Not quite; but cybersecurity and information governance folks need to pay attention to these changes. Two years ago, New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), which regulates companies in the financial services industry, promulgated regulations in an effort to establish minimum cybersecurity requirements for companies that do business in New York (see, 23 NYCRR 500 or click here). Last month...
This is a lesson learned for corporate legal, law firm and e-discovery professionals everywhere.
It sure seems that way thanks to an opinion by Justice Kavanaugh handed down in March. Back in March when we were all checking our brackets the Supreme Court quietly issued an opinion that, at least on the surface, appears to bring an end to prevailing parties recovering costs related to e-discovery. I find it strange, however, that the Court...
If you work in legal operations, sooner or later you’re going to need to deal with vendor selection and interact with a vendor. In many instances, preparing for e-discovery also means selecting vendors. Whether you are in-house or at a law firm, it will become necessary to engage a service provider or consultant to provide or supplement resources for some...
I’ve been working with people in legal operations for about 20 years. Of course, most of my career has been on the law firm side, so I don’t claim to have an insider’s view of all the trappings of Fortune 500 legal departments. But I have experience as part of the legal team at outside counsel working with GCs, AGCs...
Few people in legal operations discuss project management in the same sentence with electronic discovery. When the subject does arise you hear people toss around phrases like “legal project management,” or you hear talk of organization-wide process improvement efforts. Mostly, it’s about finding ways to be more efficient. But organization-wide project management initiatives require high-level buy-in and lots of resources...
In case you have not noticed, a consistent theme throughout my writing is the preparation of organizations for those occasions when another entity takes legal action against them. You will see that in my writing on information governance, on managing successful projects, and on e-discovery in general. Planning is the first of the five Ps I know I’m beginning to...
Those who are unwilling or unable to adapt, like dinosaurs, will find it difficult to survive.
If there is one cause of consternation among law firms, consultants and service providers –those who mostly collect and process ESI—it is a project in which the client organization has poor information governance practices. I am reminded of this because a few weeks ago at The Master’s Conference in Washington, D.C., I told the audience that information governance practices are...
There’s been debate throughout the legal industry about which software product is the superior tool for conducting technology-assisted review (TAR). I’m no data scientist. In fact, I’m not a scientist at all. I’m not a programmer or a linguist. No PhD; no computer science degree; Heck, I’m not even a particularly highly qualified technical person. Nope. I’m just an operations...
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