Legal Spend Analytics: Manage Your Costs Using Lean Six Sigma
We were at the ACC Legal Operations conference this week in Chicago, and once again Legal Spend Analytics (LSA) was a big topic of discussion. Attendees were from both large and small legal departments, and the issue exists for all of them. Am I doing this as efficiently and inexpensively as possible? Although LSA is […]
June 15, 2018 | Caragh Landry
Four Steps to Effective Cybersecurity Logging
The Importance of Cybersecurity Logging Logs are crucial elements to breach investigations. However, some investigations suffer from a lack of logs. In such cases, the company must assume the worst if no evidence can be brought to the contrary. This may require sending notifications to an entire customer base or paying large fines. Some of […]
May 30, 2018 | Eric Vanderburg
TCDI and GDPR Compliance – How We’re Protecting Client Data
TCDI has taken great strides in our 30 years of business to safeguard our clients’ data and to ensure compliance with several national and global guidelines of data security, most notably, HIPAA, Safe Harbor, and most recently, the Privacy Shield. The GDPR, which goes into effect tomorrow, May 25th 2018, imposes new obligations and expands […]
May 24, 2018 | Caragh Landry
Passive Reporting with CVLynx
We are all very busy, and sometimes the smallest tasks seem like death by a million paper cuts. As a Project or Case Manager, reporting can be one of those bazillion tasks that you have to do each day that drives you up a wall. Why can’t it be easier to get to the information […]
May 21, 2018 | Caragh Landry
The Responsibilities of Legal Operations Staff
As I just got back from CLOC last week, I continue to be amazed at the various roles and responsibilities shouldered by Legal Operations staff. Still one of the fastest growing roles in legal departments, the responsibilities often assigned to these teams are varied and all over the map in terms of impact on the […]
May 4, 2018 | Caragh Landry
Blockchain Technology: Changing the Way We Do Business
On April 6th, CM|Law hosted a full day symposium on “Blockchain Law and Technology”. The diverse speaker lists, in addition to CM|Law and other college/law faculty, includes leaders from FINRA, the FBI, IBM, ConsenSys and the Brooklyn Project, Duke Center on Law & Technology and Linux; several law firm experts from Morrison Foerster, BakerHostetler, and […]
April 6, 2018 | Caragh Landry
TAR – It’s Not All or Nothing
As I’ve written about previously, Predictive Coding became a negative buzzword in our industry and has been recently replaced with the term AI. When we speak about AI, most people are still talking about Predictive Coding whether they know it or not. Predictive Coding got this reputation for being a short cut or a risky […]
March 29, 2018 | Caragh Landry
Telling Your Story Through Visual Analytics
We had clients in the office this week for a case management site implementation (kick-off and design session). Throughout the full day meeting, the importance of data visualizations in the storytelling aspect of case strategy kept coming up and how technology can rise to the challenge kept impressing the users. As I’ve said in previous […]
March 26, 2018 | Caragh Landry
Easy Hacks for Better Document Review
There are a few simple tricks you can try to improve the pace, accuracy and consistency of your document review team. 1. Batch by Thread If you aren’t reviewing only the most inclusive email (the longest email in the conversation that includes all other emails in the conversation), then batching by thread complete is essential […]
March 16, 2018 | Caragh Landry
#PressForProgress – Women in eDiscovery
Today is International Women’s Day (March 8) and the focus this year is #PressForProgress emphasizing the need for gender parity in the workplace. As this day is about celebration, advocacy and action, my blog today will focus on gender parity in eDiscovery and celebrate TCDI for its commitment to this goal. International Women’s Day (IWD) […]
March 8, 2018 |