eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

In the spring of 2022, 46 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey participants chose to answer at least one of the optional business operational metric survey questions in the quarterly survey. Exactly 21.7% of survey respondents reported Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) as increasing in the spring of 2022. This is a decrease from 41.9% reporting DSO as increasing in the winter of 2022. This is the lowest percentage of respondents reporting DSO as increasing since the summer of 2021 when 20.3% of respondents reported DSO as increasing.

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According to Ed Gramling, Discovery Counsel and Assistant General Counsel, Pfizer, “Integreon has been a longstanding and trusted partner to Pfizer for Managed Document Review services, and we are very excited about their new Deposition Prep offering. We work closely with Integreon’s team and outside counsel to bring greater efficiency and focus to assemble witness binders that provide only the most relevant documents presented in an organized, digestible way. The cost and time savings Integreon’s innovations have afforded us are incredibly valuable to our company.”

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According to the latest ISW update, Russian forces in northeastern Ukraine remain stalled and did not conduct offensive operations against Chernihiv, Sumy, or Kharkiv in the past 24 hours. Russian forces continue to make grinding progress in Mariupol but were unable to secure territory in either Donbas or toward Mykolayiv.

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According to the new Tallinn Paper by Jeremy K. Davis and published by the NATO CCDCOE, the author proposes that standards of proof applicable to peacetime cyber attribution should be more stringent as the severity of the action in response increases. A more balanced approach would subject attribution of internationally wrongful cyber operations giving rise to countermeasures to a preponderance of the evidence standard. At the same time, any response taken by a state in self-defense should require attribution based on clear and convincing evidence before it is deemed “reasonable”.

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From new privacy frameworks and disinformation to business confidence and the Ukraine conflict, the March 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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According to the latest ISW update, the Russian General Staff issued a fictitious report on the first month of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on March 25 claiming Russia’s primary objective is to capture the entirety of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. Sergei Rudskoi, first deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, gave a briefing to Russian press summing up the first month of the Russian invasion on March 25. Rudskoi inaccurately claimed Russian forces have completed “the main tasks of the first stage of the operation,” falsely asserting that Russia has heavily degraded the Ukrainian military, enabling Russia to focus on the “main goal” of capturing Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

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Under the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, the United States is to put in place new safeguards to ensure that signals surveillance activities are necessary and proportionate in the pursuit of defined national security objectives, establish a two-level independent redress mechanism with binding authority to direct remedial measures, and enhance rigorous and layered oversight of signals intelligence activities to ensure compliance with limitations on surveillance activities.

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Since January 2016, 2,701 individual responses to twenty-six quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence surveys have been received from cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery professionals across the eDiscovery ecosystem. These nonscientific quarterly surveys are designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the field of eDiscovery supporting cyber, data, and legal discovery tasks. 52 respondents shared their strongly optimistic opinions as part of the most recent survey.

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According to the latest Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment from the Institute for the Study of War, the initial Russian campaign to invade and conquer Ukraine is culminating without achieving its objectives—it is being defeated, in other words. The war is settling into a stalemate condition in much of the theater. But the war isn’t over and isn’t likely to end soon. Nor is the outcome of the war yet clear.

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While there are many approaches for ensuring the technology we use every day is safe and secure, there are factors specific to AI that require new perspectives. AI systems are often placed in contexts where they can have the most impact. Whether that impact is helpful or harmful is a fundamental question in the area of Trustworthy and Responsible AI. Harmful impacts stemming from AI are not just at the individual or enterprise level but are able to ripple into the broader society. The scale of damage, and the speed at which it can be perpetrated by AI applications or through the extension of large machine learning models across domains and industries requires concerted effort.

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