I’m frequently reminded in my consulting work that data is everywhere. And if the Russian efforts to hack our election process tells us anything it’s that data -even fake data- can have wide-reaching implications. But have legal operations personnel considered the impact of their social media footprint on company operations, on litigation, on regulatory inquiries? Recently, I was involved in...
This is a lesson learned for corporate legal, law firm and e-discovery professionals everywhere.
For about two years, a group of legal professionals –judges, lawyers, e-discovery and litigation support professionals from across the US—who volunteer with the EDRM at Duke Law School have been working on guidelines designed to educate and inform the legal industry about technology assisted review (TAR). The Technology Assisted Review (TAR) Guidelines have now been released and are available on...
If there is one cause of consternation among law firms, consultants and service providers –those who mostly collect and process ESI—it is a project in which the client organization has poor information governance practices. I am reminded of this because a few weeks ago at The Master’s Conference in Washington, D.C., I told the audience that information governance practices are...
There’s been debate throughout the legal industry about which software product is the superior tool for conducting technology-assisted review (TAR). I’m no data scientist. In fact, I’m not a scientist at all. I’m not a programmer or a linguist. No PhD; no computer science degree; Heck, I’m not even a particularly highly qualified technical person. Nope. I’m just an operations...
I like oatmeal. It has been around forever and I eat it a lot. Project managers have also been around forever. When they built the pyramids in Egypt or the Great Wall in China there was likely someone there who planned, directed, monitored and controlled the work. Although clearly the workers back then were not anything like the organized labor...
Corporate legal operations folks need to pay attention to this Court Decision One of the things that has always puzzled me is how some of the smartest people in the world could behave so irresponsibly when it comes to legal matters. I’m not a lawyer, and granted, I’ve worked around lawyers long enough that some of their tendencies if not...
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