Meet Dave Ruel, Hanzo’s senior product manager.  He brings a unique mix of fun, a thirst for a good challenge, and intellect to every meeting. Hanging with Dave, you get the sense that you’re in the presence of a person who knows his stuff. Good thing, though, since he’s responsible for developing solutions to simplify making sense out of collaboration data for discovery. He’s also an excellent listener and keeps his ears open to the most significant challenges corporate legal teams face.   What problems are you currently solving? How does it benefit the customer? Dave: My first assignment has…

Sometimes doing it yourself (DIY) is a sensible approach—there’s no need to call a contractor to patch a nail hole in a wall. But other times—like redoing a bathroom or building an addition on your house—you can quickly get in over your head if you try to go it alone. …

Well, this year didn’t turn out the way anyone planned. …

It’s that time again; the holidays are drawing near.…

Hanzo recently announced that we’ve been awarded a grant from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund to expand the reach of Hanzo Hold, our purpose-built solution for preserving and collecting Slack content.  Innovate UK is providing over £130 million in funding across more than 1,100 projects to help businesses across the UK rebuild in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Hanzo is proud to announce a new follow-the-link feature in its preservation tool, Hanzo Hold for Slack. Now, instead of just preserving the collaboration content that resides within Slack, Hanzo Hold can reach outside to preserve the exact version of a Google Drive document that is linked, but not uploaded, in Slack.…

Salesforce recently announced the acquisition of Slack, which is certain to drive new and exciting changes in the world of collaboration software.  We wondered what the impacts might be, and what it may mean strategically for corporate legal and compliance considerations.…

This fall, the team at Hanzo and the Association of E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) conducted a benchmark survey to learn how organizations were addressing what we broadly refer to as “collaboration data”—chat-based discussions and associated shared documents from platforms like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and more. We collected responses from a cross-section of different sizes and types of organizations, about half of which manage 10 or more ediscovery matters per month. Of the respondents, the majority—54 percent—were using Microsoft Teams. Around 70 percent described their collaboration tool as something they or their teams “can’t live without.”…

2020 has undoubtedly been a truly challenging year. The pandemic has touched everyone’s life and tested our collective resolve. While we here at Hanzo miss in-person meetings with clients and colleagues, we realize that there is still much for which to be thankful.…

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the United States so far—is officially being enforced. Is your website in compliance? Does it need to be? What does it take to comply with the CCPA, and how do you prove that you’ve met those requirements? Let’s start by reviewing what the CCPA is all about.…

Does your organization use a collaboration platform like Slack to keep employees connected and coordinated as they work remotely? If so, you may have found that it’s largely replaced email for internal communications. But those communications are still discoverable. Are you prepared to preserve and collect the data within your collaboration app if it becomes relevant to a potential litigation issue? …

Lawyers are accustomed to slow, gradual changes that unfold over months, years, or even decades. Since our legal system depends on court precedents and democratic mechanisms for regulatory and legislative change, we typically have abundant warnings before implementing anything new. …

Your business’s website has to live up to some pretty high standards. On the one hand, it has to be effective at drawing interest, educating potential customers, and converting sales, without which you might go out of business. But on the other hand, it cannot mislead consumers, make false promises or guarantees, or otherwise fail to comply with a wide range of ever-shifting laws, rules, and regulations. …