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From Battlefield to Boardroom: Lessons in Decision-Making from Military Strategy
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Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting organizations and individuals by intercepting legitimate email communications and altering wire transfer instructions. This sophisticated form of business email compromise (BEC) has led to billions in financial losses globally. The attackers exploit trust, timing, and lack of verification protocols to redirect funds into fraudulent accounts, often irreversibly.
Too many organizations treat incident response (IR) like a fire extinguisher: break glass when needed. But real resilience is built long before the alarms go off.
When intellectual property (IP) litigation collides with the world of eDiscovery, it introduces a layer of complexity that traditional document review workflows aren't always prepared to handle. From dense patent filings to proprietary source code and deeply technical product specs, legal teams navigating IP disputes must adapt their review strategies to keep pace with the specialized nature of the data.
The digital evidence landscape is changing – fast. What used to be a relatively straightforward process of collecting emails and documents has become a much more complex challenge. In today’s legal matters, relevant data may live across social media platforms, cloud-based collaboration tools, mobile apps, and beyond.
Corporate in-house counsel face increasing challenges in managing data collections and digital forensics. Leveraging the expertise of an experienced outside vendor can be a game-changer.
The legal industry is undergoing a revolutionary transformation with the advent of AI-powered document automation, streamlining processes and enhancing efficiency.
In the ever-evolving landscape of legal technology, the discoverability of ChatGPT prompts in litigation is a pressing concern for attorneys and clients alike. Understanding the nuances of relevance, privilege, and emerging case law is paramount.
Healthcare is facing some major changes thanks to the latest proposed updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. These changes are a big deal: they’re the biggest updates we’ve seen in years and they’re all about keeping patient data safer in today’s digital world.
Nearly every aspect of our lives – personal, professional, and financial – leaves behind a digital footprint. From smartphones and laptops to cloud systems and even Internet of Things (IoT) devices, data is constantly being created, stored, and transmitted.
In 2025, law firms will continue to be prime targets for cybercriminals looking to exploit sensitive client data, disrupt operations, and ransom valuable information. With technology advancing at a rapid pace, so are the tactics used by cyber attackers, making it essential for legal professionals to stay ahead of emerging risks. From sophisticated ransomware attacks to insider threats, law firms must proactively address these challenges to safeguard sensitive data and ensure compliance with ever-evolving regulations.
In the fast-paced world of eDiscovery, vast amounts of data must be reviewed and processed quickly, yet accurately. Traditional methods of privilege review, where legal professionals manually sift through documents to identify privileged information, are labor-intensive, prone to human error, and inefficient. That’s why artificial intelligence (AI) has been a game changer, automating privilege review and dramatically improving both speed and precision in the eDiscovery process.
Migrating data to a new or updated eDiscovery platform enables your organization to take advantage of enhanced features, increased security, better data management, and/or cost savings – or to consolidate data from multiple sources. Data migration ultimately streamlines the legal discovery process, boosts efficiency, and provides access to advanced analytics and capabilities offered by the new platform.
Although emails, texts, and cloud-based data are commonplace, paper documents continue to play an essential and significant role in the legal discovery process. Many legal matters still involve a combination of old and new records, and the authenticity, integrity, and legal weight of physical documents cannot always be fully replaced by digital equivalents. That’s why Avalon still provides paper discovery – scanning and digitizing paper records – in addition to electronic discovery, to our clients.