Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to IT law or which focus on the trends in IT which are likely to affect IT lawyers…
Each year we ask experts in a wide variety of fields for their views on the likely developments in the year ahead. This is a selection of the predictions published on the SCL web site that relate to technological developments that affect legal practice and the forecast changes for e-disclosure, electronic evidence and forensics…
Future Content My heading suggests that I am about to outline our programme of articles and features for 2011. But, since our aim is always to respond with great agility to the events shaping the legal IT landscape, I cannot say that I know much about what is to come past February. My heading is…
In the second in our Back to Basics series, Michael Taylor and Matthew Lavy consider the drafting and effects of two types of clause that are almost inevitable features of IT contracts: the exclusion clause and the limitation of liability clause….
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Here is the fourth course in the predictions banquet. There are predictions from Chris Dale, Monica Horten and Mark Turner. Since I dare not allocate anyone to the cheese course, let’s call this coffee and mints or, given the season and the substantial fare that is still on offer, coffee and mince pies….
A sweet and creamy dessert course for the predictions banquet – predictions from Bill Jones, Jane Seager, Peter Birley, Andrew Tibber and Tracey Stretton….
According to Kroll Ontrack’s Fourth Annual Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Survey, there are plenty of organisations creating policies but few are making full use of the tools and technologies available to address ESI challenges….
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A substantial, warming and slightly spicy soup as a first course in the predictions banquet – predictions from Chris Marsden, John Yates, Peter Sommer, Lilian Edwards, Mike Taylor, Jan Durant, Stephen Mason, Shireen Smith, Bryan King, Joe Reevy and Nick Holmes. Don’t forget the amuse bouche posted on 30 November with the predictions from Kit Burden and Robert Buchan…
In any eDiscovery project, documents can reside on a multitude of data sources collected from many different custodians. The proliferation of electronic documents poses issues of volume which contribute towards increased cost and time requirements in an IT forensic investigation. Andrew Pimlott gives a practical illustration of how combining traditional IT forensics analysis techniques with eDiscovery tools and processes can add value to an investigation….
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Our ambition in SCL as a society is to embrace the wider aspects of technology as it applies to the law…