Official announcement by Google on Vault availability for legal holds

  It’s official now, Google Vault which does eDiscovery for Gmail is now now available to existing business customers.    However, it is not yet available for Government customers. See the announcement from Google here. After enabling Vault on the Google … Continue reading

Google expected to roll out Vault (for Legal Holds) to existing business Gmail users very soon

Google Vault, used for legal holds, has been available for new customers migrating to Google Apps, but not to existing Gmail users.  However this is about to change very soon and is going to have a huge impact on a … Continue reading

Facebook post by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings leads to investigation by the SEC

  In yet another example of potential litigation due to Social Media, CNN Money has reported that Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is under investigation from the SEC for making a posting that Netflix customers were viewing more than 1 billion hours … Continue reading

Online Defamation Lawsuits on the rise, $750,000 for online Yelp Posting

Fox News announced today, that a woman was sued $750,000 in an online defamation lawsuit by a contractor for making a negative online posting on Yelp. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/12/05/woman-sued-over-yelp-review/ Lawyers say it is one of a growing number of defamation lawsuits over … Continue reading

Free tool with Windows for Robust File Copy Performance and generating forensic logs

In working with customer engagements across the nation for small and medium sized cases, we have noticed that clients when performing their own self collections often use the standard windows file copy instead of using a more forensically sound method … Continue reading

The Legal Argument for Open Source eForensics & eDiscovery

  In my prior company (life) we developed intellectual property for operating systems primitives in windows, and network security protocols such as IPSec (Internet Protocol Security), e.g. VPN.   We had “bake-off’s” sponsored by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) … Continue reading

20+ sized law firm saves $450K in IT Lifecycle by moving to Google Apps

  This is a video interview of a law firm with 20+ lawyers, who have moved to Google Apps.   During the interview, the key partners estimate that they have saved $450K in IT costs over 5 years by moving … Continue reading

Free Email eDiscovery/Archiving data extractor used by Library of Congress

I have recently doing some research on open source email/data extraction utilities, and ran across this one (PEDALS) that is used by the Library of Congress for archiving purposes. http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/2010/20100924news_article_pedals_email_tool.html I tested it and was pleased by how it performed. … Continue reading