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Archives for February, 2009


Legaltech NY: Multi-matter management environments?

by Whit Andrews  |  February 2, 2009  |  1 Comment

Apropos of a briefing we took from Iron Mountain’s Stratify last week, and also this week when I talked to Inference, the question of the value of multi-matter management environments came up. Ken Withers: Managing matters in a single place for all parties could result in serious savings — but there has to be a [...]

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Legal Tech E-Discovery Town Hall

by Whit Andrews  |  February 2, 2009  |  Comments Off

Question: How can we establish a set of practices for meet-and-confer prep and conduction? Ken Withers, the Sedona Conference: There will never be a 3×5 checklist. There will be best practices. A few things will be fundamental. EVerybody going into meeting must know what clients’ data holdings are. The most recent disaster scenario in Fannie [...]

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LegalTech 2009: Executing eDiscovery Inside the Corporation

by Whit Andrews  |  February 2, 2009  |  Comments Off

Honeywell’s Ron Harry (Manager, Electronic Data Discovery) shows a model where Honeywell divides into three tiers — small, medium and large matters. Then they split that into Identification, collection, pre-process, pre-review, processing and production. There are in-house, out-sourced and hybrid models for each cell that this matrix produces, and Honeywell aims to save as much [...]

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Now hear this

by Whit Andrews  |  February 2, 2009  |  3 Comments

Good conversation with Autonomy at Legal Tech today. They had good case studies of the use of audio in e-discovery, which is a Big Scary World of new complexity we expect to get fairly explosive fairly quickly thanks to unified messaging. Only video has the potential to be more emotionally devastating (think Hard Copy in [...]

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Accepting Excepting

by Whit Andrews  |  February 1, 2009  |  Comments Off

Search has been a rough business for years, now, with Microsoft loading improving free software into its discharge chute and heaving it out as it goes, with IBM signing up with mighty Yahoo and doing the same, with Google standing on the brink of the enterprise sales slurry pit and throwing appliances in like it’s [...]

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