The move combines the comprehensive legal services offering of Elevate with the data science team and AI engine of LexPredict, creating more sophisticated technology-enabled solutions for law departments and law firms.
The Highest Level of Confidence in Three Years: 18 Observations on eDiscovery Business Confidence in the Fall of 2018
96.5% of eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey responders in the fall of 2018 feel that the business conditions are positive (good or normal). This confidence level is the highest reported for current conditions since the inception of the survey in the fall of 2016.
Counsel On Call Announces Name Change to Legility
The name change from Counsel on Call to Legility reflects the New Law company’s commitment to finding innovative and agile ways to improve efficiencies and outcomes for corporate legal departments and law firms.
On the Road to Reconciling GDPR and Blockchain
Because user data on the blockchain is pseudonymized, it is subject to the GDPR. GDPR compliance is not about the technology, but rather how the technology is used to process personal data.
eDiscovery in Asia: Rajah & Tann Technologies Acquires LegalComet
The acquisition positions Rajah & Tann Singapore among the first in Asia to launch a full-service e-discovery practice at a time when technology is rapidly disrupting large swathes of industries and the way goods and services are delivered to customers.
New EU Regulation to Strengthen the Free Movement of Data
In June 2018, the EU legislative institutions announced that they had reached agreement on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union (the “Draft Regulation”). After its formal adoption, the Draft Regulation will become directly applicable law in all EU Member States six months after its official publication.
eDiscovery and the Global Legal Blockchain Consortium
The Global Legal Blockchain Consortium (GLBC) appears to provide an excellent and collaborative forum for legal industry professionals, to include those in the eDiscovery ecosystem, seeking to learn, develop, and deploy blockchain-centric solutions and services.
TAR vs. Keyword Search Challenge, Round 4 (Bill Dimm)
Even the best queries had lower recall with review of 6,000 documents than TAR 3.0 CAL achieved with review of only 3,000 documents, but a few of the queries did achieve higher recall than TAR 3.0 SAL when twice as much document review was performed with the search query compared to TAR 3.0 SAL.
The Issue That Currently Concerns eDiscovery Professionals The Most: Increasing Types of Data (Fall 2018)
In the Fall 2018 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, 20.1% of respondents viewed increasing data types as potentially having the greatest impact on their business in the next six months. This percentage is the highest of all concerns represented in the survey. Increasing data volume was also viewed as a considerable issue, with 18.8% of survey respondents noting it as their greatest business concern.
Five Great Reads on Data Discovery and Legal Discovery for October 2018
A selection of five articles shared regularly to inform and update legal and information technology professionals on the art and science of data discovery and legal discovery.
