Archive for 2009

ILTA: Lit support rules!

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Had a blast yesterday with Susan Wortzman and Duane Lites for our session entitled From Good to Great – Take Your Group from Litigation Support Providers to Expertise Ambassadors for Your Firm. The room was so packed that they had to bring chairs in during the presentation. Thanks to all who attended!

For those who missed it, here are the details and our Powerpoint, plus a bonus post by Mike McBride who live blogged:

Session Description:

“Whether you are starting a new litigation support group or growing an existing group into a more complex practice support department this session will be of interest to you. Our speakers discuss successful client development strategies; ways in which to improve your knowledge and understanding of business practices; how to leverage key relationships to advance your cause; how you can remain current in an evolving legal market; and how to maintain quality service in challenging economic times. Many litigation support managers aspire to take their groups from a shared service or back office function to a service which is valued by both the firm and its clients. This transition or journey will be discussed and tips will be provided on how to transition from an administration group into a client-valued service.”

Presentation:


The Value of E-Discovery Policies

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

The first line of defence and a great component of an corporation’s Governance, Risk and Compliance infrastructure is a solid set of policies, processes and protocols.

Think about the state of your policies ahead of time, update them and inform everyone about them. The outcome will always be better when you are asked to demonstrate to a court how you responded to the discovery demands!

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Guidance Software teams with Ledjit

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Guidance Software Logo Ledjit Consulting and Guidance Software Team to Provide Defensible, Repeatable and Cost-Effective e-discovery Capability

Ledjit Standardizes on Guidance Software’s Leading EnCase® e-discovery Software Solution for ESI Preservation, Collection and Processing

Montreal, Canada and Pasadena, USA, Aug 10, 2009 — Ledjit Consulting, the leading firm Bridging the Gap between IT and the Law™, and Guidance Software (NASDAQ: GUID), The World Leader in Digital Investigations™, today announced a strategic alliance to bring cutting-edge e-discovery solutions to Ledjit’s clients worldwide. This innovative alliance combines Ledjit’s expertise in e-discovery – including legal and technical oversight to preserve, collect, process, review and produce electronically stored information (ESI) – with Guidance Software’s industry-leading EnCase® e-discovery software solution, which enables companies to search, identify, collect, preserve and process ESI from servers, laptops and work stations across a global network from a central location. “This alliance is a further example of how Ledjit strives to provide cutting-edge tools to its clients with a defensible and repeatable e-discovery process that also reduces the ever increasing cost and burden of e-discovery,” said Dominic Jaar, Ledjit’s president. Adding, “Ledjit’s clients rely on us to provide timely and effective advice, strategy and support through the process of e-discovery to ensure a winning, defensible and cost-effective solution.” “Ledjit’s team of legal and technical experts helps its clients overcome the hurdles of e-discovery by using the very best technologies available on the market at a reasonable cost. Today’s alliance will allow our clients to benefit from our professionalism and Guidance Software’s innovative software while enabling us to remain at the top of the list of solution providers for corporations and law firms with e-discovery needs” stressed Phil Senecal, one of Ledjit’s partners. Guidance Software’s Vice President & Deputy General Counsel Patrick Zeller said: “We are proud to form this exclusive strategic alliance with Canada’s premier e-discovery firm. Our organizations have a shared vision to help organizations reduce risk and lower the cost of e-discovery by bringing this capability in house.” EnCase e-discovery is the leading e-discovery solution for the search, collection, preservation, and processing of electronically stored information (ESI). It performs automated search, collection, and preservation of ESI residing in unstructured and semi-structured data stores such as: desktops, laptops, file servers, email servers, content management systems, and removable storage media, all without any business disruption.  Additionally, it offers optional litigation hold notification and tracking functionality, and its extensive processing capabilities enable post-collection culling and deduplication of data, as well as load file creation for the most popular attorney review platforms, allowing customers to drastically cut processing costs.

