
Advice from Counsel
Through in-person events, virtual meetings, webcasts, surveys and reports, Advice from Counsel helps e-discovery leaders share ideas and advice with peers in an open and collaborative forum. Begun in 2008 as an annual survey and report on top e-discovery trends, Advice from Counsel has evolved into an interactive community of e-discovery professionals working to strengthen the people, process and technology at the core of e-discovery.
Advice from Counsel Survey Results and Resources:

Tackling Data Security Risks 2/28/2017
We asked 33 in-house compliance leaders: How can organizations create an information governance framework that protects data while staying adaptive to the rapidly evolving business landscape?
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Advice from Counsel: State of the Union on Data Privacy & Security 2/15/2018
The 12th Advice from Counsel study explores how issues of data security and privacy impact in-house legal teams at Fortune 1000 corporations and reveals the top concerns and emerging best practices across three key and intersecting topics: the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), IG and data security and remediation.
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Advice from Counsel: An Inside Look at Streamlining E-discovery Programs 11/20/2011
Top advice from peers for creating effective e-discovery programs.
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Advice from Counsel - Can Predictive Coding Deliver on its Promise? 8/12/2012
FTI Technology commissioned an interdisciplinary survey of law firm leaders and senior corporate counsel to identify key trends and perspectives on the emergence of predictive coding.
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Advice from Counsel: Trends that Will Change E-discovery (and What to Do About Them Now) 3/2/2013
Learn about where e-discovery is going, and what you can do today to better prepare for these changes.
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Advice from Fortune 1000 E-discovery Experts: Achieving & Maintaining E-discovery Fitness 8/8/2013
Download this report to see new survey results from Fortune 1000 e-discovery experts and benchmark your e-discovery fitness against industry averages.
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Advice from Counsel: The Emerging E-discovery Playbook 2/23/2014
Fortune 1000 corporate counsel share advice about how corporations manage their e-discovery programs in this annual survey.
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Advice from Counsel: 13 Ways Your E-discovery Manager Thinks You Can Reduce E-discovery Spending 11/5/2014
What if you could ask 25 of the most experienced e-discovery managers from the Fortune 1000 for their advice on reducing e-discovery costs? That’s exactly what we did, and we’re sharing the results.
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Measuring Your E-discovery Program Against Industry, 2015 6/11/2015
How does your e-discovery program measure against your peers? How does your team size, budget and technology adoption compare to other companies? Download the study now to learn best practices from Fortune 1000 e-discovery professionals on a range of topics, from data security to budget transparency and retention policies.
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The State of Information Governance in Corporations 3/31/2016
For this Advice from Counsel study, we interviewed in-house counsel to better understand the health and success of information governance programs within corporations. The results clearly show that with a few exceptions, most organizations are in the early stages of information governance adoption. Yet these executives have strong advice on how best to begin and implement an IG initiative. From these results, organizations can better under¬stand how their peers are successfully keeping an eye on the big picture while executing quick wins that help build momentum for broader IG initiatives.
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Advice from Counsel: The State of Information Governance in Corporations 11/30/2015
From well-publicized data breaches to skyrocketing data growth (and costs), information governance challenges are all around us. How are corporations responding? What are the teams and roles driving information governance policy development? How are these policies communicated and enforced, not just internally but with external partners and stakeholders? Which IG strategies are producing tangible results, and which programs are coming up short?
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