Debra Logan

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A Whole Lotta Lawyers

by Debra Logan  |  February 10, 2010  |  2 Comments

I spent part of last week at Legal Tech, the ‘world’s largest Legal Technology conference.’  I certainly hope that claim is true, because it was indeed a large gathering.  Although my own interest in information governance encompasses quite a few areas, I am very focused on how information management and risk management are related.  The need for [...]

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What Goes On Facebook, Stays in Facebook. Forever.

by Debra Logan  |  May 7, 2009  |  2 Comments

While skimming through the very excellent Unfiltered Orange (http://orangelt.us/about/news-events/unfiltered-orange/) for the latest e-Discovery news, I came across yet another post talking about the dangers of Twitter, Facebook, and other social networking sites (http://www.mediacastermagazine.com/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=99515&issue=05012009).  It pointed out the privacy pitfalls of social networking for individuals and companies, and used a couple of examples of people who [...]

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Legal and IT Are Still Not Communicating

by Debra Logan  |  May 6, 2009  |  5 Comments

 Being an analyst is a funny old thing.  I’ve been talking about e-Discovery for a few years now and so much of what I said and wrote for Gartner at the beginning of the current e-Discovery hype seems very old news indeed.  One of our cardinal pieces of advice is that in matters of data [...]

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Twitter and e-Discovery

by Debra Logan  |  April 28, 2009  |  4 Comments

Having finally been convinced that blogging might not be such a bad thing after all and it was almost certain that it would NOT bring about the end of civilization as I had previously believed, I now find myself having to pay attention to YASSS (Yet Another Social Software Site), namely, Twitter. For those of [...]

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Everyone Is Doing It: Even Lawyers

by Debra Logan  |  April 1, 2009  |  3 Comments

Nothing worse than a reformed sinner is a phrase that I have often used in connection with ex-smokers like myself. We hate it more than those of you who never smoked, because of course, we were foolish and reckless enough to do it at one time. The same holds true for adopting a position or [...]

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