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“E-Discovery Day” is Tomorrow!: eDiscovery Trends
“E-Discovery Day” is Tomorrow!: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

We have days to celebrate all sorts of things, especially in this holiday season. As we mentioned a couple of months ago, eDiscovery enthusiasts now have their own day – “E-Discovery Day”, which is tomorrow!

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Thanksgiving Case Law Pop Quiz Answers!: eDiscovery Case Law
Thanksgiving Case Law Pop Quiz Answers!: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

It’s Thanksgiving week and yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered recently. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers. Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving Case Law Pop Quiz!: eDiscovery Case Law
Thanksgiving Case Law Pop Quiz!: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

It’s Thanksgiving week and it seems like a perfect opportunity to catch up on cases we’ve covered recently with a case law pop quiz! If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! If not, we’ve provided a link to the post with the answer. We’re that nice. Test your knowledge! Tomorrow, we’ll post the answers for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.

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Appellate Court Upholds Ruling to Require Production in Native Format: eDiscovery Case Law
Appellate Court Upholds Ruling to Require Production in Native Format: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In the case In re State Farm Lloyds, the Texas Court of Appeals, finding that the relator failed to meet its burden to support its objection that it could not produce the discovery through reasonable efforts, denied the petition for writ of mandamus filed by the relator in which it contended that the trial court abused its discretion by ordering the production of discovery in native or near-native formats rather than the “reasonably usable” formats it proposed.

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Require Plaintiff to Re-Produce Data in a More Usable Format: eDiscovery Case Law
Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Require Plaintiff to Re-Produce Data in a More Usable Format: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In United States v. Meredith, Kentucky Senior District Judge Charles R. Simpson, III denied the defendant’s motion to compel production of electronically stored information (ESI) by the plaintiff in a usable format, agreeing that the plaintiff had fulfilled its discovery production obligation pertaining to the manner and format of the ESI.

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Date Searching for Emails and Loose Files Can Be Tricky: eDiscovery Best Practices
Date Searching for Emails and Loose Files Can Be Tricky: eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

I recently had a client that was searching for emails and loose files based on a relevant date range. However, because of the way the data was collected and the way the search was performed, identifying the correct set of responsive emails and loose files within the relevant date range proved to be challenging. Let’s take a look at the challenges this client faced.

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Not Surprisingly, The Big Data Market is Getting Really Big: eDiscovery Trends
Not Surprisingly, The Big Data Market is Getting Really Big: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

A new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC) announced last week predicts BIG growth for the big data technology and services market through 2019. Are you surprised by that? Didn’t think so. Here is a closer look.

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Court Finds No Discovery Abuses by Defendant that Produced MSG Instead of TIFF Files: eDiscovery Case Law
Court Finds No Discovery Abuses by Defendant that Produced MSG Instead of TIFF Files: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Feist v. Paxfire, Inc., New York Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis denied the plaintiff’s request for reimbursement of costs and expenses related to document production, finding that the plaintiff had made no showing of significant discovery abuses by the defendant, and had not demonstrated that the defendant engaged in intentionally burdensome production.

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In The Era of the Data Breach, Pandora’s Box Could be a Flash Drive: eDiscovery Trends
In The Era of the Data Breach, Pandora’s Box Could be a Flash Drive: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Here’s an interesting pop quiz for you. Which option would you pick?

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It Was Only a Matter of Time Before The Sedona Conference Weighed in on Privacy and Security: eDiscovery Best Practices
It Was Only a Matter of Time Before The Sedona Conference Weighed in on Privacy and Security: eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

When we started this blog over five years ago, privacy and security wasn’t the big topic it is today. Now, there seems to be a story about a data breach practically every day and privacy is a big issue, especially internationally. Thankfully, The Sedona Conference® has created a guide to help with this growing issue.

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