When technology dismantled the crime-fraud exception’s last line of defense, it changed the calculus for attorney-client privilege in ways most lawyers haven’t fully reckoned with. The intersection of eDiscovery, AI, and privilege doctrine creates new vulnerabilities that demand immediate attention.

THE EMAIL PRIVACY ILLUSION: PART 1 OF 3 In September 2016, a paralegal on our Kazeon eDiscovery team at EMC finished imaging the email account of a solo…

In 2014, three weeks into a wrongful termination production at EMC/Kazeon, a paralegal flagged an anomaly in the plaintiff’s email collection. The plaintiff’s attorney had used a properly configured Microsoft Exchange server with Transport Layer Security encryption. Outbound messages left the firm e

Your client may be recording your conversations without your knowledge. Here is what every attorney needs to know about the legal and ethical implications of client recording in the age of smartphones.

In March 2018, a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio, discovered that her client’s estranged husband had been reading every email she sent for eleven months. The husband had guessed his wife’s Gmail password, set up automatic forwarding to a separate account, and monitored every communication betw

In June 2014, a senior litigation counsel at Unilever sent an educational email to 46 managers in her organization. Buried inside the email’s…

The Forcing Function: Why Legal Inefficiencies Are No Longer Supportable and Alternative Fees Are on the Horizon I’ve watched this movie before. Several times, actually—and I’ve played roles on both sides of the screen.

Divya Jain is right. Jain is a software engineer at Google and one of the sharper technology writers working today.

In 2023, a partner at a mid-size firm quoted a client $15,000 for a “routine” software licensing agreement. The client’s CTO changed the technical…

The compensation committee meeting started at 7 AM, before the associates arrived. The managing partner of a 45-attorney firm had spent three months building the case: client satisfaction scores climbing on fixed-fee matters, realization rates 12% higher than hourly equivalents, two institutional cl