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Similar Spoliation Case, Somewhat Different Outcome: eDiscovery Case Law

In Malibu Media, LLC v. Michael Harrison, Indiana District Judge William T. Lawrence denied the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, upholding the magistrate judge’s ruling which found an adverse inference instruction for destroying a hard drive with potentially responsive data on it to be not warranted, and ruled that “it will be for a jury to decide” if such a sanction is appropriate.

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Tuesday LTWC 2015 Sessions: eDiscovery Trends

As noted yesterday, LegalTech West Coast 2015 (LTWC) is happening this week and eDiscovery Daily is reporting about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. There’s still time to check out the show if you’re in the San Francisco area with a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and at least 58 exhibitors providing information on their products and services. Here are eDiscovery and Information Governance related sessions in the main conference tracks.

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Welcome to LegalTech West Coast 2015!: eDiscovery Trends

Today is the start of LegalTech® West Coast 2015 (LTWC) and eDiscoveryDaily is reporting about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. We will provide a description each day of some of the sessions related to eDiscovery to give you a sense of the topics being covered. Here are eDiscovery-related sessions in the main conference tracks.

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Plaintiff Once Again Sanctioned with an Adverse Inference Instruction, But Still No Complete Dismissal: eDiscovery Case Law

In Lynn M. Johnson v. BAE Systems, Inc. et. al., District of Columbia District Judge Robert L. Wilkins granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment with respect to the plaintiff’s claims for negligence, battery, and defamation, but chose to “impose lesser, but nonetheless severe, sanctions” in the form of an adverse inference instruction for her remaining claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress.

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Plaintiff Ordered to Re-Produce Files in Native Format Because it Failed to Meet and Confer with Defendant: eDiscovery Case Law

In Themis Bar Review, LLC v. Kaplan, Inc., California Magistrate Judge Barbara L. Major ordered the plaintiff pay for the cost to produce files in native format after the plaintiff originally produced unsearchable PDF images without metadata and failed to properly meet and confer with the defendant regarding production format as stipulated in the parties’ Joint Discovery Plan.

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Rest in Peace, Jack Halprin

I was prepared to report some happy news today, as Chris LaCour joined EDRM last week as Director of Business Development. Unfortunately, with this happy news, I also learned of sad news earlier today. Jack Halprin, head of eDiscovery at Google, passed away on July 2 after a brief battle with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He was only 46 years old.

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