What happens when attorneys and their clients disregard both the spirit and letter of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure’s eDiscovery rules? As illustrated in the case below, very bad things.
Even federal judges have breaking points, and after more than 8 years, 400+ docket entries, and an almost incomprehensible number of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) blunders, defendants and their counsel unfortunately (but not surprisingly) found themselves on the exploding end of a 103-page,...
A company with a funny name. A dispute about intellectual property. Concerns about cost and privacy. Add it up and what do you get? The latest Proteus Discovery Group case law study.
Recently, our Co-Founder and CEO Ray Biederman spoke with Ari Kaplan about his background, the rise of ALSPs, and trends in the eDiscoverymarket.
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.
We’re living in a time when social media has supplanted email as the primary means of electronic communication.
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...
You'll notice a lot of changes at Proteus Discovery Group over the next few months.
While we’ve been serving clients since 2015, this year marks the true introduction of Proteus to a wider audience.
So, who are we, what do we do, and why are we stepping into the spotlight now?