EMC to sponsor CLE Session at LegalTech 2012 on What General Counsel must know about Industrial Espionage, State Sponsored CyberTerrorism, and Hacktivisim from part of the team that responded to an advanced cyber attack on RSA in March of 2011. “The day-to-day use of cyber risk intelligence is no longer just for government agencies – [...]

With the continuing growth of eDiscovery, rapidly developing case law, and new technologies, the complexities associated with eDiscovery are daunting. The risk of mis-steps during the eDiscovery process weighs on the minds of Corporate Counsel, as well as IT professionals.  What do legal and IT professionals need most? Advice and education from trusted experts and professionals [...]

With the shift from paper to electronic documents and records, electronically stored information (ESI) has increased at an alarming rate. With date stamps, owner, and other auditable metadata, ESI has become a rich evidentiary source in litigation proceedings. Subsequently , the average volume for an eDiscovery collection today is over 4 million documents per event. [...]

New York Law Journal eDiscovery Webinar Series Wednesday, April 27, 2011 – 11:00 AM EST In this webinar you will learn more about: •Addressing Proportionality in Preservation •What tools you can utilize to reduce time and cost •Dealing with Judicial requirements and expectations in the eDiscovery process Speaker: Heidi Maher Principal — Compliance & eDiscovery [...]

By Heidi Maher, Esq., EMC SourceOne eDiscovery Field Attorney Over four plus years since the FRCP amendments and I am still surprised by the number of in-house counsel that believe that custodian led collection, aka self collection, is a perfectly acceptable method of doing eDiscovery, even for large cases.  Basing their entire eDiscovery strategy on [...]

By Heidi Maher, Esq. Just when you thought the idea of a government investigation couldn’t get any worse, here comes the new Supreme Court ruling in FCC v. AT&T, Inc., 562 U.S. ____(2011). The case began in 2004, when AT&T realized that it may have been collecting too much government cash as part of the [...]

At LegalTech 2011, EMC’s Heidi Maher, Esq., invited Cynthia Bateman, Brendan Schulman, and D. Bryant Isbell for a discussion on “The Corporate Reality of Cross-Border Disputes in the Global Business Market.” With mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships and other contractual relationships, today’s business is global.  As business transcends borders, contractual issues and disputes naturally increase.  However, the [...]

EMC LegalTech 2011 CLE Session It takes a Village…A cross-functional approach to eDiscovery (CLE Credit ) Time 10:30 – 11:30 am ET Room: Concourse Level Room F With eDiscovery, there isn’t an “Easy Button”.  The practical realities of eDiscovery deployment, management, and litigation have had a significant impact on corporations, as well as expanded the general [...]

The Corporate Reality of Cross-Border Disputes in the Global Business Market (CLE Credit Available) Time: 9:00 – 10:00 am ET Room: Concourse Level Room F With mergers, acquisitions, strategic partnerships and other contractual relationships, today’s business is global.  As business transcends borders, contractual issues and disputes naturally increase.  However, the inclusion of electronically stored information (ESI) [...]

By Heidi Maher, Esq. To those of us in the eDiscovery field, the EDRM diagram appears straightforward.  However, to the legal practitioners who are getting acquainted with it for the first time, the “Information Management” node seems so overwhelming that they go no further.  The explanation of that node on EDRM.net[1] is good but gives [...]