Information Governance (InfoGovernance) is the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Information governance should be an element in planning an enterprise's information architecture.

(Gartner Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance, 2009, December 2009).

An Engagement Area (EA) is an area where the commander of a military force intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons systems.

(FM 1-02, Operational Terms and Graphics, September 2004).

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 30, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. 2010 Law Technology News Legal Technology Vendor Satisfaction Survey - http://tinyurl.com/27mveze
  2. "A McChrystal?" Viral Social Media and the McChrystal Termination - http://tinyurl.com/2cfy6pf
  3. Another Step Towards Information Governance - http://tinyurl.com/2ddrwc9
  4. Are E-Discovery Sanctions Tough Enough? http://tinyurl.com/2etxxcj
  5. Automated Review in Electronic Discovery Re-Visited - http://tinyurl.com/2fb8ccg
  6. Desktop Collection 2.0 –Enterprise Forensics Part 2 - http://tinyurl.com/284rcad
  7. Divorce Lawyers: Facebook Tops in Online Evidence - http://tinyurl.com/25x6w8n
  8. EC gives UK Two Months to Up Data Protection Laws - http://tinyurl.com/2dsrw42
  9. eDiscovery and Rule 30(b)(6): You Only Get What You Ask For (So Know Your Borders) - http://tinyurl.com/2a2upy6
  10. Examining The Need For Standardized Collection Workflows - http://tinyurl.com/2eu3w9q
  11. Handling Privileged Information - Canadian Lawyer Magazine - Video Panel Discussion - http://tinyurl.com/36dg2x4
  12. I Hate That We’re Still Talking About Pages - http://goo.gl/fb/EosL5
  13. Jury Instruction Allowing Inference that Destroyed Evidence Was Unfavorable and Payment of Attorneys' Fees... http://tinyurl.com/24pyqjv
  14. Legal, IT Should Both Treat E-Discovery as 'Mission-Critical' - http://tinyurl.com/2a4eaqa
  15. Legal Project Management Moves In-House - http://tinyurl.com/2cm2pdw
  16. Making Sense of Compliance and Governance - http://tinyurl.com/2ezte5q
  17. Minimizing the Legal Risks of Using Online Social Networks - http://tinyurl.com/2bguwls
  18. Primer on the Use of Sampling in E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/drFmOT
  19. Sarbanes-Oxley Survives High Court Ruling on Accounting Board - http://tinyurl.com/2g8rohe
  20. Self-Collection Prohibited in Delaware - http://tinyurl.com/2cnhjfs
  21. Social Gaming Suits Are Serious Business - http://tinyurl.com/25ktlgf
  22. Social Media Governance: An Interview with Applied Discovery and Sensei Enterprises - http://bit.ly/c5ogZV
  23. The Growth of Legal Outsourcing: Passage to India - http://tinyurl.com/2c3obbl
  24. Twitter Settles Charges that it Failed to Protect Consumers' Personal Info - http://tinyurl.com/2eva73h
  25. U.S. Government's FCPA Probe of Weatherford Expands - http://tinyurl.com/2bzqwpq
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 23, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. All Hail Justice Scalia’s Concurring Opinion - http://tinyurl.com/26h9xqo
  2. A Judicial Love Bite: Initial Disclosures Mean Initial Disclosures - http://tinyurl.com/23s5tkt
  3. Assessing the Changing World of Civil Procedure Post-'Twombly,' 'Iqbal' - http://tinyurl.com/2b8zzqy
  4. Canada: “Receipt of Unsolicited E-mail Not a ‘Collection’ Under Privacy Statute” http://bit.ly/9CIlAx
  5. Computer Forensics and Personal Computers in Business Cases - http://tinyurl.com/27fq4uw
  6. Courts Undecided on How to Handle Email Threads in Electronic Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/29q3l7g
  7. eDiscovery Software Pays for Itself in a Matter of Months - http://tinyurl.com/2v4d67l
  8. ESI Planning Calculator (Arkfeld E-Discovery and Evidence (3rd Ed.)) http://tinyurl.com/22rke6d
