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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

All corporations need to find and manage content for litigation, compliance, and internal or regulatory investigations. Responding in a quick and cost-effective manner is directly related to how effectively an organization can identify and act on potentially responsive information. Today, most business communications and activities take place electronically; subsequently, the volume of electronically stored information [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon delivers the authors of “e-Discovery for Dummies” for a super session at LegalTech on February 2nd, 2010 at 11:45 to 12:45 in room SS1 on Concourse C. “Dr. Linda Volonino and Ian Redpath, Esq.  have compiled a comprehensive text on e-Discovery which allows an eDiscovery novice to get up to [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon announces groundbreaking super session “The Ten eDiscovery Commandments: The Judges Speak” with noted guest speakers The Honorable Andrew J. Peck and The Honorable Frank Maas at LegalTech New York on Feb 2nd, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in room SS1 on Concourse C.  CLE credit is available for this session; however, [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon achieved a “Positive” rating for the Third Year in a Row in Gartner’s MarketScope for E-Discovery Product Vendors authored by analysts, Debra Logan, Whit Andrews and John Bace. Excerpt from Report: EMC EMC has revolutionized its position in the e-discovery market. In April 2009, with the release of SourceOne for archiving, [...]

Article excerpt from SearchStorage….. 5. EMC consumes eDiscovery partner Kazeon. EMC‘s other storage deal of 2009 was a small one – it bought Kazeon for an undisclosed price to try and boost its SourceOne compliance and eDiscovery platform. EMC used a combination of partners Clearwell Systems, Kazeon and StoredIQ Inc. when it launched SourceOne last [...]

Internal Investigations drive significant eDiscovery activity: how does one successfully run internal investigations? By Heidi Maher, Esq. Corporate malfeasance is the cancer that if left undiagnosed and untreated can cause extreme problems or even death of an organization.  The best known treatment for cancer is early diagnosis, extraction of the cancerous cells and treatment via [...]

The Washington Post article announced that two advocacy groups, The National Security Archive and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), reached a settlement with The White House in a long-running lawsuit over more than 22 Million “lost” emails during the Bush-era administration. Initially, the Bush White House denied that any emails were missing.  However, [...]