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 and Legal terms are potential grounds for misunderstanding) and curious about whether one can truly predict the landscape for electronic discovery by examining (& predicting) the Record and Information Management arena (instead of landscape) try the online Record and Information Management (RIM) training.
I have not taken the online training as I much rather read my weekly horoscopes (& they’re free & with lots of nice pictures and dreamy words to lighten up my spirit).
If anyone has taken the online training, please do comment & share your views here.
Thanks!
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 of e-discovery, it can be hard to discern what constitutes an e-discovery vendor. This webcast provides an overview of some product categories that can help offer insight into their strengths and weaknesses in the e-discovery process.
This webcast also discusses:
- The role of email archival
- Strengths and limitations of information classification tools
- How to leverage SIMs, log managers and network management consoles
- Search tools that can index content in a variety of resources for later discovery
- Pros and cons of forensics tools
- What to do about encryption
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!
‘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 may consider this site a gem of information on recovery of data. For me, it’s a taster (more out there?) and rather mind-boggling.
March 28, 2008 – 12:07 am
My lawyer friend, John (thanks!) e-mailed me a piece of news posted at thelawyer.com site
Not related to electronic disclosure (from the news report) but still worth noting.
Confidentiality in arbitration not to be taken for granted. According to the Court of Appeal, ‘any future disputes on the disclosure of documents should be resolved by agreement’.
March 17, 2008 – 11:58 pm
Been pre-occupied with lots of non IT, non ediscovery/disclosure stuff lately 
In the midst (and aggro?!) of changing my broadband internet provider & coping (fiddly) with mobile internet.
How about this for a refreshing read? Just one page on the Zen and the Art of Disaster Recovery.
Compared this with an article (from technolawyer.com – posted below) on ‘everything you need to know…over more than one page
Maybe soon someone will be enlightened & come up with the Zen and the Art of edisclosure/discovery. That would indeed be more than refreshing read.
Enjoy!
March 11, 2008TECHNOFEATURE: EDISCOVERY: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
RECORDS MANAGEMENT, IDENTIFICATION, AND PRESERVATION -- PART
2 OF 2
By Bruce A. Olson (This article is a TechnoLawyer Exclusive.)
SYNOPSIS
Ask a litigator what topic weighs heavily on their mind
these days and often you'll hear eDiscovery. But litigators
are not the only legal professionals who need to understand
the impact of eDiscovery on their day-to-day work -- even
prior to any threat of litigation. In this two-part article,
trial attorney and legal technologist Bruce Olson once again
delves into the complex world of eDiscovery, this time
addressing the first three stages of George Socha and Tom
Gelbmann's Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM)
<http://www.edrm.net>: Records Management, Identification,
and Preservation. Last week Bruce discussed Records
Management. This week he covers Identification and
Preservation. Part 2 contains 1,532 words.
With kind permission from Mr. William F. Hamilton at Holland + Knight, I have posted here two articles which I received last week.
The PowerPoint presentation on From ESI to Evidence and a pdf article on RAM preservation.
Thanks Mr. Hamilton.