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, February 8, 2012

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views - February 8, 2012

Compiled from online public domain resources, provided for your review/use is this week's update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

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eDiscovery News
Content and Considerations

  • A-Z on E-Discovery: What Does the Future Hold? bit.ly/A8VqZp (Sofia Adrogue, Caroline Baker)
  • Anatomy of an eDiscovery Project – bit.ly/xU1fbY (Brett Burney)
  • Box Score: Justice 1, Bullies 0 – bit.ly/zDLbCO (Craig Ball)
  • Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Issues New Data Protection Regulations – bit.ly/ykm0rx (Hunton Williams)
  • Consultants Key to Predictive Coding Success – bit.ly/z9Cbji (Albert Barsocchini)
  • Costly Moments in E-Discovery: A Landscape for Litigators – bit.ly/y6F7mc (National Law Journal)
  • Delaware Federal Court Adopts ‘Standard’ for Unique eDiscovery Issues for Corporate Haven – bit.ly/yzpdY4 (Robert Hilson)
  • Device Encryption: The Cure for the (Surprisingly) Common Data Breach – bit.ly/wNU2PL (Chris Andrews)
  • eDiscovery Cost Recovery in the Digital Age – bit.ly/xcVeeM (Christopher Boehning, Daniel Toal)
  • ESI Sampling and Family Relationships (Google+) bit.ly/zRMLg0 (@OrangeLT)
  • Fail-Safe Privilege Protection: The Clawback Agreement – bit.ly/x7tGlV (Chris Marzetti)
  • Governance: It Doesn’t Matter What, It Really Matters Who – bit.ly/zDiW6K (Dave Martin)
  • KPMG Loses eDiscovery Appeal in ‘Pippins’ Labor Case – bit.ly/ylqeAs (Evan Koblentz)
  • LegalTech Takeaways: Cost-Saving Tips, Government E-Discovery – bit.ly/yGT2eO (Evan Koblentz)
  • Managing Information in Litigation: How to Avoid Spending a Fortune – bit.ly/AwKAhw (Adam Losey)
  • “No Harm, No Foul? No Way.” | Williams Mullen – bit.ly/yVP7EM (Monica McCarroll, Stephen Anthony)
  • Ooops, They Did it Again – Jurors Continue to Improperly Use Internet, and Courts Struggle with Solutions – bit.ly/wmffPX (Gibbons)
  • Pippins Court Affirms Need for Cooperation and Proportionality in eDiscovery – bit.ly/AuGsUO (Philip Favro)
  • Planning is Key in Corporate Fraud Risk Management – bit.ly/x02ZBG (Catherine Dunn)
  • SOPA and PIPA Have Been Shelved | eDiscovery Law Alert – bit.ly/AbEFu5 (Erich Falke)
  • Technology Assisted Review – Advice from the Experts – bit.ly/Ap9HdA (BLLAWG)
  • “The Hacker Way” – What eDiscovery Can Learn From Facebook’s Culture and Management | eDiscovery Team® – bit.ly/AiJRKS (Ralph Losey)
  • Voom v. EchoStar: First Department Analyzes When Duty to Preserve Evidence is Triggered – bit.ly/vZOPF2 (Kevin Broughel, James Worthington)
  • What Causes Lawyers to Over-Preserve? bit.ly/yidh22 (Craig Ball)
Reports and Resources
  • 2011 Year-End Data Privacy and Security Update – bit.ly/xeMiYu (Gibson Dunn)
  • 76% of Business Execs Would Pay Premium for Certified Information Professionals – bit.ly/yJcLap (John Mancini)
  • AIIM Study Shows Eliminating Paper From Processes Improves Customer Response Times by 300 Percent – bit.ly/z437qz (Marketwire)
  • eDiscovery Best Practices: A Staged Look At Process And Law (Google+) bit.ly/Ash9Zd (@OrangeLT)
  • Pretrial Practice & Discovery Newsletter | Winter 2012 – bit.ly/xSSMFx (ABA)
  • The Role of Aspiration in Corporate Fiduciary Duties – bit.ly/xYXUMA (Julian Velasco)
Technology and Tactics
  • Addressing Three Major Email Threats – bit.ly/ykkAv1 (Jeff Orloff)
  • Big Data Makes Banks Rethink Storage | InformationWeek – bit.ly/Ahdn10 (Bryan Yurcan)
  • Companies Hit With 14,215 Regulatory Announcements Globally In 2011 – bit.ly/xilqhg (Thomson Reuters)
  • Data Geeks, Meet Wolfram Alpha Pro – bit.ly/wTMFBk (Mark Hachman)
  • Departmental Created Specialized Software: Two Reasons To Relinquish It – bit.ly/zFVDXL (Rees Morrison)
  • Email Service, Technology Providers Creating Security Standard – bit.ly/wFc7x2 (ProofPoint)
  • Federal Standards Body Focuses On Big Data, Cloud – bit.ly/ymm3Rn (Nicolas Hoover)
  • Feds To Employees: Use Your Own Devices At Work bit.ly/w9u3Zf (Elizabeth Montalbano)
  • Get Benchmark Compliance Policies in a Mouse-Click – bit.ly/w07FrB (Catherine Dunn)
  • How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in the Cloud – bit.ly/xVHt6i (Stephanie Overby)
  • How To Write A SAN RFI – bit.ly/Awt8rE (Kurt Marko)
  • Many IT Pros Are NOT Encrypting Customer Data – bit.ly/A1R67u (Sharon Nelson)
  • Pinterest Hits 10 Million U.S. Monthly Uniques Faster Than Any Standalone Site Ever – tcrn.ch/Ad3pBm (Josh Constine)
  • Rejoice, for the PST Capture Tool Has Been Launched! bit.ly/ADUdm0 (Casper Manes)
  • Searchandising – Ending Search Engine Dominance? – Retail Gazette – bit.ly/yIiVwv (Roger Mitchell)
  • Solid State Disk Drives: There’s a Price for Speed, Safety – bit.ly/wGDZeN (John Roman)
  • Tech Spending Remains Strong, Despite Economic Risks and Volatility, According to IDC – bit.ly/xEZ0q7 (Business Wire)
  • The Next Big Social Network Is You – bit.ly/xZsBzN (Eric Lundquist)
  • The Potential Traps of Cloud Computing – bit.ly/wRCk4t (Timothy Cahn)
  • VeriSign Breach May Reaffirm Certificate Authority Security Model – bit.ly/xHTCdf (Ericka Chickowski)
Sight and Sound

