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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 ...
Hanzo is pleased to be attending the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Advisory Policy Board Meeting ...
Joseph Stephenson, Managing Director at Hagerty Insurance Agency, discusses online investigations, social media, and ...
Ready, set, GO! When litigation is threatened, a critical time period begins. You may only have a matter of days to ...
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Happy World Digital Preservation Day!
Remember when nothing terribly important happened on social media? When Facebook was just a silly diversion where ...
Everyday is a day to be grateful. But Thanksgiving is an especially good time to reflect on the fortune we have. The ...
Do your web archives have inTegrity? There’s a trend today toward more interactive and personalized web content, but ...
Picture this: you’re in a busy open-concept office space. There are clusters of people everywhere, hard at work, but ...
After 2018, companies may never view online data collection in the same way again.
In the hustle and bustle of ediscovery planning, we often focus more on the content of discoverable information than we ...
In the recent case of Forman v. Henkin, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that “private” Facebook posts were subject ...
Last week at Relativity Fest we brought Dynamic Review to the world.
Insurance companies don’t always inspire a great deal of sympathy; after all, who enjoys paying their car insurance ...
Ecosystems exist in a delicate balance: change one component of the system and the whole thing can collapse like a ...
If you’re in the securities industry, you’re probably keenly attuned to recent regulatory guidance about determining ...
What would “smart” archiving look like for an organization?
As a securities professional, you’re good at shepherding your static communications through the complex maze of laws, ...
If you work in the securities industry, you’re used to navigating through the vast, interconnected web of laws, rules, ...
The risk posture Sitting at a hotel bar on a work jaunt, we struck up a conversation with a general counsel at a large ...
Whether you’re dealing with e-discovery in a new, socially networked world, find your company expanding globally and ...
Everywhere you turn these days in the compliance world, someone is talking about work stress. We are all over-worked! ...
You’re a terrific data custodian. When you send a letter to a client, you keep a copy for your records. You neatly stow ...
Instagram is getting to be a pretty big deal, eh?
Twitter can be a goldmine of fun stuff slanted a little bit off-center. It's always extra fulfilling when the ...
Collecting data from your own website: how hard can it really be? I mean, can’t anyone take a screenshot or rely on the ...
Admittedly we probably discuss generational differences a bit too much at a broader societal level. There are millions ...
The Surprising Irony at the Intersection of Compliance and Social APIs
We learned a lot at this year's FINRA Annual Conference. Here are a few of the top trends we observed at this year's ...
Dear Mr. Vendor,
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is probably going to clear a $400M box office -- and deservedly so. Having not read ...
Let’s have some real talk for a second, friends. The situation around MiFID II is a powderkeg in some respects. ...
Downing, a London-based investment manager, recently notified clients and advisers about the drop in value of its ...
MiFID II is going to change things It hasn’t quite yet, but it will, specifically around the areas of: Record-keeping ...
The Hanzo team had the pleasure of hosting eDiscovery with the C-Suite, a webinar featuring Relativity CEO Andrew Sieja ...
ABC’s 60 Minutes aired an Anderson Cooper-led interview with Stormy Daniels regarding her alleged affair with Donald ...
Downing, a London-based investment manager, recently notified clients and advisers about the drop in value of its ...
About a year ago, the head of equities business development at a firm in London likened MiFID II to “British people ...
When Does “Collaboration” Simply Become “Communication”? Humans have been communicating for thousands of years. The ...
You have probably heard about Bitcoin thousands of times by now. You have seen it on the news, discussed it with your ...
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive 2004/39/EC (MiFID) first appeared in 2007 with the goal of regulating ...
Let’s just get this out of the way: the robots are not going to take your jobs. Actually, they’ll make it easier for ...
From January 31 to Februrary 1, the Hanzo team was onsite at LegalTech 2018 to gain valuable industry insight and to ...
Earlier this week, the Hanzo team partnered with Zapproved for the 2nd Annual Corporate E-discovery Hero Awards. The ...
Beginning January 3, 2018, MiFID II goes into effect. The goal of the new legislation is to make financial markets more ...
Are you feeling the pressure yet? The start of 2018 means that GDPR goes into effect in 5 months, which will ...
You’ve finally found a collaborative platform that suits the needs of your team. While this is great news, it also ...
It’s happened to everyone. You can see it already: It’s the moment your phone slides out of your palm, ricocheting like ...
Collaborative platforms are all the rage in the news, but what technologies are enterprise ...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have a specific effective date, but the expectations pre-implementation ...
The time gap between what defines modern apps and legacy apps is constricting as fast as a rubber band. At this point, ...
There’s a scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark that will forever maintain its maddening status: Indiana Jones, ...
Short answer: of course not!—That is, if you don’t mind providing a portion of the $176 million in fines that FINRA ...
Your marketing department has probably spent a considerable amount of time analyzing the flow of your website. As a ...
As a compliance professional, you’re probably too swamped with regulations (like the approaching GDPR deadline) to get ...
Hanzo’s Web and Social Messaging Collection Platform to support Alvarez & Marsal’s Information Governance team to ...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may have a specific effective date, but the expectations pre-implementation ...
Social media continues to be a growing area for financial services firms. In fact, regulatory agencies have worked to ...
This statistic may confirm what you’ve long suspected: 50 percent of organizations don’t fully understand what their ...
Archiving social media is crucial to your overall archiving action plan. In fact, social media, especially social ...
Imagine coming in to the office to find everyone upset. You notice that everyone is looking at the same website: one ...
As technology becomes more sophisticated, it costs more time, money, and resources to collect, analyze, preserve, and ...
Organizations are facing a multitude of modern digital challenges. From the complexities of cybersecurity, data ...
Does it seem like every department in your organization uses a different platform to collaborate? Of course, you want ...
It’s inevitable: the platforms we love eventually get replaced by better, more efficient technology. While this is a ...
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will go into effect on May 25, 2018, and there’s been a whirlwind of ...
It’s no secret that screens have taken over our lives, especially in the workplace. In-person meetings are being ...
You’ve probably heard this phrase before and associate it with witness intimidation, a tactic used to prevent witnesses ...
It may seem easy to be confident about the data records you keep, but are you really keeping track of every place that ...
Local governments are in great need of an official information governance program, and surprisingly only a few realize ...
Social media discovery is an emergent field of law/compliance, and a rather large one at that. Just in the past few ...
With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) still in its 24-month transition period, it’s key to catch up with ...
Before we get into insurance claim fraud detection software and why it’s so essential for your business, let’s take a ...