By Cathy Lopez
Tune in to any electronic discovery conversation and you will hear the cry for “more standards!”
E-discovery professionals recognize the need for standards, but they struggle with the implementation. E-discovery, after all, is the intersection of two very different backgrounds: the legal profession and information technology.
Legal professionals make efforts to establish legal standards every [...]

By Eric P. Blank
Email is at the core of modern electronic discovery.
Attorneys want to know who sent what messages to whom, when those messages were sent and what those messages were about. For this reason, massive volumes of email are commonly exported for further processing and searching by e-discovery vendors.
With a little investigation, it may [...]

By Jonathan Yeh
Online services such as Webmail and social networks have been around for as long as the Internet, but in the last few years the scale and scope of such services have grown exponentially.
As these services have grown in popularity, the likelihood that cloud data – data generated via the use of Web sites [...]

By Alex Harmon
All investigative agencies have strict procedures for handling evidence.
Picture the scene of an airplane crash. Aircraft parts, human remains, fuel and hydraulic fluid are identified and tagged exactly where they landed upon impact. A digital map may be drawn to give investigators an aerial view of the crash site. Later, the evidence is [...]

By Jeff Meisner
Editor, Slack Space
Since EDEN’s launch in May 2009, our network has grown to more than 110 companies in 30 states. We’re happy to welcome companies from a range of industries, including IT service providers, law firms and e-discovery service providers.
Over the last four months, we’ve received feedback from our community regarding our Web [...]

By Cathy Lopez
Launched on May 1, the Electronic Data Extraction Network already has 100 members.
EDEN is a subsidiary of Seattle-based electronic discovery law firm Blank Law + Technology PS. The community’s membership consists of IT service providers and legal professionals in 28 states and Canada.
The community was formed to create a nationwide standard of best [...]

By Cathy Lopez
The LegalTech West Coast 2009 trade show kicks off today at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
I wasn’t able to make the journey to the Golden State this year to attend, but I did in 2008 and felt it might be helpful to share some of my experiences.
Attending LegalTech gives attorneys, paralegals and IT [...]

By Eric P. Blank
Cloud computing is on the tip of every technologist’s tongue these days.
Blue chip tech giants such as International Business Machines Corp., the Hewlett-Packard Co., Dell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have spent hundreds of millions of marketing dollars touting the benefits of cloud computing, which, for all the ink it’s received, is really [...]

By Alex Harmon
Over the past few years, the market for e-discovery software tools and hardware has evolved to include several end-to-end application suites such as AccessData’s Forensic Tool Kit and Guidance Software’s EnCase.
Now, the e-discovery market is becoming more and more specialized.

By C. Dean Little
The 17-month-long U.S. recession has cut into legal budgets everywhere, but it won’t diminish the demand for electronic data extraction services.
Indeed, the demand for extraction services will only increase over the next 18 to 24 months.
Why? My 40 years of experience as a commercial trial lawyer has shown me that documents – [...]