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Jackson Palmer
Washington, DC
eDiscovery Insider with 15 Years Experience in Large Law
Interests: Jackson Palmer is an eDiscovery attorney with 15 years experience working in large law firms developing and managing the EDRM process with a specific focus on creating and implementing document review strategies. From contract attorney to staff attorney to firm-wide eDiscovery leadership, Jackson has developed and evolved along with the eDiscovery discipline. Jackson enjoys a unique perspective on the successful management of the eDiscovery workflow in large law firms. As legal technology continues to evolve and impact the practice of law to greater degrees (cyber-security, information governance, risk management, etc.), Jackson focuses his strategy on an holistic, institutional, balanced approach that acknowledges the critical role of an educated team, cutting-edge technology, structured best practices, and advanced billing competitive with the market. Jackson believes that it is essential for eDiscovery professionals/attorneys in the law firm environment to blend the business and process savvy of vendors with the substantive counsel of high-caliber lawyers. Jackson envisions an industry-leading, service-oriented model that integrates eDiscovery across all practice groups and administrative departments and is conceived as practice management.
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Dark data and the umbrella principles of information governance are impacting eDiscovery, legal technology and broader business practices. Gartner defines dark data as the “information assets organizations collect, process and store during regular business activities but, generally fail to use for other purposes” and the storing and securing of dark... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2016 at Inside eDiscovery
With any particular legal field, the treatment, practice and resulting jurisprudence may ebb and flow over time with societal values and practicalities (apologies to the “strict constructionists” amongst us). An historical adherence to precedence is designed to keep us within parameters and standardized or accepted approaches to factual circumstances and... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2016 at Inside eDiscovery
The legal services industry has witnessed astonishing growth and development in the past decade. At its heart, technology has reinvented discovery and driven an ever-evolving market for products serving eDiscovery, information governance and big data. However, technology in a vacuum without complementary organizational eDiscovery architecture is like a locked door... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2016 at Inside eDiscovery
Traditional eDiscovery professionals and thought-leaders are expanding their scope to embrace Information Governance (IG). As this year’s cause célèbre, IG is quickly emerging as a cross-disciplinary approach to managing data and a proactive legal discipline that exploits modern data analytic technology to categorize enterprise information in anticipation of need. We... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2016 at Inside eDiscovery
Legal precedence is designed to keep practice within parameters, to create predictability and to develop standardized treatment of factual circumstances and subject matter. The practice of eDiscovery has developed differently because it is both created and affected by technology, and its growth has been dizzying. Inevitably, rapid technological evolution finds... Continue reading
Posted Sep 28, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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In Just Follow the Rules! FRCP Amendments could be an eDiscovery Game Changer, Jennifer Brennan of iDS interviews the Hon. John M. Facciola (Ret.) and the Hon. Mary M. Rowland in a very thorough exploration of how the impending changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) will impact... Continue reading
Posted Jul 22, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of June 25; Creating a Consistent eDiscovery Preservation Hold Process by Bill Piwonka. The content produced on Exterro’s blog (available here) is always well-conceived, practical and forward-looking. Piwonka’s recent article on legal hold best practices and practical advice is no exception. In an age... Continue reading
Posted Jul 16, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of July 6; Progress on Data Protection in the European Union by Rachel Teisch. The EU is in the process of amending its data protection regulations and any modification will have a significant impact on US entities doing business in the Eurozone. Teisch’s post... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of April 20; The following three articles were produced by Inside Counsel to outline the stages of the EDRM process and to provide the reader with a best practices structure for tackling the discovery process. Here, I have provided you with the complete series.... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of May 11; "How much will it Cost?" is not necessarily the Right Question to Ask: eDiscovery Best Practices by Doug Austin. Because eDiscovery costs can often make or break a project, they are paramount when selecting a vendor. However, without understanding the component... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of May 4; Take Practical Steps to Ease the Burden of eDiscovery in the Future by Andrew W. Schwartz. Schwartz succinctly describes the “catch-22” created by the ever-present development of technology in which efficiencies are created while conversely demanding organizations spend large sums when... Continue reading