  9. Forbes - America's True Growth Industry: Legal Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/23qxe43
  10. Florida Court Orders Party to Pay for Discovery Error - http://tinyurl.com/2b5hrpt
  11. Get the 'Blueprint' for Successful eDiscovery in the Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/23b4bqr
  12. Google and Twitter Argue Court-Ordered News Delay Is Obsolete' in Internet Age - http://ow.ly/17QfxP
  13. Government Employer's Search of Employee's Text Messages on Employer-Issued Pager Did Not Violate 4th Amendment - http://tinyurl.com/2fx6r5t
  14. Hewlett-Packard GC Says Tech Industry Faces ‘Erosion of Trust’ Over Cybersecurity - http://tinyurl.com/25uou7z
  15. I Have this Favor to Ask of You: Don’t Betray the Family with Third-Party Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/2e429un
  16. Law Firms Express "Growing Enthusiasm" for Contract Lawyers - http://bit.ly/aI0Qyn
  17. Law Firms Poised to Hike IT Spending and Embrace New Technology Solutions, CompTIA Study Finds - http://tinyurl.com/37huaa7
  18. Law Technology News' Vendor Satisfaction Survey: Help, Please! - http://tinyurl.com/24gx26m
  19. Mining the Lehman Mountains – Searching 3 Petabytes - http://tinyurl.com/3y82jkv
  20. Remediate Backup Tapes to Limit Liability & Reduce Storage Costs - http://tinyurl.com/2bbmydo
  21. Social Networks Pose E-Discovery Risks - http://tinyurl.com/27urf9q
  22. Société Générale/Jérôme Kerviel Trial: Issues of E-Discovery and Forensics + Governance, Risk and Compliance - http://tinyurl.com/287oqf2
  23. The Cowen Group Survey: eDiscovery/Litigation Support Professional Salaries Held Steady in 2009 http://bit.ly/akiG69
  24. Utah Attorney General Stands by Twitter Announcement of Execution Order - http://tinyurl.com/283ern7
  25. Washington State Virtual Vault Adds New Data and Documents - http://tinyurl.com/25vrkvw
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 16, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. 23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail - http://n.pr/d3A6jz
  2. A Quality Assurance Tip for Privileged ESI - http://tinyurl.com/2bfbkct
  3. Competing on Process: LPOs Pushing Law Firms? http://tinyurl.com/2bc9h5c
  4. Compliance Myopia Redux - Don’t Assume Anything! http://tinyurl.com/27dve6b
  5. Computer Forensics – Criminal vs Civil – What’s The Difference? http://bit.ly/9bAC7n
  6. Counsel Must Have "Interactive Access" to ESI Population - http://bit.ly/bAJcrJ
  7. Crivella West Proposes Legal Industry Standard for Document Production Agreements for Litigation Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/2fkec5w
  8. Data Archiving: Keep Everything Forever? http://tinyurl.com/2bmoywo
  9. Delaware Superior Court Establishes the Complex Commercial Litigation Division - http://tinyurl.com/27nm644
  10. Discovery of Social-Media Profiles - http://tinyurl.com/29swpaa
  11. Disinformation: The Danger of Deliberate Deception in Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/25y5wsr
  12. Does 'Written' Mean Written? Click. Wrap. Wait, I Agreed to WHAT? http://tinyurl.com/2cavkoh
  13. EDD 'Safe Harbor' Defense No Laughing Matter - http://tinyurl.com/2bx5ybm
  14. eDiscovery: Law Firms Ramp up Capabilities - http://tinyurl.com/2atbdx3
  15. eDiscovery Workflow Will Reduce the Complexity and Cost of eDiscovery for the Global 2000 - http://tinyurl.com/2f8f8aq
  16. Examining the 4 Areas of Business Social Networking Risk - http://ow.ly/1YWzK
  17. First Online, Interactive 8 Week e-Discovery Courses Hit the Market - http://bit.ly/aXkyFz
  18. How to Get a Judge to Overcome the Guilt of Ordering the Forensic Examination of a Personal Computer - http://tinyurl.com/2bqh7w5
  19. IAALS Survey Provides Insight into Corporations - http://tinyurl.com/2aq29sn
  20. In-House Discovery Roundtable - Dealing with Proportionality - Canadian Lawyer Magazine with Gail Cohen - Video 1: http://tinyurl.com/2ftlwmr
