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eDiscovery comes in many shapes and sizes and some practice areas are naturally more subject to dealing with data intensive production requests than others. One such area is government investigations. Whether it is an investigation led by the DOJ, SEC, FTC or any of the other myriad Federal or state agencies, being on the receiving end of a government inquiry often means having to collect and make sense of an exorbitantly large amount of data.

For an eDiscovery vendor, keeping track of your data ─ or rather, your client’s data - should not be a question but a given. I know it may seem like an additional burden, when your client is demanding that you process their data NOW, and you may hesitate to create more work for your already exhausted Project Manager (PM). Despite the additional work, keeping even a very basic spreadsheet of each data set or production your company receives/sends-out pays off in more ways than you might think.

Though it took a number of years to gain initial acceptance, “concept search” technology has now matured to the point where it is deployed in the vast majority of document review platforms in the industry.

As the eDiscovery space evolves into an increasingly crucial component of litigation and the legal industry as a whole, the faces and concepts of yesteryear are beginning to change. There was a time not that long ago when the phrase Early Case Assessment (“ECA”) conjured visions of marginally helpful concept wheels, and limited search functionality coupled with long lag times between searching and the ability to review the data.

According to the Pew Research Center, 7 out of 10 Americans participate in social media. We share our lives with varying degrees of privacy on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat.

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Legal technology is continuously increasing efficiency and keeping costs down, but will it ever take the place of a lawyer? Artificial intelligence is changing the way lawyers practice law and Artificial Intelligence platforms are affecting how tasks are accomplished.

Typically, the first question that comes up when your client receives a request for production is “what is the scope of the responsive documents to produce, in order to comply with the discovery request?” However, at least in one California court, not only does it matter what you provide in response to a discovery request but in what format you produce ESI.

As corporate legal departments embark on 2017, the pressure to contain the costs associated with the avalanche of user-created data continues to grow. In-house lawyers have been asking the same question for many years ─ how do we control these costs? 

In a day and age where Internet of Things (IoT) devices, such as Amazon’s Echo, are integrated into every aspect of our lives, how much privacy can one expect and can it come back to bite you?