Transitional Times for Two Big Names in eDiscovery – eDiscovery Trends
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even for popular entities such as EDRM and the eDJ Group.
read moreWhat is “Reduping?” – eDiscovery Explained
As emails are sent out to multiple custodians, deduplication (or “deduping”) has become a common practice to eliminate multiple copies of the same email or file from the review collection, saving considerable review costs and ensuring consistency by not having different reviewers apply different responsiveness or privilege determinations to the same file. Everyone who works in electronic discovery knows what “deduping” is. But how many of you know what “reduping” is?
read moreCourt Denies Plaintiff’s Request for Native Production, Allows PDFs Instead – eDiscovery Case Law
In Westdale Recap Props. v. Np/I&G Wakefield Commons, North Carolina Magistrate Judge James E. Gates upheld the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendants to conduct supplemental searches and production, but denied the plaintiff’s motion with regard to requiring the defendant to produce ESI in native format, instead finding that “production in the form of searchable PDF’s is sufficient”.
read moreWant to Know How Fast Data is Growing? Get Your Ticker Here – eDiscovery Trends
If you’ve ever been to Manhattan in New York City, you may have seen the National Debt Clock that provides a “ticker” which keeps track of how fast the national debt is growing and each American family’s share of the debt. It’s a sobering number these days. But, did you know there is also a ticker available to show how fast the Digital Universe (of data in the world) is growing?
read moreSomeone Else’s Money – eDiscovery Best Practices
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.
read moreUse of Model Order Doesn’t Avoid Discovery Disputes – eDiscovery Trends
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.
read moreNew Survey Sheds Light on How Corporate Legal Departments Handle Outsourcing – eDiscovery Trends
These days, it seems as though every company is outsourcing work overseas. Are corporate legal departments following suit?
read moreNeed to Better Understand Litigation? This White Paper is for You – eDiscovery Best Practices
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!
read moreGreat Resource for Status of State eDiscovery Rules – eDiscovery Trends
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.
read moreApple Wins Case, But Loses its Bid to Have Most of its Costs Covered – eDiscovery Case Law
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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