Mark your calendars for February 4, 2021, at 1:15 pm EST for this CLE eligible session,  It’s A Brave New World—Map Your Course For Managing Discovery With Collaboration Data. We’ve assembled an outstanding panel of experts who will join us to share their insights regarding ediscovery and information governance with data from modern collaboration applications.

SPEAKERS

  • Andrew Amoranto, Senior Paralegal Manager, Litigation, Twitter
  • Stacey Blaustein, Counsel, IBM
  • Graham Rollins, Sr. Manager, Sr. Counsel, Capital One
  • Brad Harris, VP of Product, Hanzo

 

CLE SESSION DESCRIPTION

Whether we’re ready or not, collaboration platforms and channel-based messaging have arrived in force and are here to stay.  As a result, we’re changing how we communicate in ways that are more dynamic, interactive, and friendlier than ever. Collaboration platforms are reducing corporate reliance on email while empowering collaboration, remote work, and innovation—enhancing an organization’s agility during challenging times.

For corporate legal teams, these changes are requiring a whole new way of thinking when it comes to governance, preservation and discovery response.  Playbooks designed for a world of static documents and email no longer suffice in the face of multi-channel, multi-modal communications. In other words, it’s a brave new world.

In this CLE session, panelists will explore the challenges posed by collaboration applications, and how corporate legal professionals are developing and implementing forward-thinking strategies to navigate those complexities.  Panelists will discuss:

  • What is the new communication paradigm and how does it differ from traditional forms of communication?
  • Why do traditional approaches to both governance and ediscovery need to evolve?
  • Why access to the data is so important and how it can inform your plan for addressing preservation, collection, and discovery for complex and voluminous collaboration data.
  • Strategies for data governance, security, privacy, and retention.

    VISIT HANZO

    Be sure to visit Hanzo during Legalweek. We’re planning some valuable how-to sessions and technology presentations. If you’d like to schedule a personalized demo, contact us today.

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Contract Insight® Enterprise, CobbleStone Software’s user-friendly contract management software, can streamline your organization’s contract management processes by centralizing contracts in a searchable database with integrated AI and machine learning. Watch the video to learn more. 

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Channel-based communications and collaboration have fueled productivity and have transformed the way we work and communicate. The information on these platforms is mission critical. Problem is, these applications were not designed for discovery, investigations, nor compliance. Collaboration and dynamic data are the new normal. So what are you going to do about it?

Click for the video.

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OBJECTIVE

BuzzFeed uses the collaboration platform Slack to augment email and its other modes of internal communication. As a result, its legal and IT teams wanted to ensure they were prepared to identify, review, and produce Slack data in response to ediscovery matters and investigations. BuzzFeed needed a tool that could efficiently locate, preserve, and export that data in a review-ready format.

 

KEY ISSUES

  • Quickly and easily search through Slack users and channels to identify relevant information
  • Seamlessly export that information in a reviewable format
  • Confidently state that all relevant data had been identified and considered—demonstrating defensible processes

 

APPROACH

Thanks to Hanzo Hold, BuzzFeed’s legal and IT teams have a tool that they can use to locate all relevant information within their organization’s Slack application in response to any ediscovery or investigation request. Moreover, they can produce that data to outside counsel for further review.

Read the case study to see how BuzzFeed attains greater efficiency and confidence using Hanzo Hold to manage its Slack data for ediscovery.

/by Hanzo

Portland, OR — 3 February 2021: Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform on a mission to make enterprise information accessible, useful and private, has collaborated with Zapproved to build a direct integration between its ZDiscovery platform and Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform. This announcement marks a significant milestone in Onna’s collaboration with leading legal technology companies to drive a better experience for customers.

With the exponential growth in the adoption of cloud tools and increased fragmentation of data, this new integration will allow corporate legal teams to more effectively preserve, collect, process and review all the relevant data in their organization directly from ZDiscovery for sources like Slack, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. By connecting seamlessly to Onna’s API, Zapproved users are able to select which source to create a hold on and which users the hold applies to along with an optional date range.

Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform is a leading ediscovery solution that is making information across numerous apps less fragmented and more discoverable for legal teams across the globe. Combining the power of both the Onna and Zapproved platforms, allows users to:

  • Conduct real-time ediscovery collections across all unstructured data sources
  • Maintain an audit log of all ediscovery collections
  • Enable users to run advanced searches across all data sources including specific channels and users
  • Export data in multiple formats to upload to document review platforms
  • Set up smart alerts to notify organizations any time there is sensitive or important information being transmitted
  • Create groups within Onna with service providers and outside counsel to collaborate on matters and ediscovery requests
  • Preserve and archive communications in their native, unaltered format, either wholly or in a granular fashion
  • Initiate legal holds across specific data sources, users and/or channels

“Our collaboration with Zapproved is an important milestone in providing further value to our customers across the full breadth of ediscovery. Allowing them to search both structured and unstructured data and making it more discoverable will be a key factor in legal teams being able to conduct real-time collections.” said Kelly Griswold, COO, Onna.

