Last week we attended the IQPC conference ”Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Europe” which was held in Brussels September 30th and October 1st.   For a link to the program click here.  The program is one the most elite and information-packed conference on European information retention and e-disclosure management, with the experts being the “elite of the elite”.  The event was [...]

         Two of the main topics at the IQPC Conference in Brussels last week on e-discloure (with much written of late in the e-discovery blogs) has been concept searching and “predictive tagging”.  But one vendor appears to be way ahead of the curve: Recommind.   We had the opportunity to interview Hartwig Laute, Director European Operations and Jason Robman, [...]

              One of the rock stars of the IQPC conference in Brussels in Brussels last week was Chris Dale, founder of the E-Disclosure Information Project.  He was on 3 panels at the conference and for his delightful description of the 2-day proceedings click here.   It was great to finally meet Chris.  We have emailed and [...]

On August 19, 2009, the French Data Protection Agency (also known as the “CNIL”) released a new opinion (the “Opinion”) on the transfer of personal data from France to a jurisdiction outside of Europe. The Opinion is noteworthy for describing how personal data can be transferred from France to the United States pursuant to U.S. discovery [...]

July 27, 2009 Microsoft said on said Friday it will offer European consumers a choice of Web browsers with Windows in an effort to settle an antitrust probe by the European Union. The software giant has been accused of using its dominance to unfairly push its own browser, Internet Explorer, on consumers by tying it [...]

There is an expanding need for temporary attorneys across Europe as many European companies and law firms have been adopting the use of temporary workers on a wider basis, as well as many U.S. companies and law firms which have applied the known U.S. model to their European operations.  Much of this is attributable to the use of [...]

  This article tries to shed light on an important area of trade mark law in connection with a decision recently handed down by the European Court of First Instance (the “CFI”), more specifically with respect to the complex question of similarity between marks and confusion of the public. This question is naturally an issue [...]

Bankruptcy-related mergers and acquisitions have hit their highest level globally since August 2004, and are set to keep rising as more companies are forced into distressed sales, according to Thomson Reuters data and restructuring practitioners.   It is one reason for the increase in bankruptcy-related work for contract attorneys in both the U.S. and Europe.   Thomson [...]

EU antitrust regulators raided Slovak Telekom last week on suspicions that the group had violated European anti-monopoly rules.  EU officials raided the company’s offices accompanied by national competition authorities as part of a probe into the company, 51-percent owned by Deutsche Telekom with the rest belonging to the Slovak state.  For story click here. At the [...]

A bit of a mixed bag today: E-discovery Kazeon Systems has rolled out a range of pricing plans for its e-discovery products, hoping to entice customers amid lean economic times with one plan aimed at users who want to avoid big up-front costs.  A number of web sites have reported the Kazeon Systems roll-out but for [...]