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Cards on the Table: Privacy and Information Governance Trends for Australia and Beyond
2021 was a particularly tumultuous year for privacy compliance and information governance, with a rapidly evolving global regulatory environment, governments and corporations continuing to grapple with the persistent challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent acceleration of new technologies.
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Data-Driven Challenges in Merger Investigations
I recently joined a Global Competition Review panel of M&A experts to discuss the effects and legal implications of several data-related issues on the merger review process. The panelists from Latham & Watkins, O2 and the European Commission/DG Commission brought a broad range of insights across regulatory, in-house legal and outside counsel perspectives.
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Sudden Impact: How The Pandemic Changed Antitrust Investigations and Compliance
The pandemic and its ripple effects have impacted us all in many ways, including how we work. Suddenly, millions of workers worldwide made the shift to remote work -- adopting new schedules, communication systems, and business practices. Antitrust practitioners were no different. From North America to South America and Europe, competition authorities updated guidance on pandemic-driven cooperation, transitioned to virtual investigations and temporarily suspended certain merger review and office searches. Acceleration of remote-work-driven cloud communication and the need for remote document collection, only complicated matters further.
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During the Pandemic Has Your Data Social-Distanced or Co-Mingled?
After more than a year of social distancing, most of us are ready for a safe return to normalcy in our personal and professional lives—and just in time, the world is beginning to open back up. Still, even after offices are fully reopened, most work environments will maintain flexible, hybrid models wherein many employees continue to work from home. As a result, organisations will need to pay continued attention to how they evolve, maintain and enforce their information governance and data privacy programmes.
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Beyond the Pandemic: EMEA Data and Discovery Roundtable
One year on from COVID, the risks resulting from long-term work from home environments and economic troubles have been widely discussed—and felt—in every major region worldwide. Data and discovery risks have been especially impacted. We gathered a roundtable of our experts from France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain to discuss these issues in detail.
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Protecting Data Whilst Remote Working During COVID-19 [FRENCH]
In this interview with in Le Monde Du Droit, FTI Technology's Thomas Sely discusses the protection of companies’ data in a context of remote working and pandemic.
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Business Security in Times of Furloughs and Home Working
The effects of COVID-19 have led many companies worldwide to take drastic measures. This includes applications for temporal layoffs or furloughs, with the additional uncertainty of definitive layoffs for vast numbers of employees. In this article, Javier Garcia-Chappell and Grainne Bryan discuss the necessary measures to protect and secure their data, as well as those devices and/or corporate media that may store them.
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The New Normal for Cartel & Second Request Investigations
Learn from industry experts on what antitrust legal teams can expect as the “new normal” for investigations in the coming years.
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E-discovery in 2020: The Sudden Shift in Our Data Footprint
The pandemic has affected us all in many ways, personally and professionally. Like any major event, the impact of the pandemic and its ripple effects will be studied for many years to come. This holds true for e-discovery. What used to make up a minor portion of discoverable data has now come to the forefront. Cloud-based communication data is no longer emerging, it has emerged.
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The Future of Investigations Part 4: X-Factors
COVID-19 and the global migration to remote work environments, pending vaccine breakthroughs and migration back to physical offices, a growing presence of blockchain and cryptocurrency, moves to digitization and artificial intelligence, a presidential election and global shifts in regulatory priorities – these are just some of the “X factors” that can be difficult to account for as companies assess their compliance and investigative priorities. This webcast will focus on resilient and agile measures that companies can take to efficiently adapt to for unforeseen challenges.
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Protecting Sensitive Data: Remote Employees, Trade Secrets and Data Loss
There is no question that the last few months have disrupted the workplace in profound ways. While the implications and timeline of this disruption are only just beginning to be fully realized, it’s clear that the transition to remote work for the vast majority of corporate employees has made data potentially more vulnerable to compromise, leakage and theft. Additionally, the upheaval of the global economy means that workforce shifts or reductions are likely inevitable. How can a corporation protect sensitive data in these circumstances? How do organizations detect and respond to data leakage and/or theft when it happens? And once data is compromised and litigation started, how do businesses put a value on what was lost?
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Adapt, Rebound, Learn: Legal Industry Predictions Following the Strangest Year on the Books
Across FTI Technology, our teams have the opportunity to work on some of the most complex, high-stakes and innovative matters in the world. While 2020 was anything but typical, the work of helping clients problem-solve through technology was a familiar constant. In reflecting back on the lessons learned from the year and the related implications for the future of the legal industry, our global teams have gathered numerous predictions for what outside counsel and in-house legal teams can expect to face in the new year. A snapshot of these are shared below.
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Privacy in a Pandemic – the Conundrum of COVID-19 Check-in Solutions
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, when we were all grappling with the avalanche of concepts like ‘social distancing’ and ‘personal protective equipment’, the idea of contact tracing had many scratching their heads. In the age of automation, a manual process involving a team of people making calls and conducting interviews to find those exposed to the virus can seem almost counter-intuitive. Perhaps this is part of why, in 2020, we saw a dedicated push to find digital solutions to the challenges of COVID-19. This has included digital contact tracing solutions such as the Australian Government’s COVIDsafe app. However, the adoption of visitor registers that record which individuals have visited specific locations, and their contact details, have been far more helpful to contact tracers.
