As the use of collaboration apps within legal has grown, tech providers are exploring ways to integrate legal processes into apps like Slack.
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Exterro Acquires Zapproved, With Plans for Integration Still in the Works
Exterro and Zapproved will now operate as a single company, with former Zapproved private equity investor K1 Investment Management retaining a minority stake in the combined e-discovery provider.
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Breaking news: Exterro announces acquisition of eDiscovery rival Zapproved
Exterro has acquired eDiscovery rival Zapproved, in a move that the fast-growing private-equity-backed company says will further its vision to provide customers with everything they need to manage their legal …
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Major E-Discovery News, As Exterro, Eyeing IPO, Acquires Zapproved for Undisclosed Amount

Among the things the two e-discovery companies Exterro and Zapproved have in common is that they were both founded in the same year, 2008, and in the same city, Portland, Ore. Now they have something else in common, as they announce today that Exterro has acquired Zapproved.
While the terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, Exterro said that the acquisition…
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Legal Tech's Predictions for E-Discovery in 2023
Legal industry experts weigh in on what to expect from e-discovery in the next year.
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Legal Tech's Milestones for E-Discovery in 2022
Legal industry experts weigh in on the biggest developments in e-discovery in the past year.
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How Application Interoperability is Transforming the Legal Hold Process
The legal hold and preservation process has always been burdensome, yet crucial. Embracing the cloud and ensuring that applications interoperate can make it significantly easier.
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6 Takeaways From the Biggest E-discovery Cases in 2022
While new forms of ESI have created new challenges in e-discovery, recent e-discovery decisions show that legal teams are granted less leeway than they used to get and are expected to master new platforms and sources of data.
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A Few Considerations When Preserving Slack Data for Ediscovery

Court rulings in the past few years have codified what people working in ediscovery have known all along: Slack (and other collaboration app data) is discoverable during litigation and should be preserved the same as email as stipulated in Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). With that in mind, here are a few things to consider…
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Hanzo Enhances and Renames Its Legal Hold Software with New Capabilities for Hard-to-Capture Data

Hanzo, a company whose products help enterprise legal, governance and compliance teams manage collaboration and web-based data, has introduced a new version of its legal hold product, formerly Hanzo Hold, that comes with a new name, Hanzo Illuminate, and new features for more quickly and easily capturing dynamic and interactive web data and identifying risks within that data.
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Legal Hold Struggles With New Data Types Won't Last Forever
While emerging forms of data from new platforms have created new legal hold challenges, a growing focus on in-platform e-discovery features will likely mitigate any long-term problems.
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Webinar Recap: Three Things You Need to Know About Slack’s New Legal Hold

If your organization uses Slack for business communications, how are you preserving Slack data for potential litigation?
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Legal Holds in Slack: Should You Collect Data to Preserve It or Preserve in Place?

A head-to-head match—and the winner is …
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Maintaining Data Security Through Slack Legal Hold: Minimizing Risks and Costs

Managing data preservation for ediscovery requires walking on a knife’s edge. As soon as you can reasonably anticipate a litigation matter, you must rapidly identify and preserve any relevant data. But between litigation matters, your IT department pushes you to minimize the risks and costs of extraneous data by continuously culling your data stores. …
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What Is End-To-End Legal Hold Management And Why A Law Firm Or Legal Department Requires It?
“Once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a ‘Legal Hold.”
The above definition is easy to understand the ‘legal hold’ process for any legal department or law firm. Legal teams need to ensure that the legal hold notification reaches to each custodian, stakeholder, or contingent staff to preserve data…
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