eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

“Law firms can grow revenue by expanding the number of clients they serve or increasing their average revenue per client,” said Nathan Cemenska, Director of Legal Operations and Industry Insights at Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions. “Our findings show that unranked law firms lost clients but grew revenue by increasing the dollar size of the average client relationship.”

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According to HaystackID CEO Hal Brooks, “The combination of these three practice areas strategically positions HaystackID as the leader in its unified approach, highlighting our experts along with our technology services, in a manner that differentiates our firm from consultancies and providers worldwide.”

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According to IBM Security, the annual Cost of a Data Breach Report revealed costlier and higher-impact data breaches than ever before, with the global average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of $4.35 million for studied organizations. With breach costs increasing nearly 13% over the last two years of the report, the findings suggest these incidents may also be contributing to rising costs of goods and services. In fact, 60% of studied organizations raised their product or services prices due to the breach, when the cost of goods is already soaring worldwide amid inflation and supply chain issues.

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Initiated in the winter of 2019 and conducted eight times with 641 individual responses, the semi-annual eDiscovery Pricing Survey provides a mechanism for cyber, data, and legal discovery specialists to share and consider current pricing for selected eDiscovery-centric collection, processing, and review tasks. Today ComplexDiscovery shares the aggregate results of the eight eDiscovery pricing surveys administered between the winter of 2019 and the summer of 2022.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Putin replaced Colonel-General Gennady Zhidko as deputy defense minister and head of the Main Military-Political Directorate on July 28. Putin signed a decree appointing Colonel-General Viktor Goremykin to Zhidko’s position and has not publicly announced the appointment of Zhidko to a new position ISW previously reported that Zhidko would become the overall commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, a report that appears to have been incorrect.

The post Momentum Challenges? Ukraine Conflict Assessments in Maps (July 24 – 28, 2022) appeared first on ComplexDiscovery.

This new NIST Special Publication aims to help educate readers about the security standards included in the HIPAA Security Rule and assist regulated entities in their implementation of the Security Rule. It includes a brief overview of the HIPAA Security Rule, provides guidance for regulated entities in assessing and managing risk to ePHI, identifies typical activities that a regulated entity should consider when implementing an information security program, and lists additional resources that regulated entities might find useful in implementing the Security Rule.

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According to the press release, with the support of a group of leading global institutional investors co-led by Coller Capital and Glendower Capital, this transaction will enable Exterro to devote more resources to the growth of its Legal GRC portfolio of products through M&A and product development. Additionally, as part of the recapitalization, Leeds Equity has made a significant new equity commitment from its latest flagship fund, Leeds Equity Partners VII, L.P., alongside the continuation vehicle and management.

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According to a recent update from the Institute for the Study of War, Ukrainian forces are likely preparing to launch or have launched a counteroffensive in Kherson Oblast as of July 23, but open-source visibility on the progress and tempo of the counteroffensive will likely be limited and lag behind events.

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From lurking business undercurrents to captivating deepfake developments, the July 2022 edition of the Five Great Reads on Cyber, Data, and Legal Discovery newsletter provides a selection of recent research, reports, and articles to update and inform cybersecurity, information governance, and eDiscovery professionals on cyber, data, and legal discovery.

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Neural head avatars offer a new fascinating way of creating virtual head models. They bypass the complexity of realistic physics-based modeling of human avatars by learning the shape and appearance directly from the videos of talking people. In this recent report, the authors present the first system capable of creating megapixel avatars from single portrait images. According to the report, the author's method outperforms its competitors in the quality of the cross-driving results and manages to preserve the high-resolution appearance of the source image even for out-of-domain examples like paintings.

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