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, [...]

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 [...]

People have used the idea of “social network” loosely for over a century to connote complex sets of relationships between members of social systems at all scales, from interpersonal to international.  In 1954, J. A. Barnes started using the term systematically to denote patterns of ties, encompassing concepts traditionally used by the public and those [...]

  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 [...]

This week’s “Top 10 plus …”  E-discovery articles from Orange Legal Technologies.    Strange Times: EDD $ is down 9% but should spike 30% this year - http://tinyurl.com/TCS9823 The Impact of E-Discovery on Arbitration – http://tinyurl.com/n4aqzs ILTA’s Annual Conference-A Not-So-Grimm Fairy Tale: The Conclusion – http://tinyurl.com/nh3gxz The Facebook Era is for Business – http://tinyurl.com/n8oxbb Is Electronic Discovery [...]

This week’s “”Top 10 plus …”  e-discovery articles from Orange Legal Technologies.    How To E-Discover Someone In the Age of Twitter http://tinyurl.com/nt3kr8 The Intelligence Behind Email Patterns – http://tinyurl.com/kq4gjp The Trouble With Discovery of ESI Abroad – http://tinyurl.com/nsd4z3 A Closer Look at California E-Discovery Law – http://is.gd/1HNtk Four Steps to Reducing the Cost of Compliance – [...]

This week’s “”Top 10″ (ok, this week there are 15 but we had to squeeze in 15 because they’re all pretty good) electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies.  All seemed relevant to our (ever diverse) membership base:    Back Off Metadata Ethics Complaint, Judge Tells Lawyer Suing Sexploits Blogger – http://tinyurl.com/mpa6du  Digital Britain Report- vision for [...]

This week’s “”Top 10″ (ok, this week there are 15 but we had to squeeze in 15 because they’re all pretty good) electronic discovery articles from Orange Technologies.  All seemed relevant to our (ever diverse) membership base:  Get Active in Preserving, Retrieving ESI – http://tinyurl.com/oamreb British Standard on data protection is published – http://tinyurl.com/qmdhbj  E-discovery policy [...]