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In the legal operations realm, eDiscovery has always been a critical function, but the rapid advent of digital ...
In the dynamic world of tech, a quiet revolution is underway, powered by the core principles of diversity, equity, and ...
Hispanic Heritage Month holds significant importance in the United States, observed annually from September 15th to ...
In today's fiercely competitive business landscape, financial services companies, like their counterparts in other ...
Our focus is to gain knowledge about any challenges that corporate legal teams encounter in relation to these new data ...
In the United States, Women's Equality Day is observed on August 26th every year to honor the ratification of the 19th ...
Since the emergence of Chat GPT, the legal industry's response to artificial intelligence (AI) language models has been ...
In the ongoing case of Sam Bankman-Fried and his failed crypto exchange FTX, the growing volume of evidence highlights ...
In the well-publicized case In re Google Play Store Antitrust Litigation (N.D. Cal. March 28, 2023) California District ...
Workplace collaboration and communication solutions like Slack and Microsoft Teams have firmly established their place ...
Legal departments are facing higher competition and budget limitations, prompting them to seek ways to improve their ...
The legal department of an organization is responsible for providing crucial legal support and advice to the company's ...
Workplace collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams have become ubiquitous in many organizations. However, they also ...
In-House Legal Departments, like any other business function, must be efficient and effective to deliver the best ...
Once again, the CLOC Global Institute (CGI) has come and gone. But while we were there, Hanzo took a quick snapshot ...
Collaboration during litigation is critical to ensure that all relevant information is discovered and reviewed. ...
In-House legal departments are under more pressure than ever to reduce costs, improve performance, and provide ...
In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for companies to claim environmental sustainability, making public ...
The role of Legal Operations is becoming increasingly important in today's fast-paced and complex corporate legal ...
Collaboration data is essential for many businesses in the digital age. However, determining how long to keep records ...
In recent years, there has been an increasing trend for companies to claim environmental sustainability, making public ...
The rise of collaboration tools like Slack and MS Teams has brought about new challenges for legal departments. While ...
Visit Hanzo at CLOC Global Institute! We can't wait to share our latest innovations to address the gnarly challenges ...
ESG and sustainability are two concepts that have gained significant prominence recently. The World Bank Group’s ...
Last month, I reported on five new privacy laws going into effect in 2023. Well, now we can add one more to the list of ...
Why Are ESI Protocols Important for Legal Teams During Ediscovery? Ensure Preservation of Relevant ESI: ESI protocols ...
We Take Search for Granted Remember the days when you wanted to look for a document using the file manager on your ...
The hot topic this year was how new technologies, like ChatGPT, are poised to disrupt the way legal work is done. Some ...
Ready for lift-off? Before you know it, you'll be boarding a plane for Legalweek, the annual event that draws thousands ...
2023 may be the year of privacy laws. Five states have new laws that go into effect this year, which will likely usher ...
Tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams were on the rise before the global pandemic; now, they’ve become integral for ...
In ediscovery, most of the information collected during litigation involves email and other communication data (e.g. ...
In the 2022 Collaboration Data Benchmarking Report, just over a third (38%) of organizations said that they could not ...
Last year, the FTC announced they were going to “crackdown on harmful commercial surveillance and lax data security,” ...
It’s already February, and chances are, most of us have already broken our New Year’s Resolutions. But no matter the ...
Workplace complaints are serious. Even if a claim doesn’t lead to disciplinary action, the fact that an employee has ...
Today is the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi death camps. On this ...
Let’s face it, if litigation is imminent and you’re preparing for the discovery process, friction has already taken ...
It’s that time of year again when people are pulling out their crystal balls and doing their best to predict the future ...
If another company claims that it was the first to invent a piece of your intellectual property (IP), would you be ...
HR Investigations tend to happen quickly, with the triggering event setting things into motion and demanding some kind ...
It’s been another interesting year in the world of legal technology, and we here at Hanzo have covered a variety of ...
It’s been another interesting year in the world of legal technology, and we here at Hanzo have covered a variety of ...
December 1st marked another successful Ediscovery Day celebration full of great educational content for the legal tech ...
It seems like it should be easy to prove that your company owns its intellectual property (IP)—but these days, it can ...
We've come to that part of the calendar year known as the "holiday season." Yes, there are the traditional holidays we ...
As we approach Thanksgiving, it is an apt time to look at a broader view of history beyond the familiar story of the ...
When looking at any process, there are often things to consider before step one, and HR investigations are no ...
In a recent update to Rule 17a-4, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) stepped fully into the 21st century by ...
Your company’s intellectual property (IP) is its most valuable asset—but are you doing enough to protect it? If someone ...
Our client was a global biopharmaceutical company with over US$ 10 billion in annual revenues. They have over 30,000 ...
How do you ensure that your business complies with every law, rule, and regulation that governs its operations? Are you ...
The days of managing website archives with printouts or screenshots are long gone since modern sites contain thousands ...
According to a recent press release from the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), sixteen Wall Street firms were fined ...
It is year two on Hanzo's road to taking concrete steps toward our diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Our ...
When it comes to making sure financial data is safe and meets compliance regulations, understanding the different ...
Court rulings in the past few years have codified what people working in ediscovery have known all along: Slack (and ...
Often, a compliance team may have an archiving solution in place, only to discover their archives aren’t capturing ...
With the recent ruling in Red Wolf Energy v. BIA Capital Mgmt. where a judge awarded a default judgment sanction ...
Organizations that use Gmail for business communications need a way to preserve and extract discoverable information in ...
Healthcare is a highly innovative, lucrative, and regulated industry, which also makes it a highly litigious industry. ...
Organizations that use Gmail for business communications need a way to preserve and extract discoverable information in ...
Remember the early days of email when there was such a thing as a clean and organized inbox? I remember I would even ...
If your digital marketing efforts span the entire internet, from your corporate website to social media channels, and ...
Proving regulatory compliance requires meticulous record keeping, including records of a company’s website and social ...
Organizations that use Gmail for business communications need a way to preserve and extract discoverable information in ...
Ediscovery and compliance are no longer reactive endeavors. Organizations must be proactive in order to mitigate legal ...
When collecting electronically stored information (ESI) for ediscovery during litigation, it’s essential to realize ...
When it comes to updates in the law or changes to the rules of civil procedure, attorneys should follow the resulting ...
When it comes to ediscovery and compliance, APIs can give users the ability to use 3rd party solutions to preserve, ...
Connecting to an organization's various enterprise data sources is a primary goal for any ediscovery solution. After ...
The eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM) has been a long-established visualization of the eDiscovery process once ...
Fifty-three years ago, on June 28th, The Stonewall riots occurred as spontaneous protests by members of the gay ...
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 litigation?
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 in ...
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?