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Surviving the Departed Employee: eDiscovery Edition

July 30, 2024 Blog

Although Gloria Gaynor’s famous lyrics from I Will Survive pertain to lost love, they can also be rewritten for the departed employee dilemma. At first, I was afraid, I was petrified. Thinkin’ all the…

Cutting Discovery Costs Through Innovation: Revamping the Partnership between In-House Legal and Outside Counsel

May 29, 2024 Blog

By Janice P. Yates, CEDS Karl Albrecht, the billionaire founder of the discount supermarket chain, Aldi, proclaimed, “You seldom improve quality by cutting costs, but you can often cut costs by improving quality.” (If you’ve ever visited an Aldi, you’ve…

Litigation Holds Causing Corporate Heartburn? Ease the Pain with this eDiscovery Antacid.

June 14, 2023 Blog

Remember when we discussed how the amount of data created in the world was 0.1 zettabytes in 2005 with a trajectory to rise to 163 zettabytes by 2025 (for non-math nerds, that’s a 162,900% increase)? With this kind of exponential…

A Tectonic Shift is Occurring in eDiscovery

February 23, 2023 Blog

Are you tired of hearing about high eDiscovery costs? Legal professionals spend countless hours talking about it, yet year after year the only thing that changes is that costs continue to rise. Will 2023 be any different? We’re seeing a…

How to Resolve the ECA vs. EDA Confusion Once and For All

October 11, 2022 Blog

By Scott Carvo and Mandi Ross What’s in a name? In the case of eDiscovery, it’s all about what you’re trying to accomplish. Legal and eDiscovery professionals can’t seem to agree on the appropriate term to describe the process of…

The Iceberg is Ahead! Can You Avoid it in Time?

May 5, 2022 Blog

In the classic movie Titanic, the crewman on watch spotted the iceberg looming ahead and yelled, “Iceberg, right ahead!” to the rest of the crew. Despite this advance warning, they were unable to turn the ship in time to avoid…

Exploring a Changing eDiscovery Mindset – Tom O’Connor and Rachi Messing’s Podcast with Mandi Ross

April 21, 2022 Blog

Industry leaders Tom O’Connor and Rachi Messing bring a great mix of humor and seriousness to their interview with CEO Mandi Ross. This podcast includes a quick trip down memory lane, moving through the early days of eDiscovery to present…

The Discovery Proportionality Model: A New Framework

February 2, 2022 Blog

After two years of hard work by a team of 56 practitioners, discovery experts, and judges, the “New Framework” for eDiscovery is here. In 2019, led by John Rabiej of the George Washington University Law School’s James F. Humphreys Complex…

This Case Involved More Than One Disaster

December 6, 2021 Blog

As we all know, the devil is in the details. Managing eDiscovery proves this adage almost daily. If you don’t pay careful attention, that devil will most certainly come back to haunt you. This was most recently evidenced in a…

The Importance of the First 100 Days – How to Avoid the Most Common Discovery Dispute

June 10, 2021 Blog

Failure to produce. By far, this was the number one discovery dispute last year. According to the 2020 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review report¹ published this year by eDiscovery Assistant² and eDiscovery Today, 1,382 disputes revolved around this issue.

Time to Spring Forward – A New Framework for Discovery

May 5, 2021 Blog

The phrase, “there’s nothing new under the sun” is popular because in most cases, it’s true. On March 25-26 of this year, The George Washington University Complex Litigation Center held a Bench-Bar conference introducing a New Framework for proportionality in discovery that defied that maxim.

Sitting with the C-Suite podcast featuring Mandi Ross

April 16, 2021 Blog

In this episode of LeanDiscovery Sitting with the C-Suite podcast, Mandi Ross and host Clinton Sanko, Baker Donelson, discuss a broad range of topics relevant to modern litigation, specifically proportionality, remote work during the pandemic, and staying up to date on technology.

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