[This post originally appeared at Nuix.com]
It’s the beginning of a new year, which means that LegalWeek is almost upon us. As we look forward to what 2018 holds for eDiscovery, let’s take a moment to review what happened in the last year.
TECH, TECH EVERYWHERE
We say farewell to 2017 as a fist-pumping year in tech. Bitcoin is (arguably) poised to disrupt currency systems. I’m no longer surprised to see “no drone zone” signs—in fact, anyone can use drones to take aerial photos and 4K-resolution video, and viewing this media on Ultra HD TVs and monitors is now an affordable option for the masses. We have quickly grown accustomed to ordering everything from pizzas to electronics using our voices, and they seem to anticipate our every need at times. Self-driving cars are on the verge of chauffeuring us around. If you’re not ready to hand over your steering wheel, you can train to race Le Mans on a video game.
We’re seeing more, going new places, and streamlining our lives with automation to do more, in ways that seemed impossible only a few years ago. This is the power of technology—to help us discover new ways of doing things and transform our lives, and it sure feels like the pace of change is accelerating.
NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW REASONS FOR DISCOVERY
Why does this matter for eDiscovery? The legal profession is by nature risk averse, and not typically an early adopter of cutting-edge technologies. For example, the market has offered “technology assisted review” with machine learning for years. But even as we have all adopted machine learning technology for activities as routine as spam filters and getting automatic recommendations on Netflix, predictive coding remains a controversial topic in some legal circles.
Yet advancements in technology have everything to do with legality and risk, and attorneys are typically forced to the cutting edge of these issues. As technology advances, so do the risks and threats it poses, which as I’ve said previously are complex and compound. The legal team has the best understanding of the impact of risk on the organization—one that informs an entire network of stakeholders to protect and prepare the enterprise operationally for litigation, regulatory compliance and response, security, and breach preparedness.
Nuix is excited to help our customers transform their businesses through technology to discover more—more insight into their data, more risk to remediate, and even more value to support the business. Every new device or data source that communicates over the internet or interacts with people (or other devices) also presents new challenges, and opportunities, to better understand the threats facing the organization. Businesses—and their counsel making recommendations—can turn their struggle against the rising tide of data into greater value and efficiency for the organization with coordinated response across these threats.
Nuix software is built to help you discover more and find more actionable insights from that data, at higher volume, whether you’re presented with a traditional civil litigation, or need to use the information for a complex investigation or incident response.
Need to see the vision firsthand? Come visit us at LegalWeek 2018 in booth #1503, where we’ll have several demonstrations and opportunities for you to discover more with Nuix.
