
In January, Slack announced it had surpassed 10,000,000 daily active users and was used by 65 of the Fortune 100 – and it achieved all that growth in less than five years. In this episode, XDD Director of Forensic Services Mike Gutierrez discusses what practitioners need to know about preservation and collection in Slack and other cloud-based collaboration tools like it.
About this Month’s Guest
Our guest this month is XDD Director of Forensic Services Mike Gutierrez, CCE. Mike has been involved in the legal technology industry since 2000, including experience in eDiscovery lifecycle management, digital forensic investigations, electronic data processing, operations management, software training, and technical support. His primary expertise lies in digital forensic consulting, investigations, and data collections. He regularly serves as a digital forensic expert, providing testimony and expert reports, and he specializes in assessing new and evolving technologies and developing forensically sound procedures for data preservation, collection, and processing. He is a Certified Computer Examiner.
About XDD’s First Chair Podcast
First Chair is an eDiscovery education podcast from Xact Data Discovery, providing a new half-hour interview each month with expert eDiscovery practitioners discussing important eDiscovery topics to help you take the lead. Xact Data Discovery (XDD) is a leading international provider of eDiscovery, data management and managed review services for law firms and corporations. XDD helps clients optimize their eDiscovery matters by orchestrating precision communication between people, processes, technology and data. XDD services include forensics, eDiscovery processing, Relativity hosting and managed review.
About Our Host
XDD Director of Education Matthew Verga, JD, is an electronic discovery expert proficient at leveraging his legal experience as an attorney, his technical knowledge as a practitioner, and his skills as a communicator to make complex eDiscovery topics accessible to diverse audiences. A twelve-year industry veteran, Matthew has worked across every phase of the EDRM and at every level from the project trenches to enterprise program design. He leverages this background to produce engaging educational content to empower practitioners at all levels with knowledge they can use to improve their projects, their careers, and their organizations.
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