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Most people have heard of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), so it’s not surprising that ...
Software as a Service (SaaS) applications have experienced phenomenal growth over the past few years, and this trend is ...
Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates enslaved African Americans' emancipation. The ...
Complex data sources – such as chat messages or a SaaS application’s user interface – are called that for a reason in ...
When it comes to making sure financial data is safe and meets compliance regulations, understanding the different ...
Even before the COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, collaboration app (e.g. Slack) usage was on the rise for internal enterprise ...
For the last few years, much discussion within the legal industry has centered on the rise of collaboration app usage ...
Organizations create and share enormous volumes of sensitive information, and with the rise of SaaS applications and ...
Each May marks the celebration of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) heritage and pays tribute to the generations ...
The legal department’s role is ever-expanding in both scope and complexity. New responsibilities lead to new questions, ...
With the ever-increasing growth of enterprise data, meeting compliance guidelines from regulatory bodies regarding ...
Some things that are great on their own turn out to be even better as half of a dynamic duo. We’re talking peanut ...
Hanzo’s Luminary Spotlight of Christine Uri, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Sustainability Officer at ENGIE Impact
There’s no way around it: ediscovery can be expensive. With the constantly expanding universe of data—and the ...
At Hanzo, we believe that women should be celebrated every day, but Women’s History Month gives us the opportunity to ...
A lot has changed since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) were first enacted in 1938. Yet the goals of ...
After a couple of years away from the full in-person conference experience, the team at Hanzo was so excited to be back ...
Is your organization required to archive its communications to comply with the laws, rules, and regulations that govern ...
Prognostications and predictions are inherently flawed. Does anyone really believe Punxsutawney Phil is a reliable ...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s a video worth?
Lawyers have a reputation—sometimes deserved, sometimes not—of being technophobic Luddites. While there are certainly ...
As we’ve been wrapping up 2021 and looking forward to 2022—again hopeful that at some point this year we’ll see more of ...
In the wake of the ongoing social justice crisis in the United States, Hanzo—like many companies—has been reevaluating ...
This month I have the pleasure to interview Parker Morris. She's a fitness and nutrition enthusiast, a global traveler, ...
ACEDS and Hanzo have partnered for the second year in a row to survey the market on the use of collaboration data for ...
Life has changed significantly since the pandemic, and this Thursday will mark the second Thanksgiving we'll celebrate ...
This month I have the pleasure of introducing you to Julia Vitti, Hanzo’s newest account executive. She's a veritable ...
If your organization uses Slack for business communications, how are you preserving Slack data for potential ...
A head-to-head match—and the winner is …
Managing data preservation for ediscovery requires walking on a knife’s edge. As soon as you can reasonably anticipate ...
Be honest: does your office look like this?
How much data is your organization obligated to preserve for ediscovery in a pending or anticipated litigation matter? ...
It's stressful for workers these days, and Covid-19's impact has been far-reaching on economic activity and our way of ...
As Hanzo celebrates National Hispanic Heritage Month, I have the excellent opportunity to highlight another fellow team ...
Pharmaceutical advertising is big business. In 2020, pharmaceutical companies spent more than $6.5 billion on ...
Whether you’re plotting a route to a new restaurant or determining a plan of action, you can’t start mapping a course ...
After over a year and a half of dealing with a global pandemic, remote work is here to stay and so are the ...
It's National Hispanic Heritage Month, and so the Hanzonian I am shining the spotlight on is Mariana Rosario. She is ...
At Hanzo, we embrace the idea that employees should bring their whole selves to work. As part of our culture, we're ...
As we look back on the six-month grant funding Hanzo received from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund, we’re ...
Imagine you’re working on a relatively straightforward litigation matter involving a contract. You’ve agreed that ...
Since the legal profession put the “e” in “ediscovery,” we’ve had to grapple with new data types. First, there was ...
Ediscovery is an unforgiving pursuit. Err on the side of collecting too little data, and you may find that you don’t ...
How do your teams keep in touch and stay on top of projects and shared responsibilities in today’s remote work ...
In the last few years, data privacy laws and regulations have been big news. Much of the coverage—including one of our ...
One of the keys to managing the cost of ediscovery—and litigation more broadly—is effective early case assessment ...
Knowledge workers may never go back to the office as we once knew it. But, now that companies and their employees have ...
We're halfway through 2021, and we can plainly see as we emerge from pandemic life, that remote work is here to stay. ...
If you’re marketing any pharmaceutical or medical device, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its eye on you. ...
