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, May 16, 2012

Weekly eDiscovery News and Views - May 16, 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
  • 175+ Thoughts On Predictive Coding? Technology Assisted Review Backgrounder - bit.ly/IiTGtb (@OrangeLT)
  • ABA Commission Proposes Ethics Rule Requiring Adequate Data Security – bit.ly/LEqLBX (Scott Loughlin)
  • Are Predictive Coding Disclosures Required? A Proportional Answer - bit.ly/IFLZNY (Gerard Britton)
  • Are You Ready for the Next Step in Document Review Technology? bit.ly/K08f5j (Michelle L’Hommedieu)
  • Blogging, Proportional Review and Predictive Coding - bit.ly/JbCFQs (Ralph Losey)
  • Budgeting for E-Discovery: The Big 5 Expenses - bit.ly/K06hSw (Bill George)
  • Car ‘Black Box’ Recorders Provide Evidence for Personal Injury Suits - bit.ly/IUCYAL (Thomas Scheffey)
  • Communication is King in E-Discovery Matters - http://bit.ly/ISDly8 (Daniel Garrie)
  • Court Denies Criminal Defendant’s Attempt to Quash Twitter Subpoena - bit.ly/IMEOaw (Doug Austin)
  • Da Silva Moore Plaintiff’s Accuse Judge Peck of ‘Naked Retaliation’ - bit.ly/M4K5ef (ACEDS)
  • Da Silva Moore’ Plaintiffs Continue Discovery Objections - bit.ly/J3PY5b (Sean Doherty)
  • Da Silva Moore: Plaintiffs File Reply in Support of Motion for Recusal or Disqualification - bit.ly/JYD5LY (K&L Gates)
  • Delaware Court Issues Guidance about M&A Confidentiality Agreements - hvrd.me/KNX8vC (Eduardo Gallardo)
  • Discovery Planning Example/Agreement: Great Canadian Gaming Corporation v 1632842 Ontario Limited – (CanLII) bit.ly/JQgJyF (Peg Duncan)
  • Do Litigators Need to Understand Predictive Coding Theory? bit.ly/INcG7c (Charles Skamser)
  • eDiscovery Case Law: Defendant Responds to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Recusal in Da Silva Moore – bit.ly/KnyPcm (Doug Austin)
  • EDRM and Statistical Sampling - bit.ly/J8fKJ6 (Doug Austin)
  • Email Admissibility: Double Hearsay Satisfied by (1) Business Record Incorporating (2) Admission – 801(d)(2)(B) Does Not Require Employee Have Ability to Bind Employer — Junior Status of Employee Goes to Weight – bit.ly/JoVpyC (Gregory Joseph)
  • Enterprise Search and Information Access: Revisited - bit.ly/M4M6qM (Gary MacFadden)
  • ESI Guidelines for the Bankruptcy Case: Bankruptcy Working Group Interim Report - bit.ly/L263ze (Christopher Albanese)
  • Failing to Cooperate in Preservation Disputes May Bear a Hefty Price Tag - bit.ly/JoUJt4 (David Lender, Jason Bonk)
  • ‘Fowl Play’ in E-mails Between Maryland Governor and Perdue GC? - bit.ly/JNeaL9 (Sue Reisinger)
  • Is Disclosure Part of the Answer to the Da Silva Moore Issues? bit.ly/J9p95f (Sharon Nelson)
  • Is Social Media Disrupting Your Trials? Try Talking to Jurors - bit.ly/KWhdQz (Alison Frankel)
  • Judge Peck Puts Freeze On Predictive Coding Protocol in Da Silva Moore Case – bit.ly/L1PL3i (Robert Hilson)
  • Judge Peck Stays Defendant MSL Production in ‘Da Silva Moore’ - bit.ly/IUy8DM (Monica Bay)
  • Judicial Misunderstanding of Technology and Child Pornography - bit.ly/Knywym (Jonathan Ezor)
  • Morton’s Fork, Oil Filters the Nexus with Info Governance - bit.ly/INdOI1 (Dean Gonsowski)
  • Native Redactions – An Emerging Trend - bit.ly/JNaNnA (Brandon Hollinder)
  • ‘Pippins’ and the Proportionality Debate - bit.ly/IMEkkV (Wayne Matus, John Davis, and Peter Ostrovski)
  • Random Samples? Random Results? bit.ly/Jb9LGL (Mark Walker)
