2008 Figures

The ITRC Breach Report total has reached an all-time high. Between January 1st and June 27th, the total number of data breaches recorded by the ITRC is 342, more than 69% greater than the same time period in 2007. The actual number of breaches is likely even higher, due to underreporting and the fact that some of the breaches reported as a single event actually affected multiple businesses.

The ITRC Breach Report sub-divides all breaches into five categories. To date, the 2008 ITRC Breach Stats Report indicates the following: 17.0% government/military agencies, 21.3% from educational institutions, 36.8% from general businesses, 14.9% from health care facilities / companies, and 10% from banking / credit / financial services entities.

For the complete report, click here.

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The Opinions of Chief Legal Officers on Issues of Importance

For the ninth year in a row, Altman Weil, Inc. has surveyed Chief Legal Officers (CLOs) in issues of importance in managing their corporate law departments. The purpose of these surveys is to:

1) Capture current thinking of Chief Legal Officers.
2) Compare CLOs’ year?to?year answers and changes in thinking, including three?year trend data when available.
3) Share the results of the tabulated surveys with the legal profession, enabling both corporate law departments and law firms to benefit from the surveys.

Participation

One hundred and twenty six Chief Legal Officers provided responses for the 2008 survey, conducted in May and June 2008. The survey responses were tabulated and analyzed, including a summary of the results in Section 2 and demographic data on survey participants in Section 3.

For the complete survey, click here.

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Below is an example of the web-based view of the ComplexD Twitter Feed:

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Current Schedule

Thursday, June 26th  (All Times PST)

10:00 am - Exhibit Hall Opens  - Live Updates Begin | Law.com Blogger’s Breakfast

10:15 am - Ronda Raymond - OrangeLT™ VP of E-Discovery Services /  OneO® Discovery

11:15 am - Monica Bay, Editor in Chief, Law Technology News / Blog: Common Scold

12:30 pm - Kurt Leafstrand, Director of PRD MGT, Clearwell / Blog: e-discovery 2.0

  5:00 pm - Exhibit Hall Closes - Conclusion Of Day 1 Live Updates

Friday, June 27th  (All Times PST)

10:00 am - Exhibit Hall Opens  - Live Updates Begin
10:15 am - Brian Meegan - OrangeLT™ VP of Operations / Partner Update
11:00 am - Mary Mack, Esq. - Fios, Corporate Technology Counsel / Blog: Sound Evidence

Discussion On LegalTech, Blogging, and Her New Book:  A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery

11:30 am - Kevin O’Keefe, President, LexBlog / Blog:  Real Lawyers Have Blogs
  1:00 pm - Dr. Jim Dertouzos, RAND Senior Economist / Evidence Lifecycle Management  

Discussion of RAND Research: Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery 
    
    TBD      - Tom Mighell, Senior Counsel, Cowles & Thompson /Blog:Inter Alia

Tom is co-author with Dennis Kennedy of the recently published Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies:  Smart Ways to Work Together

  5:00 pm - Exhibit Hall Closes - Conclusion Of Day 2 Live Updates

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The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery Options for Future Research

This paper reports on exploratory research to identify the most important legal and economic implications of electronic discovery and to develop a research plan in this subject area for the RAND Institute for Civil Justice. To achieve these objectives, we reviewed the current state of electronic discovery (e-discovery) law and practices, including the main features of the new federal rules, interviewed several experts in electronic discovery issues as well as in-house counsel for a number of very large corporations, conducted an initial modeling effort to simulate the range of plausible effects of e-discovery on case outcomes, and analyzed the implications of our results for future research.

This paper should be of interest to the research community and to those who are potential funders of policy analysis in this area.

For the complete article, click here.

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TechnoGumbo (http://technogumbo.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/assistance-for-iowa-lawyers/)

Thanks Tom O’Connor for the information.

