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Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Keeping Decisions in the Hands of the Attorneys
 Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Keeping Decisions in the Hands of the Attorneys 150 150 CloudNine

The main objective in most document reviews is to categorize each document into one of three categories: Responsive, Not Responsive and Privileged. Attorneys on the litigation team will make the decisions regarding how to categorize the documents, and the contract review staff will implement those decisions. Before the review even starts, you’ve done a lot of work to ensure that this process will work well.

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eDiscovery Trends: Christine Musil of Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC)
 eDiscovery Trends: Christine Musil of Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC) 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Christine Musil. Christine has a diverse career in engineering and marketing spanning 15 years. Christine has been with IGC since March 1996, when she started as a technical writer and a quality assurance engineer. After moving to marketing in 2001, she has applied her in-depth knowledge of IGC’s products and benefits to marketing initiatives, including branding, overall messaging, and public relations. She has also been a contributing author to a number of publications on archiving formats, redaction, and viewing technology in the enterprise.

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eDiscovery Trends: Jim McGann of Index Engines
 eDiscovery Trends: Jim McGann of Index Engines 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Jim McGann. Jim is Vice President of Information Discovery at Index Engines. Jim has extensive experience with the eDiscovery and Information Management in the Fortune 2000 sector. He has worked for leading software firms, including Information Builders and the French-based engineering software provider Dassault Systemes. In recent years he has worked for technology-based start-ups that provided financial services and information management solutions.

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eDiscovery Trends: EDD Toolkit Smartphone App
 eDiscovery Trends: EDD Toolkit Smartphone App 150 150 CloudNine

“Blue Horseshoe Loves BlueStar”. Anyone remember that famous quote from Charlie Sheen (when he was known for his acting) in the movie Wall Street? Well, now eDiscovery buffs with a smartphone love BlueStar too. BlueStar Case Solutions, Inc. (BlueStar), just launched EDD Toolkit, which is a free eDiscovery app for smartphones. The app features a Cost Estimator, Time Estimator, Conversion Table and Glossary for common eDiscovery questions with regards to ESI processing, document review and production.

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eDiscovery Trends: Alon Israely, Esq., CISSP of BIA
 eDiscovery Trends: Alon Israely, Esq., CISSP of BIA 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Alon Israely. Alon is a Senior Advisor in BIA’s Advisory Services group and when he’s not advising clients on e-discovery issues he works closely with BIA’s product development group for its core technology products. Alon has over fifteen years of experience in a variety of advanced computing-related technologies and has consulted with law firms and their clients on a variety of technology issues, including expert witness services related to computer forensics, digital evidence management and data security.

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Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Starting the Project
 Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Starting the Project 150 150 CloudNine

Throughout the life of the project, you will implement some standard project management techniques for monitoring quality and ensuring that questions are resolved efficiently. We’re going to cover those techniques in the next blog posts in this series. There are, however, a couple of special steps you should take at the beginning of a project to ensure that it gets off to a smooth start.

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eDiscovery Trends: Tom Gelbmann of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC
 eDiscovery Trends: Tom Gelbmann of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC 150 150 CloudNine

Today’s thought leader is Tom Gelbmann. Tom is Principal of Gelbmann & Associates, LLC, co-author of the Socha-Gelbmann Electronic Discovery Survey and co-founder of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM). Since 1993, Gelbmann & Associates, LLC has helped law firms and Corporate Law Departments realize the full benefit of their investments in Information Technology. As today is Valentine’s Day, consider this interview with Tom as eDiscoveryDaily’s Valentine’s Day present to you!

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eDiscovery Case Law: Responses to FOIA Requests Must Be Searchable
 eDiscovery Case Law: Responses to FOIA Requests Must Be Searchable 150 150 CloudNine

Southern District of New York Judge Shira A. Scheindlin is at it again! Her latest ruling is that the federal government must provide documents “in a usable format” when it responds to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. Noting that “Once again, this Court is required to rule on an eDiscovery issue that could have been avoided”, Judge Scheindlin ruled that federal agencies must turn over documents that include “metadata,” which allows them to be searched and indexed.

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eDiscovery Trends: EDRM Metrics Privilege Survey
 eDiscovery Trends: EDRM Metrics Privilege Survey 150 150 CloudNine

As a member of the EDRM Metrics Project for the past four years, I have seen several accomplishments by the group to provide an effective means of measuring the time, money and volumes associated with eDiscovery activities. Now, we need your help for an information gathering exercise. We are currently conducting a Metrics Privilege survey to get a sense throughout the industry as to typical volumes and percentages of privileged documents within a collection.

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Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Training a Review Team
 Managing an eDiscovery Contract Review Team: Training a Review Team 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we discussed the assembling the project team for document review. It’s also important that the review team gets good training. As a starting point, prepare a training manual for each team member that includes this information…

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