How-To Guide: Leveraging Technological Advances for eDiscovery

Aug. 31, 2011 - PRLog -- Applying eDiscovery & Information Management in Government

1. The National Archives and Records Administration is charged by law to manage all of the US Government’s records.
2. They’re under two record statutes, the Federal Records Act and the Presidential Records Act.
3. Part of this involves White House records from past administrations.
Whenever a president leaves office, then by operation of law, the National Archives inherits all of his records, including all electronic records and emails.
4. This is a huge task and invariably involves lots of litigation, lots of
Freedom of Information Act requests, lots of subpoenas and other investigatory demands.


Technological Advances – How will US & EU case law keep up?

1. We all are struggling, both in the private sector and in the public sector, to keep up, both with respect to technology and the law.
2. We are overwhelmed in our professional lives, in corporations, in institutions of all kinds, by the amount of information that we need to track for compliance purposes, for investigations and litigation.
3. We have been stuck in a paradigm in the US, in the UK and other EU places that experience litigation, and stuck with lawyers turning pages and feeling that they have to eyeball every document; and that’s something that is a legacy from the twentieth century, which now we can no longer afford in 2011 and going forward.
4. Technology is rapidly advancing in the power of discriminating, categorising, or filtering information in useful ways.
5. We have to rely on automated technologies to assist human judgment; otherwise we will be left behind by the number of terabytes, petabytes and beyond that we have to deal with in litigation.


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