Rekha Shenoy, CPO, Zapproved commented, “In the past 12 months, we started to notice a trend in the market with customers moving away from managing all their retention policies, preservations and information governance in each individual application they managed. Instead they were moving towards bundling all their data into a single location. We identified Onna to be at the forefront of that movement.” Rekha continues, “Empowering users to be able to preserve and collect data wherever it lives, was a key factor in our collaboration with Onna. Providing our customers with a best-in-class collaboration solution, with tight integration, allows both Zapproved and Onna to play to their strengths.”

About Zapproved

Zapproved’s ZDiscovery platform is designed specifically for corporate legal teams. With this platform, you
can take control of ediscovery from the moment litigation is anticipated until the matter is resolved. Our
powerful yet intuitive system equips teams to reduce reliance on outside providers, dramatically lower costs,
and build a better process. Backed by ironclad security and unrivaled customer support, our enterprise-class
software is trusted by more corporate legal teams than any other. To learn more, visit
http://www.zapproved.com.

About Onna 

Onna integrates knowledge from all workplace applications, allowing anyone to unify, protect, search, automate, and build on top of their organization’s proprietary knowledge. With the rise of cloud-based and hosted workplace apps, knowledge is extremely fragmented and difficult to access in most organizations, costing businesses huge amounts of time and money in searching for their own information. Onna’s Machine Learning-based Knowledge Integration Platform can be connected to any cloud or on-premise application, including GSuite, Office 365, Slack, Dropbox, Salesforce, and many more. It supports eDiscovery, information governance, knowledge management, archiving, monitoring for private and sensitive data sharing, and building bespoke internal workflow apps using proprietary information.

With headquarters in New York City and Barcelona and teams in Raleigh, San Francisco, Toulouse, and London, Onna supports some of the world’s leading companies, including Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Fitbit, Lyft, NewsCorp, and Slack. Onna has raised $43M from investors, including Atomico, Dawn Capital, Dropbox, and Slack Fund. To learn more, visit www.onna.com.

Media Contact:
melissa.tatham@zapproved.com

/by Zapproved

Onna Collaborates with Zapproved to Empower Corporate Legal Teams To More Effectively Manage Unstructured Data and Make Information More Discoverable

Onna and Zapproved tackle different sections of the EDRM process and now, working together, are able to give customers an end-to-end solution to manage all unstructured data sources. 

New York and Barcelona — 3 February 2021: Onna, the world’s first Knowledge Integration Platform on a mission to make enterprise information accessible, useful and private, has collaborated with Zapproved to build a direct integration between its ZDiscovery platform and Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform. This announcement marks a significant milestone in Onna’s collaboration with leading legal technology companies to drive a better experience for customers.

With the exponential growth in the adoption of cloud tools and increased fragmentation of data, this new integration will allow corporate legal teams to more effectively preserve, collect, process and review all the relevant data in their organization directly from ZDiscovery for sources like Slack, Zoom and Microsoft Teams. By connecting seamlessly to Onna’s API, Zapproved users are able to select which source to create a hold on and which users the hold applies to along with an optional date range.

Onna’s Knowledge Integration Platform is a leading eDiscovery solution that is making information across numerous apps less fragmented and more discoverable for legal teams across the globe. Combining the power of both the Onna and Zapproved platforms, allows users to:

  • Conduct real-time eDiscovery collections across all unstructured data sources 
  • Maintain an audit log of all eDiscovery collections
  • Enable users to run advanced searches across all data sources including specific channels and users
  • Export data in multiple formats to upload to document review platforms
  • Set up smart alerts to notify organizations any time there is sensitive or important information being transmitted
  • Create groups within Onna with service providers and outside counsel to collaborate on matters and eDiscovery requests
  • Preserve and archive communications in their native, unaltered format, either wholly or in a granular fashion
  • Initiate legal holds across specific data sources, users and/or channels

“Our collaboration with Zapproved is an important milestone in providing further value to our customers across the full breadth of eDiscovery. Allowing them to search both structured and unstructured data and making it more discoverable will be a key factor in legal teams being able to conduct real-time collections.” said Kelly Griswold, COO, Onna.

