Legalweek Continues with Sessions on Workplace Data, Privacy, and Ipro’s Happy HourWritten by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today Last week, I provided a preview for the upcoming Legalweek event, which happened this Tuesday. Here are a few of the highlights from the event in terms of sessions I attended, including (of course) the Ipro happy hour! Collaboration Data in the Wild: Streamlining Early Case Assessment and eDiscovery for Slack, Teams, and Workplace Data This session, moderated by Brett Burney of Burney Consultants, opened with some eye-popping stats regarding the use of collabora ..read more

Déjà Vu All Over Again!  It’s Almost Time for Legalweek(year)!Written by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today If you remember this post on the Ipro blog from December, you know that I like to reference the sayings of the great “philosopher” Yogi Berra.  Probably his most famous saying was “it’s déjà vu all over again” witnessing Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris repeatedly hitting back-to-back home runs in the Yankees’ seasons in the early 1960s (even I’m not old enough to remember that when it actually happened, but I know how to Google). Next week, it may seem like “déjà vu all over ..read more

Putting the “Govern” Into Information GovernanceWritten by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today Last year, I published a six-part series associated with EDRM’s Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM) on the Ipro blog. I discussed the five stakeholder groups as a whole here, plus I discussed each of the stakeholder groups (Legal, Records & Information Management (RIM), Information Technology (IT), Privacy/Security and Business Stakeholders) individually.  See what I did there?  I just gave you six more posts to check out for additional information!  You’re welcome! S ..read more

Still Debating on Moving eDiscovery to the Cloud? Your Data is Already There Waiting For YouBy Jim Gill, Guest Blogger I recently moderated a webinar sponsored by ACEDS and Ipro where we unpacked the 2021 Snapshot Law Firm Survey. One statistic showed where firms are putting their priorities when it comes to updating technology, and only 7% of respondents said they were focused on moving their eDiscovery software from an on-prem deployment to a cloud-based deployment. A few years ago, one might read this figure as showing resistance in the legal world to move data to the cloud. There was a gre ..read more

Coming Full Circle with the 2021 ABA TECHSHOWWritten by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today As we get closer to one full year since the pandemic changed our way of life, it’s worth noting that the last in-person conference that many of you may have attended was last year’s ABA TECHSHOW, which was conducted February 26-29 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago (yes, 2020 was SO challenging, we had to endure 366 days last year).  This year’s ABA TECHSHOW (like many other conferences) will be virtual, but still a very exciting event, as it always is! This year, the ABA TECHSHOW will be conducted f ..read more

The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ephemeral Messaging Written by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today In last week’s post, I discussed the challenges associated with ephemeral messaging, including a case where the use of an ephemeral messaging app at the wrong time contributed to the issuance of terminating sanctions against the defendant in a case and identified a couple of recommendations to consider with regard to ephemeral messaging.  In the conclusion of my two-part series on ephemeral messaging, I’ll discuss a recently released Commentary on the topic from The Sedona Conference ..read more

Now You See the Evidence, Now You Don’tWritten by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today When it comes to eDiscovery, lawyers have plenty of challenges to deal with – including challenges to address even before the case is filed.  Add “disappearing evidence”(!) to that list of challenges. If you read this blog regularly, you know that collaboration apps have become a popular source of ESI in many eDiscovery cases.  I wrote about it here, Jim Gill wrote about it here and Ipro even conducted a webinar about it back in November (you can still watch it on-demand here). The popularity of ..read more

There’s No Time Like the Present to Start Planning for Data Minimization Under the CPRA Jim Gill, Guest Blogger Just when we were getting used to the idea of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), a new law was passed in November 2020, which will supercede it. Fortunately, there is time to prepare since the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) won’t be fully operative until January 1st, 2023. CCPA, CPRA, what’s the difference? One of the tenets of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a data minimization clause stating that personal data collected, stored, and used by comp ..read more

Attention Law Firm Readers! Ipro and ACEDS Needs Your Input Written by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today I’m surely dating myself with this reference, but, in the 1986 movie Short Circuit, with Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy (when is the last time you saw either of them starring in a movie?), the robot “Number 5” kept repeating the phrase “Need input” as its way of saying it needed information to decide what to do next.  Now, that’s artificial intelligence! But, if you’re a reader of this blog and work for a law firm handling litigation and discovery, here’s a chance to help devel ..read more

This Blog Post Means Business Written by Doug Austin, Editor of eDiscovery Today Last week, eDiscovery Today launched the first ever State of the Industry Report (sponsored by EDRM).  The report discusses key trends including remote work during the pandemic, usefulness of virtual conferences, pandemic effect on litigation workloads, use of predictive coding technology, discovery of data from mobile devices and collaboration apps, eDiscovery business trends in 2021, biggest overall eDiscovery trends in 2021 and the eDiscovery challenges not being discussed enough.  It includes survey ..read more