25 June 2010 —  Social Media Governance.  A new term creeps across the e-discovery and compliance landscape, seeking to join the pantheon of other irritating phrases like “governance, risk and compliance”, “legal project management” and “early case assessment”.  It seems that “everybody” is doing it.  But although social media is a boon to corporations as a [...]

  The remainder of 2010 has a significant number of key electronic discovery related conferences, events, seminars and tradeshows.   We thought having a calendar of events would help in your planning.  For a link click here. The list was compiled by E-Discovery Sensei Master Rob Robinson of Applied Discovery  and published on his new  electronic discovery resource site [...]

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, [...]

As many vendors (and participants) told us, last year’s show was indicative of the crashing economy:  low attendance, lackluster enthusiasm.  But this year the number of folks attending seems to be up although according to some of the “veteran vendors” (participants who have done 5+ LegalTech shows) say overall vendor participation seems down.  But there does seem to [...]

This interview is part of our new series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”.  For our introduction to the series  click here. Virginia P. Henschel, Esq. is Vice President of E-Discovery Affairs for Applied Discovery and in this role, she works with law firms, government organizations, corporations and industry leaders to [...]

  In the latter part of the last decade — ok, the fall of 2009 — we completed what we call the trifecta:  full coverage of three of the premier electronically stored information (ESI) and e-discovery events for the litigation industry:  The Masters Conference (click here), the ACC Annual Meeting (click here), and the Georgetown Law Advanced [...]

LegalTech West started today in Los Angeles and Steve Harmon, director of legal services at Cisco Systems, discussed the processes and technologies developed by Cisco to support its in-house legal department and outside counsel.  His speech, titled “Maintaining Efficiency, Controls and Quality through Automation”, was all about leveraging technology. “In this challenging economic environment, it’s more [...]