Biographical Information
Eric P. Mandel
Attorney and Managing Member, Indicium Law PLC
Eric P. Mandel is the Managing Member of Indicium Law PLC, a boutique firm focused on navigating clients through the legal, technology, and process issues related to e-discovery, cyber risk, data privacy, and information governance. He serves on multiple policy and standards setting bodies, including the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1 (WG1) and the Board of Directors of the Legal Technology Professionals Institute (LTPI). Eric is licensed to practice law in California and Minnesota, and is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
Articles by Eric P. Mandel
E-Discovery: Searching for the Narrative
29 Jan 2016
At its core, e-discovery is about the search for electronic evidence for use in the legal or regulatory process. I recently was with a US Circuit court judge who was very surprised to learn that a company cannot simply run a "Google" type search across all their systems to locate potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) for production. This leading jurist's reaction reflects a common misperception about search that plays out in e-discovery…