Cat Casey – About the author
Catherine Casey
Global Director- Discovery
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLPI am the Global Director of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP's Global Practice Services group, specializing in eDiscovery, data analytics, information governance and cybersecurity. I have over a decade of experience assisting clients with the complex eDiscovery and forensic needs that arise from litigation, expansive regulation and complex contractual relationships.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, I ran the New York Computer Forensics and eDiscovery practice at a Big Four consulting firm, and built out the antitrust forensic technology practice and served as the national subject matter expert on eDiscovery for another big Four Consulting firm. I am a Harvard Graduate and Pepperdine School of Law Alumni.
Shadow IT: What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You
For Information Security & eDiscovery, What You Don’t Know CAN Hurt You Forget social media or big data for one second, the biggest vulnerability for many corporations and Law firms today lies in the murky realm of Shadow IT. When I first heard this term, yesterday, while listening to an ACEDS Podcast[i] by Sharon Nelson … Continue reading
What was Old is New (Again)… or How Information Governance is Bringing Sexy Back
IGRM Revisited Two years ago I asked folks from Big 4, cutting edge technologists, staffing mavens and fellow eDiscovery Geeks “What’s next in eDiscovery?“ in 2014 and beyond. The usual suspects kept cropping up – Big Data, technology-leveraged solutions, TAR, BYOD, social media. But, when I took a step further back, envisioning 3, 5 years of evolution one thing stuck out … Continue reading
The Myth of the Easy Button
With Judges accepting application of Predictive Analytics, why haven’t we seen a massive conversion to technology based solutions? Since the introduction of analytics to the eDiscovery space, there has been an assumption that once there was judicial acceptance there would be a massive migration to the faster, cheaper solutions leveraging the new technologies. Studies including … Continue reading
PRISM: A Legal Practitioner’s Perspective
PRISM & The NSA’s Leaky Faucet If you have been to non-eDiscovery related blogs, cnn.com or even just reading a paper or watching the news the word PRISM and bigger than wikileaks has been thrown around a lot in the last few days. What does this mean in terms of our industry? Well if the … Continue reading
Analytics Part 4: Finding The Knowledge Worker
So, We Need Help, Now What?? As the sophistication of technology in various disciplines increases (whether that is TAR, Big Data Mining, or more pure application of analytics) one thing is clear, the people operating the emerging technologies are as important as the tools they employ. So, where does one find this elusive renaissance employee, … Continue reading
Analytics Part 3: Looking Beyond the Algorithm
Central Role Humans Play in the Age of Analytics No news flash here, data is growing and an ever accelerating pace and the option of keeping ones figurative head in the sand has long since become obsolete. Analytics, algorithms and something called Hadoop (high throughput, low latency) are intimately integrated in a wide array o business functions, however … Continue reading
The Future of eDiscovery Beyond 2014
What’s Next in eDiscovery? Over the last several weeks, I have had the opportunity to speak with leaders at the Big 4, cutting edge technologists, staffing mavens and fellow eDiscovery Geeks, and the same question kept coming up. “What’s next in eDiscovery?“ The canned near-term answer, of course is technology-leveraged solutions that marry skilled workers … Continue reading
Analytics Part 2: Beyond the Zetabyte
BIG DATA MEANS BIG ANALYTICS Anyone not living under a rock in the eDiscovery space has heard that Enterprise data is doubling every 18 months. The computing processor power is doubling every 18 months. The memory and storage cost is halving every 18 months (See Moore’s Law). The increased effort to derive insights out of … Continue reading
National Law Journal: The rising tide of nonlinear review
Disruptive technology, savvy clients and cost pressures are changing the e-discovery game. Catherine A. Casey and Alejandra P. Perez, The National Law Journal January, 2012 Leveraging technological advancements to minimize the cost and maximize the accuracy of human analysis required for large data reviews is the next step in the world of electronic discovery. Rapidly … Continue reading
E-Discovery Techniques to Investigate and Mitigate Insider Threats
By: Cat Casey, Brian Fox and Doug Bloom Each year PwC surveys approximately 10,000 CEO, CFOs, CIOs, CISOs and other executives in charge of information security from companies all over the world about the state of their information security and the threats facing their organizations.1 Over the past few years, an interesting trend has emerged: The … Continue reading
E-discovery special report: In darker waters
E-discovery special report: In darker waters With the Safe Harbour framework crumbling and ‘shadow IT’ the new normal, the world of e-discovery and data risk is changing rapidly. Top practitioners from Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith, Exigent Group, and Simmons & Simmons discuss trends shaping the eDiscovery space today. Q: What impact will the recent ruling on … Continue reading
Value added contracting: Why senior management need to place more focus on contract management beyond just closing the deal. Part 1
Top Ten Practices for Best in Class Contract Lifecycle Management Guest Contributor: Kevin Van Tonder, Director of Global Legal Services Exigent In today’s increasingly competitive markets, companies face growing pressure to increase revenues, cut costs, innovate, be more flexible and continue to enhance shareholder value. Likewise, in-house legal functions are required … Continue reading
92% of Resolutions Fail, How Will Your 2015 eDiscovery Resolution Stick?
With the conclusion of 2014, the all too familiar song and dance of New Year’s Resolutions is well under way. At the end of 2014, KCura spoke with leading minds in the eDiscovery space about their top Resolutions for 2015 with some interesting results: Judge Andrew Peck, Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of … Continue reading
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