Illuminating eDiscovery

As usual, EDI’s Summer Meeting in New York was a great event with informative panels and fun networking. It was there that I had the opportunity to moderate a panel entitled, Buyers, Cellars & Wind-Downs, in which industry experts came together to discuss key issues and risks associated with ESI management, as well as the preservation expectations companies face during acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures. In this recap blog, I will cover the main stages that come about in these situations and key tips from session panelists.

Relativity Fest UK brought together many service providers and users of kCura’s Relativity and gave others a chance to showcase certain tools, technologies, and Relativity add ons. It also provided many litigation support specialists the opportunity to prove their Relativity mettle against a variety of Relativity tests, including the RCA, analytics, review support, and more.

I’m sure you have attended more than one brown bag learning session in your life, as I know I have. Typically, you bring in your sack lunch (that joyous brown fibrous package containing whatever life sustaining nutrients you found in your proximity the night before), and then listen to a subject matter expert enlighten you with the next business, technical, or life changing information that you would otherwise have missed.

Attorneys are still reluctant to utilize technology assisted review (TAR) in ediscovery even though numerous courts have approved this methodology. There is almost never a circumstance where a large group of contract attorneys will outperform one or two subject matter experts working with TAR in an appropriate feedback cycle. There seems to be a prevailing fear that leads to lack of adoption, and that hesitation most likely stems from the psychological acknowledgment that a computer can outperform its human counterparts. Lawyers, just like...

Following our inaugural Illuminations Panel in November 2016, Lighthouse once again welcomed industry thought leaders to present on a panel at Middle Temple in London this past week. This time around, panelists from both the corporate and product side discussed integrated ediscovery, as well as how Microsoft Office 365 is changing the conversation. Panelists dove into the past, present, and future of cloud-based solutions, and what options are available to corporations today. Ironically, the classical and austere surroundings of the 14^th...