  • Software Speeds the Job of Applying Metadata – bit.ly/KWg9vX (Image and Data Manager)
  • Technology Aids in Proactively Safeguarding Against eDiscovery Spoliation Claims - bit.ly/INdyZv (Mike Hamilton)
  • Technology Assisted Review, Concept Search and Predictive Coding: The Limitations and Risks - bit.ly/J88ehx (Johannes Scholtes)
  • Tenth Circuit Requires Bad Faith to Support an Adverse Inference for Spoliation, Absent Rule 37 Motion – bit.ly/JQeVWq (Gregory Joseph)
  • “That Federal-Court eDiscovery Breakthrough? Not So Fast…” bit.ly/JfkVdx (Alison Frankel)
  • The Discoverability of Social Media in Personal Injury Litigation - bit.ly/J3OTdD (Daniel McCarthy, Brian Gross)
  • The Practitioners Role in eDiscovery 2.0: Man vs. Machine or People + Technology? bit.ly/J9e6ZS (Cat Casey)
  • TREC Document Review Project on Hiatus, Recommind Asked to Withdraw – bit.ly/JN7EE9 (Evan Koblentz)
  • TREC Document Review Project – Recommind Asked to Withdraw – bit.ly/JYDvSs (Sharon Nelson)
  • Twenty Years Jail Time for Deleting Text Messages? bit.ly/JQaISt (Gardere)
  • Twitter Seeks To Quash Order Requiring Production of Account Holder’s User Information, Tweets – bit.ly/IMCMqV (K&L Gates)
  • Was Samsung Deal a Watershed for Machine Translation in FTC Second Requests? bit.ly/JQnnou (Bob Ambrogi)
  • When Taking Proprietary Information From Employers Isn’t a Crime - bit.ly/JfcJEw (Wendy Schwartz, Jennifer Achilles)
  • Web Archiving News: ESI Metadata Required in Courts - bit.ly/JyI45D (Mark Middleton)
  • Will Predictive Coding Live Up to the eDiscovery Hype? bit.ly/JbEROt (Philip Favro)
  • Updated: 10 Years of eDiscovery Mergers, Acquisitions and Investments - bit.ly/y9FMKO (@ComplexD)
Reports and Resources
  • Google: First Amendment Protection For Search Engine Results (PDF) bit.ly/IMF8Gm (Eugene Volokh, Donald Falk)
  • Introduction to Statistical Sampling in Electronic Discovery - bit.ly/KFv17p (Apersee)
  • LinkedIn Financial Advisor Survey: Trends and Opportunities - bit.ly/IFLaVq (Tim Walker)
  • Manual vs. Technology-Assisted Review in eDiscovery: You Can Play Too! bit.ly/IMDynN (PLG, University of Waterloo)
  • New Order Update: Peck, Parties and Predictive Coding (1313 Pages Consolidated w/Index) bit.ly/xAztDv (@ComplexD)
  • Reporting Numbers? The Data Journalism Handbook - bit.ly/Jb9vr8 (Jonathan Gray, Liliana Bounegru, Lucy Chambers)
  • Short Sellers, News, and Information Processing - hvrd.me/JIQXdc (Christopher Small)
  • The Rear View Mirror on Google : Top 5 Stories From Last Week’s Unfiltered Orange Newsletter - bit.ly/KWfJWz (@OrangeLT)
  • Three-Quarters of Smartphone Owners Use Location-Based Services | Pew Internet - bit.ly/JN8zoj (Kathryn Zickuhr)
Sight and Sound
  • 25 Petabytes, By The Numbers – bit.ly/KWbwSE (ACEDS)
  • Case in Point: “Carbon Paper? bit.ly/HM288p (Tom Fishburne)
  • Did You Know 92% Of The Relative Cost Of Producing ESI Is Processing And Review Related? bit.ly/JyIMzQ (@OrangeLT)
  • Google Explains How Your Emails Travel to Their Destination - on.mash.to/JQlRCS (Stan Schroeder)
  • Lessons Learned from Viacom’s $1 Billion Suit Against YouTube—Baker Hostetler’s Jerry Ferguson – bit.ly/JQfBLj (Colin O’Keefe)
  • Podcast: Top 10 Tips for Learning Predictive Coding and Forbes Legal Hydra Article - bit.ly/Jju8Bh (Karl Schieneman)
  • Social Media in the Legal Sector - bit.ly/IFclQc (Legal IT Professionals)
Technology and Tactics
  • Black Hats Have Your HR Department In Their Sights - bit.ly/Jj8UDE (John Mello)
