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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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Announcing Fifth Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series!: eDiscovery Trends
Announcing Fifth Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series!: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

The appearance of the dancing light bulb can only mean one thing – it’s time for another thought leader series! Over our nearly 4 1/2 years of our existence, eDiscoveryDaily has published several thought leader interviews from various thought leaders throughout the eDiscovery community, including an annual series of interviews at LegalTech New York (LTNY). For the fifth consecutive year, we’re pleased to introduce the schedule for this year’s series, which will begin next Monday, February 23.

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Appeals Court Reverses Award for Attorney Fees for Overbroad ESI Requests: eDiscovery Case Law
Appeals Court Reverses Award for Attorney Fees for Overbroad ESI Requests: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Bertoli et al. v. City of Sebastopol, et al., the California Court of Appeals, while not disagreeing with the trial court’s finding that the plaintiff’s ESI request was “unfocused and nonspecific, unduly burdensome, and an alarming invasion of privacy rights”, disagreed that their Public Records Act (PRA) requests were “clearly frivolous” and reversed the trial court’s order for attorneys fees and costs.

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Despite Weather and Travel Issues, Exhibitors Happy with Last Week’s LegalTech: eDiscovery Trends
Despite Weather and Travel Issues, Exhibitors Happy with Last Week’s LegalTech: eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As we noted on Monday, for the second year in a row, weather caused significant travel delays and cancelled flights at last week’s LegalTech® New York 2015 (LTNY). As a result, on the last day of the show, I decided to tour the exhibit hall and ask some of the exhibitors their thoughts about this year’s show, how it compared to previous years and whether American Lawyer Media (ALM) should consider moving LTNY to a different (i.e., warmer) time of year. Here is some of their feedback.

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Data Breaches are Up, But Records Breached are Down: Cybersecurity Trends
Data Breaches are Up, But Records Breached are Down: Cybersecurity Trends 150 150 CloudNine

One of the most discussed topics at last week’s LegalTech® New York 2015 (LTNY) was cybersecurity. And, with good reason, as it seems as though every other day, there is another report of a data breach (last week, it was health insurance company Anthem with an estimated 80 million people affected). Now, 27001 Academy has prepared an informative infographic with stats regarding 2014 data breaches and an offer of a free eBook with cybersecurity best practices.

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Judge Shows Her Disgust via “Order on One Millionth Discovery Dispute”: eDiscovery Case Law
Judge Shows Her Disgust via “Order on One Millionth Discovery Dispute”: eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Herron v. Fannie Mae, et al., DC District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer issued an order titled “Order on One Millionth Discovery Dispute” where she decided that “[c]ontrary to its usual practice, the Court will rule immediately, in writing” on the latest discovery disputes between the plaintiff and defendant.

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