Category Archives: Technology

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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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Alternative Search Technologies – Too Good to be True

May 9, 2008 – 11:01 pm

It seems that alternative search technologies (alternative to the familiar Keyword and Boolean searches) touted by Vendors are considered as ‘too good to be true’. Check it out yourself at In Search of Better E-Discovery Methods By H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, New York Law Journal April 23, 2008 The above legal article [...]

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E-mail Archiving – Myths according to a Solution Provider and Making Sense in Plain English of the FRCP

May 7, 2008 – 4:23 pm

For those using Exchange, Outlook and Active Directory, you may be interested to read the white paper, Email Archiving: Common Myths and Misconceptions by MessageOne, Inc. If you’re curious on how a Solution Provider ‘makes sense in plain English of the FRCP, scan the posted white paper. I cannot comment on the MessageOne solution as [...]

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The Compliance, Security or Operability questions for E-Discovery

April 28, 2008 – 9:38 pm

  Last week I went to the infosecurity Europe event in London as I was attracted by the keynotes titles and the interactive theatre. Besides returning home with three different caps/hats, one even has a battery attached to it (stress balls seems to be out of fashion for the security nerds and herd, which is [...]

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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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Ediscovery Capability Maturity Model for Organisation?

April 1, 2008 – 12:19 am

There is an assumption in current ediscovery/disclosure processing models and solutions (offered by vendors/providers) that ‘Form follows Function’. If you’re tired of reading articles, here’s a webcast on ‘The e-discovery tool landscape’ . If you’re too busy to listen to the webcast, here’s a summary from the bitpipe.com site: Summary: Due to the broad nature [...]

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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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1st International Conference on Digital Evidence – June, London

March 29, 2008 – 9:26 pm

In ploughing through my backlog of e-mails, I came across what I think may be an event worth attending. The website stated ‘The aim of the Conference is to alert judges, lawyers…’. No mention of private judges/arbitrators. Get a book if register by 1st May!

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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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a taster or a gem?

March 28, 2008 – 1:21 am

‘Preservation and retention’ policies and ‘searching methods (metadata stuff)’ are discussed/mentioned in most ediscovery/disclosure articles/reports. Less talk about are the issues on ‘recovery of data’ or the challenges associated with the ‘indexing of data’  or ‘classification of data’ (for the metadata to make sense). Just some issues when dealing with data and information. Some people [...]

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