  21. In-House Discovery Roundtable - Protecting Privacy - Canadian Lawyer Magazine with Gail Cohen - Video 2: http://tinyurl.com/29cjd6n
  22. In-House Discovery Roundtable - Cross Border International Issues - Canadian Lawyer Magazine with Gail Cohen - Video 3: http://tinyurl.com/29jcnb8
  23. International Litigation Services Chooses Iron Mountain eVantage for ECA to Reduce Client Costs and Risks - http://tinyurl.com/2emb7rh
  24. Judge: Laptop Border Searches Must Be Done in Timely Manner - http://tinyurl.com/245qeuj
  25. Keyword Use Did Not Create Confusion, Rules Canadian Court - http://tinyurl.com/246ud94
  26. Lehman E-Mails That Say ‘Stupid’ Didn’t Stay ‘Just Between Us’ http://p2.to/T7S
  27. LinkedIn Communications at Center of Lawsuit - http://bit.ly/bvKmHD
  28. Should Lawyers Play Nice in E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/2eo58ey
  29. Social Media, eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure - http://tinyurl.com/2c2kvnq
  30. Tackling Social Media Problems at Work - http://tinyurl.com/27ogfhj
  31. Technology in the Courtroom: A Double-Edged Sword - http://tinyurl.com/28leqrz
  32. The Big Picture of IT GRC - http://tinyurl.com/27ylszn
  33. The Dangers of Ignoring Social Media during Backups - http://tinyurl.com/2clocgd
  34. Unexpected Consequences (of Social Networking) - http://tinyurl.com/2aefmun
  35. Waaaaiiiit, Are You at Work ... or at Play? Tackling Social Media Problems - http://bit.ly/c0Yl8V
  36. When Does Research End and Industrial Espionage Begin?http://tinyurl.com/29ewafz
  37. When Employees Click 'I Agree' for Their Employers - http://tinyurl.com/23ttq7k
  38. Who Owns Public Crime Data? http://tinyurl.com/24gcch5
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 9, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

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Context for Applying Discovery
  1. As Social Media Creeps Into E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/24adf57
  2. CLO and GC Survey on Litigation and Discovery - IAALS - http://ow.ly/1TJuB
  3. Consistent with IDC Research on eDiscovery IT Spend, 25% of In-House Report Less Work for Outside Firms - http://ow.ly/17BfFb
  4. Court Rules that an E-mail can be Libelous Merely by Linking to Someone Else's Defamatory Blog Post - http://twurl.nl/fffmat
  5. Developing a Detection and Prevention System for Managing FCPA/UK Bribery Act Risks - http://tinyurl.com/24xye3w
  6. Early Case Assessment - The Emperor Has No Clothes - http://tinyurl.com/28xrntv
  7. E-Discovery: A Litigator's Perspective - http://tinyurl.com/2eret95
  8. E-Discovery Nightmare Arises on BP's Horizon - http://tinyurl.com/2fmktcx
  9. E-mail Data Leaks a Worry for Most IT Professionals - http://tinyurl.com/3xrbnox
  10. Ensuring Searchable Production Formats (Or Don’t Tick off the Judge) - http://tinyurl.com/26cmsms
  11. Final 'Qualcomm' Ruling a One-Time Pass? http://tinyurl.com/2fwa5pv
  12. For Discovery Violations, Court Indicates Likelihood of Finding Agency Relationship Existed as a Matter of Law - http://tinyurl.com/2elsfgo
  13. Graphic E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/289junt
  14. Is the Enterprise Market Eluding the Legacy Litigation Technology Providers? http://tinyurl.com/24dqpn7
  15. Jail Time for Physician's HIPAA Violation Highlights Need to Redouble Compliance Efforts - http://bit.ly/dxzJhn
  16. Lawyers’ Ethical Responsibilities Relating to Metadata - http://tinyurl.com/2g9ffm9
  17. Legally Defensible Security and the (Surprisingly Lacking) Right to Privacy - http://bit.ly/d4oQbS
  18. One Hot, Greasy (Discovery) Nightmare: In-House Lawyers at Oil Spill Companies Are Sweating It": http://bit.ly/bFFNvW
  19. Privacy And Data Security - What Counsel Should Know About Minimizing Risk - http://tinyurl.com/38akafm
