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The Data Boom: Can Law Firms Profit?
The boom in electronic discovery presents an opportunity and a predicament. Writer Alan Cohen reports that law firms are taking different approaches to e-discovery -- though no one has the magic formula. E-discovery is here to stay, and firms can ramp their practices or wave goodbye to key clients.
Attorney-Client Privilege in Work E-Mails
Can employees retain attorney-client privilege for e-mails sent to their lawyers using employer-provided e-mail and computers? Attorney Anthony E. Davis seeks to reconcile apparently inconsistent decisions, and to aid in advising clients on avoiding the risks such communications pose.
International Committee Could Standardize E-Discovery Processes
Members of the International Standards Organization — a 66-year-old body with 162 member nations, tackling everything from bank transactions to shoe sizes — are forming a new committee to develop standards for e-discovery processes that, if passed, would define procedures for technology companies, discovery providers, and their clients to follow when handling digital data.
IBM Tips the Scale Toward Software
IBM has agreed to buy Cognos, a provider of open-standard-based business intelligence and performance management software to more than 23,000 customers, for $5 billion. The acquisition is the latest move by IBM to rely more on software and less on its famous hardware products.
Could Microsoft Win the Tablet Wars?
The Microsoft Surface Pro could win the tablet war, writes William Caraher, CIO at von Briesen & Roper, with a few secret weapons that appeal to lawyers: Outlook, Word, OneNote, "fat" desktop application support, and a new take on digital note-taking.
The Quest to Better Utilize Native-Format Production
The tides of e-discovery favor production of electronically stored information in native form -- within the original application it was created. Because no outlay is needed to convert the data to a static image, many believe that native production costs less and should serve as e-discovery's default production format. But what hidden costs and case-management problems does the format present?
10 Steps for Responding to a Corporate Data Security Breach
Data security breaches can have significant reputational, business, and legal costs write Covington & Burling's David Fagan and Stephen Satterfield, and procedures must be in place to effectively respond.Trending Stories
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