About Ledjit Consulting Ledjit Consulting is the only firm specializing in e-discovery, information management and IT litigation. Its lawyers, IT specialists and forensic examiners help corporate clients and law firms handle e-discovery from the preventive stages of litigation readiness and information management up to the presentation of the eEvidence in the courtroom. For more information about Ledjit Consulting, visit www.ledjit.com. About Guidance Software (GUID) Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in digital investigative solutions. Its EnCase® platform provides the foundation for government, corporate and law enforcement organizations to conduct thorough, network-enabled, and court-validated computer investigations of any kind, such as responding to e-discovery requests, conducting internal investigations, responding to regulatory inquiries or performing data and compliance auditing — all while maintaining the integrity of the data. There are more than 30,000 licensed users of the EnCase® technology worldwide, and thousands attend Guidance Software’s renowned training programs annually. Validated by numerous courts, corporate legal departments, government agencies and law enforcement organizations worldwide, EnCase is also frequently honored with industry awards and recognition from eWEEK, SC Magazine, Network Computing, and the Socha-Gelbmann survey. For more information about Guidance Software, visit www.guidancesoftware.com. Contact

Guidance Software

Ed Essa

(626) 229-9191, x247

ed.essa@guidancesoftware.com



Ledjit Consulting

Dominic Jaar

(514) 212-9348

info@ledjit.com

Cybercrime Newsletter – eNac

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009


Ledjit is glad to announce that it is the first Canadian organisation to partner with Cybex, an initiative cofunded by the European Commission’s Directorate General Freedom, Security and Justice within the framework of the Criminal Justice 2008 JPEN Programme.

Accordingly, we are happy to present you the first issue of the “Electronic Newsletter on the Fight Against Cybercrime” (eNAC). We also invite you to subscribe to this facinating newsletter”

The eNAC is a free monthly e-Newsletter mostly directed to judges, technicians, prosecutors, lawyers, computer forensics specialists, human resources managers, jurists, law enforcement bodies, and any person that deals with electronic evidence and seeks to prevent cybercrime. It is being disseminated to more than 30 countries and distributed in English, Spanish and Russian.

INDEX
E-Newsletter on the Fight Against Cybercrime – ENAC July | 2009 | no 1

Legal
“Cybercrime and electronic evidence”
Pedro Verdelho • Public Prosecutor and trainer at the Centro de Estudos Judiciários
 

Information and communication networks are a very fruitful field to new illegal activities that were in the origin of the so called cybercrime, a new branch of criminal law. Even if it is still under construction, this new legal area is already a major issue.

Data Protection
“Personal data protection in collecting traffic data in electronic communications: the Spanish experience”
Elena Domínguez Peco • Public Prosecutor and Collaborator of the Spanish Data Protection Agency

Overview of the Spanish personal data protection policy in collecting traffic data in electronic communications.

Technical
“The battle against cybercrime in our society isn’t lost”
Interview with Bruce Schneier • Security technologist

Law enforcement
“Cybercrime training, education and research: a vision for the future”
Nigel Jones • Director of Technology Risk Limited

Initiatives to harmonize cybercrime training and education across international borders plus the potential for national centers of excellence to be developed.

Institutional
“Institutional fight against cybercrime: introductory view”
Liljana Selinšek • Assistant Professor at the Law Faculty in Maribor

Different types of institutional fight against cybercrime and some opened questions connected to it.

Jurisprudence
Russian Federation • Resolution of the Federal Arbitration Court of Moscow
Norway • Borgarting Appelate Court
Singapore • Alliance Management SA v Pendleton Lane Pand another
Slovenia • Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia

Stephen Mason • Barrister, Chambers of Stephen Mason

Hat tip to Stephen Mason for sending me a copy!

Destruction of electronic documents conference at CanHeit now online

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

The presentation Dominic Jaar offered at CanHeit2009 entitled “The importance of Shredding Electronic Documents” will be available online soon. Once it is, we will embed it in the present post.

In the mean time, here is the Powerpoint presentation:

The Second Annual Sedona Canada Program on Getting Ahead of the e-discovery Curve

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

When?: Wednesday-Thursday, September 16-17, 2009
Where?: Hyatt Regency Vancouver, British Columbia

A rare opportunity to gain valuable insight into best practices for e-discovery, and practical strategies to meet judicial expectations while reducing costs, presented by members of The Sedona Conference® Canadian Working Group
on Electronic Document Retention & Production: the non-profit law & policy think-tank that developed The Sedona Canada Principles Addressing Electronic Discovery.

