It’s been a little over a half of a century since The Stonewall Riots—a series of demonstrations by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began on June 28, 1969—at the Stonewall Inn in New York City. The Stonewall Riots became a symbol of resistance to the social and political discrimination of the time and it inspired solidarity among homosexual groups. The following year, organizers seeking to build on the spirit of resistance held a march to Central Park with the theme of “Gay Pride.”  Since its beginning, Pride has expanded from that one political…

As the name suggests, Google Workspace is a workspace for productivity. It is a collaboration platform that unifies chat, email, voice and video calling, and content management, empowering teams to work from anywhere. During the global pandemic, applications that power remote work have certainly gained rapid traction, often without time to map out governance policies and ediscovery playbooks. Spending time developing information governance strategies and testing your ediscovery practices for newer data types can’t forever be kicked like a can down the road. Like Slack and other collaboration tools, the content within Google Workspace is relevant for ediscovery. Therefore, companies…

When I applied to work for Hanzo nearly five years ago, I had to decide what to put on my resume. It was already a very busy document, and not everything could be included. When I applied, I had been involved with LGBTQ activism on and off for 15 years. The most far-reaching step I took was to found the LGBT group at the international physics laboratory, CERN. It was not an easy task, and it changed the culture at CERN in a positive way, not just for LGBTQ+ people, but for everyone. Creating that group is a great source…

As much as we hate to admit it, your mother was right. Planning ahead, adopting proactive processes, getting your tools in order, and making sure that you have a battle-tested approach for ediscovery is the best way to mitigate unnecessary risk and cost. …

Our expectations don’t always match reality. You probably have your own examples: you’ve seen a gorgeous photo of a meal or a DIY project and thought, hey, I could do that! Sometimes it works out, and other times—well, you end up making a meme about expectation versus reality. …

I read this story about Citibank’s mistaken transfer—which cost it about half a billion dollars—a while back, and the sheer improbability of the mistake struck me. How could a banking giant make a blunder of such staggering magnitude despite multiple checks and balances? So what exactly went wrong here?…

Which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Oh, sorry, wrong question. Which comes first: the business communication platform or the ability to preserve, collect, and produce communications from that platform during ediscovery? Okay, it’s a bit clunky as questions go, but businesses that use evolving technologies to keep their teams connected need to figure out an answer to it. …

  Postmates—a rapidly growing delivery service—considers the collaboration platform Slack to be a critical component of its business communications. As the importance of Slack has grown, the IT team was concerned by how long it took to search for and export data for internal investigations and ediscovery matters. Rather than having his engineers as a persistent bottleneck, the head of IT at Postmates was determined to find a solution that would allow HR professionals and lawyers to quickly search for, preserve, and collect Slack data themselves in its native format with all of the context available.…

Coming May 11th, don’t miss Legalweek(year)’s educational programming for the fourth event in the series. …

Websites today are more complex, sophisticated, and multifaceted than ever before. Whereas old-school websites had a “what you see is what you get” design where all relevant text and information was immediately visible, new sites are often stripped-down and even minimalistic.…

Meet Justin Kreamer, Hanzo’s senior enterprise executive. Justin brings his friendly spirit of team collaboration and his thirst for knowledge, to work every day. He is always learning and sharpening the proverbial saw so that he can bring a breadth of experience consulting with companies on complex dynamic data challenges impacting their ediscovery and compliance responsibilities.…