If your organization uses Slack, you’re already familiar with its benefits: rapid, streamlined internal communications ...
On this Juneteenth, we honor the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, knowing that it is now an official federal ...
It’s been a little over a half of a century since The Stonewall Riots—a series of demonstrations by members of the gay ...
As the name suggests, Google Workspace is a workspace for productivity. It is a collaboration platform that unifies ...
When I applied to work for Hanzo nearly five years ago, I had to decide what to put on my resume. It was already a very ...
As much as we hate to admit it, your mother was right. Planning ahead, adopting proactive processes, getting your tools ...
Our expectations don’t always match reality. You probably have your own examples: you’ve seen a gorgeous photo of a ...
I read this story about Citibank's mistaken transfer—which cost it about half a billion dollars—a while back, and the ...
Which comes first: the chicken or the egg? Oh, sorry, wrong question. Which comes first: the business communication ...
Postmates—a rapidly growing delivery service—considers the collaboration platform Slack to be a critical component of ...
Coming May 11th, don't miss Legalweek(year)'s educational programming for the fourth event in the series.
Websites today are more complex, sophisticated, and multifaceted than ever before. Whereas old-school websites had a ...
Meet Justin Kreamer, Hanzo’s senior enterprise executive. Justin brings his friendly spirit of team collaboration and ...
Hyperlinked documents might be used like attachments, but this court isn’t ready to call them part of the family
Coming April 13th, don't miss Legalweek(year)'s Keynote, Peter A. Winn, Acting Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties ...
At Hanzo, we’ve focused on collaboration tools for the last few years—and, as it turns out, we weren’t a moment too ...
For the last several months, the Hanzo team has been building artificial intelligence models using grant funds that we ...
Court notes that for discovery, Slack messages are “generally comparable” to email.
As the coronavirus pandemic has left most knowledge workers clocking in from home, we’ve seen a rapid acceleration of ...
Toward the end of December 2020, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the release of a new ...
It's that "Meet Team Hanzo" time again when I get the distinct pleasure to interview a colleague and learn more about ...
Coming March 16th, don't miss Legalweek(year)'s Keynote, Nina Totenberg, who'll help put into perspective what the ...
I wrote a blog post last fall about the grant that Hanzo received from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund and ...
Overwhelming amounts of data is something we hear frequently about from corporate ediscovery pros. They wonder alot ...
If you—or your child—have ever been in a live performance, you know that it hardly matters how much time and effort the ...
Hanzo hosted the CLE, "A Brave New World — Mapping Your Course for Managing Discovery With Collaboration Data," during ...
At Hanzo, we talk a lot about the collaborative content companies generate in communication apps like Slack. However, ...
Legalweek(year), the new virtual experience for 2021, is rapidly approaching. Hanzo is preparing some valuable ...
With 2020 firmly in our rearview mirror, we’re cranking up preparation for the annual legal technology fest known as ...
Meet Dave Ruel, Hanzo’s senior product manager. He brings a unique mix of fun, a thirst for a good challenge, and ...
Sometimes doing it yourself (DIY) is a sensible approach—there’s no need to call a contractor to patch a nail hole in a ...
Well, this year didn’t turn out the way anyone planned.
It's that time again; the holidays are drawing near.
Hanzo recently announced that we’ve been awarded a grant from Innovate UK’s Sustainable Innovation Fund to expand the ...
Hanzo is proud to announce a new follow-the-link feature in its preservation tool, Hanzo Hold for Slack. Now, instead ...
Salesforce recently announced the acquisition of Slack, which is certain to drive new and exciting changes in the world ...
This fall, the team at Hanzo and the Association of E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) conducted a benchmark survey to ...
2020 has undoubtedly been a truly challenging year. The pandemic has touched everyone's life and tested our collective ...
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—the most comprehensive personal data privacy legislation anywhere in the ...
Does your organization use a collaboration platform like Slack to keep employees connected and coordinated as they work ...
Lawyers are accustomed to slow, gradual changes that unfold over months, years, or even decades. Since our legal system ...
Your business’s website has to live up to some pretty high standards. On the one hand, it has to be effective at ...
And Why You Need to Know How to Preserve Your Team’s Slack Communications Hanzo was proud to participate this year ...
Slack is revolutionizing how companies communicate internally, smoothing collaboration, speeding response times, and ...
The stats of the benefits of collaboration are compelling. According to Gallup, extremely connected teams demonstrate a ...
When I first came across the collaboration platform Slack at my former company, I was, to put it mildly, not a fan. But ...
