SIFMA C&L Seminar - Austin

Takeaways from Spring 2025 Legal Event Season

Spring 2025 was a season of deep reflection and bold speculation acr

Originally developed by manufacturing companies, Six Sigma is a data-driven methodology for improving processes that remains widely recognized and popular for optimizing operations. But the value of its principles isn’t limited to those environments; in fact, Six Sigma can work well for legal teams.

Data privacy and security have always been important priorities, especially for organizations that collect any amount of personal or private information in the course of doing business. But in recent years, these have become paramount concerns due to the escalating sophistication of cyberthreats and the ubiquitous nature of digital data.

In many cases, documents collected as part of discovery for an investigation, regulatory or litigation matter are identified to be responsive but may be withheld from production under a claim of privilege for any of several valid reasons. The documents must still be accounted for, listed and described in what is known as a privilege log.