See Who Should Direct Your Company's Next Case? "Litigation has become part of the business landscape for most companies. Companies that once faced little or no litigation now find themselves defending against "bet the company" litigation. Often the in-house attorneys are stretched too thin to guide the day-to-day management and coordination of the voluminous litigation or, in some...
Helpful Q&A about content management systems: "When the topic of content management comes up, it's hard not to be reminded of comedian George Carlin's riff about stuff (and how we have too much of it). But years of compiling digital data, not to mention more recent developments in legal and regulatory requirements, have forced CIOs to think more assiduously about how they keep track of...
See the costs of e-discovery as detailed by Accountancy Age: "As innocuous as they may once have seemed, the incriminating nature of emails produced as evidence in US corruption trials has forced executives to rethink the expense of managing delicate electronic documents. "The cost of e-dicovery revealing documents in the run up to a trial may also have chief financial officers...
New software from Waterford Technologies: "Suited for litigation research or e-discovery, MailMeter Investigate provides users with on-demand data retrieval tool for searching past email or attachment information. Email search and case management solution filters through terabytes of email and locates specific information within seconds. For in-house use or external counsel, program presents...
Find some helpful advice about budgeting for litigation support efforts from Mark Lieb & his company, Ad Litem Consulting: "Creating a budget for litigation technology goods and services is not an easy chore. Before electronic discovery, one could multiply the number of boxes by 2,500 and estimate the page count. An industry average of 3 pages per document was generally sufficient for...
New EDD software announcement: “According to the Fulbright and Jaworski law firm, U.S. corporations spend, on average, $8 million annually on litigation cases. Many of these involve the recovery of digital information including emails. ZANTAZ Digital Safe is a compliant, on-demand email and file archiving solution allowing companies to easily move archived data into ZANTAZ Introspect for...
Good overview of the surging e-discovery field. Reporting by the Los Angeles Times: "Day and night, rows of whirring, blinking computers sock away enormous batches of digital records sent by companies involved in lawsuits. Other data are discovered deep in hard drives — wedged between personal e-mails, pornography and other files— by Kroll Ontrack forensic teams whose code names keep...
Where do you stand on this question? Read Experts Question 'Keep Everything' Philosophy & you might change sides! "'If you keep everything, you are saying, in effect, that all information is created equal, which it isn't,'" says Julie Gable of Pennsylvania-based Gable Consulting, an independent consultant specializing in electronic records management issues. "The solution is to...
So says an article published by AP: "Even just a few years ago, lawyers in corporate lawsuits sometimes agreed not to poke around in their opponents' e-mails. Instead they'd confine themselves to paper memos and other documents on file as they pursued evidence. "Now, however, with so much work done via e-mail, instant messaging and other online platforms, 'nothing's in the file cabinets...
"DolphinSearch, Inc., a leader in electronic document discovery, content search, and information lifecycle management, today announced the release of its new Online eDiscovery Review Console for electronic discovery management. The DolphinSearch Online eDiscovery Review Console provides new work flow management, estimation tools, and management dashboards for complex eDiscovery projects....