Notes on recent trends in e-discovery, data privacy, and the use of technology to enhance the practice of law
Published August 31, 2020 on the ACEDS Blog. Full lists are at Trends and Industry Events.
Announcements
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| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/27/2020 | Innovative Discovery announced it has completed the annual audit for the FedRAMP moderate Cloud Service Provider reauthorization for 2020-2021 and has added iCONECT, a digital document review platform, to its FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/26/2020 | Relativity announced its has begun its inaugural Relativity Fellows program, with a class of 12 selected from more than 320 applicants based in Chicago. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | The Sedona Conference announced publication of a Second Public Comment Version of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Rule 45 Subpoenas to Non-Parties, Second Edition. Comments should be submitted by Sep. 25. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | Relativity announced its agenda for Relativity Fest 2020, with more than 100 live sessions, on-demand content, and hands-on exercises. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has partnered with Blue J Legal Inc. to bring the Toronto legal tech company’s AI-powered technology, which predicts court outcomes in the employment law arena, to the United States, reported Lyle Moran in the ABA Journal. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/24/2020 | iManage announced the acquisition of legal transaction management company Closing Folders, reported Victoria Hudgins of Legaltech News. |
E-discovery
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| E-Discovery | 08/31/2020 | The EDRM website has a new look and new capabilities, including the EDRM Wiki. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/27/2020 | Innovative Discovery announced it has completed the annual audit for the FedRAMP moderate Cloud Service Provider reauthorization for 2020-2021 and has added iCONECT, a digital document review platform, to its FedRAMP-authorized cloud environment. |
| E-Discovery | 08/27/2020 | Microsoft recently added an automated transcription feature to its online Word, Transcribe in Word, noted Greg Buckles of eDiscovery Journal in a post where he gave an overview of the function and discussed potential preservation, collection, and review issues arising from the new capability. |
| E-Discovery | 08/26/2020 | The Sedona Conference sent a reminder that the deadline to apply for three new Working Group 1 Brainstorming Groups is Monday, August 31. The groups are:
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| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/26/2020 | Relativity announced its has begun its inaugural Relativity Fellows program, with a class of 12 selected from more than 320 applicants based in Chicago. |
| Additional Articles, E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | EDRM Headline News Source: EDRM |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | The Sedona Conference announced publication of a Second Public Comment Version of The Sedona Conference Commentary on Rule 45 Subpoenas to Non-Parties, Second Edition. Comments should be submitted by Sep. 25. |
| Announcements, E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | Relativity announced its agenda for Relativity Fest 2020, with more than 100 live sessions, on-demand content, and hands-on exercises. |
| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Zach Warren of Law.com talked with Jared Coseglia of TRU Staffing Partners about the changing legal tech job market and the growth in ALSP opportunities. To support this, Jared pointed to two sets of jobs numbers his firm has compiled:
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| E-Discovery | 08/25/2020 | E-discovery work continues to move in-house, wrote Mike Quartararo of ACEDS. According to a recent reported produced by Exterro and ACEDS, 50% of legal departments now feature an on-site e-discovery team. |
| E-Discovery, Profiles | 08/21/2020 | Wendell Jisa, CEO of Reveal, and Jay Leib, the new EVP of Innovation and Strategy of Reveal, were profiled by Clinton Sanko of Baker Donelson. |
| E-Discovery | 08/20/2020 | In a post prompted by a story reported by Law.com about faked cell phone evidence, Sharon Nelson of of Sensei Enterprises offered advice on how to address potentially manipulated cell phone data. |
Enhancing practice
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/31/2020 | Didn't attend ILTA>ON last week? Want a veteran conference-goers' take on the show? If so, go the the Above the Law post where Bob Ambrogi of LawSites shared his thoughts about the event. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/28/2020 | Arizona's Supreme Court voted unanimously to eliminate its ethics rule barring nonlawyers from having an economic interest in a law firm or participating in fee sharing, reported Lyle Moran of the ABA Journal, making it the second state in recent weeks to approve opening the door to non lawyer ownership or investment in law firms as a means of expanding access to justice. The court also approved a modification to the licensure process that will allow nonlawyers called "Legal Paraprofessionals" to provide limited legal services to the public, including being able to go into court with their clients. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/27/2020 | Australia's Flinders University is launching a six-month online course to teach lawyers how to code, open to practitioners around the world, reported Richard Tromans of Artificial Lawyer. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/27/2020 | The COVID-19 pandemic has driven at least one positive outcome, wrote Josh Becker of LexisNexis in a LawSites guest column: the legal industry has been innovating in response to remote work mandates rapidly and effectively with results seen as very positive by GCs of large corporations and big law partners. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/26/2020 | Having completed a 10-day virtual arbitration via Zoom, Nicole Gueron, Melissa Holsinger, Allison Pincus, and Muriel Leung of Clarick Gueron Reisbaum offered 10 lessons on how to conduct a remote hearing effectively:
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| Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Bob Ambrogi looked at CampaignTester, emotion-spotting software that analyses facial expressions of up to 100 people in real-time, and contemplated uses such as for evaluating how convincing and credible witnesses might be. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Legal publisher Fastcase named the winners of its 2020 Fastcase 50 award, which honors 50 individuals who are judged to be the year’s “smartest, most courageous, innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders in the law”, reported Bob Ambrogi of LawSites. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | In a guest column in LawSites, Leigh Vickery of Level 2 Legal Solutions offered thoughts on how Utah might make good use of the two-year regulatory sandbox it recently authorized. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Part of the two-year access-to-justice pilot program recently establshed by the Utah Supreme Court in Standing Order No. 15 provides for a new nine-member Office of Legal Services Innovation, reported Victoria Hudgins of The American Lawyer. Operating under the direct auspices of the Utah Supreme Court, the Innovation Office will establish and administer a pilot legal regulatory sandbox through which traditional and nontraditional providers may be approved to offer nontraditional legal services to the public using options not previously permitted. The 18-page Standing Order goes on to discuss various aspects of the Innovation Office including its composition, the scope of its authority, the regulatory objective driving creating of the Office and the regulatory principles that will guide the Office. The Order also addresses what the sandbox is meant to achieve and how it is to function. |
| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Labor and employment law firm Fisher Phillips has partnered with Blue J Legal Inc. to bring the Toronto legal tech company’s AI-powered technology, which predicts court outcomes in the employment law arena, to the United States, reported Lyle Moran in the ABA Journal. |
| E-Discovery, Enhancing Practice | 08/25/2020 | Zach Warren of Law.com talked with Jared Coseglia of TRU Staffing Partners about the changing legal tech job market and the growth in ALSP opportunities. To support this, Jared pointed to two sets of jobs numbers his firm has compiled:
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| Announcements, Enhancing Practice | 08/24/2020 | iManage announced the acquisition of legal transaction management company Closing Folders, reported Victoria Hudgins of Legaltech News. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/21/2020 | Remote depositions are likely here to stay for two sets of reasons, opined Darren Goldman of Becker & Poliakoff PA. Technological challenges have been addressed, for the most part: screen-sharing has made it possible to work effectively with exhibits, even remotely, breakout rooms allow for side discussions, and video and audio can be recorded and synced. And costs also are lower, a sure attraction to clients. |
| Enhancing Practice | 08/19/2020 | A recent Illinois state court bench trial, conducted virtually, went better than expected, reported Lyle Moran in the ABA Journal's Legal Rebels section. While there were some technical challenges, exhibits were screen-shared with witnesses, lawyers conducted cross examinations from their offices, and the the judge presided from him home. |
Privacy
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| Privacy | 08/31/2020 | The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1281, which extends the CCPA’s business-to-business and employee exemptions by one year until January 1, 2022, reported David Strauss of Husch Blackwell. The bill moves to the California Governor’s office. |
| Privacy | 08/27/2020 | In a turnaround, the new Brazilian data protection law (Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais or “LGPD”) now will come into effect when the President signs the bill within 15 days of receiving it from Congress, reported Hunton Andrews Kurth. |
| Privacy | 08/27/2020 | TrustArc published its CCPA Readiness Market Report 2020, in which the company reported that as of May 2020, 53% of US-based companies either had not started or still were in the planning stages of CCPA compliance efforts. |
| Privacy | 08/27/2020 | Hours after the Brazilian Senate rejected a delay of the new Brazilian data protection law, the Brazilian Presidency published Decree 10.474/2020, reported Hunton Andrews Kurth. The decree, approving the regulatory structure of the new Brazilian data protection authority (the “ANPD”) and establishing its roles, will apply after the President-Director of the ANPD is officially appointed through publication in the Official Journal. |
| Privacy | 08/26/2020 | Privacy company Ethyca released its Q3 2020 C-Level Privacy Survey indicating that 74% of companies have plans to spend more on privacy in the coming year, reported Frank Ready of Legaltech News. 58% of respondents worried about facing penalties and 76% believe privacy issues will impact a potential customer’s willingness to do business with a company. |
| Privacy | 08/25/2020 | The Data Protection Supervisory Authority for the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, one of Germany's 17 data protection supervisory authorities, issued post-Schrems II substantive guidance on how to conduct the necessary analysis and risk assessment for cross-border data transfers, reported Christian Schröder, Shannon Yavorsky, Dennis Schmidt and Yumiko Olsen of Orrick in a post that summaries the new guidance. |
| Privacy | 08/25/2020 | Poland’s data protection authority, the UODO, offered guidance on email monitoring in the workplace, reported Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild. |
Additional articles
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| E-Discovery | 08/31/2020 | Here are Some Disruptive Stats in Discovery: eDiscovery Trends Source: eDiscovery Today Author: Doug Austin |
| Additional Articles, E-Discovery | 08/26/2020 | Clawbacks, Redactions, and Formats…Oh My! at ILTA-ON Today: eDiscovery Best Practices Source: eDiscovery Today Author: Doug Austin |
Upcoming events
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