Originally posted on Forensic Focus – Articles:
Controversy has been raging around ISO 17025 ever since the standard was adopted for digital forensics back in October 2017. Although many people who work in the industry agree that standardisation is advisable and probably necessary if we are to keep moving forward, there have been many criticisms…
Originally posted on e-Discovery Team ®:
One of the largest cases in the U.S. today is a consolidated group of price-fixing cases in District Court in Chicago. In Re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, 290 F. Supp. 3d 772 (N.D. Ill. 2017) (order denying motions to dismiss and discussing the case). The consolidated antitrust cases involve allegations…
Originally posted on Forensic Diaries: A Forensic & Integrity Services Blog:
Financial institutions across the globe are under increased regulatory scrutiny to comply with anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing policies and procedures. In the past decade, they have witnessed significant enforcement actions and penalties for non-compliance with respect to money laundering and terrorist financing.…
Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association:
On 26 June 2018, after nearly a year of deliberation by Parliament, the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (the “Act”) received royal assent. It is a statute of profound importance to the legal systems of the UK. This post seeks briefly to summarise the purpose and architecture of…
Originally posted on Forensic Diaries: A Forensic & Integrity Services Blog:
Businesses today are operating in an era of dynamic models, digital innovation, rising regulations and enforcement. Today, the integrity of an organization has become an important driver and successful organizations should depend on their reputation for keeping promises, respecting laws and behaving ethically to…
Originally posted on Techno Gumbo:
That’s right. Fresh off her ACEDS blog post about the newly released Sedona Conference primer on social media, Gayle takes over the EDiscovery Channel hosting duties to talk with Craig Ball about that publication. So read the blog. Watch the video. Then be sure to attend the Sedona Conference webinar on…
Originally posted on Forensic Diaries: A Forensic & Integrity Services Blog:
Travel and expense fraud probably remains one of the oldest, overlooked and most pervasive types of white-collar crime. Unclear guidelines or low awareness of this fraud can impact corporates adversely, and result in billions of dollars of revenue loss each year. Typically, most companies…
Originally posted on e-Discovery Team ®:
In this blog we discuss yet another case where the parties are bickering over keywords and the judge was asked to intervene. Webastro Thermo & Comfort v. BesTop, Inc., 2018 WL 3198544, No.16-13456 (E.D. Mich. June 29, 2018). The opinion was written in a patent case in Detroit by Executive Magistrate…
Originally posted on Forensic Diaries: A Forensic & Integrity Services Blog:
The collection, preservation and analysis of information is existential to catch fraudsters and cyber criminals. In addition to paper files, digital data present in an individual’s company computer, laptop, mobile or any other handheld device can uncover a complex matrix of fraud using digital…
Originally posted on UK Constitutional Law Association:
On 26 June 2018, the hitherto hotly-debated European Union (Withdrawal) Bill became an Act of Parliament (“2018 Act”) after a tennis match of amendments and counter-amendments between Parliament’s two Houses. Much has been said by leading academics about the contents of the 2018 Act both during its stormy…
Originally posted on Forensic Focus – Articles:
From the 17th to the 19th of September 2018, Forensic Focus will be attending the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference in San Antonio, Texas, USA. If there are any topics you’d particularly like us to cover, or any speakers you think we should interview, please let us know in…
Originally posted on e-Discovery Team ®:
John Facciola was one of the first e-discovery expert judges to consider the adequacy of a producing parties keyword search efforts in United States v. O’Keefe, 537 F. Supp. 2d 14 (D.D.C. 2008). He first observed that keyword search and other computer assisted legal search techniques required special expertise to…
