Technology Consulting & Services in Ireland

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Digital Insights and Risk Management

Growing the business, protecting sensitive information and managing liability in a complex and dynamic environment – these are just a few of today’s organizational priorities in which enterprise data plays a critical role. How organizations, teams and stakeholders approach this data poses challenges and opportunities across the entire digital risk spectrum, including privacy, security, technology, legal, governance, risk and compliance.

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Ireland’s Competition (Amendment) Act 2022: Compliance and Dawn Raid

The Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 marks a significant milestone in the regulatory landscape of Ireland, aiming to enhance competition, protect consumers and promote market efficiency. As corporations operating in Ireland adjust to this updated legislation, it is imperative to understand its implications and take proactive steps to ensure compliance and reduce the risk of competition violations in the evolving business environment.

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AI System Risk Assessment

The potential of AI for disruption has captured the imagination of business leaders but can also create new risks and exacerbate existing challenges. Even seemingly simple AI uses have the potential for significant impacts. Conducting the right assessment at the right time can help organisations mitigate risk by design and establish trust in its AI tools and practices.

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Find Facts Fast

What if you could understand the key facts of your matter at the beginning of the project and use that knowledge to drive your strategy?

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Digital Insights and Risk Management

Growing the business, protecting sensitive information and managing liability in a complex and dynamic environment – these are just a few of today’s organizational priorities in which enterprise data plays a critical role. How organizations, teams and stakeholders approach this data poses challenges and opportunities across the entire digital risk spectrum, including privacy, security, technology, legal, governance, risk and compliance.

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Digital Asset Investigations

Cryptocurrency and digital assets have created new challenges for corporations and law firms globally. Fraud, theft and misuse of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) make headlines almost daily, and recent market volatility has significantly impacted crypto-native organizations and institutions that relied on their services. Legal teams are facing a new, rapidly evolving subject matter that requires significant technical know-how to explain complex subjects to various audiences.

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Confronting Data Risk with Expertise and Innovation

Amid an exponentially expanding universe of data, organisations are grappling with how to root out fraud, maintain regulatory compliance, protect sensitive information and mitigate an ever-expanding landscape of risk.

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Antitrust & Cartel Expertise

With massive data volumes including cloud-based apps and social media, multiple global offices and languages, and evolving data privacy laws - antitrust and cartel matters present legal teams with unfamiliar challenges. And when the penalty is a large fine or failed transaction, the stakes cannot be higher.

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Mergers Acquisitions and Divestitures

Merging companies can reduce the cost and risk of consolidating organisational data by utilising FTI Technology’s Information Governance, Privacy & Security (IGP&S) and Contract Intelligence services.

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Virtual Managed Review

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, FTI Technology’s award-winning managed review service is now available through a secure, virtual environment.

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Merger Clearance

With over 50 matters successfully completed, covering EU, US and Transatlantic mergers, we are a tested and proven partner through the merger clearance process. FTI’s experience, global reach, and technology help ensure timely and accurate productions to regulators every time.

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Spreading Like Wildfire: Emerging Data Sources Continue to Spark Governance, Compliance, Discovery Challenges

Concerns over emerging data sources have reached an all-time high. After several years of steadily burning in the background of legal department challenges, the flames have caught on and grown, forcing in-house counsel and their law firms into fire-fighting mode across e-discovery, compliance monitoring, investigations, regulatory response and more. Over the last year, 62% of global general counsel confirmed they had experienced distinct new issues associated with collaboration tools, chat applications, file shares and other similar cloudbased systems, and nearly all (93%) expressed some level of concern about emerging data sources as a significant area of risk.

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AI Readiness Through Effective Information Governance in Microsoft Environments

In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, generative AI is becoming a disruptive force, reshaping how machines interact with and create content. Advancements in this space offer the potential to unlock unparalleled benefits ranging from speeding up content production to enhancing, streamlining and automating processes. Nevertheless, the rise of generative AI can also pose a significant risk if the underlying information and workflows are poorly governed. Insufficient AI governance can lead to an array of problems, such as biased outputs, data protection vulnerabilities and the potential for making inaccurate or incomplete decisions based upon on out-of-date information.

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Technology Modernisation for Internal Investigations: Clarion Call for Innovation and Improvement

The landscape of internal investigations has changed dramatically in recent years. This has been driven by factors including increased regulatory and legal pressures, unforeseen government intervention and growth in the scale of information requests. As a result, large organisations today are inundated with an increasing volume of whistleblower claims, allegations of misconduct, customer complaints and claims, suspicious activity reports, freedom of information requests, data subject access requests (DSARs), subpoenas, etc. While each request differs in substance, they all share the requirement to collect information, review and investigate, collaborate on findings, and report.

