Notes on recent trends in e-discovery, data privacy, and the use of technology to enhance the practice of law
Published August 24, 2020 on the ACEDS Blog. Full lists are at Trends and Industry Events.
Announcements
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| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/24/2020 | EDRM announced its virtual ExpoCom 2021, set for February 1-3, 2021 with expert presenters, technology expo, EDRM project workshops, and networking. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/20/2020 | Ricoh Canada announced it has become a RelativityOne Approved Data Migration Partner, one of only seven companies to hold this level of partnership. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/19/2020 | Thomson Reuters introduced Quick Check Judicial, a new Westlaw Edge feature within Quick Check, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. With Quick Check Judicial, a judge can upload multiple briefs from a single matter and compare them against each other, seeing all the cases cited by both parties in common, all the cases cited by only one party or the other, and relevant cases cited by neither party. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/19/2020 | E-discovery software company Venio Systems announced a majority investment from Software Growth Partners (SGP). |
| Announcements, E-Discovery, Information Governance, Privacy | 08/18/2020 | The Sedona Conference announced that Volume 21 of The Sedona Conference Journal (684 pages long) is now available for free download from The Sedona Conference publications webpage. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/18/2020 | Thomson Reuters announced an upgraded version of HighQ, its enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/18/2020 | Litigation support companies Innovative Litigation and iNSERViO3 announced they will begin operating as one brand under a new name, Array. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/18/2020 | ACEDS announced it has partnered with Relativity to offer structured e-discovery training for the Relativity Fellows program, with ACEDS providing training to program participants and speakers for the program's Fellows Forums. |
| Announcements, Privacy | 08/13/2020 | The Massachusetts Attorney announced the creation of the Data Privacy and Security Division to protect consumers from the surge of threats to the privacy and security of their data. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/13/2020 | ESI Analyst announced a new channel partnership with Complete Legal, a Kansas City, Missouri-based eDiscovery provider. |
E-discovery
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| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/24/2020 | EDRM announced its virtual ExpoCom 2021, set for February 1-3, 2021 with expert presenters, technology expo, EDRM project workshops, and networking. |
| E-Discovery, People | 08/24/2020 | Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech, was profiled by Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today in a three posts, Part One, Part Two, and Part 3. |
| E-Discovery | 08/21/2020 | COVID-19 is changing e-discovery in at least 5 ways, reported Rhys Dipshan of Legaltech News
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| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published a draft report, Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, which sets forth four proposed principles regarding the “explainability” of decisions made by Artificial Intelligence systems, reported Hunton Andrews Kurth. The four principles are:
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| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today offered a preview of the upcoming ILTA>ON virtual conference, which will run from Mon. Aug. 24 through Fri. Aug. 28:
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| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/20/2020 | Ricoh Canada announced it has become a RelativityOne Approved Data Migration Partner, one of only seven companies to hold this level of partnership. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/19/2020 | E-discovery software company Venio Systems announced a majority investment from Software Growth Partners (SGP). |
| Announcements, E-Discovery, Information Governance, Privacy | 08/18/2020 | The Sedona Conference announced that Volume 21 of The Sedona Conference Journal (684 pages long) is now available for free download from The Sedona Conference publications webpage. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/18/2020 | Litigation support companies Innovative Litigation and iNSERViO3 announced they will begin operating as one brand under a new name, Array. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/18/2020 | ACEDS announced it has partnered with Relativity to offer structured e-discovery training for the Relativity Fellows program, with ACEDS providing training to program participants and speakers for the program's Fellows Forums. |
| E-Discovery, People | 08/17/2020 | Michael Sarlo, Partner and Senior Executive Vice President of eDiscovery of Digital Forensics for HaystackID, was profiled by Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today in three posts: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. |
| E-Discovery | 08/16/2020 | Rob Robinson of Complex Discovery published the results of his Fall 2020 Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/13/2020 | ESI Analyst announced a new channel partnership with Complete Legal, a Kansas City, Missouri-based eDiscovery provider. |
| E-Discovery | 07/01/2020 | In an ABA publication, Alex Nunn of the University of Arkansas School of Law explored two aspects of machine-generated evidence: recognizing how machine-generated evidence differs from testimony and other traditional evidence, and how best to evaluate machine-generated evidence at trial. |
Enhancing practice
