We all know that legal holds are essential for ensuring evidence is preserved. But how do you get custodians to acknowledge legal holds the first time, not the tenth? Legal holds can cause a lot of stress if you don’t have a good process for issuing and tracking them...
It’s tough to ask for more budget even in the best of times, and it’s only gotten more challenging amid today’s uncertainty. Corporate legal teams are having to do more with less and often feel they can’t possibly bring any more work in-house. But investing in...
The end of the year is a great time to take stock of what’s worked, what needs improvement, and what needs a full HGTV-style renovation. Legal holds, that routine-yet-critical function of any corporate legal team, is worth including in your audit. After all,...
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...
