics, such as • concept searching, • smart tagging, • guided workflow • and topic clustering. The consultants at Advanced Discovery have taken “hard to understand” technology and made it accessible, easy-to-use, and most importantly, effective. FirstLook™ is Advanced … Continue reading
