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 is Information Governance? And Why is it So Hard?

by Debra Logan  |  January 11, 2010  |  2 Comments

 Before I write (extensively)  about why information governance is so difficult and what has to happen to make it happen, I should tell you what I mean by ‘information governance’.  Like the term ‘information’ itself, different people mean different things when they talk about this topic. There are lots and lots (and lots) of definitions of [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions: Information Governance

by Debra Logan  |  January 4, 2010  |  3 Comments

Don’t know about you, but I always make New Year’s resolutions.  One of mine is to blog more.  That shouldn’t be difficult, since I managed it about three times in 2009.  In any case, the past is behind us and we can all look forward to a fresh start in whatever areas of our lives [...]

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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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