Posted Jul 15, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of March 23; Information Governance - A Corporate Imperative: Library Model Delivers A-to-Z Strategies by Neal Lawson and Trent Livingston: In a question and answer format, iDS Directors Lawson and Livingston discuss the difference between data and information and how IG protocols, structure and... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of March 9; HBR Consulting 2015 Law Department Survey: eDiscovery Flash Survey Results: HBR compiled its 2015 information characterizing in-house eDiscovery from a series of roundtable discussions held nationally and reflecting varied geographic markets. I think that this is a fascinating validation of what... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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In Jennifer Booton’s recent article, Don't Send another E-mail until you Read this, she explores the growing cost of eDiscovery for corporate America while attributing a windfall to law firms. While the information may be appropriate and informative for a “mainstream” publication like MarketWatch, Booton’s focus on law firm profits... Continue reading
Posted Apr 13, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of February 23; Avoiding an Information Crisis: A Practical Guide to Strategically Reducing Corporate Data by Albert Barsocchini and Seth Eichenholtz. Information Governance and big data are assuming critical roles in a broader, holistic data management process that addresses risk management, eDiscovery, etc. For... Continue reading
Posted Feb 23, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of February 16: For this week’s articles, I have bundled four articles into subject-matter specific pairings focused on the technology challenge for attorneys and the left side of the EDRM. Disruptive Change Needed for Lawyers to Become Competent in E-Discovery According to New Federal... Continue reading
Posted Feb 20, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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As we transition from one year to another and prepare for LegalTech 2015, it is a logical time to take stock of the legal technology industry; to assess where we have been and where we are headed. Here, I rest on the shoulders of giants and compile a list of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 29, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of November 10; Federal Court Provides Broad Privilege While Protecting eDiscovery, Manual Review Combination by Zach Warren. I believe that privilege is one of the most important, yet least discussed aspects of eDiscovery and a critical component of that conversation is how to utilize... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of January 26; Mold Case Sidetracked by Fight Over eDiscovery by Deborah Elkins. This is my favorite article of the week because it reflects the impact of eDiscovery on your “average” plaintiff as opposed to corporate America. The public eDiscovery story is typically one... Continue reading
Posted Jan 28, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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In his recent post, A TAR is Born: Continuous Active Learning Brings Increased Savings While Solving Real-World Review Problems, Catalyst founder John Tredennick describes Continuous Active Learning (CAL) as a proposed advanced protocol for Technology Assisted Review (TAR). Developed by Maura Grossman and Gordon Cormack, CAL integrates training and review... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see articles for the week of January 19; Deconstructing Big Data through Data Science by Paul Starrett. Because law and technology are traditionally strange bedfellows, legal professionals often fail to see the broader context of technology because we are in the weeds with individual clients. I would recommend this... Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2015 at Inside eDiscovery
2014 has revealed that many traditional eDiscovery professionals and thought-leaders are expanding their scope to embrace Information Governance (IG). As this year’s cause célèbre, IG is quickly emerging as a cross-disciplinary approach to managing data and a proactive legal discipline that exploits modern data analytic technology to categorize enterprise information... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2014 at Inside eDiscovery
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Gartner has released its latest assessment of the data management industry focusing on enterprise content management (ECM) providers. 2014 has witnessed the beginnings of a data revolution as organizations are turning to holistic, institutional resources to manage all content. Magic Quadrant looks at the functionality of ECM tools as both... Continue reading
Posted Nov 4, 2014 at Inside eDiscovery
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Must see eDiscovery articles for the week of November 3: Connecting Information Governance and eDiscovery Principles and Defensible Disposition and the Convergence of IG, Compliance and eDiscovery an Exterro double-header by Andrew Bartholomew and Jim FitzGerald. More and more, I believe that we need to “re-brand” eDiscovery, IG, big data,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 3, 2014 at Inside eDiscovery