In SFP Works, LLC v. Buffalo Armory, Michigan Chief District Judge Gerald E. Rosen, agreeing with the defendant that the plaintiff’s motion was untimely, and that Plaintiff “unreasonably declined” several options proposed by the defendant for accessing the data that was produced to it by the defendant, denied the plaintiff’s motion to compel access to operational data.
read moreConsolidation within the eDiscovery industry continues. Last week, Consilio announced a “definitive agreement” to acquire the Huron Legal Practice of Huron Consulting Group – their third acquisition in the past four months. Yesterday, I interviewed Pete Feinberg, Senior Vice President, Products & Marketing at Consilio about the Huron Legal acquisition.
read moreAs volumes of electronically stored information (ESI) stored in the world doubles every 1.2 years, it becomes more challenging to identify the ESI that is subject to a claim of attorney-client privilege or work product protection and log and exclude that ESI from production. Federal Rule of Evidence 502 was intended to address waiver of such privilege claims and reduce the discovery costs, but many attorneys and judges don’t realize the protections the rule offers. Now, The Sedona Conference® has issued a new final commentary to “breathe some needed life” into the understanding and use of Rule 502.
read moreIf you’ve been paying attention to the headlines at all this year, it should come as no surprise that most firms are more concerned about security threats than they were just two years ago. But, what percentage of firms and what is their biggest security concern?
read moreIn Armouth International, Inc. v. Dollar General Corp. et. al., Tennessee Magistrate Judge Barbara D. Holmes, calling the plaintiff’s request a “fishing expedition”, denied the plaintiff’s expedited motion to compel, requesting that the defendants be required to produce emails that were either withheld or redacted based on claims of attorney-client privilege for an in camera review of the emails by the Court to confirm the privilege claims.
read moreA couple of years ago Mandiant reported that 80 percent of the country’s largest law firms have been hacked. In litigation, you may have to produce your data to one of those firms representing the opposing party. Here’s how you can protect your organization.
read moreAs a daily blog that has been around for over 5 years, eDiscovery Daily has published over 1,310 posts to date. We’ve covered a lot of different categories related to eDiscovery over that time. But, do you know how to take advantage of the “Categories” feature on this blog to check them out?
read moreIn West v. Talton, Georgia District Judge C. Ashley Royal granted the defendants’ Motion in Limine to exclude all evidence and argument regarding spoliation, reserving its ruling on the remaining issues in the Motion in Limine.
read moreAccording to a recent report by AIIM, there are “huge volumes of content in most organizations that are not under any form of information governance (IG), retention management, or eDiscovery”. In their new report (Information Governance: too important to be left to humans), AIIM takes an in-depth look at the scale of IG issues, the drivers to bring it under control, the effectiveness of automated classification, and the impact on risks and costs.
read moreIf you’re near my age and love movies, you probably love the classic Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles. My favorite quote from that movie is when the bandido says “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”* Apparently, there’s a new trend where people post pictures of their employee badges on social media. Guess what that leads to? Hacker access into their employer’s facilities.
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