Collaboration software like Slack, Zoom, and Teams, is the newest eDiscovery challenge. But the challenge lies in the preservation, capture, and review, as well as the analysis of proportionality, and not in the question of whether it is discoverable.
APAC one of the ‘fastest-growing regions for e-discovery and compliance’
By Jerome Doraisamy|04 May 2021
Global legal and compliance technology company Relativity is continuing to expand its cloud capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region, noting the diversity of opportunity on Australia’s doorstep.
Speaking ahead of its second annual virtual Spotlight conference, Relativity APAC managing director Georgia Foster said that the provider is continuing its expansion of cloud-based tech in Asia Pacific, with its RelativityOne platform now being hosted in Singapore and South Korea.
“Asia Pacific is one of the fastest-growing and most diverse regions for e-discovery and compliance, and we are investing across the business to ensure we not only meet but exceed the unique needs of our customers in the region,” said Ms Foster.
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Every once in a while, a court decision involving e-discovery issues comes along that is particularly instructive. I wrote about a similar case here about 18 months ago. The outcome was not good then; if possible, this one is worse.
Striking are the common themes that run through cases like this. In fact, during my 20-plus years in e-discovery, it has been my experience that in every case in which e-discovery processes have gone off the rails, it is almost always in the early stages that counsel or the client make mistakes.
For the unenlightened, any time a litigation or investigation event is anticipated, is threatened, or actually commences, parties and their counsel have an obligation to preserve information, including electronically stored information (ESI) that may be relevant to the claims and defenses in the case. That’s the rule. And it’s pretty simple.
Soprano Design launches government communication solution
Soprano Design, a global leader in CPaaS (Communications Platform as a Service), is launching its Whole of Government communication solution, aimed at meeting the needs of large government messaging and capable of spanning across multiple government departments and agencies.
For the first time, governments can consolidate their existing G2C (government-to-citizen) services onto a single communications platform to better engage with their citizens, according to the vendor. As governments increasingly compete for citizen s attention and trust, there s an increasingly pressing need for siloed government departments to band together to leverage more powerful communication technology, allowing them to roll out more engaging programs and to communicate in ways that build trust, said Dr. Richard Favero, CEO and chairman at Soprano. This is truly the next frontier in government communications, because as citi