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🚨 Budgets are getting tighter even as outside counsel fees keep climbing. Legal and regulatory work is more complex than ever. And the amount of data in-house legal professionals have to sort through for litigation and investigations boggles the mind. With legacy ediscovery methods, staying ahead of growing demand is impossible. Corporate law departments can continue to rely on too many expensive external partners, outdated tools and workflows, leaving their teams trapped in silos that increase risk and slow things down. Or they can innovate to stay ahead. Savvy in-house leaders are choosing a new approach: they are bringing oversight of discovery in-house, consolidating litigation and other data-intensive matters, and overseeing the work – from the first legal hold through matter resolution – from a single central hub. Read more > https://lnkd.in/ecNWg8Tm #Ediscovery #LegalTech

Savvy in-house leaders are bringing oversight of discovery in-house, consolidating litigation and other data-intensive matters, and overseeing the work – from the first legal hold through matter resolution – from a single central hub. #Edisdovery #Innovation #LegalTech #GenAI

🚨 How to handle legal holds and ediscovery more strategically in-house. Today’s advanced ediscovery tools give in-house legal teams back control over their litigation and investigation process, with support for pre-litigation steps like legal holds and later stages, like reporting and production. By tapping powerful functionality in modern tools like Everlaw, such as ECA and Concept Clustering, in-house legal teams can make sense of vast data volumes more quickly, assess risk and strategy more confidently, and drive better outcomes. Perhaps most importantly, in-house legal professionals can take back the time lost to tedious manual processes and refocus on work that has higher value and impact for the business. With modern tools, the legal team can show up as an equal partner to the business. Read more in "How to Handle Legal Holds and Ediscovery More Strategically In-House" by Petra Pasternak > https://lnkd.in/g2UdDp55 #Ediscovery #ConceptClustering #ECA #CGI2024 #CLOC

🚨 Too many corporate in-house legal teams are still using email and spreadsheets for #legalholds. That’s a risky way to run a legal operation. Our recent blog post: "Do Not Destroy: Optimizing Data Preservation With Automated Legal Holds," looks at best practices for #preserving #evidence #defensibly through a streamlined legal holds process and the risks associated with doing it poorly. Key Takeaways: ⚡ 51% of corporate law departments still rely on email to manage legal holds, while 35% use spreadsheets,  according to a recent survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel and Everlaw. ⚡ Manual methods like these raise the risk of error, miscommunication, and data loss, leaving companies vulnerable to adverse legal outcomes and penalties. ⚡ In the age of big data, the risks escalate, highlighting the need for advanced automation technologies. ⚡ Consolidating legal holds and discovery processes into a single, advanced ediscovery solution like Everlaw streamlines workflows and enhances defensibility. Read more > https://lnkd.in/gA5NrXEA #LitigationHolds #Preservation #Ediscovery

Transitioning from paper to digital signatures doesn’t have to be difficult. Learn how vSignify can make the process seamless and secure for your law firm. Read our blog to find out more. https://lnkd.in/erKrxwzB #vSignify #legal #SignWithConfidence #esign #DigitalSignature

Conflict checks. Are they necessary for eDiscovery vendors? While this is not a new issue, recently we were approached by two of our clients about working on new cases and we discovered we were already working on the same matter with opposing counsel. One was open to us working with both sides as long as we had a different team working with the data, the proverbial “ethical wall.” The other didn’t want us involved with opposing counsel working on their case. What do you think? An expert witness clearly can’t work with both sides on a case. How about a company that just works with data and documents? #ediscovery #conflictcheck # litigationtechnology #legaltechnology https://lnkd.in/e2YEjcNr

At eDiscovery Collab we get that lawyers are managing the costs of running litigation in the client's interest. It can be challenging helping clients to conceptualise why eDiscovery solutions can be cost effective and strategically advantageous. Reviewing a client's emails in a lawyer's Inbox is one strategy we commonly hear as a cost saving strategy but this can actually mess the metadata and lead to cost blowouts. CEO Kate Clark's explains why in the below article.

Basic tags in eDiscovery Document Review - eDiscovery Document Review is a crucial stage wherein legal professionals examine the gathered documents for Responsive and Privilege criteria. The basic tags used in eDiscovery Document Review are:- 1) Responsive A document/information which is related to the case is tagged under Responsive criteria. 2) Not Responsive Any document/information which is irrelevant (not related) to the case is tagged under Not Responsive criteria. 3) Privileged Any document which discloses a communication between a client and its attorney seeking a legal advice is tagged under Privilege criteria. Every Privilege document is a responsive document. 4) Not Privileged This tag is used to a document which does not falls under Privilege tag. 4) Confidential The confidential tag is used for a document which consists of confidential information. 5) PII PII (Personal Identifiable Information) tag is used to a document which consists of personal information such as personal contact numbers, passports, personal address, driving license and any other personal information as per the client. 6) Hot A hot tag is used for hot documents. These documents contains crucial information/evidence of the case. These documents are particularly responsive documents and may be privileged also. 7) Issue tags The issue tags criteria depends on the requirements of the client as per the review protocol. #ediscovery #documentreview #lpo #attorney #privilege #attorneyclientprivilege #attorneyatlaw #relativity

Integrated Platforms vs. Point Solutions: Which is right for your legal team? ⚖️ Join us on September 4th at 11am BST for a live webcast in partnership with Lexology to explore the pros and cons of each approach. Discover how to optimize your legal operations and drive efficiency. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights! #legaltech #eDiscovery #legaloperations #webcast #Exterro

Integrated Platforms vs. Point Solutions: Which is right for your legal team? ⚖️ Join us on September 4th at 11am BST for a live webcast in partnership with Lexology to explore the pros and cons of each approach. Discover how to optimize your legal operations and drive efficiency. Don't miss this opportunity to gain valuable insights! #legaltech #eDiscovery #legaloperations #webcast #Exterro