I went yesterday via Terminal 1 at Heathrow to the Varsity Match as a guest of FTI, where Oxford beat Cambridge 21-10. The last time I watched rugby at Twickenham was 4 November 1967, when the Queen nearly ran me over.
That is a paragraph which raises more questions than it answers for many readers. What is a “Varsity”? What is “rugby”? Who on earth remembers precisely where he was 43 years ago? Oh, it’s that bloke who is always at Heathrow – but what is he doing there on a journey from Oxford to south-west London? How does a homicidal head of state come into it? At least the name FTI means something, so let’s start there.
FTI Consulting is a large international advisory company, whose business segments include FTI Technology. FTI Technology owns well-known discovery brands, such as the review tool Ringtail Legal and the processing tool Attenex Patterns, and has developed other products and consultancy services around them. It therefore competes in the same marketplace as both the software-led and the consultancy-led e-disclosure / e-discovery vendors in addition to its wider consultative role, something which is often overlooked by those who are short-listing e-discovery providers.
FTI Technology is amongst the sponsors of the e-Disclosure Information Project, which gives me the opportunity to hear and then write about a wide-range of discovery-related topics. Coming up, for example, is a piece about a paper which FTI has commissioned from RAND on eDiscovery in European Countries, which ties in with FTI Investigate, FTI’s recently-launched global investigations initiative. I have been speaking on panels on US-EU data collections in both the US and Europe recently, and the subject is one which matters. Read the rest of this entry »
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