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Forecasting Digital Risk in 2024

After a feverish period of disruption across many facets of technology, it’s becoming more difficult to delineate between what could happen and what will happen in the months and year ahead. Business leaders often rely upon industry forecasts to prepare for anticipated change that is likely to impact their operations, go-to-market strategies, hiring plans, etc. Yet in a hype-filled environment in which it seems like anything is possible, organizations must be highly discerning about how they prepare for evolving digital risk and establish resilience for future technological disruption.

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FTI Technology Supports Regulatory Agency With Document Review for Freedom of Information Requests

FTI Technology was approached by a health care regulatory agency in Europe to facilitate the consolidation and review of disparate data records needed to respond to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests relating to assessments of medical professionals’ fitness to practice.

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The 2024 General Counsel Report: General Counsel Indicate Tipping Points in Strategy, Technology Adoption and Operations - EMEA

Digital risk has triggered a fundamental shift in the corporate legal department. Against a tremulous cultural, economic and geopolitical backdrop, numerous issues have cascaded into tipping points across the legal function. Data-centered regulatory activity, privacy requirements, generative artificial intelligence disruption, technology advancement and an expansive web of emerging data sources are now impacting the way legal departments prioritize resources. In addition to placing tremendous demand on in-house counsel, this environment has led to a decline in the general counsel’s feelings of preparedness for every major risk category.

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The Missing Links in Modern E-Discovery

Productivity suites like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace have transformed the ways in which people collaborate across and share projects at work. They are also upending traditional expectations, case law and processes in e-discovery. The dynamic, cloud-based nature of today’s workplace platforms has spurred an array of complex data challenges around how electronic information is collected, processed, analyzed, reviewed and produced for litigation and investigations.

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Data Subject Access Request Document Review

With the advent of GDPR, companies entered a new era of regulation around how they collect, handle and store personal data belonging to EU citizens. This includes the fulfillment of data subject access requests (DSARs), in which individuals can exercise rights and inquiries relating to the personal information an organisation has about them and how it is managed. In the first year of GDPR enforcement, more than 70 percent of surveyed organisations indicated an increase in DSARs.

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Q&A: Eoghan O’Mahony on How Evolving Market Trends Are Shaping the Document Review Landscape

Eoghan O’Mahony, a Senior Director and disputes and investigations expert in Ireland, explains how building a cohesive team around each client engagement is critical to handle complex document review effectively, especially as the size and scope of matters continues to increase.

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Delivering on the Promise of “Cradle-to-Grave” Data Management in Large Financial Institutions

Financial institutions are grappling with significant, ongoing challenges in their management of valuable communications data. These challenges are driven by accelerated technology change, a wholesale shift to cloud platforms and many long-lasting changes in working practices and behaviors post-COVID. Financial institutions have experienced a seismic shift from an era where all communications data was stored in centralized servers within the walls of its enterprise data centers. Now, email, chat, voice and video along with other dynamic forms of collaborative content, is stored across a myriad of third-party communications channels and cloud-based platforms outside the perimeter of the enterprise.

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Driving Innovative Client Solutions

At FTI Technology we drive innovative client solutions to solve data-related business challenges. Innovative technology, expert services and tenacious problem-solving provide our global clients with defensible and repeatable solutions. Technology plays a key role in turning large and complex volumes of data into information that enables businesses to make informed decisions.

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Technology Building Blocks for Mitigating Risk and Impact in Construction Litigation

The construction and engineering fields are constantly evolving in response to new technological developments. While these changes bring innovation, efficiency and opportunity, they also introduce risk discovers David Beck and Gráinne Bryan.

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The Role of Digital Forensics in IP Theft Investigations

Conor Gavin, Elina Nikoo and Danny Markey discuss how employee turnover is impacting intellectual property and data protection.

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The State of Emerging Data 2023: An Overlapping Arrival and Departure - EMEA

Emerging data sources passed a tipping point this year. It was an expected turn for experts watching the evolution of systems, applications, technology adoption and communication habits over the past several years. Some understood that this year would bring an arrival of a new data reality. Indeed expectations have been validated — 71% of CIOs from the world’s largest organizations now say that the explosion of data is beyond human ability to manage. Simply, traditional data norms have been replaced by a complex, vast, dynamic and constantly changing data universe.

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Forensic Analysis and E-Discovery Complexities in Cloud-Based Investigations - EMEA

The corporate transition to the cloud continues to present significant, continually evolving challenges for discovery in disputes and investigations. The majority of enterprise data now reside in expansive cloud-based environments, and productivity platforms such as Microsoft 365 promise robust discovery and compliance features, alongside a continually evolving feature set. As a result, there has been a trend towards conducting cloud-first and cloud-only data collection and preservation — a departure from the traditional approach of broadly collecting data from custodian devices, removable media and on-premises server-based sources.

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FTI Technology Helps Major National Bank Enhance Its Smarsh Deployment to Deliver Cross-Functional Single Source of Truth for Communications Data

After implementing Smarsh to archive all communications, a major national bank needed access across multiple end-user teams and functions, including legal, regulatory compliance and more. The bank engaged FTI Technology to provide access to this single source of communications data for a broader audience, thus enhancing the bank’s return on its initial technology implementation.

