RT @asialegaltech: Asia Legal Technologies attending E-Discovery Exchange Platform 2010 in Singapore http://bit.ly/9gLAZp
RT @asialegaltech: Asia Legal Technologies attending E-Discovery Exchange Platform 2010 in Singapore http://bit.ly/9gLAZp
October 14, 2010 By 1 Comment
Chinese, Japanese or Korean Documents Have You Perplexed?
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
中文，日语或朝鲜语文件有你困惑？
あなたは困惑し、中国語、日本語、韓国語のドキュメントがありますか？
당신은 당황하게 중국어, 일본어 또는 한국어 문서가 있나요?
Documents containing Chinese, Japanese and Korean (“CJK“) language and character sets have become intertwined within many different legal matters, ranging from international arbitration to intellectual property litigation to to administrative investigations. However, the solutions typically used to manage CJK documents have not kept pace with demand and remain slow, cumbersome and expensive. Most firms, corporations and vendors rely on automated machine translation or certified document translations to understand CJK documents, with the first often revealing giberish results and the later often resulting in extremely high cost to the end client.
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- Data Collection & Preservation
- Scanning / OCR
- E-Discovery Processing
- Automated Language Identification
- Standard Coding (Chinese, Japanese, Korean to English)
- Document Summaries (Chinese, Japanese, Korean to English)
- Translation (Machine, Hybrid, Certified)
- Document Review
Document containing East Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese or Korean no longer need to be a perplexing problem with complicated, expensive solutions. To learn more about the multi-lingual services of Asia Legal Technologies, kindly click to AsiaLegalTech.com or email information@asialegaltech.com.
How Altria Is Winnowing Out Fake Marlboros – BusinessWeek
April 12, 2010 By
Cigarette smuggling is booming, in part because New York and 21 other states have raised cigarette excise taxes in recent years. On top of that, the U.S. government increased the federal tax on cigarettes last year by 159%, to $1.01 per pack. A pack now typically sells for about $10 in New York City, more than double what it cost 10 years ago, and the state is considering yet another excise increase.
The high levies, meant to help close huge budget gaps and discourage smoking, have had the unintended side effect of spurring the illicit market. One passenger car filled with Marlboros bought in low-tax Virginia and driven up Interstate 95 to resell in New York can yield more than $30,000 in profit, says Crisanto Perez, a senior official with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, & Explosives.
In Asia, Altria employees have begun to build an intelligence network to combat the counterfeiting problem. The company cites academic research estimating that factories in China manufacture 400 billion knock-off cigarettes a year. Altria has hired detectives to try to infiltrate the international distributors that sell Chinese fakes to mom-and-pop shops in the U.S. The company says it will funnel the information it gathers to government authorities.
Back in the U.S., Altria has 21 employees in its brand integrity unit, which it created in 2002. They are assisted by outside contractors hired nationwide. The company even has given nearly $2 million over the past eight years to cash-strapped public police departments in such places as Los Angeles and Suffolk County, N.Y., to help fund contraband investigations.
Tax collectors have their own concerns. New York currently loses $1 billion a year because of cigarette tax cheating, according to a 2009 study by the New York Association of Convenience Stores. Across the country, tobacco excise revenue lost annually to smuggling totals $5 billion, the U.S. Justice Dept.'s Inspector General concluded last year.
via How Altria Is Winnowing Out Fake Marlboros – BusinessWeek.
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Global EDD Group Implements Portable E-Discovery Solution
March 29, 2010 By
GLOBAL EDD GROUP IMPLEMENTS PORTABLE E-DISCOVERY SOLUTION
Expands Intelligent EDD℠ Services With Addition Of Portable Processing
Cleveland, Ohio (29 March 2010) – Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”), a boutique consulting firm that provides innovative legal technology solutions across the globe, today announced the addition of Portable Processing to its Intelligent EDD℠ line of legal technology services. Developed to be utilized at virtually any location with dependable power and connectivity, Portable Processing enables Global EDD to provide a full suite of early case assessment and electronic discovery services at onsite and near site locations across the globe without the cost, time and headaches typically associated with the shipping of servers, workstations and monitors.
