eDiscovery Data Points from ComplexDiscovery

As highlighted in this expert article, AI algorithms are no longer the stuff of science fiction or the imagination of high-tech brainiacs. They are being used right now, in countless software applications, and in increasingly expansive ways, in our personal undertakings, and by businesses and governments. And if AI applications now dominate our lives, it is unavoidable that the evidence that will be needed to resolve civil litigation and criminal trials will include facts that are generated by this enigmatic technology. Whether they want to or not, lawyers seeking to introduce or object to AI evidence, and judges who must rule on its admissibility, need to have a working knowledge of what AI is and how it works, what it does accurately, and reliably, and what it does not.

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From CISA cybersecurity guidance to mastering megamatters, the December 2021 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 Mitratech CEO Mike Williams, “We are excited to expand our GRC offerings with the acquisition of Continuity. It fits well into our portfolio for a very focused set of customers that includes regional banks, credit unions, and other institutional customers who are facing an onslaught of regulatory and compliance changes in this environment. For these types of customers, the ability to remain compliant absolutely must involve a strong technology stack.”

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Based on the complexity of cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to understand the relationships, opportunities, and costs of specific eDiscovery-centric tasks. With this challenge in mind and to provide information and context for discussions about the eDiscovery task of review, the following updated review-centric task, spend, and cost data points may be beneficial for legal, business, and IT professionals considering the economics of reviewing electronically stored information.

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According to Andy Macdonald, CEO of Consilio, “Legility has a proven track record of creating excellent predictive and automated enterprise-wide legal driven processes that blend analytics, purpose-built workflows, and information-driven process improvements that help legal teams achieve operational success. This acquisition unlocks greater scale and resources while aligning with our strategy to invest in differentiated solutions that result in a consistently exceptional client experience.”

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According to the media alert, CISA is taking urgent action to drive mitigation of this vulnerability and detect any associated threat activity. CISA has added this vulnerability to their catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities, which compels federal civilian agencies -- and signals to non-federal partners -- to urgently patch or remediate this vulnerability. They are also proactively reaching out to entities whose networks may be vulnerable and are leveraging CISA scanning and intrusion detection tools to help government and industry partners identify exposure to or exploitation of the vulnerability.

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The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence report “Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in the Military: An Overview of NATO Member States’ Strategies and Deployment” and associated document “Appendix A – Country Profiles” offers a high-level view of the role of AI-enabled and autonomous technologies in the militaries of NATO Allies as of January 2021. It is the first academic work of this kind that focuses specifically on military AI in NATO countries.

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Based on the complexity of cybersecurity, information governance, and legal discovery, it is a continual challenge to understand the relationships, opportunities, and costs of specific eDiscovery-centric tasks. With this challenge in mind and to provide information and context for discussions about the eDiscovery task of collection, the following updated collection-centric task, spend, and cost data points may be beneficial for legal, business, and IT professionals considering the economics of locating and gathering electronically stored information.

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According to the expert report from Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, Megamatters, or legal matters that accrue more than $1 million USD in lifetime costs, account for much of the volatility found in corporate law firm spend. However, the latest report indicates that some organizations are still not taking full advantage of technology and managed services that can help reduce spend. For example, the use of alternative legal service providers (ALSPs) can drive significant improvements in cost control. But the most recent report showed that ALSPs have still captured only a small percentage of megamatters overall, fielding just 2.2 percent of the available megamatter work coming out of corporate legal departments.

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According to author Tibor Koltay, information overload (IO) is one of the perhaps best known “information pathologies” (Bawden & Robinson, 2009), signalizing to a certain degree the existence of a “dark side” of information. Nonetheless, the technological and social approaches to mitigating its syndromes, i.e. the “bright side” of information are also worthy of attention (Koltay, 2017). Accordingly, the best way of “taming” overload, individually and socially, is using a variety of coping strategies, and seeking a mindful balance in consuming information and data (Bawden, & Robinson, 2020).

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