5 June 2013 – Organizations and their employees are leveraging social media tools at unprecedented levels. With over 150 million blogs, an average of 90 million tweets every day, and 100s of millions of users of social media sites (SMS) worldwide, organizations are challenged to define usage policies and implement solutions to appropriately govern, discover and preserve relevant information from these complex and malleable data sources.

We all get caught up with the complicating…

Tags: e-discovery, social media, the cool power of social media activism, Turkish protests

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By: Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  Founder/CEO

22 January 2013- Much of the work we do in Europe involves intellectual property (IP) and the technology, media and telecommunication (TMT) industries, either staffing litigation projects or special assignments here through Project Counsel, or via our…

Tags: Bryon Bratcher, e-discovery, ediscovery, Equivio, Exterro, Jackson Lewis, LegalTech2012, litigation support, Ralph Losey, Reed Smith, Steve Berrent, StoredIQ and ZyLAB, Tom Baldwin, visual analytics, WilmerHale, WilmerHale Discovery Solutions

9 November 2012 - We have been following the “new thing” in e-discovery:  how to leverage legacy data.  We have spent considerable time on the subject which has included conversations and meetings with companies like Attunity, Content Analyst, Digital Reasoning, EMC, FTI Consulting, Google Research and IBM plus events like the Text Analytics Summit which have expanded to include e-discovery, information governance and data analytics.  We have seen how legal investigations are a unique business process where a…

Tags: "The Intelligent Use of Data", Attunity, complex information governance ecosystem, contextual metadata, data privacy, Digital Reasoning, Director of Product Marketing, e-discovery, e-discovery obligations, e-discovery process, EDRM, Electronic Discovery Reference Model Project, FTI Consulting, Google, Google Research, governance, IBM, IDC's Governance, information behavior, information governance, Intel Research, IT risk, JR Jenkins, legal discovery, leverage legacy data, matrix, Microsoft, OpenURL, ProQuest Information and Learning, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Infrastructure service, risk and compliance, Rob Omeljanivk, Search, unstructured corporate data, Vivian Tero

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24 October 2012 -  Jérôme Kerviel’s attempt to overturn a prison sentence was thrown out of court today after a Paris judge rejected the former Société Générale trader’s appeal.  Mireille Filippini, the Paris court judge, upheld the rogue trader’s 2010 five-year sentence — three years in prison and two suspended — and ordered him to…

Tags: "Avoiding a Billion-Dollar Blind Spot", Bruce Schneier, Class Action Blawg, Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL), compliance issue, Delta One, e-discovery, e-Privacy Directive, ediscovery, Electronic Discovery, ESI, EU Data Protection Directive, Fimat, Forensics in Telecommunications, France, France e-discovery law, French Blocking Statute, Google, GRC, Information and Multimedia, Jérôme Kerviel, Matthew Sorell, Paul Karlsgodtat, privacy, Research Director and Security & Risk Management Practice Manager at Salient, risk, SailPoint Technologies, Scott Crawford, Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, SocGen, Société Générale | Category France e-discovery law, Société Générale/Jérôme Kerviel trial

5 October 2012 –  The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued proposed rules that aim to make resolving patent infringement disputes before the body less costly by placing limits on e-discovery. The ITC has for the last year been considering proposals intended to make discovery proceedings related to Section 337 investigations more efficient. The new rules, set to be published in today’s Federal Register, would give administrative law judges the explicit discretion to limit e-discovery requests.…

12 June 2012 – With the increased interest from the legal community on the e-discovery technique of technology assisted review, we provide below a compilation of articles, opinions and explanations related to the theory, practice and interpretation of this increasingly prevalent and certainly relevant discovery discipline.  The list is provided in cooperation with Orange Legal Technologies,  a leading provider of electronic discovery litigation, audit, and investigation services for law firms and corporations.

More…

Tags: e-discovery, ediscovery, predictive coding, TAR, Technology Assisted Review

19 May 2012- Much of the e-discovery work we do involves intellectual property, and it has involved us in both the ongoing global patent and copyright litigation wars as well as proactive reviews of internal processes related to e-discovery with an eye toward reducing risks and costs associated with future litigation or government investigations.   This has also afforded us the opportunity to attend several World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) conferences on managing IP litigation, and the…

Tags: e-discovery, ediscovery, global patent and copyright litigation wars, intellectual property, Microsoft, Motorola, patent, patent licensing, WIPO

Gregory P. Bufithis, Esq.  Founder/CEO

20 April 2012 – “When you are up to your arse in alligators, it is difficult to remember that your initial objective was to simply drain the swamp.”  Or so goes a very old saying from the Mississippi Delta region in the U.S.  Ah, yes.  Unintended consequences.  Much on the mind of the IMF, and the global banking community.  In its Global Financial Stability Report (GSFR), published on Wednesday, the IMF warned that European…

Tags: banking, Basel committee, due diligence reviews, e-discovery, financial instability, Global Financial Stability Report (GSFR, globalization, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, IMF, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, M&A reviews, Subsidiarization

19 April 2012 -  We are almost half-way through and 2012 is shaping up to be a very significant year for eDiscovery in the UK and Europe.  We have the new requirements under Practice Direction 31B, formal cost management in litigation, the new EU Data Privacy Directive and new streams of evidence through social media – all coupled with unprecedented economic pressures, data proliferation and an ever increasing number of regulatory investigations in a heightened risk management environment.  So,…

Tags: 7th Annual Information Governance & eDisclosure Summit and Exhibition, e-disclosure, e-discovery, edisclosure, ediscovery, Legal IQ

28 March 2012 – Google Apps for Business announced today new features for data archiving, retention policies, and litigation holds of email and instant messaging.  Analysts said the move was on par with its rival Microsoft whose product Office 365 has had similar features since its launch in summer 2011.   For the official announcement from Google click here.   

The announcement from Google is no big surprise.  And it is much more than the…

Tags: data archiving, e-discovery, ediscovery, Google, Google Apps for Business, Google Vault, litigation holds of email and instant messaging, retention policies