FTC Updates Model Second Request Introductory Guide
As highlighted in the September 28, 2021, blog post "Making the Second Request Process Both More Streamlined and More Rigorous During this Unprecedented Merger Wave" by the new director of…
Holding That Thought? Everlaw Launches Legal Holds
According to Ryan O'Leary, Esq., Research Manager for Privacy and Legal Technology at IDC, "eDiscovery continues to evolve as an industry and a practice area. eDiscovery champions within enterprises continue to…
Unseasonably Hot? Fall 2021 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Results
Since January 2016, 2,595 individual responses to twenty-four quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence surveys have been received from cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. These nonscientific…
A Geographical Depiction: Ransomware Attacks in the United States Between 2018 and Today
Published by Comparitech, a pro-consumer website providing information, tools, reviews, and comparisons to help readers in the US, UK and the rest of the world improve their cyber security and…
Cellebrite to Acquire Digital Clues
According to Cellebrite CEO Yossi Carmil, “We are pleased to announce this acquisition, an important step in executing against our vision of building a leading end-to-end investigative Digital Intelligence platform.…
Reducing Algorithmic Opacity: Technical Solutions for Understanding Systems and Outcomes
A significant factor in the adoption of algorithmic systems for decision-making is their capacity to process large amounts of varied data sets (i.e. big data), which can be paired with…
Enhancing Credibility and Validity? Triangulation in Research
Validity in research basically establishes how correctly a particular approach measures something and how closely findings are to actual values or concepts being examined. It indicates whether findings from particular…
iCONECT Acquires Ayfie Inspector Artificial Intelligence Codebase
According to Ian Campbell, CEO of iCONECT, “Direct access to the source code enhances our ability to create innovative synergies which include artificial intelligence assisting companies to incorporate AI as…
Revisiting the Wild West? The eDiscovery Medicine Show
Just as bloodletting came to be considered unreasonable in the face of mounting scientific evidence, so too should certain common eDiscovery practices. According to information retrieval experts Maura Grossman, J.D.,…
Quantitative Pleasing? A Hart-Scott-Rodino Act Transaction Update (September 2021)
Increased interest in levels of M&A activity resulted in the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) publishing of monthly figures for Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act transactions. The latest monthly update…