When it comes to eDiscovery topics, eDiscovery expert (and frequent thought leader interviewee on this blog) Craig Ball doesn’t hesitate to speak his mind and confront the (oftentimes) brutal truth. In Craig’s latest post in his excellent Ball in Your Court blog, he does so in spades.
read moreRobert Half’s 2016 Legal Salary Guide features salary ranges for more than 100 positions in the legal field and provides some other interesting statistics, as well. According to the Guide, average starting salaries for lawyers at law firms are expected to increase 3.5 percent in 2016. And, salaries for experienced litigation support and eDiscovery directors and managers are expected to rise even more than that.
read moreIn Grove City Veterinary Service, LLC et. al. v. Charter Practices International, LLC, Oregon Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta concluded that the plaintiffs had not met their burden of showing they are entitled to sanctions for spoliation of evidence by deleting one of the veterinarian’s archived work emails.
read moreRemember, the Apple v. Samsung case? We covered this case so much last year that it had its own category in our four part annual case law review (where we covered 68 unique cases!). We took a break from covering it this year to focus on other cases where more significant eDiscovery rulings were taking place. Nonetheless, it appears that Samsung may, just may, finally have to pay some damages to Apple for patent infringement.
read moreBelieve it or not, it has been five years ago yesterday since we launched the eDiscovery Daily blog! Want to catch up on recent posts you’ve missed? Now’s your chance.
read moreWe have days to celebrate all sorts of things. According to the website Days of the Year, yesterday was “Apple Dumpling Day” and today is “Respect Day”. Now, eDiscovery enthusiasts have an event to look forward to – “E-Discovery Day”, on December 1st of this year. And, one of my favorite blogs celebrates an important milestone!
read moreIn Wilson v. Conair Corp., California Magistrate Judge Stanley A. Boone denied the plaintiff’s motion for the Court to establish dates by which the defendant must produce ESI and ordered the parties to meet and confer (again), warning that if the parties could not reach a resolution, all counsel would be required to personally appear before the court and be prepared to engage in an extended, court-supervised meet and confer session that could require an all-day appearance.
read moreThough we’d like to believe that there will never be any problems with the data that we preserve, collect and process for eDiscovery purposes, data is not perfect. Sometimes the most critical data may be difficult or impossible to use. For example, key files could be password protected from being opened or they could be corrupted. If an Outlook Personal Storage Table (PST) file is corrupted, that file corruption could literally make tens of thousands of documents unavailable for discovery unless the file can be repaired.
read moreIf you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. The New York City Law Department has created an electronic discovery group that will be dedicated to assisting the agency’s litigators with preserving and producing electronic evidence.
read moreIn Watkins v. Infosys, Washington District Judge John C. Coughenour denied the defendant’s Motion for the Sanction of Dismissal but granted the defendant’s Motion for Summary Judgment against the plaintiff for spoliation of data due to her use of “Disk Wiping” software to delete ESI.
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