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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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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). …

X1 Enterprise Collect Platform and Relativity

eDiscovery Journal Highlights X1’s Game Changing Support of MS 365

Greg Buckles of the eDJ, arguably the top independent eDiscovery industry analyst, penned an important article outlining X1’s support for MS 365 data sources within the X1 Enterprise Collect platform …

X1 Enterprise Collect Now Supports MS Teams

X1 Delivers Cutting-Edge MS Teams Support

The prominence of Microsoft 365 data sources continue to grow in eDiscovery matters exponentially. However, most non-MS eDiscovery tools collect from MS 365 by simply making bulk copies of data …

Key eDiscovery Trends 2023

Move to the Left and Targeted Collection Featured Widely as a Key 2023 eDiscovery Trend

It is prediction season for trends in the eDiscovery space for 2023. While many good eDiscovery scribes have published their prognostications in recent days, the annual predictions and overall analysis …

Significant Microsoft 365 eDiscovery Challenges Require a New Approach

The adoption of cloud-based Microsoft 365 (“MS 365”) by enterprises continues to grow exponentially, with the company recently reporting 300 million monthly active users, and the addition of over 100 petabytes of …