The Basics of E-Discovery Processes
What is the EDRM? (Electronic Discovery Reference Model) Whether you’re just starting to learn about e-discovery or you’re an experienced professional reviewing the fundamentals, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is a great place to start. Created in 2005 by attorney George Socha and technologist Tom Gelbmann, the EDRM is a framework that describes a process that most organizations go through around e-discovery. It explains what the steps are and how typical organizations go through those steps to fulfill their e-discovery obligations. Rather than a process itself, the EDRM describes a typical... Read More
Is there anything worse than manual collection?
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It can be easy to become complacent with your legal hold process: It works and you’d rather focus on other areas in e-discovery. But like any high-functioning organizational process, building a great e-discovery program starts with ensuring you’re running “the basics” efficiently. The choices you make at the start of your e-discovery process (which begins with collection) will greatly affect how defensible, efficient, and expensive the successive activities will be. Definition of Legal Hold But what do you do once your team has established strong foundational processes? How do you move forward... 
A Legal Hold, also known as litigation hold, document hold, hold order, or preservation order, has more commonly been a US term but organisations in the UK and Europe also need to ensure their data preservation practices are effective in mitigating the risk of lost, altered or destroyed evidence in litigation, investigation or disputes. It can be the most crucial and important activity within e-discovery. It sets the foundation for the rest of the e-discovery process by defining the set of electronically stored information (ESI) at issue in the legal matter. But... 
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When we look at how organizations are handling new data privacy and cybersecurity regulations, there’s typically one area that falls under the radar: Third parties. More specifically, which third parties have access to organizational data—and which of those are risks due to new data privacy laws? Vendor Risks Are Greater Than You Thought For example, about two-thirds of the vendors that touch personal data are service providers. According to Deloitte’s 2018 Global Outsourcing Survey, the vast majority of organizations (93%) have either adopted or are considering adopting a cloud solution. Cloud solutions...