Three Key eDiscovery Lessons from Domus BWW Funding v. Arch Insurance Company

Domus BWW Funding v. Arch Insurance Company is a recent decision focused mostly on issues and challenges related to preservation of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) in a large enterprise. It …

Critical information from departing employees

Addressing Critical Information Governance Challenges from Departing Employees

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier When employees leave an organization, they often leave behind a significant amount of valuable information. This poses major information governance challenges, as companies must …

Data breaches are not just possible but expected...

Granting M365 Super-Admin Privileges to eDiscovery Service Providers is Very Risky and Unnecessary

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier In a world where data breaches are not just possible but expected, securing sensitive information becomes paramount. However, in many cases, organizations are unnecessarily …

Enterprise Search is Dead. A New Approach is Here.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, employee productivity hinges on robust enterprise search capabilities that allow quick and easy retrieval of an organization’s documents, emails, and other unstructured data. Despite the …

X1 In-Place Data Discovery

X1 Achieves Unmatched Throughput and Results in Several Recent M365 eDiscovery and Information Governance Engagements 

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier  As discussed previously on this blog, X1 and our active enterprise customers believe X1 Enterprise Collect is the best solution available to address M365 …

Disruptive Data

Microsoft 365 eDiscovery Throttling is Structural and Won’t Be Going Away

By Chas Meier Users of Microsoft 365 for eDiscovery and Information Governance continue to encounter significant problems with low throughput and defensibility. Many customers report to us that Purview eDiscovery …

Information Governance

Index and Search In-Place Workflows Are Essential for Information Governance

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier Accurate pre-collection data insight is a game-changing capability that enables organizations and their legal teams to determine the scope, volume, and content of electronic …

Beware of False Vendor Claims

Index-In-Place eDiscovery Tech is in High Demand, but Beware of False Vendor Claims

Proportionality-based eDiscovery is a goal that all in-house corporate legal teams want to attain. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), parties may discover any non-privileged material that is relevant …

Stop Searching and Start Finding with X1 Search!

New X1 Search 9 Provides the Best Means to Search Your Microsoft 365 Data Sources

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier Last week X1 announced major new, robust features to our desktop productivity solution X1 Search. The next generation of X1 Search is no longer …

Modern Attachments

Microsoft 365 Modern Attachments Pose Significant eDiscovery Challenges and Risk

In their excellent publication, 2023 eDiscovery Case Law in Review, Winston and Strawn, LLP, one of the top law firms in the US, highlights the challenges legal and eDiscovery professionals …

Defensible, Targeted Collection with X1

Modern, Targeted ESI Collection Can Cut eDiscovery Costs by Over 90 Percent

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier eDiscovery can be an expensive and time-consuming process when traditional data collection methods are employed. With legacy processes, it can take weeks for electronically …

Massive Data Centralization for MS 365 Does Not Work for Enterprise eDiscovery and Information Governance Workflows

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier CIOs and legal and compliance executives often aspire to implement information governance programs like defensible deletion, data migration, and data audits to detect risks …

X1 Enterprise Collect Platform Unique Solution Capabilities

X1 Expands Cutting Edge MS 365 Support With Very High and Unmatched Throughput Capabilities

Earlier this year, X1 launched MS 365 data connectors to our X1 Enterprise Collect platform to provide a previously unmet critical need for enterprises to conduct cost-efficient yet highly scalable eDiscovery search …

An Estimated 500,000 Litigation Matters Involved Social Media Evidence in the Past 12 Months

As we have mentioned many times, nearly every litigation matter involves social media evidence. If your case does not feature such important evidence, it is likely because you are not …

Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

Best Evidence Rule Requires Post-Level Collection for Social Media Evidence

The Best Evidence Rule, as codified in Federal Rule of Evidence 1002, provides that an original writing, recording, or photograph is required to prove the contents of the document. This …

Special Master Report

Special Master Determines Microsoft Purview Does Not Comply With FRCP 26(g) Due to Unreliable and Incomplete Search Results

Recently, Special Master Phillip Favro appointed by a federal district court in a pending case Deal Genius, LLC vs. O2Cool, LLC, 21 C20156, (N.D. IL) issued a published report with …

X1 Enterprise Collect - Enterprise Manager

Court Decision in Lubrizol vs. IBM Provides Important Guidance on MS Teams Discovery

Recently, a federal district court in Ohio issued a ruling concerning an eDiscovery dispute involving both Teams and Slack, Lubrizol Corp. v. IBM Corp., No. 1:21-CV-00870-DAR (N.D. Ohio May 15, 2023). …