Your website is an important part of your business. Chances are, you’re investing both time and money to ensure that it ...
One of the unexpected silver linings of 2020 and the global coronavirus pandemic has been the tremendous—and ...
The marketing and compliance departments don’t always hit it off from the start. The conflict is natural enough: each ...
Hanzo has a new team member whom I can’t wait to introduce. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Sarah and ...
Just like peanut butter and jelly, some things just fit. Hanzo has become an affiliate partner with the Association of ...
Remember the story that the Verge broke a few years ago—aka December 2019—about Steph Korey, the Away CEO who stepped ...
Objective United Airlines has a massive, complex, ever-changing website. Because it was spending too much time creating ...
The collaboration platform that Slack launched led to an unprecedented shakeup in how organizations communicate ...
Anti-fraud expert, The Walden Pond's Vince Walden talks to experts about technology and compliance trends to help ...
Corporate compliance is always a hard job—but now that we’re in a global pandemic where laws, regulations, and ...
At Hanzo, we’ve been talking about Slack and other collaborative communication platforms for the last few years. These ...
Businesses have had to grapple with a whole new series of challenges in 2020. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, some ...
The coronavirus pandemic isn’t the only thing disrupting business in the U.S. in 2020. The recent deaths of George ...
Hanzo is pleased to share the latest enhancements to Hanzo Hold, our purpose-built application for preserving and ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications like Slack to communicate with one ...
As the world embraces a more collaborative way of working and uses new applications to communicate with one another, ...
The global coronavirus pandemic has required that companies—practically overnight—restructure their offices to achieve ...
If you’re in the financial services industry, you’ve got a lot on your plate. You’re researching investments, advising ...
Practical actions to ensure business continuity while reducing risk and preparing businesses to thrive in the future.
Marketing is as much art as it is science. Sure, it helps to gather data and learn what approaches work with which ...
Online marketing offers unprecedented opportunities for creative expression. There are a variety of emerging approaches ...
Remember what websites used to look like back in the day?
On January 30th, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization ...
It’s 2020—where’s my flying car? For that matter, where’s my fully autonomous car? Elon Musk keeps promising it’s ...
Today, a tremendous amount of your organization’s client communications are happening through the representations on ...
I love my job! Why, because Hanzo puts the value of doing right by people at the forefront of who we are. To the team ...
This past week, I had the privilege of participating in The Sedona Conference Working Group 6 (WG6) Annual Meeting in ...
Ahh...Legalweek. You've come and gone already. For any who doesn't already know, Legalweek is the annual conference ...
Meghan Brosnahan currently serves as the first eDiscovery attorney for Uber, helping this early disruptor navigate the ...
Every department in an organization is a potential source of risk that compliance professionals need to understand, ...
In the beginning, there was discovery.
Here’s a riddle: what will it take to solve the ediscovery challenges posed by new collaboration applications?
The clock is ticking until Legalweeek and you need to schedule your time wisely! Hanzo will be exhibiting and we'd love ...
Homelessness is a significant challenge in the United States. According to a 2018 report by HUD, found that on a single ...
Most knowledge work these days demands some form of collaboration. You draft a document; your colleagues comment on it ...
When you start an ediscovery project, are you explicitly asking your opponents to produce data from the collaboration ...
How are you preserving emojis for ediscovery?
Getting to know Kristin is like making a friend in college. She's a great partner in business who analyzes problems and ...
Eric Goldman, an Internet law professor, gives us an overview of emoji law, including the pros—more precise and nuanced ...
A discussion featuring compliance evangelist, Tom Fox and Jim Murphy, VP of Product at Hanzo.
Sitting down with Evan Gumz is calming. You get the sense that you’re in good hands. He’s thoughtful, he listens, and ...
Parties “Do Not Get to Select What Evidence They Want to Produce, or From What Sources”
In every complex venture, there’s an unsung hero who’s standing outside the limelight but keeping all the parts moving ...
This month I had the distinct pleasure to interview Dan Spaide. It’s fitting that such a nice family guy lives near the ...
We’re just past the midpoint of the year, and all across the U.S., people are taking vacations, heading out on road ...
In our previous blog post about multidistrict litigation (MDL), we discussed the problem of identifying meritless ...
Can you feel the beat? Hanzo’s Software Engineer Emily Whetter thrives at a fast pace and leads a software team that is ...
Social media—from Facebook and Twitter to Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, and more—has become the place where ...
