If you think you’re hearing more and more about blockchain and bitcoin, you’re probably right. Blockchain is even being discussed as having potential application in legal technology and electronic discovery. But, what exactly is it? How does it work? And, how do you need to be prepared to address it as a legal professional? Today’s webcast that will answer those questions – and more!
read moreIn Franklin v. Ocwen Loan Serv., LLC, California District Judge Susan Illston ordered the defendant to respond to interrogatories, “with, at minimum, information regarding the total number of phone calls defendant made during the relevant period to California residents (including any account associated with a California address and any account containing a California area code)” and ordered the parties to stipulate to a method for extrapolating the total number of recorded phone calls defendant made to California residents during the relevant period.
read moreDoes this sound familiar? Last week at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference, I talked about the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) as one of the things that organizations need to be prepared to address these days as part of their compliance obligations. Sounds like a lot of organizations haven’t gotten around to that just yet.
read moreIn the case In Re the Paternity of B.J.M., the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin, concluding that “the circuit court’s undisclosed ESM connection with a current litigant in this case {by accepting a Facebook “friend” request from the litigant} created a great risk of actual bias, resulting in the appearance of partiality”, reversed and remanded the case for further proceedings before a different judge.
read moreSee what I did there? ;o) While I’m speaking at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference today, let’s take a look at a couple of articles related to Internet of Things (IoT) devices that you need to know from an eDiscovery standpoint.
read moreUsually, I remind you the day of a conference about it, but this one is big enough that I want to give you more time to register – at least for the livestream. Believe it or not, tomorrow is the seventh annual University of Florida E-Discovery Conference. And, as usual, the panel of speakers is an absolute who’s who in eDiscovery.
read moreAccording a new survey from Clyde & Co and Winmark, the number one reason that General Counsel (GCs) struggle with legal tech adoption and implementation is ‘difficulty in getting budget‘. But, don’t blame the board for that. ;o)
read moreIn Commonwealth v. Jones, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts reversed a lower court judge’s denial of the Commonwealth’s renewed Gelfgatt motion (where the act of entering the password would not amount to self-incrimination because the defendant’s knowledge of the password was already known to the Commonwealth, and was therefore a “foregone conclusion” under the Fifth Amendment and art. 12 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights), and the court remanded the case to the Superior Court for entry of an order compelling the defendant to enter the password into the cell phone at issue in the case.
read moreIn a post to Facebook last week, founder Mark Zuckerberg outlined a vision of the future that includes end-to-end encryption and an ephemeral lifespan for private messages and photos. Zuckerberg said that encryption will be one of the keys to Facebook’s future — and that the company is willing to be banned in countries that refuse to let it operate as a result.
read moreIf you attend any legal technology conference where eDiscovery software vendors are showing their latest software developments, you may have noticed the data that is used to illustrate features and capabilities by many of the vendors – it’s data from the old Enron investigation. The Enron Data Set has remained the go-to data set for years as the best source of high-volume data to be used for demos and software testing. And, it’s still good for software demos. But, it’s no longer a representative test data set for testing – at least not as it’s constituted – and it hasn’t been for a good while. Let’s see why.
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