In the News

by Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “Maybe the hardest part is if you teach, you have to live your teaching. You can’t say, ‘You do, not as I do, but do as I say.’ No, no. You have to say, ‘I’m doing my best to live what I teach.’”               […]

By: Victoria Blake, Senior Director of Product, Zapproved User Privilege, Identity, and Risk As the legal office moves more and more into the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) space, legal departments are more and more being asked to understand and move fluidly in the GRC functions. At the heart of the GRC function is security: […]

Compliance, an EDRM Guardian Partner, gathered input from over 165 individuals from corporate and legal departments on their experience with working from home (WFH) in their WFH survey. “How well does my team stack up to my peers in their WFH environment?” Of these respondents, approximately 64% were from law firms, while 36% were from corporate. […]

MINNEAPOLIS, August 5, 2020 – Setting the global standards for e-discovery, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) is pleased to announce its new EDRM Job Search Workshop with legal tech expert recruiter, Laureen Kautt. For the next 3 months, EDRM will offer informative webinars, supplemented by a biweekly virtual job search workshop, to support those impacted […]

MISSION, Kan. — Aug 5th, 2020 — Xact Data Discovery (XDD), a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations, announces the acquisition of Anexsys Group Limited, an eDiscovery services company based in London, UK.  David Moran, XDD President and COO, states, “Complementing our recent domestic acquisitions, […]

Leading eDiscovery Service Providers Combine and Enter Next Stage of International Expansion and Enterprise Growth WASHINGTON and MINNEAPOLIS – August 4, 2020 – HaystackID, a specialized eDiscovery services firm that helps corporations and law firms find, listen to, and learn from data during complex investigations and litigation, and NightOwl Global, a worldwide leader in the […]

By Jennifer Bantelman Data Mapping for the New Normal Understanding all of the systems being used across your company has been a growing challenge for many years, with many companies just starting to get a handle managing a data map of all the applications that are in use. Now, in light of the “new normal” […]

EDRM Partner, BDO Managed Services, announced the creation of a dashboard for in-house legal teams to drive efficiencies and risk reduction in the electronic discovery process for litigation, regulation, investigation and compliance. According to Daniel Gold, Esq. managing director of BDO’s Managed Services practice: Athenagy™ offers lawyers and legal teams critical insights on their data during […]

by Darius E. Bennett, Esq. “I had to find what I was comfortable with and compare myself to my own expectations, not to anyone else’s.”                                     — Monica Seles, Getting a Grip: On My Body, My Mind, My Self A former teen prodigy, Monica Seles finished her tennis career a 9-time major champion, an Olympic […]

The always generous Craig Ball shares another gift with the community- this time a brilliant Preservation Letter exemplar, for which we are grateful. Updated with newer forms of electronically stored information (ESI), Craig Ball’s new letter carries the admonition to right size it to your particular matter: What follows isn’t the perfect preservation letter for your unique […]