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 [...]

This post is one of several summarizing our coverage of LegalTech New York 2010.  For our other posts click here. Reporter:  Christian Aust Trilantic is a leading U.K.-based legal support provider that focuses on electronic discovery services.  They sponsored a double-panel for the International E-Discovery track at LegalTech.  The panels introduced and discussed EU data [...]

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 July 2009, LexisNexis sponsored the first conference ever held in Hong Kong bringing together a panel of leading international experts and prominent local practitioners to share their knowledge and experience on key issues concerning e-discovery and digital forensics, with special focus on the legal aspects.  Among the presenters were: * Scott Nonaka of O’Melveny & Myers whose presentation titled [...]

  On June 29, in the midst of the state’s budget crisis, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law the Electronic Discovery Act (Assembly Bill 5), which enacts comprehensive electronic discovery rules through amendments to the California Code of Civil Procedure. Because the Legislature deemed it urgent legislation, it is effective immediately. Almost identical legislation [...]

Our “Posse List moment” At the panel entitled “Document Review: Establishing the Team & Utilizing the Technology” Browning Marean, senior counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office and a member of the DLA Piper Litigation group and co-chair of the Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group (click here) gave us a nice shout out during the [...]

We spent the last 3 weeks in Chicago, D.C., LA and NYC.   We met with Posse List members, law firms, e-discovery companies and staffing agencies, as well as a few in-house corporate legal departments where we have contacts, plus a few Federal government contacts. What follows are some brief observations on trends we see in [...]

A Review of Day 2 of the ILSLC (Part 1) As we said in our coverage of Day 1 of the ILSLC (click here) the focus of almost all of the speakers during this conference was:  the fundamental problem facing the legal profession today is the search for truth and justice in a digital world.  A world where the [...]

That was the rallying cry of Ralph Losey and many of the speakers at ILSLC yesterday.   Said Losey “When people start talking about e-discovery production burdens I always think of the famous line of Jack Nicholson in the movie A Few Good Men, where he said, ‘You can’t handle the truth!’  In e-discovery today in my [...]