How Life Sciences Organizations are Re-Examining their Compliance Operations and Technology 9/22/2020
FTI Technology Senior Managing Director Rena Verma recently attended the 17th annual Pharmaceutical Compliance Congress. We asked Rena to share the insights she gathered from fellow risk and compliance experts, and her observations on the key issues facing the pharmaceutical industry.
In a merger between two healthcare industry companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a quick look as part of the second request process. Working under a compressed timeline, outside counsel engaged FTI Consulting to quickly structure a review and stabilize the Brainspace Technology Assisted Review (TAR) model so the parties could determine the risk level of overproducing and prepare the dataset for production to the FTC. A first set of documents had been submitted to regulators, with a second production due just as the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. and self-isolation orders were being implemented.
Case Narratives and The Next Generation of Discovery 2/3/2020
As e-discovery technology advances, expert teams are utilizing new processes to improve on the existing workflows and to drive greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness in factual case strategy development. In turn, attorneys that partner with researchers will serve their clients better, faster and more cost effectively during this critical phase of litigations and investigations. This will lead to improved client satisfaction and allow attorneys to maintain their positions as trusted advisors, all while continuing to deliver consistency and quality.
Tips and Tricks for Streamlining Complex Cases 6/27/2019
E-discovery matters are more complex than ever before. While the legal industry now has access to powerful tools that can significantly reduce the time invested in manual processes, lawyers are at the same time facing exploding data volumes and an ever-growing spread of data sources and evidence types.
Radiance Visual Analytics Helps Law Firm Answer Government Inquiry 6/7/2018
Assess the size and scope of potentially responsive documents within 12 terabytes (TB) of unstructured data in response to a government inquiry in one month. The data set included more than 6 million documents and e-mail from a bankrupt company that had acquired bankrupt companies - leaving investigators with many questions and few starting points.
Understanding How Analytics and Linear Review Can Coexist 12/10/2016
Despite increasing adoption of new technologies in the legal space, the vast majority of legal teams are still not implementing analytical tools in a way that can truly make a difference to alleviating their overall e-discovery burdens and growing expenses.
Evaluating the Opportunities Presented by Analytics and Visualization in Legal Review 8/15/2016
Analytics are changing the game in e-discovery. Written by Blue Hill Research analyst David Houlihan, this report compiles feedback from corporate legal departments, law firms and service providers on best practices for using analytics to reduce costs.
A Method to the Data Madness 7/29/2016
As employees migrate to an ever-increasing number of apps, how can legal teams ensure that this data is picked up as part of the usual e-discovery process?
A Prescription that Works: Analytics for Healthcare Companies 7/28/2016
In a recent article in New Jersey Law Journal, FTI Managing Director Colleen Casey Voshell wrote about how analytics tools can boost information governance initiatives for healthcare companies and other corporations in highly regulated industries. Because healthcare organizations must juggle the tasks of maintaining compliance with regulations, dealing with a high volume of litigation and securing sensitive data that contains customer and/or patient information, information governance and overall data management are becoming exceedingly difficult to navigate.
Smarter Investigations in the App Age 7/21/2016
Watch this webcast to learn how to better manage "new" data with tools, analytics and smarter workflows.
What Compliance Teams Need to Know about Analytics in Investigations 5/18/2016
Are your current investigation practices helping or hindering quick results? From standard business docs and email to emerging social media and online collaboration software, the corporate data landscape is growing more disparate and complex. New data mining and visual analytics tools are surfacing data patterns from across the corporate data ecosystem and at a faster clip, enabling compliance teams to make more effective decisions. Watch this webcast to learn how to incorporate these advances into your investigation processes via hypothetical investigation scenarios and hands-on strategies.
Metrics that Matter 1/26/2015
What do Van Halen, M&Ms and metrics in e-discovery have to do with one another? More than you might think.
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.
Abe Lincoln Used Visualizations, Too 11/20/2013
It’s easy to think that the world’s move towards more visual representations of data is relatively new. Think of the increased number of infographics in newspapers, GIFs on the web or even icons on your desktop. But in fact, did you know that the first infographic was invented in 1786? And that even Abe Lincoln appreciated how infographics were able to convey complex information in a simple manner?
Seeing is Believing: Using Visual Analytics to Take Predictive Coding Out of the Black Box 7/30/2013
Download this white paper learn more about confirming predictive coding results.
Predictive Coding and Analytics Combined: A How-To Guide for Smarter E-discovery 6/11/2013
View this recorded webcast to learn how you can develop matter-specific workflow incorporating both predictive coding and analytics and benefit from smarter e-discovery.
Trends that Will Change E-discovery 3/26/2013
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.
The Problems of Keyword Search in E-discovery 3/2/2009
Learn more about the difficulties working with keywords during a matter, the many challenges associated with relying on keyword search and the cost and risk associated with attempting to "guess” one's way to a relevant document.