A few months ago, we told you about an intriguing documentary about eDiscovery that premiered in the New York area. Now, that documentary is making the rounds and may be coming to a theatre near you.
read moreApple won several battles with Samsung, including ultimately being awarded over $1 billion in verdicts, as well as a $2 million sanction for the inadvertent disclosure of its outside counsel firm (Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP) commonly known as “patentgate”, but ultimately may have lost the war when the court refused to ban Samsung from selling products that were found to have infringed on Apple products. Now, they’re fighting over relative chicken-feed in terms of a few million that Apple sought to recover in eDiscovery costs.
read moreAre email signatures and disclaimers causing more trouble than they’re worth? According to one author, perhaps they are.
read moreRecently, we at CloudNine Discovery received a set of Adobe PDF files from a client that raised an issue regarding the handling of those files for searching and reviewing purposes. The issue serves as a cautionary tale for those working with image-only PDFs in their document collection. Here’s a recap of the issue.
read moreYesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered since the beginning of August. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.
read moreWe enjoyed the eDiscovery case law pop quiz that we did back in August so much, that we decided it’s time for another one – this one is customized to the case law that we’ve covered since the beginning of August. 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 for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.
read moreIn Price Waicukauski & Riley v. Murray, Indiana District Judge William T. Lawrence granted the plaintiff’s request for summary judgment for failure to pay attorney’s fees of over $125,000, and refused to issue summary judgment for either party related to a legal malpractice claim for the plaintiff’s admitted failure to review documents produced in the defendants’ case against another party because of a factual dispute regarding the plaintiff’s knowledge of the documents produced.
read moreYesterday, we discussed a case where a company faced a recommended severe default judgment sanction, in part because of the company’s failure to preserve data on “bring your own device” (BYOD) personal smart phones used by employees for work purposes. This is merely one challenge associated with BYOD policies in organizations. Another is the greater potential for spyware to capture data through installed apps. Here is one reported example.
read moreIn Small v. University Medical Center of Southern Nevada, Special Master Daniel B. Garrie, calling the defendant’s widespread failure to preserve data a “mockery of the orderly administration of justice”, recommended that the court enter an order of default judgment, along with further sanctions, in favor of the plaintiffs.
read moreThe acquisitions just keep coming. The Wall Street Journal reported on October 7 that Microsoft has signed a letter of intent to acquire Israeli text-analysis vendor, Equivio. The Journal said Microsoft may pay $200 million for the startup, though Bloomberg’s report on the same day stated “Microsoft will pay materially less than that, the person with knowledge of the matter said”. So, what does it mean for the eDiscovery industry?
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