  • Chris Paskach, Partner at KPMG Forensic Technology Services, on Statistical Sampling – bit.ly/AieW3E (@LXBN)
  • CPDP 2012: eDiscovery Panel 1: Basic Principles of eDiscovery | YouTube – bit.ly/wVKKIV (Monique Altheim)
  • CPDP 2012: eDiscovery Panel 2: Cross Border eDiscovery in the EEA | YouTube – bit.ly/wVWwtZ (Monique Altheim)
  • CPDP 2012: eDiscovery Panel 3: Hot Topics in eDiscovery | YouTube – bit.ly/A8AlBJ (Monique Altheim)
  • Judge David Waxse on Gaining Control of EDD Costs – bit.ly/zZXJUt (Monica Bay)
  • Looking Back at LegalTech New York 2012: @LXBN TV Shoots 39 Video Interviews – bit.ly/xUa6Mu (Colin O’Keefe)
  • Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis on Predictive Coding and Transparency in E-Discovery – bit.ly/y9Dw8m (@LXBN)
  • Spencer Aronfeld on Social Media Use by Lawyers Before a Trial – bit.ly/A2PYSR (@LXBN)
Twitter Hashtags of the Week
Vendor Views
Industry Landscape

  • AccessData® Nominated “Best Security Solution” and “Top Solution Providers to Watch For in 2012” bit.ly/xEW3Eu (Business Wire)
  • Actiance Expands Reach Into Federal Sector With AltaTek Partnership – mwne.ws/zZFKmA (Marketwire)
  • Arkeia Software Formalizes Industry Advisory Board – bit.ly/AvRc2T (Press Release)
  • Catalyst Releases Insight for General Availability – bit.ly/xOGkbM (Press Release)
  • CommVault Announces Third Quarter Fiscal 2012 Financial Results – bit.ly/zSRzlG (Press Release)
  • Complete Discovery Source Expands Into San Francisco and Chicago – bit.ly/yirUSC (Marketwire)
  • Concept Searching Announces the Smart Content Framework™ – bit.ly/zctp8c (PR Web)
  • D4 Expands Further into the Florida Market – bit.ly/wsVKgK (PR Web)
  • eDiscovery Journal’s Take:  Guidance Software Acquires CaseCentral – http://bit.ly/yZXvgw (Barry Murphy)
  • Guidance Buys CaseCentral to Make End-to-End eDiscovery Platform – bit.ly/wj0hY3 (Sean Doherty, Brendan McKenna)
  • Guidance Software Reports Q4 2011 Financial Results – bit.ly/xjYDIN (Business Wire)
  • Guidance Software to Acquire CaseCentral – bit.ly/Aroc78 (Press Release)
  • Information Symmetry: Guidance Software Buys CaseCentral — Enterprise Strategy Group – bit.ly/zzQZTJ (Katey Wood)
  • Investors Bet On Open Text After Solid Beat In Q2 – bit.ly/xRBhWu (Peter Barlas)
  • KPMG Releases New Discussion Paper on e-Discovery Statistical Sampling – prn.to/ybIFN5 (PR Newswire)
  • Kroll Ontrack Develops Unique Capabilities That Improve Data Recovery from Solid State Media – bit.ly/yTaThe (Business Wire)
  • LegalTech Recap: Big Data, ECA, Enterprise Dropbox and Cocktail Party – bit.ly/zgMwQb (Joshua Kunkle)
  • Merrill Corporation’s Julie Colgan Elected President of ARMA International – bit.ly/xvcNmt (Business Wire)
  • New York State Bar Association Brings Recommind’s Decisiv Search to NYSBA.org – bit.ly/AhrwS4 (Press Release)
  • Nextpoint Introduces Discovery Cloud WIRE™ Technology, Enabling Direct Exchange of Data in Discovery – bit.ly/yn94eT (PR Web)
  • OrangeLT™ and Marathon Document Solutions Partner in Denver for eDiscovery – bit.ly/yJ5qiM (@OrangeLT)
  • Passware Contributes to Mac Forensics by Decrypting FileVault – yhoo.it/wSm4RF (PR Newswire)
  • Pinsents and McGrigors Confirm Merger Under Pinsent Masons Brand – bit.ly/A57BCj (Rose Orlik)
  • Pitney Bowes: Christopher Johnson Appointed Vice President, Product Management of Volly™ – bit.ly/xxbmFv (Press Release)
  • Polsinelli Shughart Adopts Ipro Eclipse Across Its 16 Offices – bit.ly/zLeRzh (Brendan McKenna)
  • PureDiscovery Launches LegalSuite V2.1 Adding “Focus” Semantic Search Visualization – bit.ly/wZwkki (PR Web)
  • Robbins Umeda LLP Selects Relativity for e-Discovery Document Review – bit.ly/w7Mj47 (Press Release)
  • Tim Kenney to Manage New Client Services Group at Handshake Software – bit.ly/zuUsrm (Press Release)
  • What the SAP Agreement Means for ISYS – bit.ly/ycTNy6 (Bob Smith)
  • X1 Social Discovery Collects Data in Social Networks – bit.ly/xaZDyK (John Waters)
2012 eDiscovery Events

MARCH

LegalIT Business Show March 6 - 7, 2012
London, UK

IP Counsel Forum
March 7 - 8, 2012
San Jose, CA

AIIM 2012 Conference
March 20 - 22, 2012
San Francisco, CA

The Sedona Conference Institute's 6th Annual Program on Staying Ahead of the eDiscovery
Curve
March 22 - 23, 2012
St. Louis, MO

ABA TECHSHOW 2012
March 29-31, 2012
Chicago, IL

APRIL

ACEDS 2012 Conference
April 2 - 4, 2012
Hollywood, FL

Hosting and Cloud Transformation Summit – Europe
April 2-3, 2012
London, UK

12th Annual Super Conference
April 23 - 24, 2012
Chicago, IL

MAY

2012 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 3 - 4, 2012
Washington, DC

INSIGHT 2012 Law Firm IT - Conference and Exposition
May 8 - 9, 2012
London, UK

EDRM 2012 - 2013 Kickoff Meeting
May 16 - 17, 2012
St. Paul, MN

CEIC 2012
May 21 - 24, 2012
Summerlin, NV

LegalTech West Coast 2012
May 22-23, 2012
Los Angeles, CA

JUNE

ILO Global Counsel Congress
June 14, 2012
New York, NY

JULY

Carmel Valley eDiscovery Retreat
July 22 - 24, 2012
Carmel, CA

AUGUST

ILTA Annual Conference 2012
August 26 - 30, 2012
Washington, DC

SEPTEMBER

Intermountain eDiscovery Conference 2012
September 13, 2012 (Planning)
Salt Lake City, UT

ACC Annual Meeting
September 30 - October 3, 2012
Orlando, FL

OCTOBER


EDI Leadership Summit 2012
October 17 - 19, 2012
Fort Lauderdale, FL