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The Sedona Conference Has Updated its Commentary on Information Governance: eDiscovery Best Practices
The Sedona Conference Has Updated its Commentary on Information Governance: eDiscovery Best Practices 428 600 CloudNine

It’s been a busy year for The Sedona Conference® (TSC). Already this year, TSC has published guidance on defensible disposition, social media, BYOD and data privacy. Now, TSC is releasing an update to its 2014 commentary on Information Governance.

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Court Denies Party’s Request to Produce in Native Format Instead of TIFF: eDiscovery Case Law
Court Denies Party’s Request to Produce in Native Format Instead of TIFF: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In the case IN RE SYNGENTA AG MIR 162 CORN LITIGATION, Kansas Magistrate Judge James P. O’Hara, stating that “there is no dispute that documents in TIFF format are easier to work with and enable depositions and court proceedings to run more smoothly”, denied the request of party Louis Dreyfus Company Grains Merchandising LLC (LDC) to relieve it from the production requirements of the case’s ESI Protocol Order to produce electronically stored information (ESI) in TIFF image file format and instead allow LDC to produce in native format.

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Wednesday’s Relativity Fest Sessions: eDiscovery Trends
Wednesday’s Relativity Fest Sessions: eDiscovery Trends 528 146 CloudNine

As we noted yesterday and Monday, the 2018 Relativity Fest conference is going on this week, CloudNine will once again be here as a Silver Sponsor and I have been covering the show for eDiscovery Daily.  Let’s check out sessions lined up for today, the last day of the conference. This year, Relativity Fest has…

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Tuesday’s Relativity Fest Sessions: eDiscovery Trends
Tuesday’s Relativity Fest Sessions: eDiscovery Trends 528 146 CloudNine

As we noted yesterday the 2018 Relativity Fest conference is going on this week, CloudNine will once again be here as a Silver Sponsor and I will be covering the show for eDiscovery Daily. Let’s check out some of the sessions lined up for today.

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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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