Illuminating eDiscovery

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What is data reuse? There are many different flavors and not everyone thinks about it the same way. In the context of ediscovery, subject-matter specific work product in the form of responsiveness or issue coding often comes to mind and is then immediately dismissed as untenable given that the definitions for these can change from matter to matter. This is just one tiny piece of what’s possible, however. We need to consider the entire EDRM from end to end. What else has already been done, and what can be gained from it?

Recently we took Lighthouse’s legal technology podcast series Law and Candor on the road and broadcast a special live edition to our audience straight from Legaltech. One episode focused on the issue that’s at the forefront of the ediscovery and information governance world: data privacy compliance in the post-GDPR world. Our distinguished Law and Candor hosts spoke with special guest Kelly Clay, global ediscovery counsel and head of information governance at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), about the key challenges or “opportunities” that GDPR,...

In the reality of today’s transformed world, there’s no predicting what the future holds, not only for how we go about our daily lives, but also for how businesses conform to the dramatic workplace shift. As COVID-19 leaves cities empty and physical offices inoperable, collaborative technology, such as Microsoft Teams, provides businesses with a unique opportunity to adapt to modern communications and continue business as usual.

Have you ever prepared a great legal department budget only to find out three months into it that your company’s services group has decided to expand to Singapore? They want US personnel to assist in delivering the services by logging in to computers in Singapore. They also want to hire some local team members and move some over from other countries. Finally, they are servicing local companies so they need a new set of contracts. On top of all of that, they are launching in four weeks and IT, HR, and finance are all coming to legal to...