A weekly highlighting of five key posts on information governance and electronic discovery to inform and update legal and information technology professionals.
Organizations have the best chance for success by concentrating on the highest risk and biggest pain points that can benefit from IG. IT’s domain has a big claim, particularly with unstructured data. Unstructured data rates are hitting 75-80% of corporate data, and data growth is increasing 35-50% year-over-year. In the midst of this massive data growth, IT is directly responsible for data lifecycle management, user access, data security, and compliance. They are also frequently involved with eDiscovery collections and big data analysis.
The International Legal Technology Association found in a survey of 454 firms in 2014 that information governance was one of lawyers' three biggest security concerns. But only 26 percent of the surveyed firms with 150 to 349 attorneys had information-governance strategies or policies; the rate at larger firms ranged from 43 percent to 59 percent. And almost half the firms said they don't restrict the type or amount of data uploaded to their network drives, which risks hastening data overload and weakening security and makes it harder for them to manage their information.
Cooperation in e-discovery is derided as naive in an adversarial system of justice, and “discovery about discovery” is vilified as a diversionary tactic, a modern take on the maxim, “if you can’t try the case, then try your opponent.” Counsel for responding parties are quick to note that no party is obliged to deliver a perfect production. They’re absolutely right. Perfection is not the standard. But, is a producing party entitled to fail before a requesting party may inquire into the scope and process of e-discovery? Must we wait until the autopsy to question the care plan?
Technology assisted review is a powerful tool for controlling review costs and workflows. But, to maximize the benefits of TAR, we must be able to understand the results.
To get a better understanding of how an application of predictive coding has performed and to manage the defensibility of your review, the component elements of the f-score — precision and recall — should be reviewed. But how do precision and recall scores relate? And, more importantly, what do these results tell you about your production?
It was a run-of-the-mill lawsuit: Lawyers at Nixon Peabody hired an eDiscovery vendor to scan and code approximately 400,000 emails at a cost of $50,000. Two months later, the opposing counsel wanted to hire the same vendor in the same case.
Nixon Peabody lawyers feared their coding words would be leaked to the opposing lawyers and their theory of the case disclosed, so they filed a motion to disqualify the vendor.
With 80% of online adults using social networking sites, 83% of Fortune 500 companies using Twitter, and 90% of surveyed organizations reporting some business benefit from the use of social media, there does appear to be strong evidence for the business value of social media.
In this case, the trial court held Defendant in contempt and ultimately imposed a “death penalty order” for discovery violations, including the failure to produce relevant information. Notably, the trial court rejected Defendant’s reliance on its document retention policy as an explanation for why the information was unavailable. On appeal, the appellate court affirmed the imposition of sanctions but remanded for amendment of the final judgment to reflect any offsets authorized by statute.
Visual classification technology enables data management, analysis and governance tasks. It automates the collection, reduction, classification and governance of large volumes of data and is unique in the fact that it supports data in any file structure, format or type.
As Big Law leaders tackle the hazards of cybercrimes, they face a chilling reality: the most dangerous miscreants may not be in obscure foreign outposts, but on the firm’s payroll.
Firm personnel — from the mail room to the managing partner — can create havoc accidentally or intentionally, say cybersecurity experts. “Some of today’s most high profile breaches apparently were enabled by the actions of employees,” said Judy Selby, a partner at Baker & Hostetler.
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