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EDRM UTBMS eDiscovery Code Set Calculator – eDiscovery Best Practices
 EDRM UTBMS eDiscovery Code Set Calculator – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

Last month, we discussed budget calculators available from the Metrics section of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) web site. So far, we have reviewed two of the budget calculators, beginning with the E-Discovery Cost Estimator for Processing and Review workbook provided by Julie Brown at Vorys law firm and the Doc Review Cost Calculator provided by an eDiscovery vendor. Today, we will continue our review of the calculators with a look at the EDRM UTBMS eDiscovery Code Set Calculator provided by Browning Marean, DLA Piper law firm; and George Socha, Socha Consulting (and, of course, co-founder of EDRM).

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Want to Avoid Unexpected Issues in Your eDiscovery Project? Conduct a "Pre-Mortem" – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Want to Avoid Unexpected Issues in Your eDiscovery Project? Conduct a "Pre-Mortem" – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result”. To avoid that issue, experienced project managers know the value of conducting a “post-mortem” to discuss any problems encountered during the project and how to avoid repeating them in the future. But, what if you could prevent them from happening in the first place?

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Plaintiff’s Attorney’s Fee Request Slashed because they “Transformed what should Have Been a Simple Case into a Discovery Nightmare” – eDiscovery Case Law
 Plaintiff’s Attorney’s Fee Request Slashed because they “Transformed what should Have Been a Simple Case into a Discovery Nightmare” – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Fair Housing Center of Southwest Michigan v. Hunt, Michigan Magistrate Judge Joseph G. Scoville ruled that the plaintiffs were prevailing parties in its settlement agreement with the defendants and were entitled to an award of attorney’s fees, but slashed the plaintiff’s fee request, “both because the hours devoted to this case were excessive and because the fee request makes no effort to account for the limited success that plaintiffs achieved in this case”.

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Cost Calculator for Document Review – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Cost Calculator for Document Review – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed budget calculators available from the Metrics section of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) web site and, two days later, began a review of the budget calculators, beginning with the E-Discovery Cost Estimator for Processing and Review workbook provided by Julie Brown at Vorys law firm. Today, we will continue our review of the calculators with a look at the Doc Review Cost Calculator.

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Plaintiff Sanctioned After its "Failure to Take the Most Basic Document Preservation Steps" – eDiscovery Case Law
 Plaintiff Sanctioned After its "Failure to Take the Most Basic Document Preservation Steps" – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In SJS Distribution Systems, Inc. v. Sam’s East, Inc., New York Magistrate Judge Robert M. Levy found the plaintiff’s failure to take “the most basic document preservation steps,” including issuing a litigation hold – “even after it discovered the packaging nonconformities and filed this action” – constituted gross negligence. As a result, an adverse inference instruction sanction was issued against the plaintiff and the defendant was awarded its costs and attorney’s fees associated with its motion to compel.

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Company Should Have Preserved Personal eMails, But No Sanctions (Yet) – eDiscovery Case Law
 Company Should Have Preserved Personal eMails, But No Sanctions (Yet) – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Puerto Rico Telephone Co. v. San Juan Cable LLC, Puerto Rico Magistrate Judge Bruce J. McGiverin found that “plaintiff has proffered sufficient evidence to establish that [the defendant] OneLink failed to preserve relevant emails within its control”, but denied the plaintiff’s request for sanctions at this time because of the “absence of bad faith” on the defendant’s part and the plaintiff’s failure to demonstrate prejudice.

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Court Orders Plaintiff to Perform Some Requested Searches Despite the Plaintiff’s Claim that they’re “Unprecedented” – eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Orders Plaintiff to Perform Some Requested Searches Despite the Plaintiff’s Claim that they’re “Unprecedented” – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Swanson v. ALZA Corp., California Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore granted in part and denied in part the defendant’s request to compel the plaintiff to apply its search terms to his ESI, ordering some of the search terms to be performed, despite the plaintiff’s assertion that the “the application of Boolean searches was unprecedented”.

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Vorys Project Ballpark Cost Estimator for ESI Processing and Review – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Vorys Project Ballpark Cost Estimator for ESI Processing and Review – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

On Tuesday, we discussed budget calculators available from the Metrics section of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) web site. Today, we will begin a more in-depth discussion of the budget calculators, beginning with the E-Discovery Cost Estimator for Processing and Review workbook provided by Julie Brown at Vorys law firm.

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Want to Estimate your eDiscovery Budget? Use One of These Calculators – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Want to Estimate your eDiscovery Budget? Use One of These Calculators – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

It has been a busy year for the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). In addition to announcing a transition to nonprofit status by May 2014, since the May annual meeting, several EDRM projects have already announced new deliverables and/or requested feedback. Now, another resource is available via the EDRM site – Budget Calculators!

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Without Meet and Confer Approval of its “Triangulating” Approach to Discovery, Defendant Ordered to Supplement Production – eDiscovery Case Law
 Without Meet and Confer Approval of its “Triangulating” Approach to Discovery, Defendant Ordered to Supplement Production – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Banas v. Volcano Corp., California District Judge William H. Orrick determined that a defendant’s approach to discovery in which identifying the relevant documents by “triangulating” the defendant’s employees wasn’t discussed with the plaintiff beforehand in a meet and confer. Despite the fact that the court did “not find that defendant’s production technique was unreasonable”, the defendant was ordered to supplement its responses since the approach wasn’t discussed and it left out multiple deponents.

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