The three words beginning with “B” in my title are a random selection from the top of my running list of things to write about. They all have a connection with eDisclosure / eDiscovery which is not necessarily obvious (barristers and disclosure? Surely solicitors deal with that?). The list might equally have read “Pennsylvania, Peck and Model Order”, which would have been equally random and equally discovery-related.
I rarely do compendium articles which sweep up a lot of subjects. A mass of interesting things, however, has turned up about eDiscovery in the same week as I prepare for a run of events – seven of them, in six different countries in five weeks, with another shortly afterwards. Each of them requires at least an outline to be written; they involve liaison with others; not least, they require bookings to be made and some system to be created which ensures that I turn up in the right country, on the due date and with the right set of notes. I leave for the first of them tomorrow.
The result is a long article which picks up as many as possible of the strands which have been flying by. Google Plus will one day be a very good tool for this sort of thing. At the moment, my G+ audience would be about 10 people against the 200 or so page views per day on this blog and over 900 Twitter followers. A compendium article has the side merit of showing in one place how many different components of business life are touched by eDiscovery – which is in fact the theme of at least one of my talks. I break the article into two – this one about the journeys and their relevance to eDiscovery generally, and a second which flicks through the incoming material. Except where I am referring specifically to the UK rules, I will stick to the term “discovery’ and try and ignore the faddy word “disclosure” which came into our rules in 1999 in the curious hope that the label change would improve matters.
My conferences page shows what the events are and has hyperlinks where relevant (hyperlinks are the bane of my life and I will not repeat them all here). In summary, I am doing a panel on early case assessment with Digital Reef in Washington and then going straight to Dublin where I am doing a UK and common law round-up with Senior Master Whitaker, and a US updates session with Browning Marean of DLA Piper US at eDiscovery Ireland 2011. After part of a weekend at home, I go to Berlin to give a speech to IQPC’s conference, on worldwide eDiscovery developments and why they matter for EU companies. I am back home for three days before going to Sydney for the Nuix Exchange, to join Senior Master Whitaker, US Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck, Craig Ball, David Cowen of the Cowen Group and others at an event which promises to be both intensely educational and extremely pleasurable. Read the rest of this entry »
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