  • Could an Inappropriate Tweet Lead to Jail Time? Legal Risks Under International Privacy Laws – bit.ly/JyhIRp (Sheldon, Mark & Anderson)
  • Cyber-Threat Cooperation Emerging Between U.S. Industry and Government - bit.ly/Jp1fjy (Catherine Dunn)
  • Emails that Can Get You in Trouble - bit.ly/J9zAG5 (Jeff Orloff)
  • Employer Access To Personal eMail Case Demonstrates Need For Internal Controls On IT Searches - bit.ly/JoTt9m (Dan Michaluk)
  • Facebook and Twitter Postings Cost CFO His Job - on.wsj.com/J9pjtu (Rachel Silverman)
  • FBI Warns Travelers of Cyber Booby Traps Found In Hotel Internet Connections - bit.ly/Jjuzvo (Fernando Pinguelo)
  • Informer or Me-Former? Is Obsession With Devices A Sickness? nyti.ms/LEpZVr (Bryan Burrough)
  • International Companies Be Wary of Privacy Laws Overseas That Prohibit Transfer of Personal Data into U.S.- bit.ly/JfeaCL (Bellwether)
  • LinkedIn Financial Services Summit: Key Themes - bit.ly/M4QwOF (Tim Walker)
  • Litigation, Regulation Expected To Add To Forensic And Valuation Workload | Journal of Accountancy - bit.ly/JiSZ8m(Ken Tysiac)
  • More States Introduce Legislation Prohibiting Employer Requests for Social Media Passwords -  bit.ly/LErq6h (Daniel Pasternak)
  • Myspace Confesses Failure to Abide by Privacy Laws - bit.ly/J8cr4H (Peter Vogel)
  • Myspace Settles with FTC Regarding “Constructive Sharing” of PII with Third-Party Advertisers - bit.ly/JfcgC7 (Hogan Lovells)
  • Network Security Technology Evolving Rapidly, Forrester Says – bit.ly/IUCI4E (Tim Wilson)
  • Ninth Circuit Limits Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in ‘Nosal’ - bit.ly/KlJO2r (Robyn Crowther)
  • Symantec Vision 2012 Exposes Attendees to Real Threat of Today’s Constant Barrage of Attacks – bit.ly/JNaqcB(Jerome Wendt)
  • The Art of Cyberwar II - bit.ly/Jfcw4f (Kenneth Geers)
  • The Evolution of LPO | Slaw - bit.ly/JQjK1V (Gavin Birer)
  • The Tragedy of the Copyright Commons – bit.ly/JNl7fe (Jeremy Cubert, Jon Grossman, Alexander Perry)
  • The Twitter Hack Attack That Wasn’t - nyti.ms/IXzqm8 (Nick Bilton, Nicole Perlroth)
  • Think Email is Dying Out? Think Again. bit.ly/JW4wZ2 (ArcMail)
  • Three Tips for SMBs to Follow to Ensure a Successful Storage Tiering Implementation – bit.ly/JQhdEQ (Jerome Wendt)
  • Understanding and Using Certificates in Exchange 2010 – Part Six – bit.ly/Jbxw1c (Casper Manes)
  • Understanding Facebook’s New Privacy Policy - onforb.es/JN7uNh (Larry Magrid)
Vendor Views
Industry Landscape
  • AlphaLit Legal Review and Ease-of-Use - bit.ly/J5T5d0 (Christine Taylor)
  • Annual Conference to Provide Legal Professionals with Info on Latest Tools and Tactics for eDiscovery - bit.ly/JQJScz (@OrangeLT)
  • Autonomy Named Leader In Digital Asset Management For Customer Experience By Independent Research Firm – prn.to/JoVbrm (PR Newswire)
  • Belkasoft Evidence Center Offers Tighter Integration with Guidance Software’s EnCase - bit.ly/Jb7T0p (PR Web)
  • Busy Spring for Vendor Partnerships and Launches - bit.ly/KMWm4S (Monica Bay)
  • CA Technologies Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2012 Results - bit.ly/IFLPpP (Press Release)
  • Catalyst Search Scientists Coauthor Book on Next-Generation Search – prn.to/Jz4d3T (PR Newsire)
  • City of Staunton Meets FOIA Compliance Requirements With C2C ArchiveOne Email Archiving Solution – mwne.ws/Jayud4 (Marketwire)
  • Clearwell 7.1.1 Released - bit.ly/INrDpS (Clearwell)
