Happy Fourth of July everyone! Be safe and have a great time! Who says e-discovery isn't funny? If you're looking for an additional laugh, you can always visit our entire catalog of E-Discovery Memes and Cartoons, and feel free to share the fun with friends and colleagues. Remember, E-Discovery is always better when you have a sense of humor. Cheers! Read More

Organisations are facing increasingly complex challenges and rising business risk associated with non-compliance to new and existing privacy regulations, data breaches and cybersecurity attacks. But it is data that is tying everything together. The first step to protecting, using appropriately or eliminating information, is to know what you have, where you have it, why you have it and who you share it with. Without this basic foundation, you have limited chances of success achieving any Legal GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance) objective. That is why a comprehensive and robust data inventory must... Read More

Qandah v. St. Charles County (E.D. Mo. April 2, 2020) proves that E-Discovery professionals have been saying it for years: social media will be the new battleground for proving your case. This case gives us a glimpse into the painstaking ordeal it may take sides to agree on what and when relevant social media data is produced. Overview:In this case, involving misconduct of a correctional officer against a prisoner, the plaintiff alleges that the defendant deleted relevant Facebook posts and moved for spoliation sanctions.To prove that the defendant intentionally let another... Read More

And if you need a refresher, read The Comprehensive Guide to Complying with the CCPA. Who says e-discovery isn't funny? If you're looking for an additional laugh, you can always visit our entire catalog of E-Discovery Memes and Cartoons, and feel free to share the fun with friends and colleagues. Remember, E-Discovery is always better when you have a sense of humor. Cheers! Read More

The first quarter of 2020 created a seismic wave of change for organisations, professionals and working life, as the COVID-19 Coronavirus swept the globe and a worldwide pandemic was declared. With cities and countries in lockdown, Governments enforced that most businesses and organisations react accordingly and move their entire workforces out of the office and into their homes. Working from home became not just the norm, albeit temporarily, but in most cases, mandatory. Of course, this created huge and perhaps generational change to business as we know it. The e-discovery industry was... Read More

Information governance is the set of rules used to control the creation, management, storage, and ultimately the disposition of data within an organization. It governs data from paper files, phone records, and voicemails to electronic data like emails, spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, database records, and new types of electronically stored information (ESI). As a definition, it works well, but in practice, it doesn’t necessarily tell you how to get from identifying the need for IG to having an effective, functioning set of policies and procedures. Fortunately, in Exterro’s Basics of E-Discovery... Read More

Why This Privacy Law is Important: The Wisconsin Data Privacy Act is three separate bills that together would give consumers more control over their personal data, and would strengthen Wisconsin’s data security and breach notification requirements. Need to Know Information: Who it Applies To: The three bills define a “Consumer” as an individual who is a resident of the state of Wisconsin. The “Controller” is the company who is responsible for the consumer’s data. It excludes law enforcement, and federal, state, and local government individuals. What is Covered: The bills allow consumers... Read More