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eDiscovery Careers: Achieving Success as a Non-Attorney in a Law Firm — Introduction
 eDiscovery Careers: Achieving Success as a Non-Attorney in a Law Firm — Introduction 150 150 CloudNine

Today, I see more and more non-attorneys attaining senior level positions and high compensation levels in law firms. I see non-attorneys treated as equals by senior partners in law firms. I have also, though, seen very talented people who haven’t climbed that ladder of success in a law firm. The difference doesn’t always come down to knowledge and skills. To achieve that success, we have to do more than be good at our jobs. That’s what I’ll be focusing on in this blog series. I’ll walk you through some steps you can take and techniques you can employ that will increase your odds of grabbing that brass ring.

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eDiscovery Case Law: The Other Technology Assisted Review Case
 eDiscovery Case Law: The Other Technology Assisted Review Case 150 150 CloudNine

We’ve covered the Da Silva Moore case quite a bit over the past few weeks, but that’s not the only case where technology assisted review is currently being considered and debated. On February 21, in Kleen Products LLC v. Packaging Corporation of America, et al., the plaintiffs asked Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan to require the producing parties to employ a technology assisted review approach (referred to as “content-based advanced analytics,” or CBAA) in their production of documents for discovery purposes.

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eDiscovery Best Practices: See Jane Teach – How To Manage Litigation Projects
 eDiscovery Best Practices: See Jane Teach – How To Manage Litigation Projects 150 150 CloudNine

One major problem that many organizations are facing these days in large-scale litigation is that the demand for project managers far exceeds the supply. Law firms find themselves moving talented — but inexperienced — professionals into project management positions. Electronic discovery experts, litigation paralegals, technically savvy litigation support professionals, and even attorneys are taking on project management responsibilities with little experience or training. Our Jane Gennarelli can help with that.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Better Late Than Never? Not With Discovery.
 eDiscovery Case Law: Better Late Than Never? Not With Discovery. 150 150 CloudNine

In Techsavies, LLC v. WFDA Mktg., Inc., Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman of the United States District Court for the District of Northern California sanctioned the defendant for repeated failures to produce responsive documents in a timely manner because of their failure to identify relevant data sources in preparing its initial disclosures.

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eDiscovery Best Practices: First Name Searches Are Not Always Proper
 eDiscovery Best Practices: First Name Searches Are Not Always Proper 150 150 CloudNine

I’ve worked with numerous clients over the years and provided assistance regarding searching best practices to maximize recall without sacrificing search precision, including the use of fuzzy and synonym searches to identify additional potentially responsive files and sampling to test the effectiveness of searches. In several cases, the initial list of proposed search terms sent to me by the client includes first names of several individuals to search for as standalone terms. Unfortunately, first names don’t always make the best search terms.

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eDiscovery Trends: Rules Changes for Spoliation Could Come as Soon as 2013
 eDiscovery Trends: Rules Changes for Spoliation Could Come as Soon as 2013 150 150 CloudNine

With cases related to preservation and spoliation issues continuing to be prevalent, as well as continued greater emphasis on proportionality in eDiscovery, the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure has requested comments on possible changes to the federal rules relating to preservation and spoliation of evidence. Much of the framework for the proposed rules was derived from Judge Shira Scheindlin’s opinions on eDiscovery, particularly those in the Zubulake case. These changes could be finalized as soon as December 2013.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Judge Peck Responds to Plaintiff’s Request for Recusal
 eDiscovery Case Law: Judge Peck Responds to Plaintiff’s Request for Recusal 150 150 CloudNine

On Monday, Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck issued an order (in the case Da Silva Moore v. Publicis Groupe & MSL Group) in response to Plaintiffs’ request for his recusal, which, according to Judge Peck, was contained in a letter dated March 28, 2012 (not currently publicly available). Here is what the Order said.

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eDiscovery Best Practices: Tips for Saving Money in Litigation
 eDiscovery Best Practices: Tips for Saving Money in Litigation 150 150 CloudNine

A recent article on The National Law Journal (entitled Top 12 tips for saving money in litigation, authored by Damon W.D. Wright) had some good tips for – you guessed it – saving money during litigation. I thought it would be worth discussing some of these, especially those that relate to eDiscovery cost savings practices.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Tennessee Court Orders Split eDiscovery Costs, Plaintiff Bond for Additional Discovery
 eDiscovery Case Law: Tennessee Court Orders Split eDiscovery Costs, Plaintiff Bond for Additional Discovery 150 150 CloudNine

In considering the allocation of costs in this contentious business dispute, Tennessee Magistrate Judge Joe B. Brown (not to be confused with TV’s Judge Joe Brown) ordered the parties to split the expenses related to material they had not already produced in Lubber Inc. v. Optari, LLC.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Two Pages Inadvertently Disclosed Out of Two Million May Still Waive Privilege
 eDiscovery Case Law: Two Pages Inadvertently Disclosed Out of Two Million May Still Waive Privilege 150 150 CloudNine

In Jacob v. Duane Reade, Inc., Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York found that a privileged, two-page email that was inadvertently produced did not have to be returned and that the privilege had been waived because the producing party, Duane Reade, had failed to request its return in a timely manner. According to Defendants’ counsel, the ESI production involved the review of over two million documents in less than a month; that review was accomplished with the assistance of an outside vendor and document review team.

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