My guess is that while most US readers will know what I am talking about, most readers this side of the Atlantic will not have a clue! Let me start with an uncontroversial suggestion that, in order to act in the best interests of clients and comply with their ethical obligations and those imposed by… Read More »
We all have our pet hates. Yours may be completely different from mine, but we all have views about things and people around us. It is part of being human and being capable of rational and, let’s be honest, also irrational thought. One of my pet hates is the unnecessary and unthinking use of jargon where… Read More »
One hundred and sixty million. Occasionally, I find that, when following the news a fraction more closely than normal, I discover what might be described as coincidences. Over the past few weeks, I have noticed the figure of 160 million cropping up on more than one occasion. It is not a figure like a dozen… Read More »
Vilified in death to such an extent that his bones have been moved on a number of occasions to prevent attempts at desecration, Hernando (Fernando) Cortes was one of the most successful conquistadors of the 16th century. The man who conquered the Aztecs in Mexico winning vast tracts of that country for the Spanish empire, once said… Read More »
Millnet’s Head of Forensics, Stuart Clarke, is one of the speakers at the forthcoming Techno Security Event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The event takes place on June 2nd to 5th 2013. Stuart is speaking on the implications of emerging cloud solutions for creating documents suchas Google Drive and Office 365. Click here for more information:… Read More »
No, this is not a post by a disgruntled North London fan fed up with the inability of Arsene Wenger’s team to win a trophy! We are on much more interesting territory! It appears to me that there has been a lull recently in the flood of articles and comment on predictive coding or computer… Read More »
I am not a DIY fan. According to Wikipedia: “The DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks without the aid of a paid expert. Literally meaning “do it yourself,” the DIY ethic promotes the idea that anyone is capable of performing a variety of tasks rather than relying on paid specialists.… Read More »
At this time of year when many people are on holiday and the news appears to be sluggish, articles start appearing which seek to take a longer view or which report results of research which has previously taken place. A recent example is the review in The Lawyer of July 30th into what they call The… Read More »
How to get Court Approval for Predictive Coding is the title of an article in Law Technology News [14th August, 2012] by Peter Buckley and Scott Vernick of Fox Rothschild in Philadelphia. Commendably short and to the point, the article provides a neat summary of the current legal state of play in relation to predictive… Read More »
Dominic Lawson’s Sunday Times article dated 5th August 2012, entitled “To sell your soul, Faust, press Return”, suggested that our relationship with the computer has “become the modern equivalent of the Faustian pact” on the basis that computers and the internet have provided humans with such a wealth of information that there is an inevitable… Read More »