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eDiscovery Preparedness – Document Management Systems

eDiscovery Preparedness – Document Management Systems

Candice Chan-Glasgow, Director, Review Services and Counsel

 

June 8, 2021

 

An initial step for any business entity looking to proactively manage costs through the eDiscovery process is to re-examine its document management system (DMS).

 

A DMS is a system used to store, manage, and track electronic documents. The general benefits of an effective DMS have been touted for years – a DMS offers enhanced security and employees spend less time searching for information while losing less time to versioning issues. While these are all important considerations, a crucial perspective that is often overlooked is the eDiscovery aspect.… Read More

Alan Dingle June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 Insights and Ideas Read more

No Matter is Too Small – the Case for Email Threading

No Matter is Too Small – the Case for Email Threading

Wendy Cole

Director, Project Management and Counsel

November 5, 2018

 

Consider for a moment the last time you had to review email messages for discovery, or pay counsel to do so on your behalf.  The endless toil of slogging through random fragments of email threads that appear to be in no particular order.  After a while it starts to feel like a terrible case of déjà vu.  Haven’t I seen this email before?  Why am I looking at this again and how did I code it when I saw it an hour ago?  Did this part of the thread come before or after the portion that I viewed yesterday? … Read More

Alan Dingle November 5, 2018 Insights and Ideas Read more

Thinking of self-collecting? Don’t forget to consider metadata and cybersecurity.

It is important to take precautions against altering document metadata during collection of data. 

 

Note that metadata will be altered by, for example, collecting the data and then uploading it to a cloud computing service such as Dropbox.  Another potential risk with this approach is cybersecurity – consider that 68 million email addresses and passwords were stolen from Dropbox. There may be justifiable economic reasons for an organization to self-collect, however, one must be cognizant of the potential risks.

 

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Crystal O'Donnell September 6, 2016May 25, 2017 Insights and Ideas Read more

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