Yesterday, I sat on a panel to discuss the recent eDiscovery Business Confidence survey results, which for the first time separated Canadian responses from those in the US. Canadians made up 20% of the respondents with 50% being law firms, and the other being made up largely of Government agencies and eDiscovery serrvice providers.

The survey results highlighted a few interesting subtleties in the Canadian eDiscovery marketplace:

Special Guest Post from Jeff Braislin, Manager, Product Marketing for FTI Consulting.

Recently, Ringtail 8.6 was released to great acclaim. Ringtail 8.6 takes the next step in advancing Ringtail’s award winning functionality to incorporate user feedback and ensure Ringtail users have access to the most complete eDiscovery platform on the market. Under the banner of efficiency and usability, Ringtail 8.6 delivers key functionality enhancements allowing users to work smarter, not harder with Ringtail.

Of the many enhancements included in Ringtail 8.6, below are in my opinion, the top 3 enhancements that I believe users will find the most pleasing.

Back in October, we proudly announced our involvement as an Organizational Advocate of the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, with the even more exciting news that the Fall 2016 Survey would now have separate Canadian responses from those of our American neighbours.

The Fall 2016 eDiscovery Business Confidence quarterly survey was completed on December 1, 2016 and results are now available online on the ComplexDiscovery blog.

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In this latest article from LegalTech News, Jennifer Johnson, Vice President of Commonwealth Legal and Sean Lynch, Manager, Legal Solutions, give us their insights on a few key differences:

1. A smaller, more tight knit eDiscovery community in Canada brings about close working relationships and the adoption of best practices;
   
   
2. The preponderance of women in litigation support roles in Canada further fosters cooperation;
   
   
3. Canadian clients are using analytics more and more during Early Case Assessment and prior to review (such as through the use of our Intelligent Review solutions) in order to adhere to the principle of proportionality as mandated by the Sedona Canada Principles. In fact, a full 82% of Commonwealth’s clients apply some sort of conceptual analytics to their file; and
   
   
4. Canadian corporations are more likely to be the drivers behind and increase in eDiscovery technologies usage.

Read the full article here.

During the course of the 500-day-long U.S. Presidential Election campaign, there has been a great amount of discussion and concern surrounding the review of Hillary Clinton’s emails. Most recently, James Comey, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, sent a letter to Congress indicating that the FBI had “reviewed” all 650,000 documents contained on a newly-discovered laptop owned by Huma Abedin, a close aide to Hillary Clinton.

Commonwealth Legal has proudly become an Organizational Advocate of the eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey. This is a non-scientific, quarterly survey designed to provide insight into the business confidence level of individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem. The term ‘business’ represents the economic factors that impact the creation, delivery, and consumption of eDiscovery products and services.

New for Fall 2016, we are pleased to announce that the survey will now separate Canadian responses from those of our American neighbours.

Take the Fall 2016 Survey

It will be the first time a Canadian high court will consider the “right to be forgotten” on Google. The Supreme Court of Canada granted Google leave to appeal¹ the ruling in Equustek Solutions Inc. v. Google Inc., 2015 BCCA 265 (see full case here), that required Google, as a third party, to block search results operated by the defendant not only on its Canadian search engine, google.ca, but everywhere else, including on google.com. The leave to appeal granted to Google in 2016 will clarify whether judges have the legal power to force Google to scrub sites outside their borders.

Last week, editors of The Relativity Blog reached out to Yvette Bula, Senior Director of Technical Services at Commonwealth Legal, to get her thoughts on how using a combination of analytics tools can narrow down the scope of complex cases—even when it comes to technology-assisted review.

The three tools discussed in this informative article include:

1. Email Threading

2. Concept Searching

3. Clustering

To read Yvette's full article and find out how using a combination of analytics tools can prove to be an effective approach to TAR, check out the The Relativity Blog.

kCura reached out to two members of the Relativity Community, including Yvette Bula, Senior Director of Technical Services at Commonwealth Legal, for some tips on how to narrow the communication gap between technologists and clients.

1. Be visual and provide proof.

2. Default to transparency

3. Encourage active involvement

To read the full article and find out what Yvette had to say, check out The Relativity Blog