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Challenges of Public Sector eDiscovery   Government / Public Sector agencies face a multitude of additional challenges to the eDiscovery process when compared with privately-owned organisations, challenges that can make procuring reliable and robust end-to-end services that much more difficult.

How RelativityOne's Short Message Viewer Aides Your Review RelativityOne's Short Message Viewer is a viewer experience created by Relativity to provide greater functionality when it comes to processing RSMF files. RSMF (Relativity Short Messaging Format) files encompass pretty much all instant message files including SMS, iMessage, Slack, and Whatsapp messages to name a few. 

What is eDiscovery? eDiscovery or Electronic discovery is the electronic aspect of identifying, collecting and producing electronically stored information (ESI) in response to a request for production in a lawsuit or investigation. It is a crucial litigation and investigation asset and includes, but is not limited to information stored in, emails, documents, presentations, databases, voicemail,

Physical Services in the Age of the Metaverse   The shape of our paper-based service has changed dramatically over the last 2 years. Prior to covid and the technological advancements it has produced, large court bundles requiring printing, organising, and photocopying were the norm, with the occasional request made to scan in archived files to create more accessible online copies. Now, 90% of the

How Clustering Can Improve All Areas of Review Clustering identifies documents which are conceptually similar to each other and divides them into smaller sub-sets of documents called clusters.

How to Facilitate Remote Review   One of the biggest impacts the Covid-19 pandemic has had on industry as a whole is the move to remote working. While in some industries the effects of remote working have been hit or miss, in eDiscovery the transition between in-office and hybrid/remote review has actually been a fairly smooth one... At least, that is how we have observed it.

Refining eDiscovery in the Hybrid Working Era   The era of hybrid working is well and truly here, and while the ratio of hours spent working remotely vs working in the office will differ for each organisation, most of the legal sector appears to have settled comfortably into a hybrid state of working. However, when it comes to eDiscovery, the same cannot always be said. Many are concerned about

3 Must-Have eDiscovery Capabilities for Better Collaboration     Many of the most prevalent problems eDiscovery professionals face today aren’t related to a lack of competency or skill, but rather to collaboration or a lack thereof. In the legal space, communication is everything, and it is built or broken by the technology that facilitates it. 

Video and Audio Files in RelativityOne     While almost everybody has a pretty good idea of what to expect when it comes to viewing and interacting with text content on an eDiscovery platform, not many people know what to expect when it comes to audio and visual file types, especially when completing a first-time eDiscovery project. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, a great many changes

How to Handle Data Proliferation Post-Covid   A survey from Gartner published in August 2021 revealed that since 2019, there has been a 44% rise in the use of collaboration tools in the workforce. Remarkable as this recent leap forward in digital transformation has undeniably been, from an eDiscovery perspective, it has given rise to a whole new set of issues.