Our Insights on eDiscovery

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ACEDS Announces its New Leadership: eDiscovery Trends

Ever since the BARBRI Group announced back in July that Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) Executive Director Mary Mack and Vice President Client Engagement Kaylee Walstad were departing from their roles at the end of October, a lot of people in the eDiscovery community have been waiting to see who would take over leadership of ACEDS. We now have our answer.

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Issuing the Hold is Just the Beginning: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

Last week, we discussed identifying custodians, preparing a written litigation hold, issuing the hold and tracking responses. Today, we’ll discuss interviewing hold notice recipients, follow up on notices, releasing holds when the obligation to preserve is removed and tracking all holds within an organization. Here are the rest of the best practices for implementing a litigation hold.

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DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition, Part Three

The current Rule provides little guidance on how much notice is required, how a 30(b)(6) deposition counts towards the limit and duration of depositions, the presumptive limit on the number of deposition topics and the process for objecting to, and resolving disputes about, the scope of a notice. With that in mind, the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules began considering a variety of changes to the Rule beginning in April 2016. Let’s take a look at those.

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Hold It Right There!: eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays

When we review key case decisions every year related to eDiscovery, the most case law decisions are almost always those related to sanctions and spoliation issues. Most of the spoliation sanctions were due to untimely or inadequate preservation of the data for litigation. Even if the party reacts in a timely manner to take steps to preserve data through a litigation hold, but executes those steps poorly, data can be lost and sanctions can occur. Here are some best practices for implementing a litigation hold.

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DOS and DON’TS of a 30(b)(6) Witness Deposition, Part Two

Notice that the rule requires simply that the responding party must designate someone to testify on behalf of the business entity and not that the requesting party can specify the identity or even the position in the organization of the witness. We’ll discuss these and other initial considerations today.

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