http://logik.com/ en daniel.kaiser@logik.com Copyright 2010 2010-03-09T21:13:41+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/harmful_if_swallowed/ http://logik.com/whats_new/harmful_if_swallowed/#When:20:13:41Z Have you finished digesting that data sir? Spoliation simply can’t get much worse than this. Following his arrest outside of a bank in Queens, New York this January, Florin Necula apparently swallowed a 4 GB Kingston flash drive in an attempt to keep Secret Service agents from discovering the evidence. Facing a charge for the use of a “skimmer” to collect ATM and credit card numbers, Necula’s bizarre version of spoliation also earned him a charge of obstruction of justice...{body} Industry Rants 2010-03-09T20:13:41+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/lfp...wtf/ http://logik.com/whats_new/lfp...wtf/#When:11:00:34Z In this post, we’ll build on the previous post’s technique of iterating through a file line-by line. LFP files are an extremely common form of data interchange as document sets trade hands in litigation. Their popularity is probably due in part to their simplicity. As a review, LFP files are ... {body} How Tos 2010-03-04T11:00:34+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_check_a_file_for_duplicate_lines_-_part_2/ http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_check_a_file_for_duplicate_lines_-_part_2/#When:11:00:36Z This will just be a quick update to the last post. In the previous version of the duplicate record detector the input file is specified statically (or “Hard Coded”) inside the file. This means that the source code must be modified each time that users want to run analysis on a new load file. Unlike compiled languages like C++ or Java, Python doesn’t have a lengthy build cycle associated with making changes. While this isn’t too inconvenient, your users might not be comfortable directly modifying source code and there’s also the potential to introduce bugs by changing the wrong line. Fortunately, Python provides a method for passing data to a program via the command line... {body} How Tos 2010-02-15T11:00:36+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/the_ten_step_rain-dance/ http://logik.com/whats_new/the_ten_step_rain-dance/#When:10:59:03Z In the legal arena, regardless of how long you’ve been in the game, it always comes down to “making it rain.” Myra L McKenzie, assistant general counsel in the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. legal department, offers the following ten tips to rain-making in her article In Order to Make Rain, You Have to Know How to Gather the Clouds: Tips for Young Lawyers on Client Development, printed in the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division 101 Practice Series...{body} Industry Rants 2010-02-11T10:59:03+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_check_a_file_for_duplicate_lines/ http://logik.com/whats_new/how_to_check_a_file_for_duplicate_lines/#When:11:00:17Z In this edition of “eDiscovery-related Python Tricks,” we’ll cover some fundamental techniques and operations that you’ll likely find yourself using repeatedly. Suppose you’ve been given the task of merging load files from several productions together. You’re fairly sure that merging several files together has left the load file with duplicative lines, but the file is large and this would be difficult to determine manually. While this example may seem a little contrived, it will provide a simple setup for laying foundation that will likely be re-used when we get to more interesting examples...{body} How Tos 2010-02-10T11:00:17+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/cloud_computing_-_the_winners_and_the_challenged/ http://logik.com/whats_new/cloud_computing_-_the_winners_and_the_challenged/#When:14:22:08Z Do you hear that noise? No? That noise you may or may not hear is the sound of a quiet revolution well underway. The cloud computing revolution is bringing along with it a gradual but dramatic wave of change to the world of network infrastructure, IT servicing, and business models. This transformation speaks to different parties in different ways with the promise of efficiencies and cost containment on the one hand weighing in against security and hidden cost worries on the other hand. By way of a definition, Gartner Inc., the Connecticut-based IT research and advisory company (http://www.gartner.com) offers the following five attributes of cloud computing: 1) Service-based, 2) Scalable and Elastic, 3) Shared, 4) Metered by Use, and 5) Uses Internet Technologies. How does cloud computing affect you? Now is the time to find out and to plan your next move...{body} Industry Rants 2010-02-02T14:22:08+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/were_hiring_come_join_us/ http://logik.com/whats_new/were_hiring_come_join_us/#When:11:00:18Z Logik is growing and we are looking for more talented, smart, and amazing people to come join our small company. Here are the positions we are looking to fill right now: eDiscovery Sales Consultant eDiscovery Project Manager Software Engineer{body} News & Events 2010-01-26T11:00:18+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/data_data_data_a_posse_list_interview_with_andy_wilson_of_logik/ http://logik.com/whats_new/data_data_data_a_posse_list_interview_with_andy_wilson_of_logik/#When:17:44:37Z This interview is part of the Posse List's series “Data! Data! Data!” — Cures for a General Counsel’s ESI Nightmares”. For an introduction to the series check out the Posse List's website at http://www.theposselist.com. Logik was humbled to be the first company interviewed. Below is a copy of that interview: Logik is one of the more extraordinary companies to come onto the e-discovery scene. A dynamic company, they derive their name “the formal systematic study of the principles of valid inference and correct reasoning, and; the interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable.” Or, as in today’s parlance: they’re a lean, mean e-discovery processing machine”...{body} News & Events 2010-01-25T17:44:37+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/leaders_portfolio_chats_with_logiks_ceo_about_ediscovery_and_noodles/ http://logik.com/whats_new/leaders_portfolio_chats_with_logiks_ceo_about_ediscovery_and_noodles/#When:14:56:34Z Leaders Portfolio, an online and radio distributed interview show (leadersportfolio.com), invited Logik's CEO, Andy Wilson, to chat about how Logik started, what is eDiscovery, and various entrepreneurial experiences. The interview is about fifteen minutes long. Check it out.{body} Industry Rants 2010-01-05T14:56:34+00:00 http://logik.com/whats_new/preliminary_look_at_a_preliminary_report_on_civil_rules/ http://logik.com/whats_new/preliminary_look_at_a_preliminary_report_on_civil_rules/#When:15:10:09Z Emery G. Lee III and Thomas E. Willging of the Federal Judicial Center recently released their Preliminary Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. You might be thinking to yourself, “Wow, a 191-page preliminary report.. on Civil Rules.. what’s in it for me?” A fair question, but actually this thing is pretty interesting. To begin at the end, I was intrigued to find 77 pages of feedback from survey respondents classified according to the clients they represent: plaintiff’s attorneys, defendant attorneys and attorneys representing plaintiffs and defendants about equally. Predictably, voices from the plaintiff’s attorney sector are pointing out abuses of discovery perpetrated by defendant attorneys adversely affecting both the duration and cost of the process... while similar voices from across the isle are complaining of discovery abuse on the part of plaintiff attorneys. (Maybe these guys could get together and talk?){body} Industry Rants 2009-11-23T15:10:09+00:00