Breaking News: Federal Circuit Denies Google’s eDiscovery Mandamus Petition The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dealt Google a devastating blow Monday in connection with Oracle America’s patent and copyright infringement suit against Google involving features of Java and Android. The Federal Circuit affirmed the district court’s order that a key email was [...]

Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals – Digitize Processes Imperative Number 2 of 6 Facing Information Professionals Digitize processes: Drive paper bottlenecks out of processes and automate process flows. No matter how elegant the front-end, Systems of Engagement cannot operate in an environment in which the processes that support and complement these Systems [...]

Missing LegalTech I missed Legal Tech this year.  For each of the past four years, I have made the trek to the zoo at the New York Hilton to see what was new in e-discovery, network, and, hopefully, meet someone that would like to hire me.  (That’s really why we all go, isn’t it?)  But, [...]

Eliminating Paper from Processes Improves Customer Response Times by 300% Today we released a new industry watch research paper, titled “The Paper Free Office – Dream or Reality.” The research finds that removing paper from business continues to be challenging, despite data that shows significant responsiveness and productivity gains in customer service when paper-based bottlenecks [...]

We’re now accepting sponsors for our May and October seminar series – while they last Call for Sponsors: AIIM Process Revolution Seminars – 13 Cities in 2012 AIIM has opened the call for sponsors for our 13-city Seminar Program to be held in May (West) and October (East) 2012. With 72% of the organizations we've [...]

February 2012 In This Issue Social Media eDiscovery and Review Tools by Peter Coons What in “TARnation” is going on at LegalTech New York?! by Tom Groom Judge Timothy Hillman and the Boston ALSP discuss Rule 26(f) ‘Meet and Confer’ Strategies by Chuck Kellner eDiscovery In the News and On the Web Social Media eDiscovery and [...]

Breaking News: Pippins Court Affirms Need for Cooperation and Proportionality in eDiscovery The long awaited order regarding the preservation of thousands of computer hard drives in Pippins v. KPMG was finally issued last week. In a sharply worded decision, the Pippins court overruled KPMG’s objections to the magistrate’s preservation order and denied its motion for [...]

Get Out of the TAR Pits and Into the Future – LTNY ’12 on Technology Assisted Review By Chuck Kellner, SVP, eDiscovery If you were even barely conscious at LegalTech New York this past week, you got the message that Technology Assisted Review (TAR), also known as, “Predictive Coding”, has come of age. The litigation [...]

What they are saying about #AIIM Certified Information Professionals (#CIP) "There will always be a role in organizations for those with pure technical knowledge. But the real value add in the world of Systems of Engagement comes from those who can place these skills in a broader context — in the context of the business. [...]

SOPA and PIPA Have Been Shelved On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, thousands of internet companies including Google and Wikipedia protested against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) proposed by the House and its counterpart in the Senate, the Protect IP Act (PIPA). For example, Wikipedia blacked out its website while Google collected over 7 million signatures [...]