eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

The Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey is a non-scientific semi-annual survey designed to help provide a general understanding of the current application of predictive coding technologies, protocols, workflows, and uses by data discovery and legal discovery professionals.

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As highlighted in the July 9, 2020, blog post from the FTC, increased interest in levels of M&A activity has warranted that the Bureau of Competition’s Premerger Notification Office (PNO) share the monthly figures for Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act filings. This increased activity can be seen in the strong HSR reported transaction numbers for January 2021. January had 210 reported transactions, the highest number of monthly reported transactions in any January between FY 2010 and FY 2021.

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According to HaystackID's Senior Vice President and General Manager for Review Service, Matt Daimler, “Security has always been an essential part of our remote review. But since we first offered it in 2014, we have had to adapt to rapidly changing security risks. Now increased cyber threats and exponential growth in remote work due to the pandemic have driven the need for even greater protection. Our 3.0 platform is the next step in that evolution using cutting-edge, next-generation technology.”

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In the winter of 2021, 85.0% of eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey respondents felt the current business conditions are good or normal. This combined confidence level represents a 7.8% increase in these same feelings when compared to the fall of 2020 where 77.2% felt the conditions were good or normal. Additionally, exactly 43.3% of survey respondents characterized the current business climate as good. This represents an increase from 38.6% of respondents who viewed the business climate as good in the fall of 2020. This increase from the fall of 2020 may represent a cautious optimism in the current general business climate for eDiscovery.

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Medical imaging plays an important role in diagnosing and treating patients. The system that manages medical images is known as the picture archiving communication system (PACS) and is nearly ubiquitous in healthcare environments. PACS is defined by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Class II device that “provides one or more capabilities relating to the acceptance, transfer, display, storage, and digital processing of medical images.” PACS centralizes functions surrounding medical imaging workflows and serves as an authoritative repository of medical image information.

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According to Wendell Jisa, founder and CEO of Reveal, "Backed by K1, Reveal’s merger with Brainspace has set into motion the next phase of AI innovation in the practice of law. Fueled by some of the world’s most powerful AI technology and underpinned by the Reveal review platform, we are ushering in a new era of automation in legal technology.” Additionally, today's media release notes that K1’s investment will be used to fuel growth, including expanding the sales and marketing teams, building additional functionality within the products, and hiring within R&D, data science, and customer success to augment the client experience.

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In the winter of 2021, 43.3% of respondents viewed budgetary constraints as potentially having the greatest business impact on their business in the next six months. This percentage is the highest of all concerns represented in the winter 2021 survey and also is the fourth-highest rating for any business performance concern since the inception of the survey. This is also the thirteenth time in twenty-one surveys that the issue of budgetary constraints has been the top concern or tied for the top concern by survey respondents.

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From eDiscovery business confidence and operational metrics to merger and acquisition activity and cyber threats, the January 2021 edition of the Five Great Reads on eDiscovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform legal, business, and information technology professionals in the eDiscovery ecosystem.

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The recently adopted EDPB guidelines on examples regarding data breach notification complement the Article 29 Working Party guidance on data breach notification by introducing more practice-orientated guidance and recommendations. The guidelines, adopted on January 14, 2021, and available for public commentary, aim to help data controllers in deciding how to handle data breaches and what factors to consider during risk assessment.

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In the winter of 2021, eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey more than 50 participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. 31.5% of survey respondents reported Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) as increasing in the winter of 2021. This is an incremental increase approaching 10% from the 21.9% reporting DSO as increasing in the fall of 2020. It is also the highest percentage of respondents reporting DSO as increasing since the introduction of business operational metric questions to the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey in the winter of 2019.

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