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Whee! What a Great Event at the Second Annual WiE Legal Technology Showcase and Conference: eDiscovery Trends
 Whee! What a Great Event at the Second Annual WiE Legal Technology Showcase and Conference: eDiscovery Trends 716 321 CloudNine

As I noted yesterday, the Women in eDiscovery (WiE), Houston Chapter, in partnership with South Texas College of Law and the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), hosted the second annual “Legal Technology Showcase & Conference” yesterday. Here are a few pictorial highlights of yesterday’s conference (with a few comments thrown in).

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Today is the Day for the Second Annual WiE Legal Technology Showcase and Conference: eDiscovery Best Practices
 Today is the Day for the Second Annual WiE Legal Technology Showcase and Conference: eDiscovery Best Practices 716 321 CloudNine

Today, the Women in eDiscovery (WiE), Houston Chapter, in partnership with South Texas College of Law and the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), will be hosting the second annual “Legal Technology Showcase & Conference”.  The one-day technology showcase will bring together legal thought leadership, innovative technology providers, practitioners, legal support staff and law school…

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Today is the Day to Learn How to Prepare for Litigation Before it Happens: eDiscovery Webcasts
 Today is the Day to Learn How to Prepare for Litigation Before it Happens: eDiscovery Webcasts 464 266 CloudNine

Information Governance (IG) has always been part of the eDiscovery landscape and it has always been important for reducing the population of potentially responsive electronically stored information (ESI) that might be subject to litigation by helping organizations adopt best practices for keeping their information “house in order”. But how can you leverage IG best practices to prepare for litigation before it happens? Find out in our webcast today!

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Get a “Clue” Regarding Your eDiscovery Process (October 31, 2018)
 Get a “Clue” Regarding Your eDiscovery Process (October 31, 2018) 150 150 CloudNine

This CLE-approved webcast will discuss the various participants in the eDiscovery process, what motivates each of them, and best practices on how to avoid becoming the next high-profile eDiscovery disaster.

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Eight is Great! eDiscovery Daily is Eight Years Old!
 Eight is Great! eDiscovery Daily is Eight Years Old! 338 329 CloudNine

As a loving husband, it’s a bad thing to forget an anniversary. Thankfully, I forgot the other one. Holy $#*%@! I can’t believe I missed the anniversary for the blog! It snuck up on me. Anyway, believe it or not, it has been eight years ago last Thursday since we launched the eDiscovery Daily blog!

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In No Small Ruling, Court Takes Defendant to Task for Discovery Violations: eDiscovery Case Law
 In No Small Ruling, Court Takes Defendant to Task for Discovery Violations: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Small v. Univ. Med. Ctr., Nevada Magistrate Judge Peggy A. Leen, in a lengthy ruling so large it included a table of contents, accepted and adopted in part and overruled in part the Special Master’s Report and Recommendation and Final Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. Judge Leen sanctioned the defendant with an adverse inference instruction to the jury instead of the default judgment sanction recommended by the special master.

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Plaintiffs Granted Discovery Extension Due to Defendant’s TAR Review Glitch: eDiscovery Case Law
 Plaintiffs Granted Discovery Extension Due to Defendant’s TAR Review Glitch: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In the case In Re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation, District of Columbia District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly granted the Plaintiffs’ Motion for an Extension of Fact Discovery Deadlines (over the defendants’ objections) for six months, finding that defendant “United’s production of core documents that varied greatly from the control set in terms of the applicable standards for recall and precision and included a much larger number of non-responsive documents that was anticipated” (United’s core production of 3.5 million documents contained only 600,000 documents that were responsive).

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Survey Says! Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey Results: eDiscovery Trends
 Survey Says! Predictive Coding Technologies and Protocols Survey Results: eDiscovery Trends 391 236 CloudNine

Last week, I discussed the predictive coding survey that Rob Robinson was conducting on his Complex Discovery site (along with the overview of key predictive coding related terms. The results are in and here are some of the findings.

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In California, IoT Device Cybersecurity Foresight is Also 2020, Apparently: Cybersecurity Trends
 In California, IoT Device Cybersecurity Foresight is Also 2020, Apparently: Cybersecurity Trends 291 326 CloudNine

As I noted a couple of months ago, 2018 is certainly on its way to becoming the year of data privacy rights for the individual and, back then, California passed a new data privacy law which will give consumers several rights regarding their personal data (though the California AG doesn’t seem thrilled about it). Now, California is once again poised to take the lead on important new technology policy.

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Despite Carpenter, This Defendant’s Cell Site Location Information is Ruled Admissible: eDiscovery Case Law
 Despite Carpenter, This Defendant’s Cell Site Location Information is Ruled Admissible: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In United States v. Pleasant, Pennsylvania District Judge Gerald Austin McHugh ruled that the defendant’s motion to suppress historical cell-site location information associated with his cellular telephone lacked merit, despite the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Carpenter v. United States, because the agents proceeded “by means of a court order issued under a federal statute that had repeatedly withstood Fourth Amendment scrutiny…in good faith under then existing law”.

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