ED107 – The Final Countdown: Production Fundamentals

Production is another discovery activity, like collection and processing, in which technical decisions can have logistical and legal effects. For this reason, it is important for practitioners to understand the fundamentals of production.

Webinar: Gone Viral: Social Media in eDiscovery

As a review of almost any day’s news will demonstrate, social media remains an influential, indispensable part of American life – for better or for worse. And, as social media has been working its way ever deeper into our relationships, our professional activities, and our culture as a whole, its impact on discovery has been growing as well.

ED104 – Time to Make the Donuts: Processing Fundamentals

The range of potential ESI sources is continually multiplying and diversifying. Processing is how we work with that diverse range of materials without using as many different pieces of software as there are types of sources and how we enable searching and document identification across different source types.

Webinar: What’s Next in Diversity: Working Collaboratively to Measure, Report, and Improve Law Firm Diversity

Corporate law departments are acutely focused on the diversity of their outside counsel, and they expect their law firms to support corporate diversity initiatives. To achieve diversity goals, law departments and law firms must work collaboratively to understand corporate expectations and create strategies for firms to meet those expectations.

Webinar: In the Beginning: Identification and Preservation Fundamentals

ESI spoliation remains a frequent issue – particularly in the gray area where new devices, applications, or services are transitioning from niche adoption to mainstream use. Hence the importance of these phases in an eDiscovery effort: almost every other type of failure can be fixed with adequate time and money, but once unique, relevant ESI is gone, it’s gone.

ED103 – The Grand Scavenger Hunt: Collection Fundamentals

With source types multiplying – including challenging sources like smartphones, social media, and collaboration tools, it is more important than ever for legal practitioners of all types to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of collection so that they can assist in spotting potential issues and identifying appropriate solutions.

Webinar: Handling Data: Overcoming Differing and Often Contradictory National and International Legislation

Companies under investigation often find themselves in the unenviable position of trying to balance the need to provide prosecuting agencies with the information they request and staying on the right side of the myriad of data protection legislation across the world. Get it wrong and they can find themselves in further difficulty with the prosecuting agencies or staring down the barrel of a hefty data protection fine. What steps can practitioners and companies take to successfully resolve these conflicts in an effective and timely way?

Law Firm Cybersecurity in a COVID-19 World

It is no surprise that law firms continue to be an attractive target for cyberthieves. Law firm data systems hold various types of confidential information about corporate clients, and include nonpublic information about corporate development, business strategy and planned transactions that hackers could use for a variety of malevolent uses. In addition, firms generally also store a wealth of personally identifiable information, including protected health information and payment information, for clients, parties, witnesses, and employees. The dramatic shift to remote working due to COVID-19 has increased the complexity of the cybersecurity challenges firms face.