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Data.  It becomes a kind of currency in anticipating litigation.  It is what is passed between parties, negotiated access to, preserved, and stored with great scrutiny. It forms the building blocks to supporting a case or discrediting an opposing side's case. And when anticipating litigation it can become the crucial element in the eDiscovery process.  But identifying pertinent data in its numerous forms and for its many purposes can prove to be overwhelming for firms of all sizes. 

The following FindLaw video introduces the topic of content identification as it relates to legal technology. 

Law firms big and small face similar challenges with the vast and increasingly important field of legal technology.  One threshold question posed to law firms by their clients, is how a company or organization should manage its internal and external documents--both to preserve documents as legally required but also to maintain privacy and confidentiality by destroying documents in a timely and appropriate manner.

The following FindLaw video introduces this initial topic of legal records management and technology. 

http://technology.findlaw.com/video/records-management.html

Companies are getting into Twitter in a big way.  Whether they're using it for marketing purposes, customer service or even designing a TV series around it, companies have embraced the microblogging service as a novel means of interacting with the outside world.

As with any technology, however, Twitter has its pitfalls.  In a recent post in FindLaw's Strategist blog, I pointed readers to a list of Twitter dangers compiled by an attorney at Howard Rice.  Since things on Twitter happen so fast, it's possible that a company could fall into one of the dangers on the list, and then lose track of the offending tweet, before it was even aware that anything had happened.

Just a day after the White House won a court victory over its massive loss of emails during the Bush Administration, the AP is reporting that The National Archive has lost a hard drive containing huge amounts of sensitive data dating back to the Clinton years.

The drive contained a terabyte of personally identifying data about White House staff and guests, according to a statement from the Archives.  No one knows if the hard drive was stolen or simply misplaced, but the FBI is currently looking into the matter.