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eDiscovery Case Law: Are Attachments Part of the Email Or Are They Separate?
 eDiscovery Case Law: Are Attachments Part of the Email Or Are They Separate? 150 150 CloudNine

A Special Master recently investigated the legal standard concerning whether or not attachments must be produced with the emails to which they were attached in discovery proceedings, and determined that there is no certain answer to be found in case law precedent.

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A Marriage Made for eDiscovery: EDRM and ARMA
 A Marriage Made for eDiscovery: EDRM and ARMA 150 150 CloudNine

As discussed in our recent two-part series on eDiscovery standards, there is a growing movement to develop industry standards, frameworks, or reference models to help manage eDiscovery. This week, there was perhaps a major move in that direction as the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and ARMA International announced that they would be collaborating on information governance guidelines for eDiscovery.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Defendant Ordered to Re-Post Infringing Photograph to Facebook Profile
 eDiscovery Case Law: Defendant Ordered to Re-Post Infringing Photograph to Facebook Profile 150 150 CloudNine

In Katiroll Co., Inc. v. Kati Roll & Platters, Inc., No. 10-3620 (GEB), 2011 WL 3583408 (D.N.J. Aug. 3, 2011), a New Jersey court ordered the defendant to re-post a photograph displaying infringing trade dress to his Facebook profile for a brief period of time to allow the plaintiff to print copies, in a case involving trademark infringement.

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eDiscovery Trends: Social Media Lessons Learned Through Football
 eDiscovery Trends: Social Media Lessons Learned Through Football 150 150 CloudNine

The NFL Football season begins tonight with the kick-off game pitting the last two Super Bowl winners – the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers – against each other to start the season. An incident associated with my team – the Houston Texans – recently illustrated the issues associated with employees’ use of social media sites, which are being faced by every organization these days and can have eDiscovery impact as social media content has been ruled discoverable in many cases across the country.

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eDiscovery Trends: When you DE-NIST, A Lot May Be Missed
 eDiscovery Trends: When you DE-NIST, A Lot May Be Missed 150 150 CloudNine

eDiscovery Daily has referenced several articles in the past by Craig Ball, and also conducted a thought leader interview with him at LegalTech New York earlier this year. Craig regularly has great observations about eDiscovery trends that are not talked about in other forums, and last week on his blog, “Ball in your court”, Craig discussed shortcomings associated with “DE-NISTing”, which is the process of removing files from review that are standard components of the computer’s operating system and off-the-shelf software applications such as Microsoft Office applications. But, “DE-NISTing” may not remove as many files as you think.

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eDiscovery Trends: Your Chance to Comment on Code of Conduct for eDiscovery
 eDiscovery Trends: Your Chance to Comment on Code of Conduct for eDiscovery 150 150 CloudNine

The Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) has made numerous contributions to the eDiscovery industry since it was founded in 2005, with the EDRM diagram (above) having become a universally accepted standard to reflect the eDiscovery life cycle. The latest contribution is a first draft of the EDRM Model Code of Conduct (MCoC), which focuses on the ethical duties of service providers associated with these five key principles and also provides a corollary for each principle to illustrate ethical duties of their clients.

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eDiscovery Trends: NY Times Says US Government Has Its Head in the Clouds
 eDiscovery Trends: NY Times Says US Government Has Its Head in the Clouds 150 150 CloudNine

As noted a few months ago, Forrester and Gartner have predicted big growth for the cloud computing industry, with Forrester predicting nearly a six-fold growth in nine years. In eDiscovery, these solutions support every phase of the EDRM life cycle, from Identification to Presentation. Earlier this week, the New York Times published an article entitled Tight Budget? Look to the ‘Cloud’, written by Vivek Kundra, the Obama administration’s chief information officer from 2009 until earlier this month, who discussed some significant cost savings within government agencies from shifting to cloud based solutions.

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eDiscovery Trends: A Site Designed to Facilitate Meet and Confer Conferences
 eDiscovery Trends: A Site Designed to Facilitate Meet and Confer Conferences 150 150 CloudNine

The past two days, we discussed the basics of the Rule 26(f) “meet and confer” conference and details regarding the topics to discuss during that conference. Hopefully, you found that review informative. Now, as noted in a recent Law Technology News article by Sean Doherty, there’s a web application to facilitate the process to prepare for and conduct the Rule 26(f) conference.

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eDiscovery Rules: ESI Topics of the "Meet and Confer"
 eDiscovery Rules: ESI Topics of the "Meet and Confer" 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we talked about the basics of the Rule 26(f) “meet and confer” conference, Today, let’s go into more detail about the topics that are typically covered during the “meet and confer”, and why. The “meet and confer” conference focuses on the exchange of information regarding discovery and the creation of a comprehensive plan that will govern the sharing and privilege of ESI. Accordingly, the requirements of this meeting specify discussion of the following topics…

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eDiscovery Rules: What's Really Required for the "Meet and Confer"?
 eDiscovery Rules: What's Really Required for the "Meet and Confer"? 150 150 CloudNine

Almost any litigation professional who works with eDiscovery is aware of the Rule 26(f) “meet and confer” conference, but many don’t fully understand its parameters and how it affects ESI. What exactly is the “meet and confer” and what are some of its implications in regard to eDiscovery?

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