Featuring a renowned faculty including esteemed members of the Bench,
leading practitioners and experts. 

Including panels focused on:
Management of the Costs of e-discovery
Proportionality
Preservation & Legal Holds
Multi-Party, Multi-Jurisdictional, Class Actions & Other Complications
The In-House Counsel Perspective
e-discovery Roundtable: The View from the Bench
The Sedona Canada Principles

Dominic Jaar will join 2 panels; Complex Litigation/Class Actions and In-House Counsel Perspective.

Detail

e-discovery Dinner with the Experts

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
e-discovery Dinner with Guidance Software
Flemings Los Angeles - e-discovery Dinner with Guidance Software

e-discovery Dinner with the Experts
  • Patrick Zeller, VP & Deputy General Counsel, Guidance Software
  • Kelli Brooks, Principal-in-Charge, Evidence and Discovery Management Practice, KPMG LLP
  • Dominic Jaar, President, Ledjit Consulting Inc.
Flemings Prime Steakhouse &
Wine Bar at L.A. Live

Private Dining Room – Meritage Room

800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles CA 90015

Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at 7 pm

Please RSVP to

alexis.robbins@guidancesoftware.com

or 626-229-9191 x169 by June 22, 2009.

Space is limited.

Sedona Canada – Second Annual Program on Getting Ahead of the e-discovery Curve

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Join us on September 16 and 17, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency in lovely Vancouver, where will be held The Second Annual Sedona Canada Program on Getting Ahead of the e-discovery Curve. If there is one conference you must attend this year, this is the one!

It is a rare opportunity to gain valuable insight into best practices for e-discovery, and practical strategies to meet judicial expectations while reducing costs. This conference is presented by members of The Sedona Conference® Canadian Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production, the non-profit law and policy think-tank that developed The Sedona Canada Principles Addressing Electronic Discovery.

It will feature a renowned faculty including esteemed members of the Bench, leading practitioners and experts on panels focused on:
Management of the Costs of e-discovery
Proportionality
Preservation & Legal Holds
Multi-Party, Multi-Jurisdictional, Class Actions & Other Complications
The In-House Counsel Perspective
e-discovery Roundtable: The View from the Bench
The Sedona Canada Principles

Dominic Jaar will join 2 panels; Complex Litigation/Class Actions and In-House Counsel Perspective.

e-discovery, To outsource or not to outsource?

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The Inhouse magazine from Canadian Lawyer offers us in its last issue an article signed by Judy Van Rhijn. This article covers the debate on outsourcing or not e-discovery and the criteria that should lead companies to decide to manage their e-discovery processes internally or externally.

Dominic Jaar is interviewed on the subject. His thoughts on the matter are combined with the reflections of Susan Wortzman from Wortzman Nickle.

@dominicjaar one of "ten legal technology twitterers worth following"

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The Legal IT professionals group has retained @dominicjaar as one of the top Ten legal technology twitterers worth following. Are you following him?

While you are at it, you might be interested to follow LegalIT as well!

Here is a list of the other legal technology twitterers:

@nooption – An experienced IT manager (Jason Plant) working for a large global Law Firm in the UK. It’s worth checking his blog as well and don’t forget to check the meaning of the name, great!

@ronfriedmann – Ron is a non-practicing lawyer with two decades of experience at the intersection of law practice, law business, outsourcing, e-discovery, knowledge management, and technology.

@rkodner – Ross has been a legal technology/law practice management consultant, CLE educator and author since 1985. Together with colleagues he also maintains the Ross Ipsa Loquitur blog.

@lawtechTalk – Connecting law, technology & Web 2.0–legal technology consulting services for busy lawyers.

@LegalTechTrek – Law.com’s own Legal Technology Editor Sean Doherty.

@FourthEstate – Charles Christian, owner of the Orange Rag Blog, barrister turned writer, editor, legal technology journalist, poetry publisher, photographer, blogger and storyteller.

@ltrc – ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center.

@eLawNYC – Following Trends in Legal Technology.

@e-discovery09 – Uniting Legal, IT, and Judicial Views on the e-discovery front.