Law, eDiscovery & litigation support
The unstructured format of an email inbox is an inefficient, unreliable strategy for today’s legal records management. While lawyers often rely on their inboxes as a virtual filing cabinet, storage limits, and the inability to share or categorise information make it the wrong approach. In this Q&A, Roy Russell, managing director with Huron Legal in London, explains why document management systems that include email modules are essential to keeping virtual records straight.
All across Australia, state governments have either introduced or are introducing laws to prevent criminal association. These have been popularly dubbed the Anti-Bikie laws, but they can be used to target members of any criminal organisation. But once you have the laws, how do you make them work? A police force in Long Beach California is using enterprise content management (ECM) technology from Laserfiche to successfully target the sinister Sureños, the largest gang in California with hundreds of thousands of members.
As discoverable content continues to grow at an accelerating rate, much of it has found its way into Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint's collaboration tools, its flexible management of documents and other data, and tight integration with Microsoft's Office suite has spurred its wide adoption in the legal industry. But SharePoint's flexibility also presents challenges, both for organisations that need to manage data contained in SharePoint sites, and for law firms tasked with executing sound electronic data discovery (EDD) methods.
Access Data, a leading provider of digital forensics, cyber security and e-discovery software, today announced the appointment of Terry Steer as its Regional Manager for Australia and New Zealand.
At least some of the documents relating to the union “slush fund” established by the Prime Minister when working for law firm Slater & Gordon 20 years ago could be recovered, as they may still exist in the archives of the Department of Commerce (WA).
Dechert LLP has selected Autonomy WorkSite to manage and access more than 50 million electronic and paper documents across its 26 offices in 12 countries accessed by almost 900 legal professionals.
Australian Law firm Maurice Blackburn has rolled out a new practice management system to more than 650 users across 27 offices to help deal with workflow and lengthy document generation and processing times.
Law firm DLA Piper intends to implement a BA Insight and FAST enterprise search solution for all of its 4200 lawyers located across 31 countries and 77 offices throughout the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.
Does predictive coding mean the end of the lawyer’s role in ediscovery? Freehills’ Andrew Caspersonn wonders whether it really means we can make do with smart machines.
A massive growth in data volumes that must be navigated in ediscovery has led to the rise of a technique known as predictive coding. Maureen Duffy of law firm Freehills tracks examines why 2012 has been been such a pivotal year for the new technology.
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