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1)  ComplexD Twitter Feed:  This twitter enabled feed will contain the latest industry updates - to includes snapshot posts on the news and views of industry analysts, vendors, and consumers. Tap into this feed at: http://twitter.com/complexd

2)  LegalTech Live!   Provided by Orange Legal Technologies - this video feed (see below) should be an interesting way to view the show should you not have the opportunity to attend. View this video feed at: http://www.orangelt.com/about/live/ 

Live Video Itinerary:

Thursday, June 26th  (All Times PST)

10:00 am - Exhibit Hall Opens  - Live Updates Begin | Law.com Blogger’s Breakfast
10:15 am - Ronda Raymond - OrangeLT™ VP of E-Discovery Services /  OneO® Discovery
11:15 am - Monica Bay, Editor in Chief, Law Technology News / Blog: Common Scold
12:30 pm - Kurt Leafstrand, Director of PRD MGT, Clearwell / Blog: e-discovery 2.0
  5:00 pm - Exhibit Hall Closes - Conclusion Of Day 1 Live Updates

Friday, June 27th  (All Times PST)

10:00 am - Exhibit Hall Opens  - Live Updates Begin
10:15 am - Brian Meegan - OrangeLT™ VP of Operations / Partner Update
11:30 am - Kevin O’Keefe, President, LexBlog / Blog:  Real Lawyers Have Blogs
  1:00 pm - Dr. Jim Dertouzos, RAND Senior Economist / Evidence Lifecycle Management 

Discussion of RAND Research
    
    TBD      - Tom Mighell, Senior Counsel, Cowles & Thompson /Blog:Inter Alia

Tom is co-author with Dennis Kennedy of the recently published Lawyer’s Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies:  Smart Ways to Work Together.

  5:00 pm - Exhibit Hall Closes - Conclusion Of Day 2 Live Updates

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From Osterman Research

Discovery is the process of identifying, preserving, collecting, reviewing, analyzing and producing information during civil legal actions. The goal of discovery is to obtain information that will be useful in developing relevant information for pre-trial motions and
for the trial itself. Information sought during discovery can include documents, testimony and other information deemed necessary by a court.

E-discovery is simply the extension of the discovery process to information that is stored electronically and includes email, instant messages, word processing files, spreadsheets and other electronic content that may be stored on desktops, laptops, file servers, mainframes, smartphones, employees’ home computers or on a variety of other platforms.

E-discovery is becoming much more important in the context of civil litigation – for example, roughly three out of four discovery orders today require email to be produced as part of the discovery process. E-discovery today represents 35% of the total cost of
litigation1, and companies that fail to produce emails in a timely or appropriate manner face the risk of paying millions of dollars in sanctions and fines, not to mention loss of corporate reputation, lost revenue and embarrassment.

For the complete article, click here.

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Akamai observed that from a global perspective, South Korea had the highest measured levels of “high broadband” (>5 Mbps) connectivity. In the United States, Delaware topped the list, with over 60% of connections to Akamai occurring at 5 Mbps or greater. At the other end of the bandwidth spectrum, Rwanda and the Solomon Islands topped the list of slowest countries, with 95% or more of the connections to Akamai from both countries occurring at below 256 Kbps. In the United States, Washington State and Virginia turned in the highest percentages of sub-256 Kbps connections. However, in contrast to the international measurements, these states only saw 21% and 18% of connections below 256 Kbps respectively.

For the complete report, click here.

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Forrester evaluated leading data leak prevention (DLP) vendors across approximately 74 criteria and found that Websense and Reconnex came out on top because of their strong go-to-market strategy and automated learning capabilities, respectively.

Verdasys is a Leader due to balanced functionality and rich context-based analysis at the desktop. RSA Security stands out for its integrated vision and leading discovery capabilities, while Vericept rounds out the Leader class of 2008 because of its very balanced DLP coverage and strong analysis features.

The Strong Performer group is led by Workshare and Orchestria, both providing tight application integration at the desktop and a user-friendly approach to DLP. Code Green Networks is easy to use, cost-effective, and an ideal fit for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs). McAfee now offers strong integration with encryption and its popular ePolicy Orchestrator; Trend Micro has a strong international play featuring leading data-inuse protection.

Russia-based InfoWatch is a Contender and offers a straightforward DLP solution for many organizations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Ultimately, DLP will be a must-have that is integrated with security infrastructure; longer term, it will extend into information management.

For the complete article, click here.

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