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eDiscovery Professional Profile: Do You Know Duane Lites?
 eDiscovery Professional Profile: Do You Know Duane Lites? 150 150 CloudNine

This blog is the first in a series aimed at helping you to get to know your peers better. Each week I’ll give you career highlights of a law firm or corporate law department eDiscovery professional. Today’s profile is on Duane Lites – an eDiscovery and Litigation Support veteran.

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Planning for the Unexpected: Changing eDiscovery Providers on Short Notice – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Planning for the Unexpected: Changing eDiscovery Providers on Short Notice – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

About a month after assuming my role as head of eDiscovery for one of the world’s largest biopharmaceutical companies, I was suddenly forced to change eDiscovery vendors. The experience forcefully taught me the importance of carefully choosing an eDiscovery vendor. Here are some lessons I learned from the experience.

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Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis, LLP – eDiscovery Trends
 Ralph Losey of Jackson Lewis, LLP – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Ralph Losey. Ralph is an attorney in private practice with the law firm of Jackson Lewis, LLP, where he is a Shareholder and the firm’s National e-Discovery Counsel. Ralph is also a prolific author of eDiscovery books and articles, the principal author and publisher of the popular e-Discovery Team® Blog, founder and owner of an online training program, e-Discovery Team Training, with attorney and technical students all over the world, founder of the new Electronic Discovery Best Practices (EDBP) lawyer-centric work flow model. Ralph is also the publisher of LegalSearchScience.com and PreSuit.com on predictive coding methods and applications.

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Tom O’Connor of Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center – eDiscovery Trends
 Tom O’Connor of Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Tom O’Connor. Tom is a nationally known consultant, speaker and writer in the area of computerized litigation support systems. A frequent lecturer on the subject of legal technology, Tom has been on the faculty of numerous national CLE providers and has taught college level courses on legal technology. Tom’s involvement with large cases led him to become familiar with dozens of various software applications for litigation support and he has both designed databases and trained legal staffs in their use on many of the cases mentioned above. This work has involved both public and private law firms of all sizes across the nation. Tom is the Director of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center in New Orleans.

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Apple Can’t Mention Inadvertent Disclosure in Samsung Case – eDiscovery Case Law
 Apple Can’t Mention Inadvertent Disclosure in Samsung Case – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

Back in January, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP was sanctioned for their inadvertent disclosure in the Apple vs Samsung litigation (commonly referred to as “patentgate”). California Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal handed down an order on motions for sanctions against Quinn Emanuel (in essence) requiring the firm to “reimburse Apple, Nokia, and their counsel for any and all costs and fees incurred in litigating this motion and the discovery associated with it”. Many felt that Samsung and Quinn Emanuel got off lightly. Now, Apple can’t even mention the inadvertent disclosure in the upcoming Samsung trial.

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Jason R. Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP – eDiscovery Trends
 Jason R. Baron of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Jason R. Baron. An internationally recognized speaker and author on the preservation of electronic documents, Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice. Jason previously served as Director of Litigation for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and as trial lawyer and senior counsel at the Department of Justice. He was a founding co-coordinator of the National Institute of Standards and Technology TREC Legal Track, a multi-year international information retrieval project devoted to evaluating search issues in a legal context. He also founded the international DESI (Discovery of Electronically Stored Information) workshop series, bringing together lawyers and academics to discuss cutting-edge issues in eDiscovery.

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Federal Court Partially Reverses District Court’s Taxation of Electronic Discovery Costs – eDiscovery Case Law
 Federal Court Partially Reverses District Court’s Taxation of Electronic Discovery Costs – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In CBT Flint Partners, LLC v. Return Path, Inc., the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part and vacated in part an earlier decision by the Georgia district court to require the plaintiffs to pay the defendants’ costs relating to the production and duplication of electronically stored information (ESI) offered as eDiscovery, limiting taxation to only those costs which were directly related to copying.

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George Socha of Socha Consulting LLC – eDiscovery Trends
 George Socha of Socha Consulting LLC – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is George Socha. A litigator for 16 years, George is President of Socha Consulting LLC, offering services as an electronic discovery expert witness, special master and advisor to corporations, law firms and their clients, and legal vertical market software and service providers in the areas of electronic discovery and automated litigation support. George has also been co-author of the leading survey on the electronic discovery market, The Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey; in 2011, he and Tom Gelbmann converted the Survey into Apersee, an online system for selecting eDiscovery providers and their offerings. In 2005, he and Tom Gelbmann launched the Electronic Discovery Reference Model project to establish standards within the eDiscovery industry – today, the EDRM model has become a standard in the industry for the eDiscovery life cycle and there are nine active projects with over 300 members from 81 participating organizations. George has a J.D. for Cornell Law School and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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Adam Losey of IT-Lex.org – eDiscovery Trends
 Adam Losey of IT-Lex.org – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Adam Losey. Adam is president and editor-in-chief of IT-Lex.org, a technology law not-for-profit educational and literary organization and an attorney at Foley & Lardner LLP. Adam also served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where he taught electronic discovery as part of Columbia’s Information and Digital Resource Management Master’s Program.

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ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference – eDiscovery Trends
 ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Last week, I told you about a two-day program being hosted next week in my hometown of Houston by The Sedona Conference®. Then, on Tuesday, I told you about the Second Annual Electronic Discovery Conference for the Small and Medium Case, hosted by the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida and EDRM also next week. Now, here is another conference alternative for next week – the Third Annual ASU-Arkfeld eDiscovery and Digital Evidence Conference, hosted by Arizona State University and noted eDiscovery expert Michael Arkfeld.

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