E-Discovery Moves to the Cloud
As originally published in Forbes (Aug. 26, 2011). Electronic discovery is moving to the cloud. This is hardly surprising when one considers the client-focused benefits of cloud computing and the extraordinary market opportunities for vendors. Let’s look at the numbers. The market for electronic discovery continues to grow with some estimates indicating aggregate software and.. read more →
Privilege Waived? Federal Court Says Don’t Blame Your Electronic Discovery Vendor
As originally published in Forbes (Aug. 19, 2011). The buck stops here. In Thorncreek Apartments III, LLC v. Village of Park Forest (N.D. Ill. Aug. 9, 2011), the Northern District of Illinois held that a litigant that was negligent throughout the discovery process and failed “to check the production database created by the [third-party e-discovery.. read more →
Enterprise Management of Intellectual Property
As originally published in Forbes (Aug. 11, 2011). According to former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, the ideas embodied in products and services that consumers value drive the majority of our national GDP growth. We protect those ideas with intellectual property (“IP”) rights. Individuals often hold IP rights, but more often they reside.. read more →
State of the Intellectual Property (IP) Union
As originally published in Forbes (July 22, 2011). Guest Post by Tyron Stading Only four years ago, the majority of patents and intellectual property (“IP”) concerns were confined to the legal department. Since then, the patent landscape has morphed into a complex terrain forcing corporations to create business teams with executive oversight to focus solely.. read more →
Automated Management of Legal Holds
As originally published in Forbes (July 6, 2011). Recent federal court cases have reinforced that legal holds are an indispensable element of electronic discovery. A legal hold is a corporation’s legal duty to preserve electronically stored information (“ESI”). A hold issued internally within a corporation places potentially key custodians on notice to retain materials that.. read more →