“We have worked closely with our technology partners to develop an innovative early case assessment and electronic discovery processing solution that is portable, scalable and cost effective,” stated Brad Mixner, Founder and Managing Principal of Global EDD Group. “This enhancement to our Intelligent EDD Services provides a significant advantage to our clients and alliance partners managing cases with tight deadlines, data privacy, intellectual property or related security concerns. Our mobile teams can be onsite and operational with short notice, with the ability to preserve, analyze, process and review data on the same day.”
The Intelligent EDD Portable Processing service combines industry standard software and purpose-built hardware within a modular system that can be easily transported with the mobile teams to virtually any location in the world within 48 hours. Key highlights of the service include:
- Data Analytics and Dynamic Reporting
- File Culling and Deduplication
- Text, Metadata and Attachment Extraction
- XML, TIFF, TXT and Native File Exports
- First Pass Document Review
- Language Identification
“In essence, it’s a mobile office. ESI processing, review and analysis all within the secure confines of the client’s office. Now, when a client asks if we process data in Asia, Europe, South America or Timbuktu, the answer is ‘Yes.’” noted Joseph Turner, Principal, Global EDD Group.
About Global EDD Group
Global Electronic Discovery & Disclosure Group (“Global EDD Group”) was founded by Mixner with the vision of bridging the wide gap between domestic organizations and their growing national and international legal technology needs. Global EDD Group provides legal technology services for matters with a national or international scope, specializing in remote and onsite services ranging from data identification to document review. Global EDD Group is based in Cleveland, Ohio, USA with regional offices in San Francisco and New York City. Additional information is available by visiting www.GlobalEDD.com.
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IP Prosecutors and Investigators in Bangkok and Singapore Receive Training from DOJ Cyber and IP Experts « USDOJ: Justice Blog
March 19, 2010 By
Department of Justice cyber experts recently helped to train prosecutors and investigators in Singapore and Bangkok on important forensics and evidence issues in intellectual property (IP) cases. The in-country training builds on successful cyber forensics training prosecutors and investigators received during a December 2009 workshop held in Washington, D.C., with partners in the IP Crimes Enforcement Network (IPCEN).
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) Trial Attorney John Zacharia and Intellectual Property Law Enforcement Coordinator for Asia Christopher Sonderby offered tips and information on obtaining and using electronic evidence in intellectual property cases. Cyber Crime Laboratory Director Ovie Carroll discussed a wide range of forensic issues, including imaging, methodology and other issues related to evidence identification and analysis.
One hundred prosecutors and investigators attended the one-day Singapore program in March, while 130 Thai prosecutors and investigators were in attendance for the first day of the two-day program in Bangkok, and 150 Thai judges attended the second day.
This targeted forensics training is a groundbreaking effort by the IPCEN, which was established in 2007. The IPCEN serves two primary functions: to facilitate the exchange of successful investigation and prosecution strategies in combating domestic piracy and counterfeiting crimes; and to strengthen communication channels to promote coordinated, multinational prosecutions of the most serious offenders. By reaching out to a group of investigators overseas to conduct sophisticated analysis of computer data, the mission of the IPCEN will be advanced and the opportunity for larger domestic and multi-national cases will increase.
SEC Charges California Telecom Company With Bribery And Other FCPA Violations
December 31, 2009 By Leave a Comment
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Alameda, Calif.-based telecommunications company UTStarcom, Inc. with violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for authorizing millions of dollars in unlawful payments to foreign government officials in Asia.
UTStarcom agreed to settle the SEC’s charges and pay a $1.5 million penalty among other remedies. In a related criminal case, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today that UTStarcom agreed to pay an additional $1.5 million fine.
