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Tom O’Connor of Advanced Discovery: eDiscovery Trends
 Tom O’Connor of Advanced Discovery: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Tom O’Connor. Tom is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology. Tom’s involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation. Tom is the Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center in New Orleans and he just joined Advanced Discovery as a Senior ESI Consultant in January.

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Alon Israely, Esq., CISSP of BIA: eDiscovery Trends
 Alon Israely, Esq., CISSP of BIA: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Alon Israely. Alon is the Manager of Strategic Partnerships at Business Intelligence Associates, Inc. (BIA) and currently leads the Strategic Partner Program at BIA. Alon has over eighteen years of experience in a variety of advanced computing-related technologies and has consulted with law firms and corporations on a variety of technology issues, including expert witness services related to computer forensics, digital evidence management and data security. Alon is an attorney and a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

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Don’t Get Judge Peck Started on Rule 502(d) Orders: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Don’t Get Judge Peck Started on Rule 502(d) Orders: eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

As I noted a couple of weeks ago on this blog, LegalTech® New York 2015 (LTNY) earlier this month had three free judges panel sessions that were CLE or Ethics credit eligible, that included several notable judges, including Judge Andrew J. Peck. These sessions covered the judges’ review of top preservation decisions for 2014, their thoughts on the proposed FRCP amendments and their opinions of what’s wrong with discovery today. In each of those sessions, you heard these questions from Judge Peck at one point during the session.

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James D. Zinn, Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group: eDiscovery Trends
 James D. Zinn, Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is James D. Zinn. James is Managing Director of Huron Consulting Group. James is responsible for leading Huron Legal’s technology vision and strategy globally. He directs the practice’s software engineering, information technology, and product management teams. James is responsible for driving innovation by identifying and incubating emerging technologies and technology-driven solutions with relevance to Huron Legal. He has more than twenty years of experience developing and delivering services and solutions to clients.

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EDRM Publishes Updated Statistical Sampling Guide with Public Comments: eDiscovery Trends
 EDRM Publishes Updated Statistical Sampling Guide with Public Comments: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

In 2012, we covered EDRM’s initial announcement of a new guide called Statistical Sampling Applied to Electronic Discovery and we covered the release of the updated guide (Release 2) back in December. That version of the guide has now been updated with feedback from the comment period.

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Brad Jenkins of CloudNine: eDiscovery Trends
 Brad Jenkins of CloudNine: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Brad Jenkins of CloudNine™. Brad has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, as well as 15 years leading customer focused companies in the litigation support arena. Brad has authored several articles on document management and litigation support issues, and has appeared as a speaker before national audiences on document management practices and solutions. He’s also my boss!

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Court Rules on Dispute about Search Terms and Organization of Produced Documents: eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Rules on Dispute about Search Terms and Organization of Produced Documents: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Lutzeier v. Citigroup Inc., Missouri District Judge Ronnie I. White ruled on two motions to compel discovery by the plaintiff, addressing (among other things) disagreement on search terms to be used by the defendant and lack of organization and labeling of the defendant’s production to date.

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Information Governance vs. Search Doesn’t Have to Be a Battle After All: eDiscovery Trends
 Information Governance vs. Search Doesn’t Have to Be a Battle After All: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As will soon be reinforced in our upcoming thought leader interviews, one of the major focus areas at this year’s LegalTech® New York 2015 (LTNY) was a continued emphasis on Information Governance (IG). One of our perennial interviewees, Ralph Losey, has some thoughts about the battle in the legal tech world between IG and Search and reveals that it doesn’t have to be a battle after all.

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You Don’t Get a Second Chance to Make a First Document Production Request: eDiscovery Case Law
 You Don’t Get a Second Chance to Make a First Document Production Request: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Allison v. Clos-ette Too, LLC, New York Magistrate Judge James C. Francis, among other motions considered, denied the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendants’ production of electronically stored information (ESI) in native format after the plaintiff had previously requested (and received) ESI from the defendants without specifying the desired document format.

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Here’s Another Resource from EDRM That You May Not Know About: eDiscovery Webinars
 Here’s Another Resource from EDRM That You May Not Know About: eDiscovery Webinars 150 150 CloudNine

If you’re like me, you get a lot of email invites to webinars for all sorts of topics. Most are free and I wish I could attend them all, but I have a day job (beyond my role as editor of eDiscoveryDaily, I’m also VP of Professional Services for CloudNine), so I don’t have a lot of free time and have to pass on most of them (including many that I’d like to attend). If that’s true for you too and the webinar that you’re missing is provided by EDRM, you might be happy to know that you can probably still view it, whenever you have time.

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