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LegalTech Plenary 2013: Symantec Mediates the eDiscovery Debate of the Year
Chris Talbott | 14 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

 

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...

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Symantec Explores eDiscovery Beyond the EDRM in LegalTech 2013 Sessions
Chris Talbott | 20 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

For those readers unfamiliar with the LegalTech show, it is the premier event for corporations, law firms, litigation service providers, consultants and vendors to come together and learn and discuss what the technological world has in store for the legal profession. The veteran LegalTech New York team here at Symantec has decided to build anticipation for the 2013 event via a video series starring the LTNY un-baptized associate.  Get introduced to our eDiscovery-challenged protagonist in the first of our videos. 

As for this year show, we are pleased to expand our presence and are very excited to introduce eDiscovery without limits, along with a LegalTech that promises sessions, social events and opportunities for attendees in the same vein.   In regards to the first aspect – the sessions – the team of Symantec eDiscovery counsels will moderate panelist sessions on topics ranging...

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Discovering the cost of litigation the hard way!
Simon Moor | 09 Oct 2012 | 0 comments

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...

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Falcon Discovery Ushers in Savings with Transparent Predictive Coding
Hilary McQuaide | 17 Sep 2012 | 0 comments

This post can also be viewed on the e-discovery 2.0 blog here.

The introduction of Transparent Predictive Coding to Symantec’s Clearwell eDiscovery Platform helps organizations defensibly reduce the time and cost of document review. Predictive coding refers to machine learning technology that can be used to automatically predict how documents should be classified based on limited human input. As expert reviewers tag documents in a training set, the software identifies common criteria across those documents, which it uses to “predict” the responsiveness of the remaining case documents. The result is that fewer irrelevant and non-responsive documents need to be reviewed manually – thereby accelerating the review process...

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Clearwell offers preservation of data in Enterprise Vault
Chris Talbott | 13 Jun 2012 | 0 comments

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...

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Symantec Positioned as a Leader in Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software
Chris Talbott | 31 May 2012 | 0 comments

Symantec is pleased to announce that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for E-Discovery Software.¹ The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. In the closely related archiving market, Symantec is also a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Information Archiving.²

We recommend this report for anyone considering an investment in e-discovery software and for those who want to learn:

  • Dynamics and landscape of the e-discovery software market
  • Analysis of factors driving market growth
  • Which vendors are positioned as Leaders, Challengers, Visionaries or Niche Players based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Access the Gartner report here.

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Clearwell 7.1.1 has been released
TrevorD | 14 May 2012 | 0 comments

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...
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S.E.C. and other Governmental Agencies- Practicing What They Preach?
AlliWalt | 24 Aug 2011 | 0 comments

S.E.C. and other Governmental Agencies- Practicing What They Preach?

The recent Freedom of Information Act concerns surrounding the retrieval of Sarah Palin’s emails are of grave concern to the public due to the amount of time it took and the format in which the data was produced.  Of course the public wants to know what our elected public servants are doing and saying on our dime, and it is our right as taxpayers to know where and how our money is being spent.  We hope that our money being spent in efficient and constructive ways. However, recent events suggest that the government has not spent as much time or made enough of an effort on Information Governance and eDiscovery issues as they are requiring of the business community.

In the private sector, companies need to know about applicable requirements so they can produce information to the government or private...

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7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Launches National Outreach Committee
AlliWalt | 24 Aug 2011 | 0 comments

Every day that I talk to customers, I personally encounter the need to bridge the knowledge and political gaps to make policy and purchasing decisions within corporations regarding eDiscovery.  The other side of the coin has been that judges and outside counsel, as well as industry experts are coming together to find solutions to deal with these eDiscovery challenges in the courtroom.   The 7th Circuit Principles do just that, and are driving proactive behavior in addressing ESI, much to the pleasure of Judges. 

It worked in the 7th Circuit, and evangelists are jumping on board in other Circuits, including the 9th Circuit.  Art Gollwitzer, previously lived in Chicago and is a member of the 7th Circuit eDiscovery Pilot Program Committee.  He practices patent law and was key in the formation of the Principles,...

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Zubulake Still the Benchmark for Discovery Standards
pfavro | 20 Jul 2011 | 0 comments

It has now been over eight years since Judge Scheindlin began issuing her landmark opinions in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg.  Those orders not only shaped the outcome of that particular case, they permanently changed the discovery phase of litigation.  Discovery no longer begins with Rule 34 requests, the Rule 26(f) conference or Initial Disclosures.  Indeed, it begins long before the filing of a complaint.  Discovery now commences with pre-litigation information management.  For how an organization stores and manages its data will go a long way to determining whether it can meet the demands of discovery in 2011.

This point was highlighted this week by none other than Laura Zubulake in her keynote address at the Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat.  As my colleague, Allison Walton, pointed out in her recent...

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