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/21/2020 | Litera announced the acquisition of cloud-based litigation platform Allegory Law, a subsidiary of Integreon, adding case management to its list of capabilities, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. |
| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published a draft report, Four Principles of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, which sets forth four proposed principles regarding the “explainability” of decisions made by Artificial Intelligence systems, reported Hunton Andrews Kurth. The four principles are:
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | The Working Group on LegalTech Adoption in International Arbitration published the Protocol for Online Case Management in International Arbitration, reported Kushal Gandhi of CMS, one of the working group's members. |
| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today offered a preview of the upcoming ILTA>ON virtual conference, which will run from Mon. Aug. 24 through Fri. Aug. 28:
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | The legal technology newsletter TechnoLawyer published its picks for the top products of the year, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites, as it has done for almost every year since 2011. The winners (none of them e-discovery tools, by the way), were:
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | Law firms' alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) are banking on access to attorney expertise over price, reported Victoria Hudgins of Legaltech News, and some corporate legal departments appear to agree. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/20/2020 | Virtual jury trials are neither wanted nor happening, reported Angela Morris of Legaltech News. 57% of almost 2,800 lawyers surveyed in June said they were not open to virtual jury trials, 24% said maybe, and only 19% said yes; and none seems to have taken place yet. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/19/2020 | Thomson Reuters introduced Quick Check Judicial, a new Westlaw Edge feature within Quick Check, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. With Quick Check Judicial, a judge can upload multiple briefs from a single matter and compare them against each other, seeing all the cases cited by both parties in common, all the cases cited by only one party or the other, and relevant cases cited by neither party. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/18/2020 | Thomson Reuters announced an upgraded version of HighQ, its enterprise collaboration and file-sharing platform for the legal industry, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/18/2020 | Brian Kuhn, Vice President & General Manager, Digital Strategy & Solutions at Elevate, talked with Richard Tromans on Artificial Lawyer TV. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/17/2020 | California attorney Erin Levine, creator of the do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce and 2020 recipient of the James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, joined Bob Ambrogi on LawNext to share her story as well as that of Hello Divorce. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/17/2020 | Lucy Bassli, founder and principal of InnoLegal Services, was profiled by Zach Warren of Legaltech News, who talked with her about her background and ALSPs. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/14/2020 | Chris Fowler of BT and Jon Pedersen of Digital Legal Exchange, as current and past general counsel shared ideas about how to begin and sustain a legal department's litigation transformation. |
Privacy
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| Privacy | 08/19/2020 | The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) issued a draft Data Security Law (DSL) for public comment, reported Hui Xu, Gail E. Crawford, Jennifer C. Archie, Kieran Donovan, and Aster Y. Lin of Lathan & Watkins. |
| Privacy | 08/19/2020 | Japan passed amendments to its data privacy law, the Act on the Protection of Personal Information (“APPI”), reported Scott Warren and Maika Kawaguchi of Squire Patton Boggs, that will results in stricter controls over transfers of personal information from Japan to third countries. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery, Information Governance, Privacy | 08/18/2020 | The Sedona Conference announced that Volume 21 of The Sedona Conference Journal (684 pages long) is now available for free download from The Sedona Conference publications webpage. |
| Announcements, Privacy | 08/13/2020 | The Massachusetts Attorney announced the creation of the Data Privacy and Security Division to protect consumers from the surge of threats to the privacy and security of their data. |
People
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| E-Discovery, People | 08/24/2020 | Dean Brown, CEO of Ipro Tech, was profiled by Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today in a three posts, Part One, Part Two, and Part 3. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/18/2020 | Brian Kuhn, Vice President & General Manager, Digital Strategy & Solutions at Elevate, talked with Richard Tromans on Artificial Lawyer TV. |
| E-Discovery, People | 08/17/2020 | Michael Sarlo, Partner and Senior Executive Vice President of eDiscovery of Digital Forensics for HaystackID, was profiled by Doug Austin of eDiscovery Today in three posts: Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/17/2020 | California attorney Erin Levine, creator of the do-it-yourself divorce platform Hello Divorce and 2020 recipient of the James I. Keane Memorial Award for Excellence in eLawyering, joined Bob Ambrogi on LawNext to share her story as well as that of Hello Divorce. |
| Enhancing Practice, People | 08/17/2020 | Lucy Bassli, founder and principal of InnoLegal Services, was profiled by Zach Warren of Legaltech News, who talked with her about her background and ALSPs. |
Upcoming events
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