For compliance, internal investigations, and legal departments, the GDPR created a whole set of new obligations. Not only do data breaches have to be reported, but all subjects whose information has been breached must be informed. Additionally, it is now possible for any citizen of the European…

Corporate counsel have used various tools and procedures over the years in their efforts to streamline eDiscovery and reduce outside spend. They’ve tried to outrace swelling floods of corporate data for decades, even as that data continues to drag them under by becoming increasingly difficult to…

If there is one part of the job likely to keep corporate counsel awake (and usually in the office) all night, it is eDiscovery. Having barely come to grips with the vast number of documents contained on servers and in emails, electronically stored information (ESI) in the form of mobile data has…

As the number of regulators grows, so does the amount of requests for information. There can be questions asked related to fiscal, environmental, privacy, finances, or health matters; you’re expected to answer all inquiries in a timely fashion.

Performing eDiscovery is basically writing blank checks. Well, maybe not literally. But the way eDiscovery gets handled currently is pretty much boils down to the same thing. Case in point: your company gets a request for information. Whether that request comes via discovery in a court case or from…

For company’s General Counsel, protecting the company’s good name is key. Part of that protection is (co-)coordinating IT’s decisions about corporate data collection and storage platforms with the CFO’s mandates about controlling cost. Those decisions have very real legal implications only you can…

Since 2007, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has brought about among the most dramatic international enforcement in the world. The number of FCPA enforcement actions has increased across industry types, and fines have been increasing ever since.

Regulatory requests are always unannounced and can be very disruptive for your daily business. These requests for information and documentation from regulatory bodies or external auditors come in different forms but should never be under-estimated.

In this week’s ACEDS webinar “Efficiently Handling Regulatory Requests”, ACEDS’s executive director Mary Mack and Johannes Scholtes (CSO ZyLAB), were joined by May Tal Gongolevsky, Counsel E-Discovery Advocacy and Management Team with Baker & Hostetler LLP. Gongolevsky counsels clients on issues…