Considering Second Requests? The Requirement, Task, and Prevalence
While leveraging many of the technologies, techniques, and tactics used in traditional eDiscovery activities supporting audits, investigations, and litigation, Second Request discovery is different in the fact that it typically…
Conscious Unclouding? A Hard Look at Data Security and the Cloud
The security of data is fast becoming one of the most prominent and visible areas of concern in the selection of eDiscovery software solutions. With public examples of data security…
eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments in 2019
Since beginning to track the number of publicly highlighted merger, acquisition, and investment (M&A+I) events in the eDiscovery ecosystem, ComplexDiscovery has noted at least 410 M&A+I events between November 2001…
The Most Popular Providers? A Running eDiscovery Aggregation from ALM Reader Ranking Surveys
The "Best Of" reader ranking surveys were developed by ALM, an information and intelligence company, to help lawyers identify the finest legal products and service providers and to showcase the top selections…
An Uncomfortably Cold Forecast? The Winter 2020 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey
This is the seventeenth quarterly eDiscovery business confidence survey conducted by ComplexDiscovery. Since January 2016, more than 1,771 individual responses to the survey have been received from legal, business, and…
OpenText Completes Acquisition of Carbonite
"We have confidence in our ability to integrate, innovate and grow the business. As previously highlighted, we are targeting for Carbonite to be on our operating model by the end…
eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions, and Investments in Q4 2019
ComplexDiscovery findings, data points, and tracking information that may be useful for understanding M&A+I activity patterns in the eDiscovery ecosystem from October 1, 2019, through December 26, 2019.
From Tech to Reality: Deep Truths About Deepfakes
As shared by Steve McNew, an MIT trained blockchain/cryptocurrency expert and senior managing director at FTI Consulting, “Online videos are exploding as a mainstream source of information. Imagine social media…
Pivotal Completes Merger with KLDiscovery
Pivotal Acquisition Corp. and KLDiscovery announced today the closing of their previously announced merger and the issuance of $200 million in convertible debentures. In connection with the consummation of the…
Schrems 2.0: European Court of Justice Advocate General Renders Opinion
On December 19, 2019, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Advocate General, Henrik Saugmandsgaard ØE, provided his opinion on the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European…