Originally published by Legaltech News. Legaltech West Coast is right around the corner. Check out these ideas for making the most of it. Legaltech West Coast is right around the corner, on July 13 and 14, in San Francisco. Whether it’s your first visit to this conference or your eleventh, check…
Originally published on CBS News. By Amanda Schupak It’s hot out there. Real hot. And if you’re planning to hit the beach to soak in the sun or cool off in the sea, we hope you’re packing sunscreen and a big hat. But you’re not the only one that can suffer from the…
Featured article by Chris Bross, CTO, DriveSavers June 1st marked the start of hurricane season and tropical storms are top of mind for companies in prime locations. Taking preventative measures that businesses can take to protect important data including accounting paperwork, employee documents and sensitive customer information, should be a priority…
Originally published by Compelling Discovery. What do you do if you receive documents from an anonymous source that contain privileged information from your adversary? That is the question Merits Incentives, LLC v. Dist. Ct., 127 Nev. Adv. Op. 63, 262 P.3d 720 (2011) addressed and it is still a topic that…
In every successful data recovery, the recovered contents from the affected drive are copied onto another device, often a hard drive. A new flash drive is appropriate for customers with smaller amounts of recovered data. This “target drive” is what we send to the customer in order to return their…
Originally published by The Relativity Blog By David Horrigan When most of us tell friends and family we work in eDiscovery, we often get befuddled looks. Even many of our legal colleagues think of eDiscovery the way they think of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics or the Rule Against Perpetuities—undecipherable, complex, and best…
Originally published by FindLaw. By Mark Wilson, Esq. The eDiscovery revolution begun in the late ’90s continues unabated, but wearable data-collecting devices like the Fitbit present a new and interesting problem for electronic discovery. Anything You Wear May Be Used Against You in a Court of Law You can probably imagine…
Originally published by FindLaw. By Mark Wilson, Esq. Electronic discovery is the name of the game these days as more and more people and companies store their stuff in the form of bytes, not pages. That means that lawyers need to know how electronic discovery works (and in some places, that’s…
What really happens to your personal information if it gets swept up in one of those big data breaches that have hit companies like Target, Anthem Health and Sony? Bitglass, a data security company, devised a test to measure what could happen to an individual’s personal data after a breach…
Originally published by the American Bar Association. By Katie L. Dysart – May 28, 2012 The now-ubiquitous term the “CSI Effect” has been used to describe the phenomenon whereby high-tech, forensic science dramatized in television crime dramas such as CSI, Law & Order, and Forensic Files theoretically promotes unrealistic expectations among…
