Electronic Discovery

Contract attorney e-discovery primer: just what is ESI, information and digital data?

Feb 24th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery, Top Story

As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we thought we’d update our e-discovery “primer” posts.  In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, [...]



E-Discovery for Everybody: Craig Ball and the EDna Challenge

Jan 15th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery, Top Story

As recently highlighted by Sharon Nelson on her excellent blog Ride the Lightening one of the things Craig Ball most enjoys is coming up with a challenging e-discovery hypothetical and then confounding some of his fellow luminaries in the EDD world.  For Sharon’s full post click here.
The Edna challenge involves an old school chum who runs [...]



Computer aided document review has arrived

Jan 12th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery

The January issue of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology has an article by Herb Roitblat, Anne Kershaw, and Patrick Oot describing a study that compared computer classification of e-discovery documents with manual review.  It found that computer classification was at least as consistent as human review was at distinguishing responsive [...]



Updated post: “Seeking Ways to Set Limits on E-Discovery”

Jan 11th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery

Last week we posted an article by Robert Owen, a partner with Fulbright & Jaworski.   He is head of the New York location’s litigation group, as well as co-head of the firm’s E-Discovery and Information Management practice group.  Owen is part of the core team that conceived of and has administered Fulbright’s Annual Litigation Trends Survey [...]



4 Reasons to Learn e-Discovery and Other Smart Aleck Advice

Jan 11th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery

 
Ralph Losey has produced a six minute video from the last day of his class on e-discovery at the University of Florida. Holland & Knight’s William Hamilton and Ralph serve as adjunct professors at the College of Law to try to pass on what they know about the subject to the next generation.   According to [...]



E-discovery project management software lists

Jan 4th, 2010 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery

Paul Easton has been compiling some excellent sites that list project/matter management applications including Mark Kerzner’s “Legal Technology” blog.  Last month Kerzner launched “LitSupport Q & A” that provides this information in a question and answer format as a free service to the litigation support community. One of the first answers published is a list [...]



2010: trends in e-discovery for contract attorneys

Dec 21st, 2009 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery

It’s that time of year when it seems everybody has come out with predictions about e-discovery for the coming year.  And the recent Gartner report on the upswing in e-discovery in the U.S. and around the globe (click here and click here) and Fulbright & Jaworski’s 6th Annual Survey (click here) comes as no surprise. 
But [...]



2010: Litigation Support and eDiscovery Trends

Dec 1st, 2009 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery, Top Story

From the December 2009 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel®
Bob Tennant is the Chief Executive Officer at Recommind, a position he has held since late 2001.  His thoughts on litigation support and e-discovery trends:
As we approach the end of a difficult year in 2009, there is no better time to reflect on the current state [...]



Capital One’s First Annual Seminar on E-Discovery: The Future of Search

Nov 10th, 2009 | By mrposse | Category: Electronic Discovery, Top Story, Webinars, Seminars, Surveys

10 November 2009
Reporting for the Posse List: Scott Madsen
In what portended to be a great day-long seminar on ediscovery search, the opening multimedia presentation by Ralph Losey and Jason R. Baron set the bar high.   This was the “beta version” of a presentation that Losey and Baron will give at LegalTech in New York City this coming February.   [...]



Initial reflections on ACC Boston: “brute force e-discovery”, budget cuts, a plethora of technology … and outside counsel

Oct 26th, 2009 | By mrposse | Category: Association of Corporate Counsel, Electronic Discovery

We are still in Boston (we had some post-ACC interviews to do today) and we have about 6 detailed posts to complete on ACC but we thought we’d post our initial reflections of the conference.”
First, a million thanks to Kim Howard, Marthea Davis and Robin Scullin of ACC for all they did to assist us at [...]