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Many corporations have been having public challenges with their litigation support and eDiscovery capabilities. Recently, it came to be known that Google had its own share of issues by being unable to produce all relevant material for an investigation. Google makes a great search product...

By Joanne Cummings Your company has been hit by a lawsuit. Do you know the whereabouts of all its electronically stored information? Lawsuits are a fact of life for organizations today. Recent surveys show that the average U.S. company faces 305 suits at any one time; that number jumps to 556...

By Hampton Coley The goal for any e-discovery project is to manage data successfully throughout the process and eliminate any surprises. In the world of electronic discovery, what does this mean? It means that litigation-support professionals, or others in charge of the day-to-day process...

By: James N. Dertouzos, Nicholas M. Pace, Robert H. Anderson Pretrial discovery - the exchange of relevant information between litigants - is central to the American civil legal process. As computer technologies continue to develop, concerns have arisen that, because of the sheer volume of...

There is a mindset among many that retaining old e-mails will put a company at risk. Many reason that e-mails handed over to an adversary during e-discovery, for example, will contain a “smoking gun” that could result in embarrassment or the loss of a legal judgment. Read more from Michael...

Ediscovery benefits have penetrated into many areas that organizations have started viewing e-discovery as a major revenue pooling measure. Governmental rules have been implemented with regard to electronically stored information and one good example is the change in Louisianan civic rules that...

Every company and enterprise has to store a large amount of data, which is dispersed across network storage devices, servers, laptops and desktops. It’s a huge challenge for a company or enterprise to have an effective data management in place. What they need is a platform that not only...

Information systems are difficult to handle when they are stored in distributed network systems. Electronic discovery has contributed to this by powering legal discovery searches, which cover all data stores, to efficiently return appropriate data. It has been proved that intelligent systems can...

It has been estimated that an average mid/large corporation deals with more than 20 ongoing lawsuits at any given point of time. This is a revelation into how much of effort goes into preserving legal data within the organization. Since legal evidences are shared between organizations and law...

Every organization is faced with a certain set of limitations that prevents it from handling legal hold situations in an orderly and process driven manner. One reason can be attributed to the inability to find all the information across the different expanses of the enterprise. Enterprises lack...

Electronic discovery reference models are based on the actual data collection and preservation activities followed in traditional systems. The input module for an EDRM package is made of several small processes like records management, identification, collection and preservation. A large part of...

An important attribute of eDiscovery is that comes in handy for corporate organizations in critical situations. For instance, during litigations that enterprises face. Managing these litigations effectively is quite an onerous task since it requires the companies to provide all the relevant data...

Without question, enterprises today struggle with a range of electronic discovery challenges. Recent studies expect Electronically Stored Information (ESI) to grow from 161 Exabyte’s in 2006 to 988 Exabyte’s in 2010, representing a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 57%. The average...

BY DAVE TAYLOR, Earlier this year, Visa painted a very rosy picture of PCI compliance among merchants when they announced that 77% of Level 1 US merchants are compliant and 62% of Level 2 merchants are now compliant. While we applaud Visa for having the courage and spending the money for...

Is your organization prepared for e-discovery? Odds are it is not. According to an October 2006 LexisNexis survey of the members of the Association of Corporate Counsel, only 7% of corporate attorneys indicated they were prepared for the new rules. In fact, over 50% of the lawyers were not even...