It’s that time of year! If you have a favorite law blog (or “blawg”, get it?), now is the time to nominate it for recognition in the ABA Journal 8th Annual Blawg 100.
read moreYesterday, we took an updated look at Twitter to see how it handles private information and law enforcement requests (such as subpoenas) and what has changed since our last look about two years ago. Today, we will take a look at Twitter’s latest Transparency Report to show government requests for data over the last six months of 2013.
read moreIt’s time to take another look at the social media platforms to see how they handle private information and law enforcement requests (such as subpoenas). Let’s start with Twitter.
read moreRemember the “patentgate” disclosure last year (by Samsung and their outside counsel firm of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP) of confidential agreements that Apple had with Nokia? Did you think they were going to avoid having to pay for that disclosure? The answer is no.
read moreIn a dispute over ESI protocols in FDIC v. Bowden, Georgia Magistrate Judge G. R. Smith approved the ESI protocol from the FDIC and suggested the parties consider the use of predictive coding.
read moreIt seems that just about every month EDRM publishes a new standard or guideline for eDiscovery best practices. On Monday, they announced the release of a new Search Intent Framework.
read moreWe enjoy the opportunity to be a daily resource for eDiscovery news and analysis. There are several good resources for information about eDiscovery and legal technology, though very few of them provide new content daily. One that has been essentially doing so for the past two years is IT-Lex. Unfortunately, as of today IT-Lex has announced that they have discontinued operations.
read moreIn Chapman v. Hiland Operating, LLC, while noting that he was “skeptical” that reactivating the plaintiff’s Facebook account would produce any relevant, noncumulative information, North Dakota Magistrate Judge Charles S. Miller ordered the plaintiff to “make a reasonable, good faith attempt” to reactivate her Facebook account.
read moreOn the very first day we launched this blog nearly four years ago, one of our first blog posts was called “Don’t Get ‘Wild’ with Wildcards” where we showed how a poorly constructed wildcard of “min*” to retrieve variations like “mine”, “mines” and “mining” actually retrieved over 300,000 files with hits because there are 269 words in the English language that begin with the letters “min” (such as words like “mink”, “mind”, “mint” and “minion”). So, how do you find the actual variations of the word you want? Use a dictionary.
read moreAs noted yesterday, LegalTech West Coast 2014 (LTWC) is happening this week and eDiscoveryDaily is reporting about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. There’s still time to check out the show if you’re in the Los Angeles area with a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and at least 50 exhibitors providing information on their products and services. Here are eDiscovery-related sessions in the main conference tracks.
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