7 March 2011 — In case you missed it over the weekend, the New York Times published an article titled “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software” which discussed the “new e-discovery software that can analyze millions of documents in a fraction of the time, and at a fraction of the cost consumed [...]

Not to be outdone by Clearwell Systems, Fios, Craig Ball, Recommind and everybody else making e-discovery predictions/trends-to-watch in 2011, The Posse List presents its 10.5 e-discovery (and other) predictions for 2011.  1.  E-discovery vendors abandon the idea of end to end e-discovery and return to concept of “one trick pony” (“We can scan that for [...]

Virtual LegalTech is on September 23rd and one of the webinars is on social media and e-discovery. The cross roads of social media and e-discovery are the new lawyer nightmare.  Posse List members across the whole e-discovery vortex –– the data collector vendors, the forensic experts, the contract attorneys, etc. —   are dealing with it.  [...]

27 August 2010 — The Posse List team was in Las Vegas this week at the annual International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) conference, led by our Chief Technology Officer Scott Madsen.   It is a four and a half day event with a packed agenda and we find it to be the best event of the year (and each [...]

Title: Defensible Legal Hold & Early Case Assessment — Advanced Technology Best Practices & the Changing Reasonableness Standard (sponsored by Autonomy) Date: March 3, 2010 Time: 1:00 PM (EST) Best practices and technology for eDiscovery are rapidly advancing. What was state of the art yesterday may no longer be a defensible process today. During this [...]

Topic: Defensible Legal Hold and Early Case Assessment Thursday, March 11, 2010 5:30pm-6:30pm Houston, TX 1 hour CLE Credit, The State Bar of Texas (Optional dinner reception immediately following) Event Contact: Norris Tran  (norrist@autonomy.com)    415-615-1530 Speaker: Jack Halprin, Esq. VP of eDiscovery and Compliance Autonomy  Best practices and technology for eDiscovery are rapidly advancing. What [...]

This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other posts click here. Reported by:  Scott Madsen, Esq. / The Posse List Editorial Staff Deborah Baron (Vice President, Legal & Compliance, Autonomy) moderated the session titled “Taking Compliance and E-discovery to the Cloud”.   (For a video interview of [...]

Facebook Deputy General Counsel Mark Howitson was yesterday’s keynote speaker and he said Facebook is “looking for a fight”.  He said that almost every day, law enforcement officials and civil litigators request information from a user’s Facebook account.  And, he said, there’s some public misunderstanding about what Facebook’s legal responsibilities are to protect user’s privacy.  [...]

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.                            Jason R. Baron and Ralph Losey do not need any introduction for those of us in the e-discovery “trade” but for our new readers a quick summary:  Jason has [...]

  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 [...]