Today marks our one year anniversary.  In December, 2010, while attending the Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute,  Judge Elizabeth LaPorte asked me a rhetorical question, “How will we train the 10,000 lawyers that appear before the Federal bar in San Francisco, much less the rest of the country?”  ShareThis

At the end of last week, Judge Andrew Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York upheld the decision of Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck allowing the use of computer-based technology to review millions of e-mail records for possible production in a gender discrimination lawsuit. Monique da Silva Moore, et al. v. Publicis Group, SA, et al, 11 Civ 1279.

When the sage and business-focused Wall Street Journal used the headline of this post, you can guess that I heard from a lot of people yesterday.  It got me to thinking—can we connect the dots and see a different picture?

One of the powerful ambitions we have in creating RitterMaps is to enable the legal professional to be more effective in communicating with the digital world about the legal requirements that exist, and how those requirements can be met through the effective design and management of IT.  Visualization is critical, not only to enabling the power of pShareThis

Recently, while participating in the planning of a major conference on e-discovery, the planning committee considered various topics.  One of the topics proposed involved addressing how electronically stored information (ESI) can be admitted as evidence.

Beginning  March 29, 2012, I will be joining 1SecureAudit in a new four part briefing series designed for in-house counsel on automating the management of legal risk.  This series focuses on four risk areas where technology and best practices in managing risk can be innovatively applied to reduce the likelihood of adverse events.  The remaining briefings are scheduled once per month during the next quarter.  Together, these briefings will introduce a model for building a legal risk management program that works in the 21st century.ShareThis

One of the truly fascinating dimensions of e-discovery is evaluating whether lawyers’ conduct which becomes the basis for sanctions imposed by a court is truly the result of the lawyer’s negligence or ignorance of what is required to find and preserve ESI, or involves, instead, a calculated gamble to not get caught. 

This blog presents the fifth of five steps to achieve a defensible process in managing digital information as evidence.  These five steps focus on the truly legal services that lawyers perform – and do not focus on the technical and procedural aspects actually processing filtering, and analyzing information as potential evidence.

Here is a summary of the first four steps:

1.  Identify the rules that govern.

2.  Assemble the resources and tools required.

This blog presents the fourth of five steps to achieve a defensible process in managing digital information as evidence.  These five steps focus on the truly legal services that lawyers perform – and do not focus on the technical and procedural aspects actually processing filtering, and analyzing information as potential evidence.

Here is a summary of the first three steps:

1.  Identify the rules that govern.

2.  Assemble the resources and tools required.

3. Visualize the work product you will create.

This blog presents the third of five steps to achieve a defensible process in managing digital information as evidence.  These five steps focus on the truly legal services that lawyers perform—and do not focus on the technical and procedural aspects of actually processing, filtering, analyzing information as potential evidence.