Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t – gleaned from recent publication.
ABOVE THE FOLD
Relativity Fest Oct. 20-23 – Join us this fall at Relativity Fest in Chicago where my colleagues and I will be speaking on four sessions:
- PD311742 – A Call to Action: Building an e-Discovery Pro Bono Platform and Network (10/21 at 11:00 am)
George Socha - PR325354 – Global Expansion with RelativityOne (10/21 at 2:35 pm)
Jenna Aira-Ventrella with Luke Balloch of Relativity, Chris Morris of Control Risks, Daryl Teshima of FTI Consulting, Andrew Caspersonn of Allen & Overy, and Andrew Malarkey or KordaMentha - LIE291972 – Is It Time to Rethink the EDRM? (10/22 at 8:30 am)
George Socha with Mike Quartararo of eDPM Advisory Services, Darcie Spruance, Constantine Pappas of Relativity, and Phil Favro of Driven - PR311751 – Let’s Take This Online: Managing Mobile Data in Relativity Short Message Discovery (10/22 at 2:45 pm)
George Socha with Martha Louks of McDermott)
Join Mary Mack and me on Oct. 10 at 1 pm ET for the second installment of our ACEDS webinar series, Monthly Insights with George Socha & Mary Mack.
BDO knows CCPA – BDO’s California Consumer Privacy Act resource page enables privacy executives to stay abreast of the impending regulation and learn about overarching privacy and governance considerations in one convenient location.
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
Litigation Support Tip of the Night – Sean O’Shea of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP has assigned himself a daunting goal, to post a new litigation support tip each night. He may not have managed to do this every single night, but his blog, Litigation Support Tip of the Night, contains over 1,000 tips going back to April 2015. For a recent example, check out his Sept. 14 post, Ringtail – Some cool features.
New UF Law career path program – Mike Quartararo of eDPM Advisory Services reported that the University of Florida Levin College of Law eDiscovery Project, run by Bill Hamilton, has partnered with Consilio on a new summer internship program, offering graduates opportunities to learn the business of e-discovery.
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
CCPA –
- Lawmakers Must Not Listen to the Internet Association and Weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act
Hayley Tsukayama (Electronic Frontier Foundation) (Sept. 4) - The CCPA and COPPA: Looking for the “Betwixt and Between”
Behnam Dayanim and Claire Blakey (Paul Hastings) (Sept. 10) - Applying the CCPA to Health Care: The HIPAA Exemption, Exercise Apps, and Marketing Data
Michael L. Yaeger and Joshua L. Gutter (Carlton Fields) (Sept. 10) - GDPR: What are the grounds for processing personal data during an investigation?
Lara White, Andrew Reeves, and Sarah Greenwood (Norton Rose Fulbright) (Sept. 10) - “Oh AG, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”: Breaking Down Common CCPA Myths
Rachel R. Marmor (Davis Wright Tremaine) (Sept. 11) - #CCPA Legislative Update: “And the days dwindle down … to a precious few….” (September Song, Kurt Weill)
Cynthia J. Larose (Mintz) (Sept. 11) - California’s Consumer Privacy Act Amendment Process Nears the Finish Line
Victoria E. Beckman, Zachary Hoyt, Melissa A. Kern, and Michael E. Nitardy (Frost Brown Todd) (Sept. 11) - The Imitation Game: How the CCPA Is Inspiring Other States to Regulate Consumer Data and Online Privacy
Joshua L. Gutter (Carlton Fields) (Sept. 12) - CCPA: California Legislature Passes Amendments to Data Breach Notification and Information Security Statutes
David Stauss (Husch Blackwell) (Sept. 12) - Tracking Potential CCPA Changes: Proposed Amendments Amended
Odia Kagan (Fox Rothschild) (Sept. 12) - CCPA Requires “Reasonable Security”: but You Can’t have Reasonable Security Without Proper Vulnerability Management
Divya Gupta and Cody Wamsley (Dorsey) (Sept. 12) - CCPA Security FAQs: What is the most popular court for filing data breach class actions?
David Zetoony (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) (Sept. 12) - Health Sector Does Not Completely Avoid the CCPA by HIPAA Exemption
Tara Cho and Nadia Aram (Womble Bond Dickinson) (Sept. 13) - CCPA Privacy FAQs: Is a Service Provider Responsible if its Client Violates the CCPA?
David Zetoony (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) (Sept. 13) - CCPA Compliance Preparation – Must all Businesses Comply?
David O. Klein (Klein Moynihan Turco) (Sept. 13) - CCPA Update: Legislature Amends the CCPA to Exclude Employee Data, B2B Communications for One Year
Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik and Alex Schneider (Kelley Drye) (Sept. 15) - CCPA Amendments Updated, Finalized, and Moving on to Governor Newsom
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Mary T. Costigan, and Maya Atrakchi (Jackson Lewis) (Sept. 16) - CCPA Taking Shape: Several Amendments Pass as California’s Legislative Session Comes to a Close
(Morrison & Foerster) (Sept. 16) - And then there were five: CCPA amendments pass legislature
Jeewon Kim Serrato and Susan Ross (Norton Rose Fulbright) (Sept. 17) - The End of the California Legislative Session: Which CCPA Amendments Passed?
