E-Discovery Said to Be One of the Biggest Threats to Data Security

May 20, 2013 - By Keith E. Moore
The Ponemon Institute’s 2012 Global Encryption Trends Study showed that employee mistakes and e-discovery productions are considered the main threats to sensitive and confidential data. According to the survey findings, these fears about accidental data loss or disclosure outweigh fears of hacking by a ratio of more than two to one. But are companies taking appropriate steps to safeguard their data? In many cases, the answer is a resounding no. Employee Mistakes Despite concerns about employee disclo...
 
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Testimony from E-Discovery Experts Can Carry the Day in Court

May 16, 2013 - By Ali Waheed
In a recent case, a federal district court pointed out the critical role an e-discovery consultant can play in providing evidence to support discovery motions. Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. v. UBS Real Estate Securities, Inc., 12 Civ. 1579 (HB) (JCF), 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 167981 (S.D.N.Y. Nov. 21, 2012), a case involving breach of contract claims, involved two issues implicating e-discovery: whether the plaintiff’s document requests were unduly burdensome and whether the plaintiff’s proposed searc...
 
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Relativity Tip of the Week: More Uses for Setting Object Rules

May 14, 2013 - By Geli Wuerzner
Applied Discovery delivers an unrivaled Relativity experience. Each week, we’re offering practical, quick tips to help make your experience using the Relativity e-discovery platform even better. In a previous Relativity Tip, we discussed using one of kCura’s published recipes for locking produced document layouts to prevent editing. This is just one of the many uses for setting object rules within Relativity. Another workflow that can be automated is setting the default document layout bas...
 
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Do You Know When to Call for Help?

May 2, 2013 - By Edwin Horton Jr.
One can almost imagine the lawyers sitting around a conference table, shaking their heads, furrowing their brows with eyeglasses askance, muttering in muffled tones, “It can’t be done. It’s just too much!” There were five document production requests that seemed particularly challenging to the team representing the defendant in Brown v. FPI Management, Inc., No. 4:11-cv-5414 YGR (KAW), 2013 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1040 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 3, 2013). Those requests called for production of “any and all documents” ...
 
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How to Plan for the Unknown

May 1, 2013 - By Keith E. Moore
At Applied Discovery, we are on the front lines of data security, safeguarding your information in an emergency. We strive to achieve the highest industry standards for data security. We achieve this by offering our team members extensive training and meticulously planning and designing our facilities and technology. For example, we use multi-zone fire detection and prevention systems in our facilities. We also have extensive environmental controls, such as redundant heating, ventilation, and air cond...
 
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Relativity Tip of the Week: Do You Have the Permission You Need?

April 29, 2013 - By Michael Recker
Applied Discovery delivers an unrivaled Relativity experience. Each week, we’re offering practical, quick tips to help make your experience using the Relativity e-discovery platform even better. Relativity is highly customizable and allows you to set different permissions for unique groups of users and individual items. This flexibility can be extremely useful for both simple and complex matters. For example, you may want a group of users to have access only to documents within specific folde...
 
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Where There's a Will, There's a Way: Judge Uses Rule 16 to Punish Discovery Transgressions

April 19, 2013 - By Joe Skalski
First, he tried “criticism and veiled threats,” but to no avail. The “inappropriate and obstreperous” conduct continued. Then, he considered his options under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and the U.S. Code. He turned to Rule 11, but that wouldn’t work because despite “frustrating” conduct, the attorneys did not act in bad faith. Next, he examined 28 U.S.C. 1927, but that wasn’t right because it wouldn’t target the persons at fault, the “higher ups.” Finally, he considered Rule 37, examining s...
 
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Are You Taking Chances With Your Data?

April 18, 2013 - By Stephen Verderber
An organization’s data is its lifeblood. With so much at stake, cybersecurity is a top concern for many executives—and not just the CIO. According to a 2012 Consero Group/Applied Discovery survey, more than a quarter of responding general counsel said their companies experienced a cybersecurity breach during the last year; nearly a third believed their corporations were not prepared to defend against a cyberthreat. Companies have a responsibility to ensure their data is secure, especially when safegua...
 
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Relativity Tip of the Week: Have You Reached Critical Mass?

April 15, 2013 - By Jen Phillips Karosich
Applied Discovery delivers an unrivaled Relativity experience. Each week, we’re offering practical, quick tips to help make your experience using the Relativity e-discovery platform even better. Mass Move functionality within Relativity allows you to move selected documents to a new folder. For more complex or large moves, consider using Relativity’s custom mass action “Move to Folder Path,” which provides the ability to move documents to a folder path specified in a text field. The ...
 
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Relativity Tip of the Week: Conditional Fields

April 4, 2013 - By Jillian Robinson
Applied Discovery delivers an unrivaled Relativity experience. Each week, we’re offering practical, quick tips to help make your experience using the Relativity e-discovery platform even better. Large-scale document reviews often necessitate complex document coding requirements and many document review attorneys. To eliminate coding conflicts and cut back quality control efforts associated with resolving such conflicts, clients can set up coding field rules by using a custom Relativity ...
 
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