Category Archives: Community

Organisation/Bodies

Hot off the e-mail Press!

June 13, 2008 – 8:28 pm

I received an invite today to register for the 2nd annual electronic evidence and e-discovery forum. I attended the 1st Forum last year and the focus then was mostly related to forensic stuff and presentations from top notch e-discovery vendors offering solutions/services based on the edrm. Judging by the agenda, a mixed bag of themes [...]

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Changing British Standards & other initiatives

June 2, 2008 – 10:37 am

The existing British Standard Institute, BIP 0008 code of practice for “legal admissibility and evidential weight of information stored electronically” is due to be redesigned in September 2008. The new standard, BS 10008 entitled “Evidential Weight and Legal Admissibility of Electronic Information” is currently on the BSI website for comment. According to the draft, the [...]

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The Lawyer – calling all litigation professionals

May 18, 2008 – 11:51 pm

Ready yourself for the next 12 months of increased litigation and the challenges of electronic disclosure – From The Lawyer. What are the challenges of electronic disclosure? According to the speakers/presenters from the legal world, the challenges are explored by themes which are; Implications of the latest electronic disclosure developments Minimising costs associated with eDisclosure [...]

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US and UK/EU Legal & Compliance “Hot Topics”

May 16, 2008 – 12:24 am

It doesn’t look like ediscovery is under the “Hot Topics”. Maybe ‘ediscovery’ is too hot to handle. The topics listed under the programme, such as recording, securing and accessing client communications are mostly to do with Know Your Customer (KYC). It would be interesting to hear the recent lessons from the compliance officers and also [...]

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Fancy an MSc in E-discovery (and Computer Forensics)?

April 14, 2008 – 6:23 pm

The Glasgow University is offering an MSc in Computer Forensics and E-discovery. The University is also looking for a lecturer, ‘ someone with professional and practical experience as well as the ability to take a leading role in teaching, development and research in dynamic academic environment.’

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From the Serious Fraud Office (UK), investigation is an art.

April 14, 2008 – 3:42 pm

For those in UK and able to attend the British Computer Society (BCS) evening event on 27th May : Large Scale and Complex Fraud:the Digital Forensics Approach’ hosted by BCS IRMA, please pre-book and do comment here if you get to attend. I will be in Geneva on that day. Sounds an interesting presentation from [...]

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Recent March publication & activity from the Sedona Conference

April 6, 2008 – 10:24 pm

I have just found the WG1 March 2008 publication at the Sedona Conference site. The title is Commentary on ESI Evidence & Admissibility. Have not read it yet. Maybe there will also be a publication from the Spring Conference (March event): THE SECOND ANNUAL PROGRAM ON GETTING AHEAD OF THE eDISCOVERY CURVE: STRATEGIES TO REDUCE [...]

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Is Record and Information Management (RIM) the same as ESI Management?

April 4, 2008 – 1:00 am

Ah! if there is one prediction for 2008 (always fun to predict especially as spring, Easter and day light/shift in clock all happened before April Fool’s day); there will be all kinds of bundled IT and Legal events/conferences and also ediscovery/disclosure related trainings. If you can distinguish ESI from RIM (just one area where IT [...]

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Discovery of ESI (DESI) – Research Initiatives

March 29, 2008 – 11:09 pm

Back in summer 2007 the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law, ICAIL (in CA, USA) hosted a workshop on Supporting Search and Sensemaking for Electronically Stored Information in Discovery Proceedings (DESI Workshop). The second DESI Workshop will be hosted by UCL, London this June. According to the UCL website, the second DESI Workshop coordinates [...]

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Investigations Conference in Las Vegas Resort

March 29, 2008 – 7:23 pm

If anyone knows of a similar event (marked in the Calendar here) in the UK as the CEIC in US ,please leave a comment here. The CEIC Conference looks interesting as it covers ‘all manner of investigations including’ : * Computer forensics and cybercrime * Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) * Internal investigations * Records retention, data [...]

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