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Welcome to ILTA 2013! – eDiscovery Trends
 Welcome to ILTA 2013! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As we previewed on Friday, the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) annual educational conference of 2013 kicked off yesterday with several networking events, and begins in earnest today with the first day of sessions. eDiscoveryDaily is here to report about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. Over the next four days, we will provide a description each day of some of the sessions related to eDiscovery to give you a sense of the topics being covered.

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ILTA: A Catalyst to Legal Technology Education – eDiscovery Trends
 ILTA: A Catalyst to Legal Technology Education – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

For over three decades, the International Legal Technology Association has led the way in sharing knowledge and experience for those faced with challenges in their firms and legal departments. As part of that effort, they conduct an educational conference each year to provide information to legal technology professionals. That conference (ILTA 2013: The Catalyst) is next week in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace. Here’s a preview.

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Default Judgment Sanction Upheld on Appeal – eDiscovery Case Law
 Default Judgment Sanction Upheld on Appeal – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Stooksbury v. Ross, the Sixth Circuit upheld the entry of default judgment as a sanction against defendants that repeatedly failed to comply with discovery obligations, including producing a “document dump” of tens of thousands of pages of nonresponsive information that prejudiced the plaintiffs.

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EDRM Wants You! – eDiscovery Trends
 EDRM Wants You! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

A lot is happening in the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) group lately and this blog has reported several accomplishments in just the last few months. With so much going on, you would think they don’t need any help to get things done, but, in fact, EDRM wants your help.

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Uninformed Attorneys Are Not in Kansas Anymore – eDiscovery Trends
 Uninformed Attorneys Are Not in Kansas Anymore – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

“Since March 2012, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas has been involved in an intense effort to find ways to ensure that civil litigation actually is handled in the “just, speedy, and inexpensive” manner contemplated by Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.” That quote is from a Rule 1 Task Force Update, issued by the U.S. District Court in Kansas regarding efforts to create newly released guidelines for electronic data discovery.

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Can You Figure Out How I Wrote this Blog Post? – eDiscovery Trends
 Can You Figure Out How I Wrote this Blog Post? – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

I have to be honest, this blog post contains quite a bit of content from one of the early posts from this blog. However, there is something different about this version of the content – it looks a bit unusual. Can you figure out how I wrote it? See if you can figure it out before you get to the bottom. I promise I haven’t lost my mind.

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A Technical Explanation of Near-Dupes – eDiscovery Tutorial
 A Technical Explanation of Near-Dupes – eDiscovery Tutorial 150 150 CloudNine

Bill Dimm provides a comprehensive and interesting description of near-dupes and the algorithms used to identify them in his Clustify blog (What is a near-dupe, really?). If you want to understand the “three reasonable, but different, ways of defining the near-dupe similarity between two documents”, bring your brain and check it out.

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I Removed a Virus, Did I Just Violate My Discovery Agreement? – eDiscovery Best Practices
 I Removed a Virus, Did I Just Violate My Discovery Agreement? – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

As we discussed last month, working with electronic files in a review tool is NOT just simply a matter of loading the files and getting started. Electronic files are diverse, they can represent a whole collection of issues to address in order to process them for loading, and processing them effectively requires a sound process. But, what if the evidentiary files you collect from your custodians contain viruses or other malware?

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Plaintiff Needs More Than “Mere Hope” to Discover Defendant’s Personal Info – eDiscovery Case Law
 Plaintiff Needs More Than “Mere Hope” to Discover Defendant’s Personal Info – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Salvato v. Miley, a wrongful death action, Florida Magistrate Judge Philip R. Lammens denied the plaintiff’s motion to compel the defendant’s responses to discovery requests “based on Plaintiff’s very limited showing as to the relevance of the requested discovery and the broadly drafted discovery requests”.

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July Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Trends
 July Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the topics we’ve covered in the past month. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.

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