In this case study, we explore how Hanzo customer, eDPM Advisory Services helped their customer with preserving, ...
We’ve written about Elon Musk and his tweets before—but even after his sometimes rash online statements have caused ...
You know what’s helpful when you’re trying to keep a multimillion-dollar international bribery scheme going? A ...
Look out Will Shortz, there is a new type of puzzle master on the scene. Although, the puzzle master I interviewed is ...
In our Pros and Cons series, we explore the different approaches to common web archiving challenges so you have the ...
Can social media posts and data be used as evidence in a compliance investigation? Is it possible to leverage ...
Compliance teams and the investigations specialists within them are facing a tremendous logistical and technical ...
Slack is huge, showing a massive growth rate since its launch—and it’s a huge ediscovery problem.
Despite the best efforts of a compliance team to review and approve every piece of content before it’s published ...
If your organization is using the collaboration application Slack—joining the ranks of its 10 million daily active ...
Is your organization using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) to create user-level individualized website experiences?
The collaboration app Slack sounds, from its full name, like it should be designed for discovery in litigation—“Slack” ...
If you’re a regular reader of Hanzo, we’ve probably already convinced you that you need to be archiving any social ...
The Hanzo Profiles of Excellence series interviews industry leaders in compliance, eDiscovery, investigations and risk ...
Sean Burke, Partner at Duane Morris, fills us in on the challenges of multidistrict litigation, the advantages of ...
WARCs? WORMs? Is this a lost installment of the Lord of the Rings? Unfortunately, no. Rather, WARC and WORM are ...
Every time we turn around, more people are using the collaboration platform Slack. As of January 2019, Slack announced ...
How confident are you in your web archive’s fidelity?
When you need information, where do you go? For the majority of people today, the answer involves a smartphone and ...
Making a difference is a guiding light for the team at Hanzo, and perhaps, is exemplified most clearly by those who ...
On the afternoon of Monday, April 8th, 2019, I spoke with AP Capaldo-Aoun, a global compliance attorney and director of ...
The internet, and especially social media, represents a rich reservoir of potential evidence for use in litigation. ...
Throughout each year, Hanzo’s "Profiles of Excellence" series interviews industry leaders in compliance, eDiscovery, ...
Multidistrict litigation (MDL) has become a major component of the U.S. civil litigation system. MDLs now make up over ...
It’s surprising—or perhaps not, depending on your outlook—how often people settle for less because it’s easier.
Every litigator yearns for that Perry Mason moment, when we calmly introduce the critical evidence that abruptly ...
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's (FINRA) constantly updated record of disciplinary actions contains a ...
Do you have FOMO? And do you have FOMO about the right things?
How does the saying go? You can’t shoot for the moon if you don’t reach for the stars? At Hanzo, we hold these ...
Context is essential to understand any piece of data or information. “Those are some gorgeous melons!” could be ...
On February 28, 2019, Hanzo hosted Tom Fox, the Compliance Evangelist, and Louis Sapirman, the Compliance Innovator, ...
Here’s a scenario that might be common enough in your day-to-day life: imagine that you’ve misplaced your wallet. ...
The web is a rich, varied, yet essentially untapped data source. Are you making full use of it in your eDiscovery?
Today’s business happens on the web. Social media platforms, collaborative online technology, and interactive sites are ...
Remember the original internet, with its clunky graphics and minimal information? You might not remember doing much ...
Alexandra McCombs, Senior Project Manager at PAE, discusses working in government support, capturing dynamic website ...
In February 2019, Hanzo's Chief Commercial Officer, Keith Laska, appeared on the Innovation in Compliance podcast, ...
Over the last year, requests and productions of native-format documents have featured regularly in ediscovery cases ...
Ricky Brooman, CEDS, Litigation Support Project Manager at Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, discusses specialized ...
We’ve all been there: something happens that causes your organization to reasonably anticipate litigation, whether it’s ...
With 2018 in the archives, Hanzo is starting off the new year with a look ahead to the trends and challenges we believe ...
From Elon Musk’s tweets to Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled’s promotion of cryptocurrencies, 2018 was, to say the least, ...
It’s time for Legaltech, the the largest and most important legal technology event of the year. Hanzo, will be ...
It's Christmas Eve already, how quickly 2018 has passed. It's been a busy year—perhaps why it went so fast. 2018 was ...
Ahh...Social Media, So many conversations Social media is crucial to how businesses relate to customers. But the ...
With some electronically stored information (ESI), what you see is what you get. A simple screenshot, PDF, or TIFF ...