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 Proteus 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.
In a post-COVID world, more data is being generated than ever before. Microsoft O365, and its Teams platform, has been a huge winner in the shift to working from home. In April 2020, Microsoft reported 258 million O365 users – a 21% jump from the 2019.
COVID-19 has hit the legal industry incredibly hard.
We’re living in a time when social media has supplanted email as the primary means of electronic communication.
Social media is everywhere: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, and more take up more and more screen time - especially in a COVID era with more of us reliant on our screens for communication.
Apps that were once dominated by teens and twenty-somethings are increasingly used by their parents and grandparents. The President of the United States regularly sends late night...
Successful eDiscovery document review project are characterized by both speed and accuracy.
eDiscovery Project Managers (PMs) work in an environment where “I’m on vacation,” “It’s Christmas,” or “I just woke up after open-heart surgery” are rarely suitable reasons to tell a client no.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally alteredhow most individuals and businesses are conducting their daily affairs. Chief among these adjustments has been a newfounddependence on remote technology.
So, your organization is engaged in, or reasonably anticipates:
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. Identification is arguably among the most important responsibilities an...
You have too much data. The financial, operational, and reputational risks of that problem manifest themselves in data breaches and cybersecurity attacks every day.
IoT, mobile devices, Slack, Microsoft Teams, email threads, CRM data from growing inside sales and marketing teams...the volume of data being created is exploding. And that's all before sifting through it in the event of an investigation or litigation event. A proactive Information Governance policy will help you defensibly reduce...