The eDiscovery frenzy that has gripped the American legal system over the past decade has become increasingly expensive. Particularly costly to both clients and the courts is the process of preserving and reviewing ESI. As a solution to these costs, many are emphasizing the concept of “proportionality.” Proportionality typically requires that the benefits of discovery be commensurate with its corresponding burdens.

Despite nearly universal agreement that eDiscovery should be governed by proportionality standards, there remains a polarizing debate that threatens to curtail the impact of proportionality. That debate is centered on disagreements over the scope of ESI preservation, the standard for permissible discovery and the use of cutting edge review technologies like predictive coding.

To better understand these issues and to explore feasible solutions, Philip Favro, Discovery Counsel at Symantec, will lead a lively discussion at LegalTech...

Everywhere you look right now, financial services organisations seem to be stepping on litigation landmines—and they are ill-prepared to cope with it. Whether it is the LIBOR rate fixing scandal, rogue traders working wild, or the mis-selling of financial products to unsuspecting people in the street, the financial services industry is being brought to task by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and other bodies for their misdemeanours.

With the economy  in a state of crunch, crash, or conundrum depending on your point of view, money is tight in the market right now. However the legal departments in these organisations are regularly paying out multi-million pound sums—in some cases tens of millions—for litigation-related work whenever they are investigated.

So why are they having to pay so much in legal and review fees—and what can they do about it? You don’t need to look far to find answers to both questions. Whenever an...

Last month we announced the general availability of Clearwell 7.1.1 and with it the only Symantec certified, direct-collector from Enterprise Vault.  Now we are pleased to announce another level of integration between the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform and Enterprise Vault—comprehensive legal hold functionality, which extends Clearwell’s robust legal hold notification solution to include preservation of data in Enterprise Vault.

Preserve in Enterprise Vault:  Enables information in Enterprise Vault to be preserved in the controlled environment of the archive, eliminating the need to copy and move information for preservation, and reducing risk.

This integrated functionality will support the unique workflows of eDiscovery administrators.  For instance, newly archived data matching legal hold requirements such as keywords can automatically be placed on hold. In other scenarios, an eDiscovery administrator might want to both...

We’re pleased to announce that the latest version of the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform, version 7.1.1, has been release. The new release is a significant milestone in the evolution of the Clearwell product. Here are the key highlights of the release:

Identification & Collection

• EV Collector – the first phase in fully integrating the Clearwell eDiscovery Platform with Enterprise Vault. The combination boasts market-leading collection performance.  The EV collector is also unique in supporting a simple, unique collection workflow from EV to the Clearwell collection module and on to the processing, analysis and review modules.
• New Connectors for EMC Documentum, Xerox DocuShare, OpenText Livelink, Interwoven iManage, and IBM FileNet.
• Collection Defensibility Reports – provides information on when collections were run, how much data was collected and under what configuration rules were used to set up the...