Legal Technology

Dale vs. Deutsche Telekom AG Illustrates the Importance of Effective ECA to Attain Proportionality

By John Patzakis In Dale v. Deutsche Telekom AG, No. 22 C 3189 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 4, 2024), a class-action antitrust…

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Court Decision

Three Key eDiscovery Lesson from Domus BWW Funding v. Arch Insurance Company

By John Patzakis Domus BWW Funding v. Arch Insurance Company is a recent decision focused mostly on  issues and challenges related…

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Stack of Laptops

Addressing Critical Information Governance Challenges from Departing Employees

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier When employees leave an organization, they often leave behind a significant amount of valuable…

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Security Risk

Granting M365 Super-Admin Privileges to eDiscovery Service Providers is Very Risky and Unnecessary

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier In a world where data breaches are not just possible but expected, securing sensitive…

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Enterprise-Search

Enterprise Search is Dead. A New Approach is Here.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, employee productivity hinges on robust enterprise search capabilities that allow quick and easy retrieval of…

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X1 In Place Data Discovery

X1 Achieves Unmatched Throughput and Results in Several Recent M365 eDiscovery and Information Governance Engagements

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier  As discussed previously on this blog, X1 and our active enterprise customers believe X1…

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Information Governance

Index and Search In-Place Workflows Are Essential for Information Governance

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier Accurate pre-collection data insight is a game-changing capability that enables organizations and their legal…

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beware of false claims

Index-In-Place eDiscovery Tech is in High Demand, but Beware of False Vendor Claims

Proportionality-based eDiscovery is a goal that all in-house corporate legal teams want to attain. Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure…

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x1 search online archive

New X1 Search 9 Provides the Best Means to Search Your Microsoft 365 Data Sources

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier Last week X1 announced major new, robust features to our desktop productivity solution X1…

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Files and Folders

Microsoft 365 Modern Attachments Pose Significant eDiscovery Challenges and Risk

In their excellent publication, 2023 eDiscovery Case Law in Review, Winston and Strawn, LLP, one of the top law firms…

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Defensible Targeted Collection with X1

Modern, Targeted ESI Collection Can Cut eDiscovery Costs by Over 90 Percent

By John Patzakis and Chas Meier eDiscovery can be an expensive and time-consuming process when traditional data collection methods are…

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Data Workflows

Massive Data Centralization for MS 365 Does Not Work for Enterprise eDiscovery and Information Governance Workflows

By John Patzakis and Charles Meier CIOs and legal and compliance executives often aspire to implement information governance programs like…

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