You Almost Can’t Have a Divorce without Smartphone Evidence These Days: eDiscovery Trends
If you think the NSA is tough, hell hath no fury like a suspicious spouse scorned.
read moreDESI Got Your Input, and Here It Is: eDiscovery Trends
Back in January, we discussed the Discovery of Electronically Stored Information (DESI, not to be confused with Desi Arnaz, pictured above) workshop and its call for papers describing research or practice for the DESI VI workshop that was held last week at the University of San Diego as part of the 15th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence & Law (ICAIL 2015). Now, links to those papers are available on their web site.
read moreCourt Resolves Dispute Over Scope of Databases and Searches to be Performed: eDiscovery Case Law
In Willett, et al. v. Redflex Traffic Systems, Inc., New Mexico District Judge Lourdes A. Martinez ordered the defendants to produce a spreadsheet referred of file folders, with information for the files on their virtual server(s), the plaintiffs to provide the defendant with a reasonable list of search terms, limited to the relevant time frame, parties, and issues of this case and for the defendants to perform the searches specified by the plaintiffs within ten days of receiving the searches.
read moreVacation Case Law Pop Quiz #2 Answers!: eDiscovery Case Law
Yesterday, we gave you the second eDiscovery case law vacation pop quiz. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.
read moreVacation Case Law Pop Quiz #2!: eDiscovery Case Law
Here’s an opportunity to give you a chance to catch up on cases we’ve covered so far this year 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 second vacation case law pop quiz for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.
read moreWhen Collecting Emails, Make Sure You Have a Complete Outlook: eDiscovery Best Practices
Most discovery requests include a request for emails of parties involved in the case. Email data is often the best resource for establishing a timeline of communications in the case and Microsoft® Outlook is the most common email program used in business today. Outlook emails can be stored in several different forms, so it’s important to be able to account for each file format when collecting emails that may be responsive to the discovery request.
read moreVacation Case Law Pop Quiz #1 Answers!: eDiscovery Case Law
Yesterday, we gave you the first eDiscovery case law vacation pop quiz. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.
read moreVacation Case Law Pop Quiz #1!: eDiscovery Case Law
Here’s an opportunity to give you a chance to catch up on cases we’ve covered so far this year 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 first vacation case law pop quiz for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.
read moreCourt Sanctions Plaintiff for Failing to Preserve Audio Recording: eDiscovery Case Law
In Compass Bank v. Morris Cerullo World Evangelism, California Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo ruled that the plaintiff “wilfully engaged in the spoliation of relevant evidence”, and “has demonstrated a pattern of recalcitrant behavior during discovery in this litigation” and awarded an adverse inference jury instruction sanction against the plaintiff as well as defendant’s attorney fees and costs.
read moreWant to Save Review Costs? Be the Master of Your Domain(s): eDiscovery Best Practices
Yesterday, we discussed how some BigLaw firms mark-up reviewer billing rates two to three times (or more) when billing their clients. But, even if that’s not the case, review is still by far the most expensive phase of eDiscovery. One way to minimize those costs is to identify documents that need little or no review and domain categorization can help in identifying those documents.
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