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From China’s recently-amended IP and civil laws to developments in data security and privacy to longer-term impacts of COVID-19, multinational companies can expect a myriad of legal and technical challenges in 2021 with regard to their cross-border disputes and investigations. This interactive webinar, featuring a team of US and China-based professionals from DLA Piper and FTI Consulting, will break down the complex landscape of conducting fact finding and data/evidence collection in China as part of an internal investigation or cross-border dispute. Using a hypothetical IP litigation example, the panel will outline key risks and issues while providing practical solutions for companies facing cross-border disputes in 2021.
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E-discovery in 2020: The Sudden Shift in Our Data Footprint
The pandemic has impacted us all in many ways, personally and professionally. Like any major event, the impact of the pandemic and its ripple effects will be studied for many years to come. This holds true for e-discovery. In this FTI Report we examine the impact of rapid change in our discoverable data make-up. We take a close-up view of what it means for legal teams---how to adapt, adjust and take action as analyzing rich media as well as fragmented chat strings become key to e-discovery and investigation efficacy.
Case Study
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.
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E-Discovery Predictions Revisited
So far, 2020 has been…. an “experience." The challenges our industry had braced for, the opportunities we planned to seize, have been suddenly upended in ways we never would have anticipated. At the end of last year, our team shared a few predictions for what was to come in 2020. They weren’t wrong, but the landscape in which they are coming to fruition has changed significantly from what we envisioned. Now, looking at the wake COVID-19 has left behind to date, it’s a good time to revisit those predictions and revise them to match the way the world, the legal industry and e-discovery have changed this year.
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Preparing For The Shift In Discoverable Data Caused By COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an unprecedented spike in the use of collaboration applications and the creation of unique cloud source data. Rapid adoption of tools including Microsoft Teams, Slack, Zoom and other communication platforms is quickly displacing email and changing the footprint of corporate data forever. Learn how to approach reviewing these data types and their exploding volumes as Tim Anderson shares his key considerations for handling the rapid shift to our data foot print.
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Hear from Tom Jackson and a panel of experts discuss the impact the global Covid19 pandemic is having on the e-discovery industry, how e-discovery professionals have adapted so far, and what changes could be likely post-coronavirus.
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Why Global Reach and Local Expertise Matter in Cross-Border E-discovery
The interconnectedness of people, organizations and nations around the world has never been more apparent than it is today. The ongoing and rapid increase in globalization has driven change and growth in countless industries, transformation in business processes, diversification in economies, and yes, even widespread pandemics. It has also led to a spike in cross-border legal and e-discovery matters—a trend that is continuing on an upswing. Navigating international e-discovery in the best of circumstances is a challenge for even the most sophisticated attorneys. It is more so now, as legal teams struggle to adapt their work in the midst of this global health crisis.
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When Employees Work from Home, Compliance Culture Requires Extra Care
The last two months have given businesses many new issues to consider and practices to re-examine. Alongside introducing unexpected risks, the sudden shift to working from home has disrupted corporate culture, and more specifically, culture as it relates to compliance and privacy practices.
Webcast
Protecting Sensitive Data: Remote Employees, Trade Secrets and Data Loss
There is no question that the last few months have disrupted the workplace in profound ways. While the implications and timeline of this disruption are only just beginning to be fully realized, it’s clear that the transition to remote work for the vast majority of corporate employees has made data potentially more vulnerable to compromise, leakage and theft. Additionally, the upheaval of the global economy means that workforce shifts or reductions are likely inevitable. How can a corporation protect sensitive data in these circumstances? How do organizations detect and respond to data leakage and/or theft when it happens? And once data is compromised and litigation started, how do businesses put a value on what was lost?
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In the Midst of Significant Change, E-Discovery Providers Need Agility and Foresight
Collaboration and new forms of communication are steadily gaining on traditional channels. Worldwide revenue for this market reached more than US$38 million last year, and is growing more than 15 percent year-over-year in EMEA. In an e-discovery context, this increasing adoption of collaboration applications and tools—including Microsoft Teams and OneNote, Slack, Telegram, Zoom, etc.—is a prelude to stark change.
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Maintaining Remote E-Discovery Workforce Continuity, Featuring Senior Managing Director, Wendy King.
Learn how FTI approaches e-discovery personnel, process and technology as our workforce accelerates its shift to remote work. You can use these learnings to apply them to your own teams and management of clients.
Webcast
Navigating Through Uncertain Times in e-Discovery – Challenges and Opportunities
Join FTI Consulting's Brian Stuart and a panel of experts at Relativity Fest London, as they discuss the changing legal and e-discovery landscape, the issues they are seeing in the field and how they are driving their businesses forward to accelerate out of the crisis.
Webcast
Hear from Tom Jackson and a panel of experts discuss the impact the global Covid19 pandemic is having on the e-discovery industry, how e-discovery professionals have adapted so far, and what changes could be likely post-coronavirus.
White Paper
Five Steps To E-Discovery Workforce Continuity in Our New Normal
At FTI, we have adapted our e-discovery offerings to adhere to pandemic-related stay-at-home orders and distancing policies. In this guide, we share the steps we have taken to maintain continuity with the hope you can apply them to your own organization and teams.
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Maintaining Continuity as We Adapt to The New Normal
At FTI, we have adapted our e-discovery offerings to adhere to pandemic-related stay-at-home orders and distancing policies. In this guide, we share the steps we have taken to maintain continuity with the hope you can apply them to your own organization and teams.