Good survey points from IPRO/Acedes. I just  wish the IPRO site was working to download the full survey data. Justifying technology and managed service investments requires understanding your overall eDiscovery lifecyle and unique profile. ediscoveryjournal.com/the-challenges…

Do your employee transition workflows preserve critical communications and ESI under hold? Meta’s announcement of another 10,000 layoffs got me wondering how high the 2023 tech body count had reached. TechCrunch counts 123,000 in 10 weeks so far. ediscoveryjournal.com/123k-tech-layo…

“Why not just use Microsoft?” That client question kicked off a research project to understand what the new M365 Purview Records Management modules delivered and what limits my global corporate clients might need to work around. ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-research-m…

Keeping my perspectives short and pithy. Expect a string of concise briefing writeups. Conference impressions: - Uber in: City is packed with cars. So many shops shut down and being remodeled. City in rebirth. ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-legalweek-…

Redgrave Data has continued their explosive growth since I met with the team last October. They just lured Jeremy Pickens back to eDiscovery and are actively recruiting talent amidst eDiscovery market layoffs. ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-redg…

Phil Saunders The Relativity executive team (joined by CEO Phil Saunders and CAO/CLO Adam Weiss) shared their broader vision for the Relativity platform. That vision stays focused on organizing data, extracting the truth, and making it actionable. ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-rela…

Level Legal was an interesting briefing first time briefing. On first impression, they appear to be a regional boutique managed review firm based in the eastern Texas ‘rocket docket’ district.  Their website focuses on relationship quality and ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-leve…

Microsoft Purview It was a rare privilege to sit down with the nine Microsoft Purview eDiscovery product management and legal team experts to talk about their vision and roadmap. Five years ago, I made the decision to ‘bet on Microsoft 365’ when I ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-micr…

Vipul Rajpara - COO The steady floor traffic during my briefing at the Casepoint booth seemed to justify their Legalweek spend; lots of prospects wanting a peek at their new legal hold module. Vipul Rajpara, Casepoint’s chief operating officer, said, ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-case…

Irfan Shuttari, Veritas Director of eDiscovery Strategy, briefed me on the new Veritas Alta unified cloud compliance and governance solution. When I joined the then Symantec PM team over two decades ago, it had been my dream to unify the solutions for ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-veri…

eDiscoveryToday’s Doug Austin shared his LegalWeek and eDiscovery market impressions after his annual post show series of eDiscovery luminary quotes. We discussed how LegalTech transformed into LegalWeek and what that means for exhibitors and attendees. ediscoveryjournal.com/?p=2162

The EDRM has flourished under Mary Mack and Kaylee Walstad’s guidance. Our discussion at the Blogger’s Brunch was cut short. We circled back to get their impressions of the show and all the new EDRM projects in motion. ediscoveryjournal.com/?p=2167

“Write a paper on analytic data visualization in the voice of Skip Walter.” It was convincing until Skip started finding familiar sentences and chunks of verbiage seemingly lifted straight from his patents and papers. ediscoveryjournal.com/microplagiaris…

Enjoy my interview with Doug Austin on my global impact extrapolation of his 2023 Internet Minute Infographic! Doug was kind enough to publish his assumptions and sources, so I did an ad hoc research project that calculated a potential 25 MILLION ediscoveryjournal.com/25-million-man…

In my experience, founders and C-level executives make the worst legal hold custodians. I have learned to review executive expense reports prior to supporting preservation interviews or issuing notices when possible. ediscoveryjournal.com/executive-mobi…

Join me at the largest eDiscovery user conference in Chicago this September! Session information to follow. Fest 2022 had fabulous content and social networking with peers! I will be taking briefings with Relativity partners such as Microsoft, EDRM and ediscoveryjournal.com/event/relativi…

Ever spend hours OCRing and extracting data from years of invoices? Microsoft’s Azure Form Recognizer can be a game changer for peers tasked to reconstruct charges, convert bills to Ledes CSV or support cost overrun scenarios. ediscoveryjournal.com/azure-form-rec…

Microsoft’s new Teams collaborative notes are rolling out in public preview and will soon introduce Loop based notes, agenda and tasks to your eDiscovery workflows. Previously, Teams meeting notes and comments were added to the shared Teams channel wiki ediscoveryjournal.com/loop-behind-ne…

The X1 Enterprise Collect Platform now indexes in-place and collects ESI from M365 Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint. While most other Microsoft partners utilize the Graph API to extend Microsoft’s Purview eDiscovery and compliance functionality, X1 execs ediscoveryjournal.com/edj-brief-x1-e…

I want to expand on Bob’s excellent commentary with a bit of market history context. Many innovative eDiscovery private companies have died on the vine after being acquired by public corporations. ediscoveryjournal.com/?p=2208