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Information Governance

Information Governance Initiative (IGI), Annual Report 2014: Information Governance Goes to Work

The following is a summary of a webcast in which Barclay T. Blair, Founder and Executive Director of the Information Governance Initiative (IGI) and President of the consulting firm Via Lumina, presents the results of IGI's 2014 survey (see link below). An internationally recognized...

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Information Governance

Information Governance: What It Is & Why We Need It

Mack: We are happy to bring to your readers the latest on how the initiative to define information governance is rolling out, what is being found and why it is important for organizations we serve and individuals in those organizations to have this knowledge. Speaking today is Barclay Blair,...

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Discovery

EU Businesses Should Prepare For That Dawn Raid

Recently, the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Committee’s 2014 International CLE Program was presented at the law office of NautaDutilh in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The theme of this year’s program was “White Collar Crime and Regulatory Trends in the EU and U...

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Discovery

Information Governance: Solving The Problem Of Over-Preservation

Editor: Mary, what is the link between information governance and the proposed new Rules to be added to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure? Mack: The proposed Rules are intended to address some of the unintended consequences of the 2006 amendments that expanded the volume of electronic...

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Technology

Board-Level Preparation For Radical Transparency

Editor: What are your qualifications to discuss this topic? Mack: Five years ago, former Judge Ronald Hedges, Carole Basri and I developed a plan for chartering a board-approved eDiscovery compliance program, including information governance and risk, modeled on the seven elements of the U.S....

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Technology

Today’s Most Challenging Litigation Cost Issues: Privacy, Privilege And Over-Preservation Related To ESI

Editor: Please tell us about your background, as well as ZyLAB. Mack: I have been working in e-discovery for over 13 years and in information management and data processing for over 30 years. I am the enterprise technology counsel at ZyLAB and work mostly with corporations to normalize what has...

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Board of Directors

Defensible Clean-Up; Addressing The Dark Side Of Big Data

  Editor: ZyLAB has been warning companies about the “dark side of Big Data.” Please start our discussion by telling us what big data is. Mack: Big data can be described as having volume, velocity and variety. The estimates of how much data is created on a daily basis...

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