Improving your eDiscovery Vocabulary is as Easy as 123 – eDiscovery Best Practices
Want to be better equipped to speak the “lingo” of eDiscovery and understand what you’re saying? Here’s a glossary that can help.
read moreeDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – The Way We Worked, circa 1980
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…
read moreeDiscovery Professional Profile: Do you know Cheryl Garner?
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.
read moreAugust Case Law Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Case Law
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.
read moreAugust Case Law Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Case Law
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.
read moreAre Law Firms at an eDiscovery “Watershed”? – eDiscovery Trends
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.
read moreeDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Collecting Documents
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.
read moreTexas Supreme Court Reverses Spoliation Ruling, Remands Case for New Trial – eDiscovery Case Law
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.
read moreFailure to Preserve Cloud-Based Data Results in Severe Sanction for Defendant – eDiscovery Case Law
In Brown v. Tellermate Holdings, Magistrate Judge Terence Kemp granted plaintiffs’ motion for judgment and motion to strike, ruling that the defendant could not “present or rely upon evidence that it terminated the Browns’ employment for performance-related reasons” and enabling the plaintiffs to use documents produced by the defendant “designated as attorneys’-eyes-only” to be used by the plaintiffs “without restriction”, due to the defendant’s failure to preserve or produce data from their Salesforce.com database.
read moreHere is a “Mashup” of eDiscovery Market Estimates – eDiscovery Trends
Last Friday, we profiled one eDiscovery market estimate that predicts that the eDiscovery market will reach $15.65 billion by 2020. Now, here’s a “mashup” of other estimates, courtesy of Rob Robinson.
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