ediscovery & Forensics

A document by any other name

Allison Stanfield examines the consequences of the judgement in Porter v Australian Prudential Regulation Authority [2010], where the Federal Court of Australia gave the green light for a regulatory body to get access to files on a forensic image of a computer hard drive that was kept on the premises of an applicant’s solicitor.

Ediscovery on tap with Exchange 2010 SP1

Microsoft has flagged archiving and discovery enhancements to Exchange Server 2010 with a preview of Service pack 1 (SP1) due out later in 2010.

Siemens acquires Eden Technology

Siemens in Australia and New Zealand has acquired Eden Technology a company that delivers software for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Asset Management (AM) and ediscovery and evidence management.

ZyLAB eDiscovery integrates text analytics

ZyLAB claims its integration of text analytics into its eDiscovery & Production System will help make Early Case Assessments (ECA) more efficient and less costly.

AccessData updates Forensic Toolkit

AccessData has announced the release of Forensic Toolkit (FTK) 3.1, which now provides Optical Character Recognition (OCR) out of the box.

Compliance choked by data shortfall: survey

Nearly 63 percent of corporate legal, compliance and IT professionals surveyed at LegalTech New York 2010 claim that inadequate technology and resources are the biggest barriers to managing electronically stored information (ESI).

ZyLAB launches e-mail archiving, retrieval offering

ZyLAB, a provider of e-discovery and information management offerings, has launched new e-mail archiving and retrieval offering to enable organisations to integrate directly from Lotus Notes and Novell Groupwise.

The proof is in the message

Could you be hoodwinked by a fake email? We may comfort ourselves that we would be better than Malcolm Turnbull at spotting a bogus message, but David McGrath warns of the perils that await the unwary.

 

Trading titans’ clash swords in discovery clash

David McGrath follows the trail of a single email which is at the heart of a two year court battle between electronic trading giant Optiver and Aussie rising star Tibra.

Notes from Legal Tech NY

Each year the legal industry hot foots it to Legal Tech New York (LTNY), a three day event in February that brings together some of of the world's leading experts on ediscovery, compliance and information management. Michelle Mahoney, the Melbourne-based Director Applied Legal Technology for Mallesons Stephen Jaques, reports back from LTNY 2010.

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