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 …

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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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). …

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 …

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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 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 …

Three Major Observations and Developments from the Legalweek Conference

By Larry Gill and John Patzakis Last week X1 attended and exhibited at Legalweek in New York, engaging with many customers, partners, and industry colleagues. It was great to connect …

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 …

10 Unique and Compelling Features of X1 Social Discovery

The legal field is seeing very strong demand for social media evidence collection software and services. However, Facebook, the most widely used social media platform, recently rolled out a completely …

Proportionality in eDiscovery is Ideal, but Difficult to Realize Without an Optimized Process

(Originally Published October 24, 2022 by JD Supra and EDRM) Proportionality-based eDiscovery is a goal that all corporate litigants seek to attain. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(1), parties …

Flawed Collection Methods Prevent TAR and Other Applications of Analytics on Social Media Evidence

Every litigator and eDiscovery practitioner is aware of the critical importance of analytics as a tool to support their cases. AI-driven analytics supercharges compliance investigations, data security, privacy audits, and …