My transition to the legal space (the week Indiana shut down due to COVID-19) has been eye-opening in many respects. One area of constant curiosity for me is legal professionals' and law firms' business development efforts.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but the metadata often helps illuminate whether those words are fact or faction.

It’s been six months since I joined the legal tech community.

The number of articles and blogs I’ve read, podcasts I’ve listened to, and conversations I’ve had in which people bring up AmLaw firms’ reticence to adopt technology is overwhelming.

Recently, our Co-Founder and CEO Ray Biederman spoke with Ari Kaplan about his background, the rise of ALSPs, and trends in the eDiscoverymarket.

Minimizing eDiscovery spend begins with a disciplined information governance (or, in traditional corporate speak, a disciplined document retention plan).

And that begins with a data mapping exercise.

Ari Kaplan recently posted results of his 6th Annual eDiscovery Unfiltered Survey, which deals with legal technology vendors and industry trends.

As we move toward launching our recent re-brand, I wanted to take time to comment on the findings, specifically as they relate to in-house legal teams.

Information Governance is a tech-era update of the old corporate term, "document retention policies," so I'll use both terms below. It's not great cocktail party conversation (remember cocktail parties?!) but it's crucially important.

COVID-19 has hit the legal industry incredibly hard.

So, your organization is engaged in, or reasonably anticipates: litigation defense, regulatory investigation (especially if you're held to GDPR or CCPA), an audit, or another legal dispute. 

Now what?

State and federal statutes, court rules, and government regulations each promulgate, frame, and define an organization’s obligations to identify relevant electronically stored information (“ESI”) when such conflicts arise. According to EDRM, Identification is arguably among the most important...