Rekha Shenoy, CPO, Zapproved commented, “In the past 12 months, we started to notice a trend in the market with customers moving away from managing all their retention policies, preservations and information governance in each individual application they managed. Instead they were moving towards bundling all their data into a single location. We identified Onna to be at the forefront of that movement.” Rekha continues, “Empowering users to be able to preserve and collect data wherever it lives, was a key factor in our collaboration with Onna. Providing our customers with a best-in-class collaboration solution, with tight integration, allows both Zapproved and Onna to play to their strengths.”

About Onna 

Onna integrates knowledge from all workplace applications, allowing anyone to unify, protect, search, automate, and build on top of their organization’s proprietary knowledge. With the rise of cloud-based and hosted workplace apps, knowledge is extremely fragmented and difficult to access in most organizations, costing businesses huge amounts of time and money in searching for their own information. Onna’s Machine Learning-based Knowledge Integration Platform can be connected to any cloud or on-premise application, including GSuite, Office 365, Slack, Dropbox, Salesforce, and many more. It supports eDiscovery, information governance, knowledge management, archiving, monitoring for private and sensitive data sharing, and building bespoke internal workflow apps using proprietary information.

With headquarters in New York City and Barcelona and teams in Raleigh, San Francisco, Toulouse, and London, Onna supports some of the world’s leading companies, including Dropbox, Electronic Arts, Facebook, Fitbit, Lyft, NewsCorp, and Slack. Onna has raised $43M from investors, including Atomico, Dawn Capital, Dropbox, and Slack Fund. To learn more, visit www.onna.com.

About Zapproved

Zapproved’s ZDiscovery platform is designed specifically for corporate legal teams. With this platform, you can take control of ediscovery from the moment litigation is anticipated until the matter is resolved. Our powerful yet intuitive system equips teams to reduce reliance on outside providers, dramatically lower costs, and build a better process. Backed by ironclad security and unrivaled customer support, our enterprise-class software is trusted by more corporate legal teams than any other.

Media Contacts:

pr@onna.com

onna@thepr.network

media@zapproved.com

/by Onna

LexCheck’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered contract negotiation platform is transforming contract negotiations for many of the world’s largest enterprises.

LegalWeek, New York City, February 3, 2021 /Legal Newswire/ — LexCheck, a global provider of the world’s only AI-powered contract negotiation platform providing near instantaneous attorney-quality redlining and guidance for virtually all business agreements while ensuring compliance with organizational playbook guidance, today announced a major update to its AI Contract Negotiation platform.   LexCheck’s second-generation AI platform, LexCheck Negotiation Hub, expands on LexCheck’s core contract review capabilities to now support multi-round negotiations with sophisticated position and fallback Digital Playbook management capabilities.

Click for Press Release.

/by Will Chartain

Onna’s video showcase with Kelly Griswold, COO, on how to access and control your cloud data for eDiscovery, compliance, and more.

https://vimeo.com/507556152

/by Onna

As lawyers continue to work from home, they are logging more of their own billable hours and spending more time overall in their case management platforms. While case management software providers are experiencing a boom in usage, lawyers are also calling for more integrations that accommodate and improve their remote settings. An article in LTN this week, As Case Management Software Usage Grows, Lawyers Call for More Integrations, highlights this trend. AbacusNext’s legal global product marketing director Tomas Suros said the practice management platform has experienced an uptick in time tracking and APX billing usage. “I think this is in response to a remote work environment when manual [spreadsheet] or even paper-based tracking of time simply isn’t feasible any longer.”

This week AbacusNext announced the company will present Amicus Cloud 6.1 during Legalweek(year) 2021. Amicus Cloud is a cloud-based practice management solution that allows firms to access information about their practice 24/7 using any device from any location.  The Amicus Cloud dashboard makes it easy to manage every task – Calendar, Email, Tasks, Time and Billing, and Matter Management.  A secure client portal includes APX electronic payments (Abacus Payment Exchange), for seamless management of client billing.

The new release of Amicus Cloud includes support for recurring client billings in APX, for retainers or other flexible fee arrangements. Automatic organization of any document into its appropriate folder makes case information retrieval easier.

Tomas Suros, global product marketing director says “Inefficient and cumbersome payment and bill collection practices hinder companies’ ability to optimize their practice. Using Amicus Cloud with APX to schedule client payments and improve billing processes allows our customers to leverage the technology to build a better practice.”

Read the news release.

 

/by AbacusNext