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Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery – eDiscovery Trends
 Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Brad Jenkins of CloudNine Discovery. Brad has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, as well as 14 years leading customer focused companies in the litigation support arena. Brad also writes the Litigation Support Industry Blog, which covers news about litigation support and e-discovery companies’ funding activities, acquisitions & mergers and notable business successes. He has authored many articles on document management and litigation support issues, and has appeared as a speaker before national audiences on document management practices and solutions.

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Blind Reliance on Vendor for Discovery Results in Sanctions – eDiscovery Case Law
 Blind Reliance on Vendor for Discovery Results in Sanctions – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Peerless Indus., Inc. v. Crimson AV, LLC, Illinois Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox sanctioned the defendant for a “hands off approach” to discovery by relying on a vendor for conducting the discovery from a closely related non-party to the suit.

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Announcing Third Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series! – eDiscovery Trends
 Announcing Third Annual LTNY Thought Leader Series! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

The light bulb graphic can only mean one thing: It’s time for another thought leader interview series! In our efforts to continue to bring our readers perspectives from various thought leaders throughout the eDiscovery community, eDiscoveryDaily has published several thought leader interviews over the nearly 2 1/2 years since our inception. The last two years at LegalTech New York (LTNY), we were able to conduct interviews with several eDiscovery industry thought leaders and announced the schedule for those interviews after the show. The LTNY Thought Leader interviews are firmly established as a tradition, as we were able to conduct interviews for the third year in a row with several industry thought leaders! We’re pleased to introduce the schedule for the series, which will begin next Monday, February 11.

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Waste Management Wants to Throw Away the Metadata – eDiscovery Case Law
 Waste Management Wants to Throw Away the Metadata – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In the case In Re: Waste Management of Texas, Inc., a Texas appeals court refused to grant Waste Management’s petition for writ of mandamus asks us to direct the trial court to withdraw its order to produce native, electronic format with all metadata.

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Pro Football Players Aren’t the Only Ones with Talent – eDiscovery Trends
 Pro Football Players Aren’t the Only Ones with Talent – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

In football, each team member has responsibilities. For example, the quarterback throws the football (and sometimes changes the plays at the line of scrimmage), the receivers catch the football, the offensive line blocks and the defense tackles the guy with the ball. Each player has responsibilities that align with their talents. Likewise, the members of a litigation team have responsibilities that align with their talents. Now, the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has created a new tool to align talents with their associated tasks.

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eDiscovery Trends: Thursday LTNY 2013 Sessions
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As noted Tuesday and yesterday, LegalTech® New York 2013 (LTNY) is happening this week and eDiscoveryDaily is here to report about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. Today is the last day to check out the show if you’re in the New York area with a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and over 225 exhibitors providing information on their products and services, including (shameless plug warning!) CloudNine Discovery™ at booth 2006.

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Wednesday LTNY 2013 Sessions – eDiscovery Trends
 Wednesday LTNY 2013 Sessions – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As noted yesterday, LegalTech® New York 2013 (LTNY) is happening this week and eDiscoveryDaily is here to report about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. There’s still time to check out the show if you’re in the New York area with a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and over 225 exhibitors providing information on their products and services, including (shameless plug warning!) CloudNine Discovery™ at booth 2006.

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Welcome to LegalTech New York 2013! – eDiscovery Trends
 Welcome to LegalTech New York 2013! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Today is the start of LegalTech® New York 2013 (LTNY) and, for the third year in a row, eDiscoveryDaily is here to report about the latest eDiscovery trends being discussed at the show. Over the next three 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. If you’re in the New York area, I encourage you to check out the show – there are a number of sessions (both paid and free) available and over 225 exhibitors providing information on their products and services.

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Is 31,000 Missed Relevant Documents an Acceptable Outcome? – eDiscovery Case Law
 Is 31,000 Missed Relevant Documents an Acceptable Outcome? – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

It might be, if the alternative is 62,000 missed relevant documents. Last week, we reported on the first case for technology assisted review to be completed, Global Aerospace Inc., et al, v. Landow Aviation, L.P. dba Dulles Jet Center, et al, in which predictive coding was approved last April by Virginia State Circuit Court Judge James H. Chamblin. Now, as reported by the ABA Journal (by way of the Wall Street Journal Law Blog), we have an idea of the results from the predictive coding exercise.

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Judges and Social Media Don’t Mix Either – eDiscovery Trends
 Judges and Social Media Don’t Mix Either – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As a graduate of Baylor University, I thought I would have found a way to work last year’s Heisman Trophy winner, Baylor’s own Robert Griffin III, into a blog post before this year’s Heisman winner, but this story involving Johnny Manziel is too good to pass up as an example of how pervasive social media has become in our daily lives and how it can impact the legal process.

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