Tag Archives: e-discovery

Social Media’s Not For You—It’s About You: Risks for Organizations in a New Age of Sharing

By James A. Sherer and Melinda L. McLellan on April 20, 2015 Posted in Data Breaches, Information Governance, International Privacy Law, Mobile Privacy, Privacy Litigation, Social Media, Workplace Privacy

Social media and social networking, including websites and applications that allow users to create and share content, have become ubiquitous. Joining the social networking revolution may be very easy for individuals, but establishing best practices for organizations that want or need to be actively engaged with social media is not. Initial considerations tend to focus … Continue Reading

Dear Lawmakers, Your New Breach Notice Laws Should Address These Issues

By Craig A. Hoffman on January 20, 2015 Posted in Breach Notification, Data Breach Notification Laws, State Legislation

The days of companies being so afraid of the reputational impact of a breach that they would look for any way possible to avoid disclosure are gone. The pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. Now companies, often in the name of being “completely transparent” with their customers, want to disclose incidents as soon as … Continue Reading

2014 Information Governance Year in Review

By Judy Selby, James A. Sherer and Benjamin Barnes on December 19, 2014 Posted in Information Governance

2014 has been perhaps the biggest year Information Governance (“IG”) has seen. A relatively small and, if not unknown, at least undefined field only a few years ago has grown into an area of interest—and concern—to many organizations. The continued growth of data, the escalating threat of data breaches, the amazing ability to collect and … Continue Reading

What? The Rules Committee Hearings Don’t Have A Hashtag?

By Karin Scholz Jenson, James A. Sherer and Jonathan A. Forman on February 7, 2014 Posted in Information Governance

This post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler Discovery Advocate blog. On a snowy Sixth Avenue this week, thousands of people packed the New York Hilton Midtown for the sensory overload that is LegalTech New York (#LTNY), the annual E-Discovery, privacy, and information governance bash. And today, just hours after the massive conference closed, the E-Discovery … Continue Reading

BakerHostetler Introduces Information Governance Capability

By BakerHostetler on February 6, 2014 Posted in Information Governance

NEW YORK, February 6, 2014—BakerHostetler announced today that is has formally organized a practice capability around clients’ needs in the area of Information Governance. The newly created cross-practice team, led by Partner Judy Selby and Counsel James Sherer, draws upon the firm’s established expertise in the areas of Privacy and Data Protection and E-Discovery Advocacy … Continue Reading

Something Wicked This Way Comes – Dark and Dusty Data and the Risk Your Organization Already Owns

By BakerHostetler on December 16, 2013 Posted in Data Breaches

This blog post is a joint submission with BakerHostetler’s Discovery Advocate blog. Authored by: James Sherer During the final panel of Thomson Reuters’ 17th Annual eDiscovery & Information Governance in Practice Forum, Thomas Barnett, Ignatius Grande, and Sandra Rampersaud led a lively discussion on Managing Big Data, Dark Data, and Risk. And while the exchange … Continue Reading