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Teaming Up Forensic Accountants and eDiscovery Experts
CDS Senior Consultant Nicole Guyer discusses some of the issues facing forensic accountants, such as data in different formats and locations, at the recent CalCPA FSS Forensic Services Section Joint Sections Meeting.

Tips for Improving Your eDiscovery Search Queries
While there is no perfect process and the parties may need to go beyond using search terms to find relevant documents, implementing a few tips and tricks when using search terms can make a big difference in the time and money spent on review.

Managing Pre-Litigation Investigations for the Best Results
Long before starting formal discovery, an internal investigation should be launched so a party and their counsel can understand and assess the information ecosystem, identify sources of potentially relevant information and examine these sources via sampling. Although a litigant may not be required to produce the information found, it is crucial that pre-litigation investigation be handled appropriately to ensure it is accurate.

Corporate eDiscovery and Information Governance Teams Go to the Cloud
While businesses have been showing increasing interest in moving to the cloud over the past few years, many companies have hesitated because of concerns about accessibility, control, security and cost. Today, however, we are seeing a sea change in corporations growing comfort level with cloud technologies.

Sharing Insights on Social Media and eDiscovery
Social Media and eDiscovery shared the limelight at this past month’s Women in eDiscovery Chapter meeting. The conversation explored the future of data privacy in the U.S. and the effect on social media preservation, as well as the interplay between U.S. and international laws.

The New Era of Chat Review – The Relativity Short Message Viewer
The Relativity Short Message Viewer has been fully integrated into Relativity from version 10 onwards. This Short Message Viewer allows for the review of a multitude of Short Message Formats integrated directly into the standard Relativity viewer. This new integration provides a consistent approach to both the look of Short Message Formats as well as the review workflows for searching, reviewing, coding and producing documents.

Simple Tips to Speed Manual Review in eDiscovery
Relativity provides many helpful features that improve the eDiscovery review process, including Early Case Assessment and Data Analytics.

Addressing the Risks of New Legal or Business Changes Affecting Your Existing Contracts
It is common for external factors such as new legal or business changes to affect an existing contract. A company using only a few standard contracts may not require much time to go through its contracts manually to address such issues. However, for companies with hundreds or thousands of contracts, substantial effort may be needed just to identify which contracts are impacted.

eDiscovery of Mobile Data 101
Mobile data is one of the most rapidly proliferating data sources in the eDiscovery realm and is gaining more significance daily. It presents unique challenges, such as securing authorization to access devices, rapidly evolving encryption features, wildly varying content formatting, device upgrades, and other issues.

A Checklist for Selecting the Right Technology and Service Provider for eDiscovery
As eDiscovery technology becomes more sophisticated, both small and large companies can feel overwhelmed with the choices and the potential cost. Small companies or law firms usually have little knowledge about which technology will help them review or produce documents most effectively within their budget constraints.