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Production from a Provider’s Point of View – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Production from a Provider’s Point of View – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

We sometimes forget that the end goal of the discovery process is production: to produce responsive electronically stored information (ESI) to opposing counsel. But, do you realize how many parameters and potential permutations there can be to the production process? Let’s take a look.

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Privilege Not Waived on Defendant’s Seized Computer that was Purchased by Plaintiff at Auction – eDiscovery Case Law
 Privilege Not Waived on Defendant’s Seized Computer that was Purchased by Plaintiff at Auction – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Kyko Global Inc. v. Prithvi Info. Solutions Ltd., Washington Chief District Judge Marsha J. Pechman ruled that the defendants’ did not waive their attorney-client privilege on the computer of one of the defendants purchased by plaintiffs at public auction, denied the defendants’ motion to disqualify the plaintiff’s counsel for purchasing the computer and ordered the plaintiffs to provide defendants with a copy of the hard drive within three days for the defendants to review it for privilege and provide defendants with a privilege log within seven days of the transfer.

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Improving your eDiscovery Vocabulary is as Easy as 123 – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Improving your eDiscovery Vocabulary is as Easy as 123 – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

Want to be better equipped to speak the “lingo” of eDiscovery and understand what you’re saying? Here’s a glossary that can help.

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eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – The Way We Worked, circa 1980
 eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – The Way We Worked, circa 1980 150 150 CloudNine

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the business world looked very different than it does today, and the field of litigation support looked very different than it does today. Let me paint a picture for you…

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eDiscovery Professional Profile: Do you know Cheryl Garner?
 eDiscovery Professional Profile: Do you know Cheryl Garner? 150 150 CloudNine

Cheryl Garner is the Practice Support Manager at Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester LLP – a 150 attorney law firm with six offices in the U.S. Cheryl is located in the firm’s main office in Los Angeles, but has firm-wide responsibility. She joined the firm in December 2012, after a long and diverse career in the legal field.

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August Case Law Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Case Law
 August Case Law Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered in the past three months. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.

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August Case Law Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Case Law
 August Case Law Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

We haven’t conducted a pop quiz in a while, so the “dog days” of summer seems like a good time for it. This one is customized to the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered the past three months. 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.

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Are Law Firms at an eDiscovery “Watershed”? – eDiscovery Trends
 Are Law Firms at an eDiscovery “Watershed”? – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As reported by Sean Doherty of Law Technology News (Survey: Law Firms Are at E-Discovery ‘Watershed’), according to a survey released on July 22, sponsored by RVM Enterprises Inc. and conducted by Ari Kaplan Advisors, law firms are at a “watershed” moment when it comes to creating efficient eDiscovery models for supporting their corporate clients.

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eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Collecting Documents
 eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Collecting Documents 150 150 CloudNine

In 1978, I took my first job in litigation, with the law department of a Fortune 100 corporation headquartered in New York City. I was one of a team assembled to collect responsive documents to be produced in a major antitrust litigation. The documents were located in the corporation’s office and warehouse facilities around the country. While the process of collecting documents varied from case to case, this project was representative of the general approach to collecting documents in large-scale litigation. Let me describe how it worked.

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Texas Supreme Court Reverses Spoliation Ruling, Remands Case for New Trial – eDiscovery Case Law
 Texas Supreme Court Reverses Spoliation Ruling, Remands Case for New Trial – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Brookshire Bros., Ltd. v. Aldridge, the Supreme Court of Texas determined “that imposition of the severe sanction of a spoliation instruction was an abuse of discretion” in the trial court, reversed the court of appeals’ judgment and remanded the case for a new trial.

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