Coming April 13th, don’t miss Legalweek(year)’s Keynote, Peter A. Winn, Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer (CPCLO) of the United States Department of Justice, who’ll be sharing his insights on privacy in his keynote session titled, “The Next Paradigm: Privacy Governance in the New Era.” You’ll also want to check out the discussions around legal technology trends and challenges facing corporate legal teams. …

At Hanzo, we’ve focused on collaboration tools for the last few years—and, as it turns out, we weren’t a moment too soon. The upsurge in remote work due to the coronavirus pandemic means that more workers than ever are working from home. Online collaboration tools have taken the place of meeting rooms, offices, and water coolers. When it comes to collaborating on documents and spreadsheets, many teams are using Google Workspace (formerly G Suite). But even with Google Vault, it’s surprisingly challenging to collect just the data you need from Google Workspace when you’re managing ediscovery for a litigation matter.…

For the last several months, the Hanzo team has been building artificial intelligence models using grant funds that we received from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund. The grant was designed to help companies recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve been looking into ways to extend Hanzo Hold for Slack, our purpose-built Slack ediscovery tool, to address the new workplace risks caused by the abrupt transition to remote work. A little while ago, I wrote an update about the model we’re building to detect human resources risks like discrimination, threatening language, and bullying on the Slack platform. …

Court notes that for discovery, Slack messages are “generally comparable” to email. …

As the coronavirus pandemic has left most knowledge workers clocking in from home, we’ve seen a rapid acceleration of organizations using collaboration tools like Slack to keep their teams in touch. But while collaboration tools have significant benefits for team communication, they’re not without risks.…

Toward the end of December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the release of a new comprehensive marketing rule. The original advertising rule had not been substantively amended or updated since its adoption in 1961. In other words, it was older than the personal computer, the internet, smartphones, and many advisers.…

It’s that “Meet Team Hanzo” time again when I get the distinct pleasure to interview a colleague and learn more about what they do, what they care about, and how they thrive in life. Today, please meet Griffin Murray, who is an absolute optimist and is someone who brings complete focus and energy to any endeavor, whether he’s connecting clients with solutions or catching a big fish.…

Coming March 16th, don’t miss Legalweek(year)’s Keynote, Nina Totenberg, who’ll help put into perspective what the latest Supreme Court developments mean for the nation. You’ll also want to check out the discussions around legal technology trends and challenges facing corporate legal teams. …

I wrote a blog post last fall about the grant that Hanzo received from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund and how we were planning to use the funds. These grants seek to support and rebuild businesses in the UK that have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. For our part, we’re looking for ways that we can extend Hanzo Hold, our purpose-built Slack ediscovery tool, to address the new workplace risks that accompany the abrupt transition to remote work. …