An informal and occasional selection of recent international eDisclosure / eDiscovery / GDPR / legal IT / data protection / information governance / interesting news / articles collated since 2011 by Jonathan Maas of The Maas Consulting Group in London. Anyone can email
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Technology Assisted Review – empowering David to tackle Goliath in eDiscovery (E-Discovery Consulting) https://maas-bong.io/2nkTxlo
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EY acquires Riverview Law (Legal IT Insider) https://maas-bong.io/2niGmBz
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US court grants defendant’s motion to compel various records from plaintiff in “slip and fall” case (CloudNine) https://maas-bong.io/2M2aIH6
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Artificial intelligence in the legal industry: adoption and strategy - Part 1 (Information Age) https://maas-bong.io/2LX6TTA
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Why proofreading legal documents needs more than spillchuck (Intelligent Editing) https://maas-bong.io/2M3qr96
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Legal transformation or disruption? A new rule for talking about it (Prism Legal) https://maas-bong.io/2vKKca9
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Lex Machina extends its analytics to insurance litigation (LawSites) https://maas-bong.io/2njEHM1
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AI security hype putting businesses at risk (Computer Weekly) https://maas-bong.io/2M2MxZn
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Welcome to the New Normal: the state of law firm marketing (LexisNexis) https://maas-bong.io/2nl9vvQ
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Story telling is essential to get adoption of innovations (3 Geeks and a Law Blog) https://maas-bong.io/2nkos1i
A selection of upcoming and potentially interesting live webinars/webcasts
07 Aug 1300 ET School’s out- let’s stay connected - the IoT (ACEDS / Ricoh) https://maas-bong.io/2KpDXTF
07 Aug 1900 BST Creating a data placement strategy for unstructured data (MER Sapient)
07 Aug 1900 BST Avoid surprising litigation discoveries - leveraging tech for complex litigation
(EDRM / tcdi) https://maas-bong.io/2LHKB49
08 Aug 1300 EDT Significant developments in social media discovery (The Sedona Conference)
14 Aug 1700 BST The rise of legal operations: designing data-driven legal processes (Juro)
14 Aug 1300 ET Government agencies discuss: solving eDiscovery / public records request headaches (Exterro) https://maas-bong.io/2LGniaU
22 Aug 1300 EDT Tips for streamlining eDiscovery activities with your law firm(s) (ACEDS)
28 Aug 1300 EDT Negotiating a forensic examination protocol (ACEDS / Craig Ball) https://maas-bong.io/2K4gr9C
29 Aug 1300 EDT When things go wrong: avoiding loss of ESI (ACEDS / Dentons) https://maas-bong.io/2mUAvlH
30 Aug 1300 EDT Ask the expert: Mike Quartararo on the eDiscovery project management landscape - tools overview (ACEDS) https://maas-bong.io/2LA0LAF
05 Sep 1700 BST Theft of trade secrets: forensics best practices (HaystackID) https://maas-bong.io/2LPqC7S
12 Sep 1630 BST Getting lost in semantics - selecting the right search engine (Concept Searching)
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Who we are
The Maas Consulting Group is led by Jonathan Maas, a renowned paper and electronic discovery/disclosure veteran with an unparalleled 36 years experience in the field: 28 years in international law firms and eight years in international consultancies. Jonathan speaks and writes on the subject widely and has been involved in developing civil procedure in England & Wales to respond to the modern demands of litigating in the digital age.
Jonathan’s métier is acting as a verbal or written bridge between technical experts and lay people, whether it’s conveying complex technology concepts to a legal audience or explaining matters of detailed legal procedure to IT specialists. He has the ability to unite diverse teams to complete discovery exercises as cost- and time-effectively as possible. In this way he has delivered numerous successful projects for national and international businesses and local and central government. This translates into extremely experienced and empathetic support for lawyers and IT professionals.
His experience of identifying, collecting, classifying and acting on data in the legal environments of investigations and disputes continues to add value in the current environment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Information Governance and preparations for the UK to leave the European Union (BREXIT). Sound and defensible data management is more important in business than it has ever been.
Jonathan has also researched and implemented computer systems in law firms for the purposes of library and know-how management, litigation support, costs budgeting, collaborative working and more.
At a glance, since 1982 Jonathan has worked at:
Hogan Lovells
Simmons & Simmons
The Litigation Support Company
DLA Piper
EY
Huron Legal
Consilio
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(07 August 2018)