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Someone Else’s Money – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Someone Else’s Money – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

Leave it to Craig Ball to liken lawyers’ delegation of eDiscovery to Prince Akeem’s “royal backside wipers” in the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America.

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Use of Model Order Doesn’t Avoid Discovery Disputes – eDiscovery Trends
 Use of Model Order Doesn’t Avoid Discovery Disputes – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

In MediaTek, Inc. v. Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., when the parties could not agree on search terms, California Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ordered one party to run test searches before lodging objections and required both parties to meet and confer before approaching the court with further discovery disputes.

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New Survey Sheds Light on How Corporate Legal Departments Handle Outsourcing – eDiscovery Trends
 New Survey Sheds Light on How Corporate Legal Departments Handle Outsourcing – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

These days, it seems as though every company is outsourcing work overseas. Are corporate legal departments following suit?

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Need to Better Understand Litigation? This White Paper is for You – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Need to Better Understand Litigation? This White Paper is for You – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

If you enjoyed Jane Gennarelli’s Litigation 101 for eDiscovery Tech Professionals series that was published recently on this blog, now you can get that same information (and more) in a consolidated, easy-to-reference white paper!

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Great Resource for Status of State eDiscovery Rules – eDiscovery Trends
 Great Resource for Status of State eDiscovery Rules – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Ever wonder about your state and what eDiscovery rules it has? Or if it has any at all? The graphic of the US map you see here provides the key.

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Apple Wins Case, But Loses its Bid to Have Most of its Costs Covered – eDiscovery Case Law
 Apple Wins Case, But Loses its Bid to Have Most of its Costs Covered – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Ancora Technologies, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., California District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers granted in part and denied in part Ancora’s Motion for Review of Clerks’ Order on the Bill of Costs of prevailing party Apple, reducing the awarded amount from $111,158.23 down to $20,875.48, including disallowing over $71,000 in storage and hosting costs.

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Electronic Discovery on a First Date – eDiscovery Trends
 Electronic Discovery on a First Date – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Amy Bowser-Rollins in her excellent Litigation Support Guru blog raised an interesting question this week. How should we describe “electronic discovery” to someone who has never heard the term before or had very little exposure to the legal industry?

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If You’re Feeling “Innovative”, This is the Conference For You – eDiscovery Trends
 If You’re Feeling “Innovative”, This is the Conference For You – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

When it comes to informative sites regarding eDiscovery, IT-Lex is one of our favorites. We’ve referenced several of their stories over the past couple of years and have also conducted a two part thought leader interview with their president and editor-in-chief, Adam Losey. Now, IT-Lex is hosting their first conference and, we’re happy to have Samir Mathur, Managing Director and General Counsel of IT-Lex to provide a guest post to tell you more about the their inaugural Innovate conference next Thursday and Friday, October 17 and 18.

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For Successful Discovery, Think Backwards – eDiscovery Best Practices
 For Successful Discovery, Think Backwards – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has become the standard model for the workflow of the process for handling electronically stored information (ESI) in discovery. But, to succeed in discovery, regardless whether you’re the producing party or the receiving party, it might be helpful to think about the EDRM model backwards.

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Leaving Your Hard Drives in a Rental House is Negligent, Court Rules – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Leaving Your Hard Drives in a Rental House is Negligent, Court Rules – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

In Net-Com Services, Inc. v. Eupen Cable USA, Inc., the plaintiff’s destruction of evidence was negligent where its principal failed to take steps to preserve evidence he had stored in a home he rented to nonaffiliated lessees.

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