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Strategies for Emerging Data in Complex Litigation
Oct 11, 2023
Organizations aim to focus on business, not litigation. However, in today’s litigation and investigations, companies must contend with data from mobile devices, chat messages, and other emerging data sources.
Context is Key: Reviewing Short Message Data in eDiscovery
Jul 27, 2023
More and more, chat messages are part of collections in litigation and investigations, and retaining context is critical. If you’re treating everything as a document, you’ll might miss the meaning of the message.
IYKYK: How RelativityOne Cracks the Code on Short Message Data
Jun 15, 2023
Short message data will likely begin to outnumber emails in RelativityOne next year. Learn more about how Relativity is innovating to deliver a simpler solution for tackling chat data during eDiscovery.
Streamlining Review of Short Message Data for Investigations
Feb 2, 2023
Chat platforms benefit employee collaboration, but short message data formats also present unique challenges to courts, eDiscovery practitioners and internal compliance teams tasked with running investigations. Fortunately, advanced data visualizations can be used to streamline the review of short message content data for investigative purposes.
What is a Document? With Chat data, the next frontier of eDiscovery, there’s no simple answer
Sep 22, 2022
How should discovery practitioners prepare for parsing and reviewing the next generation of digital documents from chat and collaboration tools, ticketing systems and mobile devices.
Short Message Data – Where Are We Now?
Jun 17, 2021
Over the last 18 months, we’ve seen significant growth in the number of projects encountering short message data, as well as in the volume of data collected. In 2020, we converted an average of 6M messages per month to RSMF using CDS Convert.
The Surge of the Collaboration Platform: Successful Management of Microsoft Teams Data in Legal Cases
Sep 10, 2020
In March 2017, Microsoft launched its online chat and collaboration tool Microsoft Teams. By the end of 2018, ~3 million users utilized Teams on a daily basis, growing to ~44 million users by February 2020. Microsoft Teams wasn’t alone on its upward trajectory; competing applications such as Facebook Workplaces and Slack have seen similar growth.
More than Email: Handling ESI in 2020 and Beyond
Dec 20, 2019
Exchange email and unstructured data are old news. Today, we dig deeper into the tools and data formats that people use to communicate – Slack, Teams, Bloomberg – and how to make that data “reasonably usable” to lawyers.
The New Era of Chat Review – The Relativity Short Message Viewer
Oct 29, 2019
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.
eDiscovery of Mobile Data 101
Oct 2, 2019
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.