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, April 28, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and View – April 28, 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 “Visual Way” to Follow eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/27aueyw
  2. Discarded Buffalo Police Copiers Contain Sensitive Data - http://bit.ly/chT2UY
  3. FBI Struggles to Pull Criminal Data from Digital Devices - http://bit.ly/9L1Gip
  4. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Announce the Release of Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines -  http://bit.ly/bULJZR
  5. Firm finds 5,400 deleted Email Messages of New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin - http://tinyurl.com/29bhstw
  6. Flexibility, Directness is Key In E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/d0l3iD
  7. Forbes/MIT: Why We Share Information - http://bit.ly/a8yhuC
  8. Hard Drives on Personal Computers May Contain More Than You Want Others to Know - http://tinyurl.com/2cg7xz9
  9. How Structural Features of the U.S. Judicial System  Have Affected the Take-Up of Digital Technology by Courts - http://tinyurl.com/358e98h
  10. IPOs Are on Upswing but Not Related Legal Fees - http://tinyurl.com/2bqd5fo
  11. Judge Linked to ‘Lawmiss’ Web Comments Removed from Case - http://tinyurl.com/2dfkud3
  12. Legal Informatics - A Personal Appraisal of Context and Progress - By Richard Susskind - http://tinyurl.com/26xsjav
  13. Let There Be Lite: A Brief History of Legal Information Retrieval - http://tinyurl.com/3ymeqwu
  14. Making Sense of FINRA’s Social Media Guidelines - http://tinyurl.com/26uk56r
  15. New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications - http://tinyurl.com/298j6aa
  16. Pinguelo Appears on Fox’s The Strategy Room to Discuss Workplace Internet Abuse - http://tinyurl.com/24ra6ey
  17. Pressure Points for Achieving eDiscovery Cost Effectiveness - http://tinyurl.com/269dyt4
  18. Raiders of the Lost Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/25a6l9b
  19. Requesting Data: More is Better - http://tinyurl.com/2f3g7e7
  20. SCOTUS Dips into Technology with Quon - http://tinyurl.com/2aop5ge
  21. Senators See Privacy Problem in Facebook Expansion - http://usat.me?38338420
  22. Sex and the SEC - http://tinyurl.com/28dhbmn
  23. Structured Data is Neither as Easy nor as Difficult as it Sounds - http://tinyurl.com/38fztsr
  24. Texas Appeals Court Finds Lower Court's Order to Turn Over Hard Drive Improper - http://bit.ly/aOJm5e
  25. The 451 Group on eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
  26. The European Union  Releases a Research Paper on the Future Opportunities for European Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/cKv4KC
  27. The FTC, Blogging, and Your Business - http://tinyurl.com/2ctv7a5
  28. The Last Words on E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/2fxoye8
  29. Voicemail: The Next eDiscovery Challenge - http://tinyurl.com/23cbv7u
  30. Was Goldman Sachs GC's Talk With Investors a Mistake? http://bit.ly/a68qLL 
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Text Mining 2010
May 1, 2010
Columbus, Ohio
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Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
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2010 ALA Annual Conference
May 3, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts
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The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference
May 7-8, 2010
Washington, D.C.
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EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
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Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
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INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
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MER Conference 2010 - Managing Electronic Records
May 16-17, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
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IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit
May 17-18, 2010
London, UK
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ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
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DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
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ACC 2010 Corporate Counsel University (CCU)
May 23-25, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
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DODIIS Worldwide Conference
May 23-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
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PLI: International Litigation 2010
May 24, 2010
New York, NY
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CEIC 2010
May 24-27, 2010
Summerlin, Nevada
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InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
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IBA Technology Law Conference
May 25-26, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark
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IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
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USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
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SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
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ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 21, 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. An End User View of eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
  2. Dead Men Tell No Tales, But Deleted Evidence Does - http://tinyurl.com/yyfzjpw
  3. Digital Forensics and Social Media - http://bit.ly/dkW4OM
  4. DOJ Releases Email Retention Policy In Response to FOIA Request from CREW - http://tinyurl.com/y4clrcz
  5. Do U Know If U Know Unicode? http://tinyurl.com/y7ulj5c
  6. E-Discovery: How To Avoid Death By Backup - http://tinyurl.com/y7nnjvn
  7. E-Discovery Canada Case Law Digest Updated - http://tinyurl.com/y3v55zx
  8. EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search - http://bit.ly/bpnVkF
  9. FBI General Counsel Stands Her Ground in Phone Records Flap - http://tinyurl.com/y2oqfp2
  10. First Impressions: SharePoint 2010 for Law Firms - http://tinyurl.com/y4l8bwz
  11. Georgetown Law “Corporate Counsel – Europe”: A Video Interview with Mario Monti - http://tinyurl.com/y2cmqfy
  12. 'Litigation Prenup' to Be Unveiled at Pepperdine Conference - http://tinyurl.com/y3zvq4s
  13. Maine eDiscovery Sanctions Revisited: Spooner v. Egan - http://tinyurl.com/y46u72d
  14. Mending Walls: Information Sharing after the USA Patriot Act - http://bit.ly/c7SHHm
  15. New Look for Ontario E-Laws Website - http://tinyurl.com/y7887xx
  16. Pew Internet Report Reveals What Everyone Already Knows: Teens Like To Text - http://tcrn.ch/bzZDFy
  17. Police Data on Copiers Causes City to Scramble - http://bit.ly/bTHxzT
  18. Qualcomm: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb - http://tinyurl.com/28vhdxp
  19. School District Snapped 56,000 Images on Student Webcams http://ow.ly/177zSW
  20. Taking Solicitors to Task - http://post.ly/aoCE
  21. The EDRM Framework Guide for Review - http://tinyurl.com/y4pyq6g
  22. They Can Sue You: Navigating the Foreign eDiscovery Mine Field - http://tinyurl.com/y58lpr8
  23. US Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Text Message Privacy Case - http://bit.ly/cqdi03
  24. What Can Happen When Lawyers Delegate Their e-Discovery Duties to a Client - http://tinyurl.com/y4896s7
  25. Why ECPA Should Make You Think Twice about the Cloud - http://flne.ws/23850584
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IAPP Global Privacy Summit
April 19-21, 2010
Washington, DC
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info360 AIIM International Exposition and Conference
April 20-22, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
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IQPC: 9th E-Discovery West Coast
April 26-28, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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Legal IT 4.0
April 26-27, 2010
Montreal, Canada
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ILTA: INSIGHT 2010
April 27, 2010
London, England
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ARMA Houston 2010 Conference
April 27-28, 2010
Houston, TX
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MAY

Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference

May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
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EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
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Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
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INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
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IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
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ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
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DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
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ACC 2010 Corporate Counsel University (CCU)
May 23-25, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
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DODIIS Worldwide Conference
May 23-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
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PLI: International Litigation 2010
May 24, 2010
New York, NY
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CEIC 2010
May 24-27, 2010
Summerlin, Nevada
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InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
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IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
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USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
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SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
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ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 14, 2010

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

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. Assigning Value to E-Discovery's Unknown - http://bit.ly/co0QwJ
  2. Clearly Written Policies Give Companies The Right To Search Company-Owned Computers for ESI - http://tinyurl.com/y2yc6be
  3. Compliance Officers Play to Bigger Room - http://tinyurl.com/yh68lx2
  4. Court Denies Change of Venue  Request for Law Firm Against eDiscovery Vendor Kroll - http://bit.ly/9snfGP
  5. Departing Employee Technology Checklist: Keeping the Fox Out of the Henhouse - http://tinyurl.com/y4r5e3p
  6. District Court Revisits Qualcomm and Declines to Issue Sanctions - Legal Hold Lessons Learned - http://bit.ly/9soNym
  7. eDiscovery Challenges in China - http://tinyurl.com/y4zpxt2
  8. Facebook Terminations: Friends Don’t Let Friends Talk Smack About Their Job - http://tinyurl.com/y9yxu42
  9. Feds Declare that Blogs and Social Networks are Public Meetings - http://tinyurl.com/y86epje
  10. Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education - http://bit.ly/bMV3Ci
  11. Legal Tech Meets Law Firm Strategy - http://tinyurl.com/yedumgn
  12. Measuring Review? http://bit.ly/9hdlN6
  13. Most eDiscovery Costs Wasted on Extraneous Information - http://tinyurl.com/y6jkzfw
  14. NIST: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information - http://tinyurl.com/y3xwahg
  15. NJ Supreme Court Addresses Privilege in Employee Web-Based Personal Email Accounts - http://tinyurl.com/y33z5ju
  16. No Bright-Line Rules on E-Discovery http://bit.ly/cgjGVs
  17. Ofsted has shown WHY we should collect data properly and now lawyers must find out HOW - http://wp.me/p2KJ5-NV
  18. Outsourcing of Managed Reviews - http://tinyurl.com/y7a5gqe
  19. Pardo on a Unified Theory of Civil Litigation - http://tinyurl.com/y23fcex
  20. Practice Points – Archiving & Legal Holds – An ESI Recipe for Efficiency and Cost Reduction - http://tinyurl.com/ydhrsl4
  21. Prosecution, Defense Spar at Close of KB Home Backdating Trial - http://tinyurl.com/y856rtb
  22. Rethinking Relevance: A Call to Modify the Rules of Discovery - http://tinyurl.com/y43dt3q
  23. Sanction Recommended Over Missed Discovery Deadline in Ex-Holland & Knight Partner's Suit - http://tinyurl.com/y3ktn3w
  24. Social Media Research Repository - Jury Instructions In Re: Technology and Social Media - http://tinyurl.com/yhvvjso
  25. Social Networking Pitfalls for Judges, Attorneys - http://bit.ly/dpxZEQ
  26. The Current State of Email Retention Policies - http://tinyurl.com/yeemh65
  27. The Economist: "Copyright and Wrong" - http://bit.ly/byDUyb
  28. The HIPAA/HITECH Era Is Under Way - http://tinyurl.com/ydyrl6z
  29. Top Five Legal Issues For The Cloud - http://tinyurl.com/yyjbhge
  30. Toyota Crashes The Party - http://tinyurl.com/ycondlp
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    Wednesday, April 7, 2010

