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Welcome to ILTACON 2015!: eDiscovery Trends
 Welcome to ILTACON 2015!: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2015 (now known as ILTACON) kicked off yesterday with several networking events, and begins in earnest today with the first day of sessions. If you’re in the Las Vegas area, come check out the show at Caesars Palace – there are a number of sessions available and over 190(!) exhibitors providing information on their products and services. Here are sessions in the main conference tracks today.

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Get Ready for ILTACON!: eDiscovery Trends
 Get Ready for ILTACON!: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

It’s a rare Saturday post for us as we get ready for ILTACON 2015, the (newly named this year) annual educational conference for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), which will be at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas this year. It starts tomorrow with several networking events, and begins in earnest on Monday with the first day of sessions. Just a warning, Caesars Palace is not pager friendly! Here are a few resources to help you get ready.

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Here’s a New Dataset Option, Thanks to EDRM: eDiscovery Trends
 Here’s a New Dataset Option, Thanks to EDRM: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

For several years, the Enron data set (converted to Outlook by the EDRM Data Set team back in November of 2010) has been the only viable set of public domain data available for testing and demonstration of eDiscovery processing and review applications. Chances are, if you’ve seen a demo of an eDiscovery application in the last few years, it was using Enron data. Now, the EDRM Data Set team has begun to offer some new dataset options.

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eDiscovery Has Gone to the Dogs: eDiscovery Trends
 eDiscovery Has Gone to the Dogs: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

If I had known that yesterday was National Dog Day, I would have posted this then, instead of today, but it’s a great story any day. As reported by ABA Journal, Discover Magazine and NBC News, there is a new type of forensic collection device being used in criminal forensic investigations. His name is Bear and he’s a black Labrador.

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If You Play “Tag” Too Often, You Might Find Yourself Playing “Hide and Seek”: eDiscovery Best Practices
 If You Play “Tag” Too Often, You Might Find Yourself Playing “Hide and Seek”: eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

If you’ve used any review tool, you’re familiar with the “tag” field to classify documents. Whether classifying documents as responsive, non-responsive, privileged, or applicable to any of a number of issues, you’ve probably used a tag field to simply check a document to indicate that the associated characteristic of the document is “true”. But, if you fall in love with the tag field too much, your database can become unmanageable and you may find yourself playing “hide and seek” to try to find the desired tag.

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Got Problems with Your eDiscovery Processes? “SWOT” Them Away: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Got Problems with Your eDiscovery Processes? “SWOT” Them Away: eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

Understanding the internal and external challenges that your organization faces allows it to approach ongoing and future discovery more strategically. A “SWOT” analysis is a tool that can be used to develop that understanding.

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Court Acknowledges Lack of Expertise to Recommend Search Methodology, Orders Parties to Confer: eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Acknowledges Lack of Expertise to Recommend Search Methodology, Orders Parties to Confer: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In ACI Worldwide Corp. v. MasterCard Technologies, LLC and MasterCard International, Inc., Nebraska Magistrate Judge F.A. Gossett, acknowledging that the Court “simply does not have the expertise necessary to determine the best methodology to be employed in retrieving the requested materials in a safe, non-obtrusive, and cost-effective manner”, ordered the parties to “once again” confer in an effort to reach an agreement regarding the search methodology to be employed by the defendants in retrieving the information requested by the plaintiff.

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Government Attorneys Are More Confident about eDiscovery But Feel Less Prepared to Discuss It: eDiscovery Trends
 Government Attorneys Are More Confident about eDiscovery But Feel Less Prepared to Discuss It: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

In April 2014, we covered the seventh annual benchmarking study of eDiscovery Practices for Government Agencies conducted by Deloitte and covered the eighth annual study last December. Apparently, Deloitte operates on an eight month year – their Ninth Annual Benchmarking Study of Electronic Discovery Practices for Government Agencies is available now.

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

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.

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

Here’s an opportunity to give you a chance 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 to this pop quiz for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.

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