“UTStarcom spent millions of dollars on illegal bribes to win and keep customers in Asia,” said Marc J. Fagel, Director of the SEC’s San Francisco Regional Office. “It is important for corporate America to recognize that resorting to these methods of boosting profits contributes to a culture of corruption that cannot be condoned under U.S. law.”
via SEC Charges California Telecom Company With Bribery And Other FCPA Violations.
Will Shanghai Overtake Hong Kong as World Financial Center?
December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A report by British law firm Eversheds claiming that Shanghai could overtake London as a world financial center in 10 years has led to a predictable round of hand-wringing from the British press, including the Financial Times, the BBC and the Telegraph.
But not all of Asia is gloating. Missing altogether from Eversheds’ report is the city that’s most worried about losing ground to Shanghai: Hong Kong.
Obviously, such surveys are to be taken with a grain of salt; after all, over a tenth of Eversheds’ respondents predicted Dubai would emerge as the world’s preeminent financial center in decade’s time.
And Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China with a separate local government and legal system, has been booming recently. So far this year, its exchange is leading the world in initial public offerings, mostly on behalf of mainland Chinese companies. It remains the preferred regional base for global banks and, consequently, international law firms.
Still, Hong Kong has long had a complex about Shanghai, which was the region’s preeminent financial center before falling under communist rule in 1949. Now that that same communist government has embraced capitalism, fears abound that Shanghai will be promoted at Hong Kong’s expense.
That anxiety was reflected in a Reuters article last week, in which one Hong Kong banker fretted that his city would become a second city — a Boston or a Chicago to Shanghai’s New York.
via Will Shanghai Overtake Hong Kong as World Financial Center?.
Justice Department Hosts International Intellectual Property Program on Advanced Computer and Digital Foresncis « USDOJ: Justice Blog
December 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Building upon the successes of earlier efforts by the IP Crimes Enforcement Network IPCEN for Asia, the U.S. Department of Justice today announced a three-day training program on advanced computer and digital forensics for 15 key law enforcement officials from five IPCEN nations. The training seminar is designed to strengthen international cooperation in fighting large-scale intellectual property theft and disrupting the criminal networks that profit from the trade in stolen IP.
Police and prosecutors from the Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are participating in the training, which will enhance cross-border cooperation in the fight against intellectual property theft by increasing the ability of the trainees to use advanced computer forensics techniques to track down, arrest and prosecute IP criminals. Training is taking place over three days at the GIPA facility, and will be lead by Ovie Carroll, Director of the Cybercrime Lab at the Justice Department’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section.
This specific, targeted forensics training is a groundbreaking effort for the IPCEN, which was established in 2007. The IPCEN serves two primary functions: to facilitate the exchange of successful investigation and prosecution strategies in combating domestic piracy and counterfeiting crimes; and to strengthen communication channels to promote coordinated, multinational prosecutions of the most serious offenders. By preparing a group of investigators to conduct sophisticated analysis of computer data, the mission of the IPCEN will be advanced and the opportunity for larger domestic and multi-national cases will increase.
Document management software a priority in Asia Pacific | ComputerWorld Hong Kong
November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
IDC said Thursday that most respondents in a recent survey indicated that they plan to invest in document management software, followed by record management software among all other content management (CM) software in the Asia Pacific excluding Japan region.
“In India, Singapore, China, and Australia, managing content published on the Web is the top role played by CM software,” said Ridhi Sawhney, market analyst of Asia/Pacific Software Research at IDC. “Managing content with ever-increasing volumes of information, mounting regulatory pressure, and disparate applications with isolated data repositories, remains a big challenge. There is continuous demand for content management software from legacy businesses and developing countries as organizations endeavor to transition from manual overlay systems to automated systems.
CM market in the region is expected to grow steadily at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.42 percent, reaching US$ 308.42 million by 2013.”
[continued] IDC: Document management software a priority in Asia Pacific | ComputerWorld Hong Kong.