  • Clutch Group Appoints Brian Flack as General Counsel And Vice President of Client Services – bit.ly/L26YQg (PR Web)
  • Daegis Names Deborah Jillson as eDiscovery Division President - on.mktw.net/IMEHf4 (Business Wire)
  • Defensibly Decrease Data Set Sizes Early With The OneO Discovery Platform - bit.ly/ujzzZ3 (@OrangeLT)
  • Discover Technologies and Attivio Sign Strategic Partner Agreement for US Government Market – prn.to/JaA3b0 (PR Newswire)
  • eDirect Impact, LLC Launches CaseConvert - bit.ly/JQdGX7 (PR Web)
  • EMC Confirms Deal To Buy XtremIO For Reported $430M - onforb.es/KNXmmG (Eric Savitz)
  • Epiq Systems:  ILTA Insight Session Innovation in Technology – “What is Predictive Coding?” (PDF) bit.ly/Jb8Vd4 (Epiq Systems)
  • EVault Awarded 5-Star Rating in CRN’s 2012 Partner Programs Guide for Second Consecutive Year - bit.ly/J9BExI (Press Release)
  • Exact Legal Review Chooses codeMantra’s cP-DocRev Hosted Document Review Platform - bit.ly/JbxC9e (Jonathan Easton)
  • FTI Consulting Announces Strategic Expansion in Asia Pacific - bit.ly/M4PGkV (Press Release)
  • Google Enters the eDiscovery Game, Who’s Next? bit.ly/IFLFi9 (Maya Markovich)
  • Hubbard One Launches Legal-Specific Web Analytics Solution - bit.ly/JQgnrC (Legal IT Professionals)
  • Iris Accelerates Electronic Discovery Review with Equivio Analytics Technology - bit.ly/KWb1In (PR Web)
  • Lateral Data To Highlight Value Proposition Behind All-in-One eDiscovery Platform at LegalTech® West - bit.ly/IUBM0a (PR Web)
  • LDiscovery Appoints Taffi Schurz As Vice President Of Quality Assurance – prn.to/L26MAw (PR Newswire)
  • Nuix Partners With Zapproved and Cowen Group - bit.ly/KMW0et (Monica Bay)
  • Nuix Sponsors The Cowen Group’s Information Governance Group - bit.ly/J9zeiA (PR Web)
  • OpenText Recognized as a Leader in Digital Asset Management - on.mktw.net/JYCPwu (PR Newswire)
  • PageFreezer Finalist for the 2012 Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award - bit.ly/KFu1jC (PageFreezer)
  • RVM Enterprises, Inc. Acquires N-Tier Discovery – on.mktw.net/J9UB3x (Business Wire)
  • Smarsh Introduces Web Archiving – bit.ly/JauQQp (Business Wire)
  • SMBs Are Adopting Virtualization, Cloud and Mobility for Improved Disaster Preparedness - on.mktw.net/L28zFL (Marketwire)
  • TrustPoint International and Excelerate Discovery Merge to Offer Full Service End-to-End eDiscovery - bit.ly/IURx7s (PR Log)
  • TrustPoint Merges With Excelerate Discovery, Adds OrcaTec Suite - bit.ly/JiMbYf (Michael Roach)
  • U.N. Uses ZyLAB in ‘Blood Diamonds’ Trial and Other Vendor Updates - bit.ly/KlKzbB (Monica Bay)
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration Selects LexisNexis Concordance FYI for Access to Critical Discovery Data – bit.ly/II0EZ9 (Release)
  • Valora Technologies Appoints Sasha L. Hefler as Vice President of Public Relations - bit.ly/KlIU5Y (PR Web)
  • X1Discovery Teams with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Provide eDiscovery and Search in the IaaS Cloud – bit.ly/J92Yw5 (Business Wire)
  • ZyLAB Appointed to KMWorld’s Hall of Distinction - bit.ly/KWaUfP (Press Release)


2012 eDiscovery Events

MAY

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

eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference
May 23 – 25, 2012
Tempe, AZ

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
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

NOVEMBER
LawTech Europe Congress
November 12, 2012
Prague, Czech Republic