Blog

Legal Services providers are increasingly focusing on Australia’s legal market to explore opportunities to push forward global expansion efforts amid a positive, changing legal landscape.

Technology Assisted Review (often shortened to TAR) has been making inroads in most major litigation markets. The progress hasn't been as speedy as some would have liked, perhaps, but law is a cautious and conservative field and even technological advancements that promise to herald a new era of efficiency in legal discovery and document review must wait until sufficient precedent has been accumulated by those daring justices and judges who are willing to give technology a chance.

October is Cybersecurity Month in the United States, but with the increasing rates of cybercrime, both from international and domestic sources, there is no month where cybercrime isn’t a constant, potentially catastrophic threat. The SolarWinds attack attributed to Russia in 2020, recent attacks on the water supply and other national infrastructure, and the increasing rate at which people have started working from home after the pandemic, has increased our awareness of cybercrime and our need to be constantly vigilant.

Messaging apps have become a ubiquitous form of communication, with billions of users worldwide. They have changed the way we communicate and share information with others in our personal lives and business, such that employees now routinely use messaging apps to conduct business. As the use of messaging apps has grown, so too has the need to collect data from these apps in a forensically sound manner from corporate-managed systems, as well as mobile devices for legal or investigatory reasons.

Many legal professionals are proficiently familiar with the discovery portion of matters since this work, which involves collecting and managing hundreds of gigabytes, sometimes terabytes, of data, can be quite arduous and require tight collaborative support from highly organized eDiscovery specialists. In comparison, however, the equally critical process of preparing for trial that lawyers manage upon filing a case is not as universally known to the eDiscovery community since these tasks and workflows are typically administered and overseen by different legal case teams.

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) programs remain both a major opportunity and challenge for enterprises. It is possible to capitalize on the benefits of BYOD without adding significant risk by following the right approach to identifying BYOD risk and developing an effective BYOD policy.

Artificial Intelligence is a way of using technology to analyze large amounts of data in much less time than it would take a human user, and to make predictions based on this data that can be helpful for a variety of applications. Deep Blue’s legendary chess match against Kasparov is a classic example of AI and its ability to predict certain outcomes based on data.