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March 18th: live seminar in NYC — Morgan Lewis/Recommind : Using advanced technology to achieve consistent, timely, and cost-effective eDiscovery responses

March 10th, 2010 posselist

The Morgan Lewis eData team and Recommind are sponsoring what looks to be a very informative live seminar on March 18th (next Thursday) at 4:00pm in the New York offices of Morgan Lewis.   The seminar will focus on successfully leveraging technology to improve early case assessment (ECA), preservation, collection, and document review.

For the Morgan Lewis team:  Stephanie “Tess” Blair and Denise Backhouse

For Recommind:  Craig Carpenter

Both Morgan Lewis and Recommind are powerhouses in the e-discovery area.   Morgan Lewis and Tess Blair (a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice and leader of the firm’s eData Practice) were doing e-discovery before it had a name.   And Recommind and Craig Carpenter (Vice President of Marketing for Recommind who oversees all aspects of marketing at Recommind) have become the leaders in search-powered information risk management (IRM).

We profiled Tess, Denise and Morgan Lewis in an extensive interview (click here for the full interview), as well as Craig Carpenter and Recommind (click here for the full interview).

Seats for the seminar are limited so reserve as soon as possible.  To register click here.

This seminar will provide best practices and guidance for complex litigation and regulatory investigation responses. Get a firsthand look at customer case studies that demonstrate the power of sophisticated techniques such as concept grouping, advanced analytics, pre-collection ECA, and computer-generated review (i.e., Predictive Coding™).

Legal Holds: a great series of primers from John Isaza and John Jablonski

March 7th, 2010 posselist

A litigation hold is as an affirmative act by an organization to prevent the destruction of documents, including ESI and paper relevant to a lawsuit.   Law.com recently published a series of articles that provide an overview of the steps necessary to implement a legally defensible, written litigation hold and are based on the ”Seven Steps for Legal Holds of ESI and Other Documents” (ARMA International 2009) by John Isaza and John Jablonski.   The seven steps for legal holds are designed to help organizations tackle the seemingly daunting task of implementing written litigation holds.

Here are links to each part of the series:

March 7th: our weekly “Top 10… plus more” — a compendium of e-discovery articles and links

March 7th, 2010 posselist

This week’s “Top 10 … plus more”, a snapshot of this past week’s interesting blog posts, industry news and views on electronic discovery related issues, developments, and announcements … all to help you understand and stay on top of e-discovery. Provided by Applied Discovery.

This Week in E-Discovery News  

  • Bundling and Entrenchment – Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation [click here]
  • Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures [click here]
  • Cross Border E-Discovery Implications of The Google Three Case [click here]
  • Controlling Legal Costs – Service Providers Defensible Predictive Coding Will Change Economics Of E-Discovery In 2010 [click here]
  • Controlling Legal Costs – Service Providers E-Discovery Cloud: Processing, ECA, Analysis And Review Through Production [click here]
  • DOJ Defends Document Request Targeting Deloitte [click here]
  • DOJ Unit That Prosecutes FCPA to Bulk Up “Substantially” [click here]
  • E-Discovery and Toyota’s ‘Books of Knowledge’ [click here]
  • E-Discovery Costs-Shifting in US Litigation [click here]
  • Hey Shankapotamous, Read The Rule Book [click here]
  • Legal Technology Adding Value for Law Firm Clients – Trend or Blip? [click here]
  • Overview: Initial Considerations For Products Liability Litigation and E-Discovery [click here]
  • The Economist Highlights Growth In ESI and Information Management [click here]
  • The Multi-Modal “Where’s Waldo?” Approach to Search and My (Ralph Losey) Mock Debate with Jason Baron [click here]

This Week in Legal Technology

  • Clear Trend in Pocket Projectors [click here]
  • Cloud Security Takes A Big Leap Forward [click here]
  • The Benefits of Cloud Computing – A Vendor Perspective [click here]
  • Understanding & Mitigating the Risks of Cloud Technology [click here]

Our weekly “Top 10 … plus more”  is provided by Applied Discovery (@discoverapplied on Twitter) .  

For our past “Top 10 …plus more” click here.

An e-discovery primer: just what is ESI, information and digital data?

March 6th, 2010 posselist

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As more and more attorneys, law firms, corporations and vendors join the Posse List and exisiting Posse List members move into the nuts and bolts of the tech side of e-discovery, we’ve updated our e-discovery primers here on The Ediscovery Reading Room.  The focus on this site is “the basics”.  Look here to get started on learning about e-discovery.

In an e-discovery review, the collections process and its attendant considerations are paramount.  But just what, exactly, are you “collecting” and just what is ESI, information and data?

To get you started, Rob Robinson of Applied Discovery has a great post on Scribd titled just that: “Considering ESI, Information, and Data?”  It is a very authoritative review of the whole collection process with some excellent reference notes on further sources.   You can access the article by clicking here.  You can follow Rob on Twitter by clicking here or via his web site by clicking here.

Another great reference we recommend is The Sedona Conference Glossary “E-Discovery & Digital Information Management” which you can access here.

Number of kilobytes in a megabyte? Or in a gigabyte? Or vice-versa? Convert with ease

March 1st, 2010 posselist

 

Have you ever been confused about the number of kilobytes in a megabyte, or in a gigabyte or vice-versa? Now you can convert among bytes and kilobytes and megabytes and gigabytes and terabytes with ease.  Just go to this site: http://egret.net/kb__mb.htm

Note: a hat tip to Social Media Law Student for telling us about the site.

And … need to figure out just how much data you have?  Some guidelines:

CD = 650 MB = 50,000 pages

DVD = 4.7 GB = 350,000 pages

DLT Tape = 40/80 GB = 3 to 6 Million pages

Super DLT Tape = 60/120 GB = 4 to 9 Million pages.

Page Estimates:

1 MB is about 75 pages;
1 GB is about 75,000 pages (pick-up truck full of documents).

Aver. pgs. per email: 1.5 (100,099 pages per GB).
Aver. pgs. per word document: 8 (64,782 pages per GB).
Aver. pgs. per spreadsheet: 50 (165,791 pages per GB).
Aver. pgs. per power point: 14 (17,552 pages per GB).

For the average .PST or .NSF Email File:

100 MB .PST file is 900 emails and 300 attachments.
400 MB .PST file is 3,500 emails and 1,200 attachments.
600 MB .PST file is 5,500 emails and 1,600 attachments.
A 1.00 GB .NSF file is 9,000 emails and 3,000 attachments.
A 1.5 GB .NSF file is 13,500 emails and 4,500 attachments.

Note: Many variables will affect ALL of the actual numbers above, including especially large image and video files, and recursive files.

Bits and Bytes Sizes:

  • 8 bits are equal to 1 byte (one or two words)
  • 1,024 bytes are equal to 1 kilobyte (KB).
  • 1,024 kilobytes (KB) are equal to 1 megabyte (MB or Meg)
  • 1,024 megabytes are equal to 1 gigabyte (GB or Gig) (truck full of paper)
  • 1,024 gigabytes are equal to 1 terabyte (TB) (50,000 trees of paper)
  • 1,024 terabytes are equal to 1 petabyte (PB) (250 Billion Pgs. of Text)
  • 1,024 petabytes are equal to 1 exabytes (EB) (1 000 000 000 000 000 000 bytes)

 Note:  taken from Ralph Losey’s website e-Discovery Team.

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