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Whether you are a current EDRM participant, an EDRM alumnus, or have never participated in EDRM, we invite you to the kickoff meeting for the 2010-2011 EDRM year - our sixth year! What: 2010-2011 EDRM kickoff meeting Details at edrm.net/4041 Please register at edrm.net/2947 Thanks!
When: May 11-13, 2010
Where: The Saint Paul Hotel, St. Paul, MN
Nuix has introduced Nuix3, the latest update version of its
e-discovery program.
Release here.
Bridgeway Software has released Bridgeway Legal Hold 2.1, which is used during e-discovery for preservation, collection, processing, review, and production.
Release here.
MasterFile Software has introduced MasterFile Hosted Services, which it says integrates case analysis, an evidence repository, document management, and e-discovery without requiring IT staff or managing servers.
Release here.
Esquire Solutions has introduced EsquireView, a synchronized video and transcript management system.
Release here.
SuperiorGlacier has launched ESI Spy, a Web-based customer portal where users can securely enter case information and provide processing instructions.
Release here.
Zapproved says its Legal Hold Pro e-discovery program has expanded with a new feature for interviewing custodians.
Release here.
Knoll Ontrack has released Ontrack Onsight, a mobile e-discovery program that performs early case assessment, filtering, processing, review, and production.
Release here.
Sfile has announced a new, fixed, price software-as-a-service model for e-discovery.
Release here.
Clearwell Systems has introduced the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform 5.5, which expands support for evidence files and forensic images files.
Release here.
On Monday, Iron Mountain announced their acquisition of Mimosa Systems. Iron Mountain is synonymous with data storage and is a household name among IT professionals.
Lawyers, however, are probably not as familiar with the company and so I wanted to provide a few thoughts on why this news is significant from an e-discovery perspective.
Iron Mountain has historically been associated with off-site storage for paper and digital data. The namesake of the company is the iconic Pennsylvania mountain where the company stores some of the world's most valuable treasures 220 feet below ground in a hyper-secured limestone cave.
Courtroom Insight has launched a namesake website, designed to help lawyers identify and evaluate expert witnesses and "neutrals."
Release here.
OmniTrax has installed Mimosa's NearPoint software to manage its e-discovery needs for its company-wide e-mail system. Release here.
The CEIC 2010 Conference, scheduled for may 24-27 in Summerlin, Nevada, will feature an e-Discovery track that includes U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck of the Southern District of New York.
CEIC stands for Computer & Enterprises Investigations Conference.
Other LTN usual suspects include DLA Piper's Browning Marean; Electronic Discovery Institute's Patrick Oot, among others.
Evident Discovery & Content Analyst have announced a new partnership, and jointly offer a new product, The Evident Discovery review platform.
Release here.
With the Winter Games in high gear, it is hard not to think of the headline for the main card of an e-discovery boxing match between two federal judicial heavy hitters:
Rosenthal vs. Scheindlin
The introductions of a boxing announcer come to mind reading Judge Rosenthal's recent opinion in Rimkus v. Cammarata, 07-cv-00405 (SDTX Feb. 19, 2010) and her subtle (or not so subtle depending on how much is read into her opinion) critique of Judge Scheindlin's very much discussed opinion in The Pension Committee of Montreal, et al. v. Banc of America Securities, et al., 05 Civ. 9016 (SDNY Jan. 15, 2010). And in this corner, at the forefront of e-discovery, legal holds and the duty to preserve all relevant evidence... hailing from the toughest city in the world - New York... Ms. ESI... Judge Scheindlin. And in this corner... mover and shaper of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure... Champion of the Safe Harbor... hailing from the toughest state in the Union - Texas... Ms. FRCP amendments... Judge Rosenthal.
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From the press release:
Iron Mountain, an information management services company, has acquired Calif.-based Mimosa Systems, [which offers] content archiving [systems], for approximately $112 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments. The deal provides Iron Mountain with an integrated archive for e-mail, SharePoint data and files, and gives the company an on-premises archiving option to complement its existing cloud-based archives. Sunday affords the leisure to read the obituaries of the late Gen. Alexander Haig, who regrettably will be best remembered for his humiliating, Constitutionally-clueless 'coup' when President Reagan was shot in 1981. I was in the University of Texas Law School Library where they'd set up a TV by the circulation desk when Gen. Haig announced, "“I am in control here, in the White House.” He seemed anything but, and one had to wonder what calamity had befallen the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tem of the Senate while we waited for the Vice President to take the helm.