    Weekly eDiscovery News and Views – April 7, 2010

    Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news and views highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.
    eDiscovery News
    Context for Applying Discovery
    1. 3rd Annual e-Discovery Survey of Illinois Lawyers - http://bit.ly/dCT9Ef
    2. A Closer Look at “Forensic Collection” - http://tinyurl.com/y85kucb
    3. Breaking News: Qualcomm “No Sanctions” Order Issued - http://tinyurl.com/yffl6zb
    4. Chinese Hackers Steal Dalai Lama's Emails - http://tinyurl.com/ya5wu9w
    5. Concept Searching Saves Clients Thousands - http://bit.ly/aSYQNW
    6. Controlling Legal Costs - Law Firms Promote E- Discovery Reform - Provide Data - http://tinyurl.com/y9kpbab
    7. Court Declines to Impose Sanctions Against Qualcomm Attorneys Absent Evidence of Bad Faith - http://bit.ly/bMU4VE
    8. Court Orders Forensic Exam of Plaintiff's Computers Absent Denial "Responsive Emails May have Existed" - http://tinyurl.com/y8w247y
    9. Court tells Artist to Come Clean - http://tinyurl.com/yczlv8s
    10. Discovery Failure Sinks Lockheed's $37 Million Win - http://tinyurl.com/yb8go5m
    11. Documents Prove Toyota Hid 'Sticky Pedal' Problem from Regulators - http://bit.ly/ddXXQd
    12. E-Discovery Metrics – One of the Four Pillars of e-Discovery - http://bit.ly/b2V1jy
    13. Electronic Disclosure: Paying Lawyers to Look at Porn - http://tinyurl.com/yjdmgr5
    14. Fight Runaway E-Discovery Costs: How You Can Help - http://tinyurl.com/ybg5sag
    15. From Georgetown Law: Emerging Trends in Legal Services (Video Interviews) - http://bit.ly/byhVlV
    16. Germany Focuses on Data Protection and Privacy - http://tinyurl.com/ycth77u
    17. Intel Case Tests Liability for Stolen Code - http://tinyurl.com/yzzf2na
    18. Law Firm Evolution or Revolution? http://bit.ly/coLQWR
    19. LinkedIn Evidence In A Lawsuit -- It Was Only A Matter of Time - http://bit.ly/cbgoGD
    20. New Case on Employee Privacy Expectations for E-Mails - http://tinyurl.com/yc6cxyn
    21. New York State Unified Court System Report Makes Recommendations for Improved E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/9h5vpE
    22. Predictability in EDD Rules Remain Elusive - http://tinyurl.com/ybxh5mv
    23. Professor Richard Nagareda (Vanderbilt) Essay: Pre-Trial as Trial in Complex Litigation - http://tinyurl.com/ybs738t
    24. Quick, Easy, Cheap - http://tinyurl.com/yl6et3d
    25. The Top Remaining eDiscovery Events of 2010 - http://bit.ly/aeUEON
    26. Third Party and Requestor Ordered to Share Costs of Production from Database created from Backup Tapes - http://tinyurl.com/ycd3rdz
    27. Twitter Termination: What Reality Television Can Teach Us - http://tinyurl.com/ya6wmhv
    28. Virtual Offices May Violate Ethics Rules, New Jersey Opinion Says - http://ow.ly/16ZyV9
    29. When is an Employee Expert an Expert Who Must Prepare a Report? http://bit.ly/a03G1s
    30. When Mercy Seasons Justice by Craig Ball/EDD Update - http://tinyurl.com/yewn8ub
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