The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we work, adding unprecedented challenges to virtually every part of a corporation, from enabling remote work to ensuring the well-being of employees. Corporate legal teams have not been immune as they grapple...
Fifty years ago, legal discovery was relatively straightforward. Paper memos and documents were typed up, copied, and filed away. The arrival of computers and email sparked a dramatic shift as electronic discovery techniques were developed to cope with the explosion...
Halloween is just a few weeks away, so in honor of the spookiness of the season, we thought we’d take a look at something that strikes dread into the hearts of corporate ediscovery professionals: Regulatory Investigations. (cue ghost noise) Corporations are already...
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...
