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 …

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 …

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 …

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). …

Social Media Investigations

X1 Social Discovery Integration with Relativity Proves to Be Game Changing in Several High Stakes Matters

Social media is a critical source of relevant evidence in nearly every legal matter. However, most tools collect such evidence using print/screenshot methods that generate flat file images that cannot …

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 …

Social Media Evidence Collection

Law Firms Are Demanding Native, Post-Level Collection of Social Media Evidence to Support Standard Review and Analytics Workflows

Two months ago, X1 launched version 7 of our X1 Social Discovery social media and web collections solution. This major upgrade features a new cutting-edge Instagram connector, along with our …

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 …

X1 Introduces Cutting-Edge Instagram Support with X1 Social Discovery Version 7

Since I joined the X1 team last year as CEO, I have made it my priority to double down on our support and expansion of our X1 Social Discovery solution. …

Social Media Evidence Proves Essential in Recent High-Stakes Trademark Infringement Matters

Recent court decisions reflect how social media evidence can play an important role in establishing actual confusion in a trademark infringement lawsuit. With the rise of social media, businesses and …