  20. Reckless and Grossly Negligent Failure to Preserve Results in Sanctions for Defendant - http://tinyurl.com/2dzs7wx
  21. Removing Common Files in E-Discovery Processing: De-NISTing Explained - http://tinyurl.com/28hsaym v
  22. System and Evolution in Corporate Governance - http://tinyurl.com/2u5ey4x
  23. The 1st Cloud Computing Search Warrant: Google Docs Under Investigation - http://bit.ly/bHYk65
  24. The Duke Conference And E-Discovery Solutions - A Panelist's Perspective - http://tinyurl.com/23xyuz2
  25. Tracking Insider Trading: Disney, Stella and Fecklessness - http://tinyurl.com/2fnpzmr
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – June 2, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. A Practice Point in Agreeing to the Form of Production - http://tinyurl.com/26uofet
  2. Be prepared to Disclose Electronic Data in Bullying and Harassment Disputes - http://bit.ly/cRNFyD
  3. Canadian Lawyer: In-House E-Discovery Roundtable Video - Dealing With Proportionality - http://tinyurl.com/2b3oxgw
  4. Data Accuracy the Next Frontier in Criminal Justice - http://tinyurl.com/24q7upq
  5. Don't Box ECA - Early Case Assessment Precedes E-Discovery by George Socha & Tom Gelbmann - http://tinyurl.com/2fgjo75
  6. Early Case Assessment Still Alive and Well - http://tinyurl.com/2csze95
  7. E-Discovery and the Cloud: The Duty to Preserve Electronically Stored Information (ESI) - http://tinyurl.com/24pd534
  8. E-Discovery Forensics at CEIC 2010: Sorta Sexy, Sorta Scary, Not at All Niche - via The 451 Group - http://tinyurl.com/29wr459
  9. eDiscovery Lessons Learned From Piper Jaffray Sanction - http://bit.ly/dCsQgF
  10. Expanding Role Of Data Deduplication - http://tinyurl.com/2un5esz
  11. FINRA Fines Piper Jaffray $700,000 for Lack of Email Archiving - http://hub.am/btBm62
  12. Four Steps to a More Defensible Preservation and Legal Hold Process - http://tinyurl.com/2vwsvry
  13. How SM-ART (Social Media-Assessment, Risks, and Techniques) are you? http://tinyurl.com/3y6hfnn
  14. Index Lag – Mind the Gap! http://tinyurl.com/36khvkn
  15. Inside the Mind of In-house Counsel - http://tinyurl.com/3axdknj
  16. Internet Privacy Legislation Released In Congress - http://tinyurl.com/373q2no
  17. Judge Scheindlin Amends Recent Pension Opinion - http://tinyurl.com/2fjfx7u
  18. Legal Problems in Ontario? You’re Not Alone - http://tinyurl.com/2785shl
  19. Preserve Relevant Records - Don't Say You Haven't Been Warned - http://tinyurl.com/3aa673h
  20. Social Media from an Employer's Point of View - http://tinyurl.com/2up9bzp
  21. Stayin' Alive: An Overview of Copyright Termination - http://tinyurl.com/2uvg99n
  22. TEKSystems Sues Former Employee Claiming that Continued Communication Over LinkedIn Network Violates Non-Compete - http://bit.ly/aeM4Km
  23. The Defensible Collection of Social Media Data in E-Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/242s3ls
  24. Toolkit For Change: How The Federal Civil Rules Advisory Committee Can Fix Civil Justice System “In Serious Need Of Repair” http://tinyurl.com/2do5cvy
  25. When Is an E-Discovery Burden an Undue Burden? http://tinyurl.com/2fbyozh
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• Ahroner v. Israel Discount Bank of New York, 2010 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 525 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 2010). http://tinyurl.com/29vgbs7
• Armco Capital Inc. v. Armoyan, [2010] N.S.J. No. 128. http://tinyurl.com/29rkn7w
• Brooks v. Canada (Attorney General), [2009] S.J. No. 758. http://tinyurl.com/2av546u
• Hodczak v. Latrobe Specialty Steel Co., 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21267 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 9, 2010). http://tinyurl.com/2u97dnk

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