Expert Analysis
Challenges and Practical Solutions for Navigating the Legal Hold Process
In our increasingly digital world, the legal hold process is crucial to litigation and regulatory investigations. It safeguards pertinent data, preventing spoliation and upholding the integrity of evidence. The rise of modern data sources—think cloud-based platforms, social media, and collaboration tools—has complicated the legal hold process. In this article, we delve into the main challenges involved in handling legal holds in today’s data landscape and provide practical solutions to tackle these hurdles head-on.
How eDiscovery Processing Tools Streamline Analysis and Preparation of ESI
eDiscovery processing tools have revolutionized the way legal professionals handle ESI, streamlining analysis and preparation in litigation cases. Through efficient data management, robust filtering, powerful search capabilities, data visualization, and analytics, these tools enhance efficiency, accuracy, compliance, and data security.
Navigating Enterprise Data: Tips for Corporate Data Mapping
For corporate legal teams, managing data effectively means understanding the organization’s data environment and implementing strategies for managing data throughout the discovery process. This is where data mapping comes in.
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Realizing eDiscovery ROI With the Help of Technology, Workflows, and Project Management
In modern litigation, corporations and law firms need a technological advantage to manage and maneuver through all types of documents, both electronically stored information (ESI) and paper-based materials. Even with state-of-the art technology, workflow, project management, documentation, and information management procedures, the success of a project is dependent on a myriad of factors.
20 Commonly Used eDiscovery Processing Terms Explained
When it comes to data processing and eDiscovery workflows there are various buzzwords and terms that are commonly tossed around in normal conversion. For those unfamiliar with the data handling and processing workflows, these can often be confusing. To aid in that, here are 20 common terms that are used by eDiscovery professionals that relate to the processing stage of the EDRM and overall electronic discovery process.
Cyber Security Tips for Safe Online Shopping This Black Friday & Cyber Monday
With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, it’s a fitting time to remember to focus on using safe online browsing habits and protecting our information when shopping online. According to Adobe, in 2020 Black Friday online shopping surged 22% to a record $9 billion, and it’s only fair to assume we are going to see another big surge this year.
The Benefits of Corporate Managed Legal Services
There are many benefits to choosing a managed services provider, especially when managing high-volume and complex discovery projects. With managed service projects, the primary goal is long-term cost control via data management, frequent use of data repositories and documented repeatable workflows.
How Leveraging Near-Duplicate Identification Can Reduce Review Costs
Computers inherently create mass amounts of duplicative data. In today’s age of massive data proliferation, duplicate and near-duplicate ESI have become big contributors to excessive data populations, rising legal cost, and even a decreased confidence in data for those without access to the appropriate technology to organize and search within this data. As a result, de-duplication and near-duplication identification have become standard workflows for most eDiscovery and review teams.
Understanding the Stages of the EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model)
The EDRM (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) refers to both a conceptual framework for understanding the stages within the overall eDiscovery process, and also the EDRM organization and community behind this framework
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Considerations During the Identification Stage of the EDRM
During the Identification Stage, the goal is to create and deploy a plan to identify, preserve, authenticate, and collect relevant ESI. Through identifying and defining preferred data sources that potentially hold relevant information, outlining defensible protocols to preserve and collect both structured and unstructured data, and establishing the context that this information is being used, legal teams can create a data map to aid in defining the scope of the case.
Amazon Echo & Smart Devices: Considerations In Litigation And eDiscovery
In recent years the information requests from Law Enforcement have been rising dramatically, with the majority of these requests either being subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders. There has been a colossal increase of over 500% from 2019 to 2020, and then in just the first 6 months of 2021 there has been nearly as many information requests as there was in total in 2020.