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Gender Diversity Ambassador Gráinne Bryan, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting

Gráinne Bryan, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting and WMB Diversity Ambassador tells us how she can help, through her passion and position, break down and disprove common biases against women, particularly mothers, faced in the workplace.

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The Most Valuable, Vulnerable Commodity - EMEIA

The FTI Technology Digital Insights & Risk Management Study, a comprehensive report that examines the extent to which organizations are recognizing the high stakes of data and effectively managing digital risk, involved senior business leaders from various global geographies and industries, with over 90% being at the executive level with primary or final decision-making authority.

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Q&A: Inés Rubio on Addressing Perpetually Shifting Data Challenges

Inés Rubio, Senior Director within FTI Technology in Ireland, was recently named as winner of the Security award in the Relativity Innovation Awards. In this Q&A, she explains how a constantly evolving data landscape creates risk and opportunity for businesses, and what should be top of mind in the year ahead.

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The 2023 General Counsel Report - EMEA

Risk is now at the centre of every conversation in the modern legal department. Over four consecutive years of study in the annual General Counsel Report, in-house counsel have expressed how they’ve been required to evolve and reinvent their roles. Once seen only as risk mitigators, they have become strategic business partners and have taken on an array of new responsibilities across a widening risk landscape.

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Five Surprising Findings from Legal Insiders in Ireland

Last month, FTI Consulting’s cybersecurity team, data privacy and communications experts hosted a roundtable dinner of lawyers and senior leaders from across numerous industries in Ireland. The event served as a forum to discuss the most pressing challenges relating to data breaches and cyber attacks with the stakeholders who grapple with these risks every day.

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Beyond the Pandemic: EMEA Data and Discovery Roundtable

One year on from COVID, the risks resulting from long-term work from home environments and economic troubles have been widely discussed—and felt—in every major region worldwide. Data and discovery risks have been especially impacted. We gathered a roundtable of our experts from France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain to discuss these issues in detail.

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Q&A: Conor Gavin Discusses E-Discovery Trends and Segment Growth in Ireland

Demand for e-discovery and digital forensics capabilities is growing rapidly in Ireland. FTI Consulting is stepping up to the market’s emerging needs with the expansion of experts in the region and solutions to address the increasing complexity of litigation, investigations and governance in today’s climate. We recently spoke with Conor Gavin, a Senior Director in the segment’s Dublin office, to discuss his focus for supporting clients in Ireland and what he sees as the key issues for the year ahead.

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Q&A: Inés Rubio Joins FTI Technology to Support Growth in Ireland

As part of the growing Technology team in Dublin, Inés Rubio is looking forward to helping clients across EMEA tackle their e-discovery challenges through information governance (IG). With a background in international criminal law and legal technology, Inés brings a combination of technical, legal and strategic problem-solving expertise to the team. We recently interviewed her about her new role at FTI and her plans for supporting the practice’s growth in Ireland.

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FTI Consulting Leverages Innovative Analytics Workflows to Accelerate Healthcare Merger Second Request Ahead of Pandemic Shelter-In-Place Mandates

In a merger between two healthcare industry companies, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a quick look as part of the second request process. Working under a compressed timeline, outside counsel engaged FTI Consulting to quickly structure a review and stabilize the Brainspace Technology Assisted Review (TAR) model so the parties could determine the risk level of overproducing and prepare the dataset for production to the FTC. A first set of documents had been submitted to regulators, with a second production due just as the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S. and self-isolation orders were being implemented.

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The Use of Technology in Irish Dispute Resolution and Compliance Monitoring

In this interview, Chris Dale of The eDisclosure Information Project spoke with FTI Consulting’s Grainne Bryan about the growing acceptance in Ireland that technology must be used to manage data in dispute resolution and compliance monitoring. Ireland has a strict discovery regime, and until the 2016 discovery judgment in IBRC v Quinn, it had not been considered appropriate to use technology to identify discoverable documents. The Quinn judgment changed that and the use of tools like technology-assisted review is now much more common.

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Streamlining Privacy Compliance Among Global Regulatory Changes

Organisations that operate globally are subject to the ever-changing and constantly developing regulatory landscape. This remains a challenge for all industry sectors.

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M&A Due Diligence: Ensuring Data Risk Doesn’t Derail the Deal

Technology has become an essential part of managing risk across high-stakes M&A.

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Business Security in Times of Furloughs and Home Working

The effects of COVID-19 have led many companies worldwide to take drastic measures. This includes applications for temporal layoffs or furloughs, with the additional uncertainty of definitive layoffs for vast numbers of employees.

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FTI Cybersecurity EMEA Recent Engagements and Client Case Studies

An overview of FTI Cybersecurity’s recent EMEA engagements and client case studies.