Information Governance (InfoGovernance) is the specification of decision rights and an accountability framework to encourage desirable behavior in the valuation, creation, storage, use, archiving and deletion of information. It includes the processes, roles, standards and metrics that ensure the effective and efficient use of information to enable an organization to achieve its goals. Information governance should be an element in planning an enterprise's information architecture.

(Gartner Hype Cycle for Legal and Regulatory Information Governance, 2009, December 2009).

An Engagement Area (EA) is an area where the commander of a military force intends to contain and destroy an enemy force with the massed effects of all available weapons systems.

(FM 1-02, Operational Terms and Graphics, September 2004).

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Weekly eDiscovery News and View – April 28, 2010

Provided for your review/use is this week's snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.

eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
  1. A “Visual Way” to Follow eDiscovery - http://tinyurl.com/27aueyw
  2. Discarded Buffalo Police Copiers Contain Sensitive Data - http://bit.ly/chT2UY
  3. FBI Struggles to Pull Criminal Data from Digital Devices - http://bit.ly/9L1Gip
  4. Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice Announce the Release of Revised Horizontal Merger Guidelines -  http://bit.ly/bULJZR
  5. Firm finds 5,400 deleted Email Messages of New Orleans’ Mayor Ray Nagin - http://tinyurl.com/29bhstw
  6. Flexibility, Directness is Key In E-Discovery - http://bit.ly/d0l3iD
  7. Forbes/MIT: Why We Share Information - http://bit.ly/a8yhuC
  8. Hard Drives on Personal Computers May Contain More Than You Want Others to Know - http://tinyurl.com/2cg7xz9
  9. How Structural Features of the U.S. Judicial System  Have Affected the Take-Up of Digital Technology by Courts - http://tinyurl.com/358e98h
  10. IPOs Are on Upswing but Not Related Legal Fees - http://tinyurl.com/2bqd5fo
  11. Judge Linked to ‘Lawmiss’ Web Comments Removed from Case - http://tinyurl.com/2dfkud3
  12. Legal Informatics - A Personal Appraisal of Context and Progress - By Richard Susskind - http://tinyurl.com/26xsjav
  13. Let There Be Lite: A Brief History of Legal Information Retrieval - http://tinyurl.com/3ymeqwu
  14. Making Sense of FINRA’s Social Media Guidelines - http://tinyurl.com/26uk56r
  15. New Law Could Change the Way You Build Database Applications - http://tinyurl.com/298j6aa
  16. Pinguelo Appears on Fox’s The Strategy Room to Discuss Workplace Internet Abuse - http://tinyurl.com/24ra6ey
  17. Pressure Points for Achieving eDiscovery Cost Effectiveness - http://tinyurl.com/269dyt4
  18. Raiders of the Lost Hard Drive - http://tinyurl.com/25a6l9b
  19. Requesting Data: More is Better - http://tinyurl.com/2f3g7e7
  20. SCOTUS Dips into Technology with Quon - http://tinyurl.com/2aop5ge
  21. Senators See Privacy Problem in Facebook Expansion - http://usat.me?38338420
  22. Sex and the SEC - http://tinyurl.com/28dhbmn
  23. Structured Data is Neither as Easy nor as Difficult as it Sounds - http://tinyurl.com/38fztsr
  24. Texas Appeals Court Finds Lower Court's Order to Turn Over Hard Drive Improper - http://bit.ly/aOJm5e
  25. The 451 Group on eDiscovery and eDisclosure - http://tinyurl.com/2fdu88k
  26. The European Union  Releases a Research Paper on the Future Opportunities for European Cloud Computing - http://bit.ly/cKv4KC
  27. The FTC, Blogging, and Your Business - http://tinyurl.com/2ctv7a5
  28. The Last Words on E-Discovery? http://tinyurl.com/2fxoye8
  29. Voicemail: The Next eDiscovery Challenge - http://tinyurl.com/23cbv7u
  30. Was Goldman Sachs GC's Talk With Investors a Mistake? http://bit.ly/a68qLL 
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Text Mining 2010
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Inter-Pacific Bar Association 20th Annual Conference
May 2-5, 2010
Singapore
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2010 ALA Annual Conference
May 3, 2010
Boston, Massachusetts
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The International Litigation Support Leaders Conference
May 7-8, 2010
Washington, D.C.
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EMC World 2010
May 10-14, 2010
Boston, MA
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Argyle Executive Forum: 2010 Corporate Counsel Leadership Forum
May 11, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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EDRM Kickoff Meeting Update
May 11-13, 2010
St. Paul, MN
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INTERACT 2010
May 16-19, 2010
Miami, FL
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MER Conference 2010 - Managing Electronic Records
May 16-17, 2010
Chicago, Illinois
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IQPC Information Retention & E-Disclosure Management Summit
May 17-19, 2010
London, UK
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Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit
May 17-18, 2010
London, UK
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ALM - Virtual LegalTech
May 20, 2010
Online
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DRI: Drug & Medical Device
May 20-21, 2010
San Francisco, CA
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ITechLaw: 2010 World Technology Law Conference & Annual Meeting
May 20-21, 2010
Boston, MA
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ACC 2010 Corporate Counsel University (CCU)
May 23-25, 2010
Indianapolis, IN
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DODIIS Worldwide Conference
May 23-27, 2010
Phoenix, AZ
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PLI: International Litigation 2010
May 24, 2010
New York, NY
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CEIC 2010
May 24-27, 2010
Summerlin, Nevada
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InsideCounsel SuperConference
May 25-26, 2010
Chicago, IL
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IBA Technology Law Conference
May 25-26, 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark
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IQPC: 7th Annual Advanced Contract Risk Management for Oil & Gas
May 26-27, 2010
Houston, TX
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USSTRATCOM Cyberspace Symposium
May 26-27, 2010
Omaha, NE
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SpeechTEK
May 26-27, 2010
London, UK
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ACC Europe Annual Conference
May 30 - June 1, 2010
Vienna, Austria
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