Industry Trends Resources
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.
Regulatory Compliance as a Competitive Advantage 12/14/2017
Next year, firms around the globe will be impacted by some of the world’s toughest new regulations and privacy requirements. Adapting to this new landscape was a key topic at The Lawyer's Managing Risk and Litigation conference.
Using Information Governance Tactics to Prepare for the GDPR 8/18/2017
Much like Information Governance, preparation for the General Data Protection Regulation is a cross-departmental concern that requires input from many different groups within an organization, including privacy, compliance, legal, line of business, IT and information security.
New Data Types in the App Age 7/26/2017
The legal industry is hungry for guidance on how to deal with the explosion in cloud-based applications and new data types that are creating headaches for organizations of all sizes. While the threat of big data has cast a shadow over IT and legal departments for several years, the real challenge is proving to be the variety of data, and it is quickly defeating traditional collection and review tools and strategies.
The Lawyer - Global Litigation 50 Report, 2017 7/25/2017
Technology is revolutionising the way lawyers practice their trade. To deliver the greatest value to their clients, legal professionals must know about the latest technological solutions.
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.
Forrester Research Interactive Global Data Privacy Heat Map 3/31/2016
Organizations regularly face legal and regulatory matters that are global in scope. Ensuring that corporate data is handled in a matter consistent with local data privacy laws is an ongoing challenge, especially as local data privacy laws evolve. To help corporations and law firms better understand current data privacy laws, FTI Technology is providing a complimentary copy of Forrester’s Data Privacy Heat Map Report, 2015.
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.
Monumental Ruling on Predictive Coding in the UK 2/22/2016
By now you have probably heard about the February 16th ruling in the case Pyrrho Investments and MWB Business Exchange v. MWB Property and others by Master Matthews of English High Court. In the ruling, Master Matthews outlines many of today’s e-discovery (or ‘e-disclosure’) challenges for litigants – the growing mountain of data for any-sized litigant, and the shortcomings of keyword searches.
Legaltech New York (LTNY) 2016 12/22/2015
We’re excited to discuss some of the biggest trends impacting the legal industry at Legaltech New York (LTNY) 2016. Learn more about our day one panels featuring noted industry thought leaders from the bench, corporations and law firms.
Why Data Deletion Makes Sense (and Dollars) 7/23/2015
Conventional wisdom says the cost of storing data is declining. That’s true. But the total cost to businesses to store data is rising unsustainably because they are collecting — and retaining — more data than ever before. The key to controlling costs and freeing up operating capital is deleting data you don’t need to store. How do you know what you don’t need? Two words: information governance.
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.
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.