But thinking of General Haig (who ascended from colonel to four-star general in just five years in the Nixon White House), brings to mind the Nixon Watergate experience, the Reagan Iran-Contra Scandal and their parallels to modern e-discovery.
I posit that Nixon's Watergate gave birth to e-discovery, and Reagan's Iran-Contra scandal cemented its power. Each demonstrated how storing self-immolating communications electronically--and subsequent efforts to eradicate them--will prove a litigant's undoing.
Author's Note: The theme for this post sprang from the offhand comment that, "EDna has to be cheap and easy." I contrived that EDna, a made-up character, had a penchant for promiscuous behavior during the strait-laced seventies. I ridiculously posited that male law students might have been drawn to sexual misadventure with a fetching lass of a sporting nature. EDna, I imagined, was (in the argot of those with moral compasses truer than mine), a tad "slutty."
Humor about sex isn't everyone's cup of tea. Based on the comments that follow, I missed the mark. Some readers felt my Satyrical attempts at humor crossed their lines. I am chastened, and henceforth, EDna is chaste.
I've gotten all sorts of interesting feedback on the EDD for Everybody article A/K/A "The EDna Challenge" that ran in the January 2010 issue of LTN. I'm fascinated by the number of vendors and developers who claim to be poised to introduce an integrated "solution" or contend their existing product could meet the challenge...so long as something is changed to make the challenge less challenging.
Folks, when you think of EDna, I want you to think CHEAP and EASY. Of course, here I mean the EDna Challenge, not my hypothetical law school classmate (though she was extremely popular). Need an acronym? How about, Simple, Low-cost, Utile and Total end-to-end management of ESI. S.L.U.T.
Seriously, the EDna challenge solution could be as ubiquitous on lawyer desktops as Adobe Acrobat. We're talking tens of thousands of potential users, near term. Not just every desktop of every big firm litigator, but the desktops of all those trial lawyers that are part of the 70-80% of lawyers nationally that practice in law firms of 5 lawyers or less, and every solo. Don't forget their assistants and support staff.
With yet another snowstorm expected to hit the tri-state area today and tomorrow, the inaugural meeting of the New Jersey chapter of Women in E-Discovery has been postponed.
I'm so disappointed as I was looking forward to the event
(I was scheduled to speak on social networking.) But I'm also relieved because I've got the flu/cold bug that's traversing the area faster than the downhill skiers in Vancouver.
The fabulous Babs Deacon will speak at the March meeting, on data analytics. I'll be speaking in June. Hopefully, it won't be snowing in June.
Guest lecturing at an e-discovery class at UT Law School today left me feeling a tad discouraged. I'd covered the fundamentals of data storage, the broad components of an enterprise IT environment, Unicode and a bit about keyword search. In 50 minutes, there's only so much I can do, and with little depth or nuance. Afterward, a third-year student in the class confided that he'd thought I'd gone pretty far "into the weeds" and wondered if he would really need to know this stuff. He asked why he couldn't just hire someone to handle the e-discovery issues in his cases.
Continue reading "What do you call someone who gets the lowest passing grade on the Bar exam?" »
As a frequent speaker, I live for the "aha" moment that lights the eyes of an audience. It's that magical turning point when you've made a daunting technical topic accessible. You can almost hear the, "Thank you, thank you, thank you, for making something I've long wondered about but never fully grasped clear to me."
Yesterday, at an e-discovery conference in Austin, I watched Ed Fiducia of Inventus earn his "aha" moment describing concept search. It's a challenging topic--one that entails shoving a host of different approaches under a broad rubric, and more math than the average lawyer wants to recall. Then, explanations are often laced with--or should I say lacerated by?--marketing-speak. But Ed hit the bull's-eye.
Continue reading "Clinching the Concept of Concept Search" »
I blogged about this Federal 9th Circuit case a few months ago and at the time commented, "This is one to watch." Well, it's time to watch. The gist of the case involves a former Toyota attorney accusing the firm of spoliation related to data on defects.
As the "gas pedal" issue has become prevalent, this case takes on new meaning. Here's what I wrote about it back in September, and an update I posted earlier today:
From September 24, 2009
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