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Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Clearly Define Objectives
 Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Clearly Define Objectives 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we introduced the blog series to discuss Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team. Now, it’s time to get started! The first step in preparing for a document review is to very clearly define the objectives of the review. It’s an easy step, but it’s very important. It will drive several subsequent decisions that you’ll make regarding management of the project.

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Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Introduction
 Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Introduction 150 150 CloudNine

In a perfect world, attorneys responsible for a case would review an entire document collection for responsive materials. On large cases with huge collections, that’s just not practical or possible. In those situations, your only choice may be to pull together a team of contract reviewers to identify responsive materials.

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eDiscovery Trends: 2011 Predictions — By The Numbers
 eDiscovery Trends: 2011 Predictions — By The Numbers 150 150 CloudNine

Comedian Nick Bakay always ends his Tale of the Tape skits where he compares everything from Married vs. Single to Divas vs. Hot Dogs with the phrase “It’s all so simple when you break things down scientifically”. The late December/early January time frame is always when various people in eDiscovery make their annual predictions as to what trends to expect in the coming year. I thought we would take a look at other predictions and see if we can spot some common trends among those. Here they are.

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State eDiscovery Rules: Wisconsin Adopts Amendments to Rules for eDiscovery
 State eDiscovery Rules: Wisconsin Adopts Amendments to Rules for eDiscovery 150 150 CloudNine

On November 1 of last year, we noted on this blog that Oklahoma had become the latest state to adopt amendments to their Rules of Civil Procedure, leaving only 14 states (including DC) to not have enacted any rules changes that address discovery of ESI as of January 1st of this year. That’s because on January 1, Wisconsin became the latest state to adopt eDiscovery amendments to their Rules of Civil Procedure.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Crispin v. Christian Audigier Inc.
 eDiscovery Case Law: Crispin v. Christian Audigier Inc. 150 150 CloudNine

Discoverability of social media content has been a big topic this year, with several cases addressing the issue. The holiday week look back at cases concludes with Crispin v. Christian Audigier Inc., 2010 U.S. Dist. Lexis 52832 (C.D. Calif. May 26, 2010), which addresses whether ‘private’ data on social networks is discoverable.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Major Tours v. Colorel
 eDiscovery Case Law: Major Tours v. Colorel 150 150 CloudNine

The holiday week look back at cases continues with Major Tours, Inc. v. Colorel, 2010 WL 2557250 (D.N.J. June 22, 2010), which addresses whether a party may obtain a Protective Order relieving it of the duty to access backup tapes, even when that party’s failure to issue a litigation hold resulted in the data only being available on those backup tapes.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Rajala v. McGuire Woods
 eDiscovery Case Law: Rajala v. McGuire Woods 150 150 CloudNine

The holiday week look back at cases continues with Rajala v. McGuire Woods LLP, (D. Kan. July 22, 2010), which addresses the applicability of Federal Rule of Evidence 502(d) and (e) in McGuire Woods’ request for a clawback provision for privileged documents.

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eDiscovery Case Law: Pension Committee
 eDiscovery Case Law: Pension Committee 150 150 CloudNine

This holiday week, we’re taking a look back at some of the cases which have had the most significance (from an eDiscovery standpoint) of the year. The first case we will look at is The Pension Committee of the Montreal Pension Plan v. Banc of America Securities, LLC, 29010 U.S. Dist. Lexis 4546 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 15, 2010) (as amended May 28, 2010), commonly referred to as “Pension Committee”.

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eDiscovery Trends: Myth of SaaS Insecurity Finally Busted
 eDiscovery Trends: Myth of SaaS Insecurity Finally Busted 150 150 CloudNine

Eleven years ago, when I first began talking to attorneys about hosting document collections online to manage the review and production process for discovery, the typical response that I got was “I would never consider putting my client’s documents online – it’s just not secure”. These days, few folks seem to have that concern any more when it comes to putting sensitive data and documents online.

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eDiscovery Project Management: Effectively Manage your Time
 eDiscovery Project Management: Effectively Manage your Time 150 150 CloudNine

Of all the project management techniques and activities we’ve discussed in the past weeks in this blog series, this is the one that gives many people the most trouble. There is no set of rules I can list that’s going to work well for everyone. I can, however, give you some tips to consider that may improve your time management skills.

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