The collaboration app Slack sounds, from its full name, like it should be designed for discovery in litigation—“Slack” is actually an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.” Isn’t that what we’re aiming for in ediscovery? What can we say: sometimes names can be deceiving. While Slack is searchable, and it’s often positively packed with discoverable information, it’s not like the structured email data that ediscovery practitioners have grown accustomed to working with.…

The Hanzo Profiles of Excellence series interviews industry leaders in compliance, eDiscovery, investigations and risk management to learn about their experiences in the field and give them a platform to share advice. In this edition, we speak with Ling-Ling Nie, experienced ethics and compliance professional, who recently started a new role at Georgia Tech, a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia founded in 1885 with over 6,000 staff members and nearly…

Sean Burke, Partner at Duane Morris, fills us in on the challenges of multidistrict litigation, the advantages of social media evidence, and new medical device technology. Sean Burke, a partner at Duane Morris LLP, currently represents companies nationwide in complex products liability cases, particularly those involving medical implant devices. He’s tried juries in state and federal courts and manages an intense docket of multidistrict litigation claims. But that’s not all: he also represents…

How confident are you in your web archive’s fidelity? If you visit the websites of Hanzo’s competition, you’ll find quotes from their senior leadership touting them as “the financial services industry’s premier electronic communications archiving provider.” This blanket statement is, of course, carefully crafted to give you confidence. From our perspective, though, it’s actually doing one of three things: Misleading you about their technology’s superiority to win your business. Demonstrating how naive they are to…

Making a difference is a guiding light for the team at Hanzo, and perhaps, is exemplified most clearly by those who deliver service to customers. For this Meet Team Hanzo spotlight, I talked with Matthew Stringer, from the Hanzo Service Delivery team. We spoke about supporting customers in solving real-world legal challenges with technology, his inspiration from space, and some practical life philosophy we all can apply. Hanzo Spotlight: Matthew Stringer, Service Delivery Manager What…