Heather Egan Sussman, Emily Tabatabai, David Curtis, Nicholas Farnsworth, and Maria Rouvalis (Orrick) (Sept. 17) - Final California Consumer Privacy Act Amendments Bring Practical Changes (But Your Business May Now Be a California “Data Broker”)
Colleen Theresa Brown, Christopher C. Fonzone, Alan Charles Raul, and Sheri Porath Rockwell (Sidley) (Sept. 17) - CCPA Amendments – Where They Stand Today
Taylor A. Bloom and Alan L. Friel (BakerHostetler)
GDPR –
- New Calculation Model for Data Protection Fines in Germany
Moritz Hüsch and Ulrike Elteste (Covington) (Sept. 10) - Has the GDPR changed cookie consent under ePrivacy Laws?
Laura Fannin and Ruth Prendeville (Hayes solicitors) (Sept. 11) - Is the GDPR Creating a Cat-and-Mouse Game Between Advertisers and Regulators?
Frank Ready (Legaltech News) (Sept. 11) - The impact of the GDPR outside the EU
(Ius Laboris) (Sept. 17)
NIST released draft privacy framework – Deborah George of Robinson+Cole wrote that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a preliminary draft of its NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (Privacy Framework). NIST is accepting public comments until 5 pm ET on Oct. 24.
California first-in-nation IoT security law to go into effect Jan. 1 – Daniel Pepper of BakerHostetler discussed California’s Internet of Things security law, Security of Connected Devices (SB-327), which goes into effect on Jan. 1.
Cayman Islands Data Protection Law to take effect Sept. 30 – The Cayman Islands’ Data Protection Law, 2017 is currently scheduled to come into effect on Sept. 30, reported the Ogier law firm.
China issued new cybersecurity law to protect children – Wei-Chun (Lex) Kuo, Weina (Grace) Gao, and Cheng-Ling Chen of Latham & Watkins wrote that the Cyberspace Administration of China has released a new data privacy regulation related to children, the Provisions on Cyber Protection of Personal Information of Children, that will go into effect on Oct. 1.
LEGAL TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
$1.1 billion and counting – Bob Ambrogi of LawSites reported that legal tech investments this year already have surpassed $1.1 billion. By comparison, last year was the first time those investments reached $1 billion, and there are still 3 months left before year end. Included in the post is a list of this year’s investments.
COLPM’s InnovAction Awards winners – Bob Ambrogi of LawSites reported that the College of Law Practice Management’s 2019 InnovAction Awards went to two organizations. Immigration law firm Siskind Susser won for Visalaw.ai, a series of apps the firm has spend more than three years building using Neota Logic’s AI-based expert system; the apps replicate legal analysis and automate routine and complex tasks and document generation. Suffolk University Law School won for its Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, a joint project between the school’s clinical programs and its LIT Institute.
Interested in entering the ABA TECHSHOW 2020’s Startup Alley? – If you are interested in submitting an entry to the ABA TECHSHOW 2020’s Startup Alley competition, go to Bob Ambrogi of LawSites’s post on the schedule for entering. Fifteen legal tech startups will be selected to exhibit in a special Startup Alley in the TECHSHOW exhibit hall. They also will face off in an opening-night pitch competition to be judged by conference attendees.
GCs place top priority on scaling up legal processes – Richard Tromans of Artificial Lawyer reported that according to a survey of 30 high tech growth company general counsel conducted by contract management software company Juro and the Wilson Sonsini law firm, scaling up legal processes inside the inhouse team is a top-three concern (87%), followed by tooling and technology (74%) and adding value to business (61%). Cutting costs was not a great priority, coming in at 13%.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
| Date | Focus | Organization | Title |
| 9/11/2019 | ED | FTI Consulting | FTI Consulting Adds Relativity Support to Australia Marketv |
| 9/16/2019 | ED | LDM Global | LDM Global Announces Partnership to Offer and Support Nuix Discover |
| 9/16/2019 | ED | Lionbridge | Lionbridge Announces Lionbridge for Relativity Integration |
| 9/17/2019 | ED | ayfie | Lineal licenses ayfie’s linguistic technology to supercharge eDiscovery |
| 9/17/2019 | ED | Inventus | Inventus Zenith Delivers the Full Power of Inventus eDiscovery via an Intuitive, Self-Service User Interface |
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Named an “E-Discovery Trailblazer” by The American Lawyer, George has assisted corporate, law firm, and government clients with all facets of electronic discovery, including information governance, domestically and globally. He served clients in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, energy, retail, banking and technology, among others. As a renowned industry thought leader, he has authored more than 50 articles and spoken at more than 200 engagements across the world on a variety of e-discovery topics. His extensive knowledge has also been utilized more than 20 times to provide expert testimony.
Co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM), a framework that outlines the standards for the recovery and discovery of digital data, and the Information Governance Reference Model (IGRM), a similar framework specific to information management, George is skilled at developing and implementing electronic discovery strategies and managing electronic discovery processes.