We understand and fully appreciate the needs of all of our research participants for confidentiality and privacy.  There are areas we are probing in our interviews that ask respondents to provide proprietary or confidential information; and/or there are a number of questions we pose which bear on sensitive areas either for the individual respondents or their law firms.

Consistent with our stated Confidentiality & Privacy Policy, we will not report or share any information provided by participants in this study in any way that connects the individual or the law firm with specific questions and answers.

 

In this project, responses are analyzed and reported at an aggregate level.  We do not provide any party with access to firm-identified or respondent-identified data.  However, we reserve the right to make public the fact of your firm's participation in this research project -- we believe it is critical to the credibility of the project that readers be able to vet the sources of information.

Although nothing online is 100% secure, we have taken a number of measures to ensure the security of the interview process and the integrity of the data collected.  Our security measures include the following ...

  Each respondent utilizes a unique UserName and PassWord set.

  We are utilizing a secure SSL link between you and our interview software.  This is the same connection methodology used to secure e-commerce transactions involving credit card data.

  We are not utilizing any external parties for data handling or analysis.  Your responses are being directly handled by the principals of EDDix.  No one else is being provided access to the interview software or identified response sets.

 

 

We entered into an information-sharing agreement with the Center for Information Policy ("CIP") at the University of Maryland under which EDDix will provide data from this research project to CIP to be used as part of a separate project reporting on best practices in document search and retrieval.  Our agreement specifically prohibits the sharing of attributed data; furthermore, neither CIP nor its clients (including the National Archives and Records Administration, or "NARA") have access to individual- or firm-level information; and, they assume no responsibility for the project, our conduct thereof or any findings or opinions which we may publish as an outcome.

 

EDDix is a member of The Sedona Conference ("TSC") and, under special arrangement, we have previously shared the results of our EDD Supplier Landscape research project; however, results shared were only in final published form and we have no agreements regarding information from the results of this research project.

 

 

We work with several external organizations and advisors in the development of our research programs; however, no one outside of EDDix has access to the results of individual interviews or  responses at the individual law firm level.

 

We are very fortunate to acknowledge the assistance of a distinguished group of professionals who are looking over our shoulders as we field and report on this project.  The Steering Group reviews and comments on our form of interview and drafts of our reported findings.  They assume no responsibility for the project, our conduct thereof or any findings or opinions which we may publish as an outcome; furthermore, the Steering Group does not have access to individual- or firm-level information.   Steering Group for this project includes:

 

Sr. Case Management Specialist, Hunton & Williams

President, Fios Inc.

Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Partner, Dewey Ballantine LLP

Shareholder, Berger & Montague P.C.

President, Electronic Evidence Discovery Inc.

Lee S. Strickland, J.D.

Executive Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland