August 9th, 2012 
posselist 9 August 2012 - The ability to efficiently find and retrieve knowledge has always been important, whether it is a physical process of manually sifting through filing cabinets or, more commonly now, a machine based process.
According to IDC, companies will on average double the amount of data they create every two years. For law firms – and other knowledge-based businesses – this figure could be even higher. While more than two thirds of the top 200…
August 6th, 2012 posselist 6 August 2012 - There are many barometers for value: the Kelly Blue Book for cars, the discounted cash flow method for stocks, and the currency exchange for money. For data however, conducting a valuation can be much more complex and there is no one method. For example, a single smoking gun email in litigation could be incriminatory or exculpatory in “bet the company” litigation. Organizations, particularly in retrospect, would value this email as priceless. However, in periods…
July 9th, 2012 posselist 4 July 2012 – Quoting Craig Ball: “Deduplication alone is not a magic bullet. But there is not as much more stuff as the e-discovery doomsayers suggest. Purged of replication and managed sensibly with capable tools, ESI volume is still quite wieldy. And that’s why I say a lot of the fear and anger aimed at information inflation is misplaced. If you have the tools and the skills to collect the relevant conversation, avail yourself of the inherent advantages…
Posted in Electronic Discovery 101: Where to Start 
Tags: Craig Ball, deduplication, e-discovery, ediscovery, ESI 
No Comments » May 28th, 2012 posselist 28 May 2012 – Computer scientists have undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for protecting the privacy of individuals in large databases by deleting information like names and social security numbers. These scientists have demonstrated they can often ‘reidentify’ or ‘deanonymize’ individuals hidden in anonymized data with astonishing ease. By understanding this research, we will realize we have made a mistake, labored beneath a fundamental misunderstanding, which has assured…
March 24th, 2012 posselist 24 March 2012 – Craig Ball has written an interesting post on the “transitional generation” in terms of the shift from discovery in a world geared to information on paper to one where paper is largely an afterthought. Says Craig: “Growing up, the organization of information on paper was so ingrained in our education that we take our “paper skills” for granted even as paper has all-but-disappeared. We learned to color inside the lines. Put our name and…
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