Circles of Sanctions In customer meetings and speaking engagements, I sometimes relate eDiscovery sanctions to Dante’s “Inferno” and its nine circles of hell.  The idea is that those who have poor eDiscovery processes and cannot meet their obligations to preserve relevant ESI have a good chance of facing sanctions.  At that point, the only question [...]

By James D. Shook, Esq. In the cult-classic “Weekend At Bernie’s”[1], two young men try to fool others into believing that their murdered boss is still alive, despite strong evidence to the contrary.  Of course, trying to keep up appearances with a decaying body gets more and more difficult with time, but they persist.  Eventually, [...]

“The Ball in Your Court” Craig Ball, Esq., Talks eDiscovery, Law and Technology with EMC’s Heidi Maher, Esq., Principal eDiscovery Join EMC for our upcoming Best Practice Webinar Series with eDiscovery Thought Leader and Author, Craig Ball, Esq. Date: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM Pacific Counselor Ball is a pioneering Trial Lawyer, Technologist and [...]

Discovery Lessons Learned in the first half of 2010 by William E. O’Neil, Jr, Esq. It has been an interesting first half of the year for e-Discovery cases. The “Pension Committee” case “revisited” the Zubalake decisions and re-affirmed the duties for legal counsel when managing the Discovery & legal hold processes.  But, it still seems [...]

eDiscovery 2011:  Trends, Risks and Best Practices Randolph A. Kahn, Esq., Kahn Consulting James D. Shook, Esq., EMC eDiscovery expert and Attorney Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM Pacific EMC is proud to bring you this special webinar focused on how you should think about handling eDiscovery in 2011. Our esteemed guest speaker, [...]

In today’s economic environment, companies deploying new technology have to show not just that they will be better and faster, but also just how much faster and better so that they can justify the expense.  Part of the buying process frequently involves gathering data on how much it costs to handle a business process in [...]

The latest news about Autonomy’s acquisition of certain CA Information Governance business group products (CA Message Manager and CA Records Manager) got me to thinking about the strategic differences among companies in the Information Governance space. On the one hand, you have companies that build or acquire products and technologies to further strengthen their existing [...]

Karthik Kannan, Sr. Marketing Director of SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon presents at EMC World Momentum. Presentation One Title: eDiscovery: Why the IT and Legal Departments Are Strategic Partners In Managing eDiscovery When: 2:00 PM, Wednesday, May 12th Abstract: Gaps exist between IT and Legal in most corporations today. This hinders the efficiency and accuracy with which legal [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon presents a Best Practices Webinar by Dr. Linda Volonino and Ian RedPath, Esq., delivering highlights from their new book “e-Discovery for Dummies” (ISBN 978-0-470-51012-4) and insights from their standing room only LegalTech NY Super Session this year. To Register – Click DISCOVER - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10am PT The authors of “eDiscovery [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon will be holding a book signing in booth 1380 at LegalTech with noted authors Dr. Linda Volonino and Ian Redpath, Esq., following their presentation of the book in SS1 Concourse C at 11:45 to 12:45.  Their new comprehensive book “eDiscovery for Dummies” is destine to become a desk reference for [...]