The 2019 report demonstrated that corporate ediscovery is hitting a transition point. As we unpacked the responses from the nearly 250 participants, we saw the emergence of three distinct types of teams handling corporate ediscovery.
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Results for: Team Management
PREX Preview: Should You Keep Your Ediscovery In House or Outsource It? Lessons From a National Nonprofit
Chelsea Perez, a paralegal at the Humane Society of the United States, came on board specifically to help the nonprofit formalize and streamline its ediscovery process.She’ll be speaking at this year’s PREX, the Portland-based in-house ediscovery conference, to talk...
2018 Corporate Ediscovery Benchmarking Survey Reveals Gap Between In-House Legal Priorities and Practices
In a joint survey conducted by Zapproved and Corporate Ediscovery, 185 in-house ediscovery professionals provided information regarding their litigation portfolios, processes across the ediscovery stages, departmental objectives, and challenges. The survey results...
PREX 2018 Aims To Build a Better ‘Monster’
The outcome of constructing an ediscovery practice often ends up resembling Frankenstein — a combination of disparate parts that work independently but create a bit of a mess when combined. The ‘monster’ ends up being too complex and inefficient, or isn’t built to...
The HR and Ediscovery Connection: Is Your Human Resources Department Protecting Your Business?
As a human resources professional, you’re partially responsible for everyone who works in your organization. Managing people effectively also means managing their data effectively. Today, most of the paper in the HR department has been replaced by electronically...
Issue and track legal holds in seconds with automated software
Sixth in a series of best practices for litigation readiness. When it comes to litigation readiness, time is of the essence. The faster you can issue a legal hold in response to a trigger event, the faster you can ensure the preservation of potentially relevant...
Prepare data custodians for litigation response
Fifth in a series of best practices for litigation readiness.The legal department may spearhead the company’s litigation response strategy, but success is dependant upon the cooperation of custodians. Every potential data custodian at your organization — from the...
Collaborate with IT and HR to improve litigation response
Fourth in a series of best practices for litigation readinessLitigation readiness may originate in the legal department, but it can’t end there. Everyone department within your organization must be prepared to respond to litigation in a cohesive manner in order to...
Carpenter v. U.S.: Building a New Expectation of Digital Privacy
Last week, the Supreme Court issued a new opinion, Carpenter v. U.S., limiting law enforcement’s ability to obtain cell phone location data without a warrant. In a contentious opinion from a 5-4 majority, Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Ginsburg, Breyer,...
What is a litigation readiness plan?
Why you need a litigation response plan and where to begin Readiness is “the state of being fully prepared for something.” Litigation readiness is the state of being fully prepared with a repeatable, defensible plan for how to respond to the initiation of a lawsuit or...
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