You probably hear “ediscovery costs are increasing!” fairly often in the corporate ediscovery world. Certainly there’s nothing especially surprising about that statement anymore; as the amount of data we each generate at work skyrockets, it makes sense that the spend...
Where We Are Today As the first half of the year wraps up, we can probably all agree that the last 6 months have been wholly unexpected. Our worlds have changed in ways we couldn’t have guessed back in January. Corporations have experienced massive shifts at every...
Pop quiz: Which is growing faster – corporate data volumes or ediscovery expenses? Trick question! The answer doesn’t matter, because they are each skyrocketing, and legal teams are on the hook for both. As data storage becomes virtually limitless and new...
Using Best Practices to Improve Outcomes We get that recommended “best practices” can sound great in theory, but corporate legal teams are busy, and carving out time to implement these frameworks can feel out of reach. That’s why we try to focus on key processes and...
Maintaining Processes in the Face of Uncertainty At Zapproved, we’ve been talking a lot lately about how to be most useful to our customers and our wider ediscovery community. In recent weeks, we’ve started to explore Covid-19’s potential impact on things like...
KPIs are here to stay Until fairly recently, most corporate legal teams were exempt from providing quantifiable measurements back to the business. Typically called key performance indicators (KPIs) or metrics, these measurements can be used to demonstrate the legal...
The end of a case isn’t the end of the ediscovery process In the rush to close one case and jump to other open matters, it can be easy to overlook a few final steps. But hold on! When a matter concludes, whether it’s after trial or considerably earlier, it’s the...
Internal investigations–an inquiry into an organization’s internal operations–are simply a reality that comes with operating a business. They frequently involve allegations of wrongdoing, but may also be conducted in response to a regulatory compliance concern,...
Maintaining Security in the Face of Change Over the last several weeks, we’ve seen companies of all shapes and sizes across the country make a fast and unexpected pivot to remote workplaces. Many of us are still sorting out what the short- and longer-term impact will...
Ediscovery meets home Wi-Fi Not long ago, most of us were exclusively using our home Wi-Fi networks for binge-watching prestige television shows, making occasional video calls to our out-of-town relatives, or accommodating rare work-from-home days necessitated by the...
It’s no secret: data volumes are growing exponentially every day. Your colleagues are sending terabytes worth of emails and direct messages, creating and editing hundreds of documents, conducting thousands of web searches, and more. Plus, your organization may be...
Mitigating risk is important to legal professionals regardless of their role or area of expertise. Many investigations involve sensitive data and serious allegations, all of which have the potential for additional complications if the information falls into the wrong...
