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 […]
read moreInformation 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!
read moreThis 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.
read moreAs 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!
read moreIn 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.
read moreIn 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).
read moreLast 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.
read moreAs 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.
read moreIn 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”.
read moreNeedless to say, eDiscovery is becoming more global than ever and we’ve certainly seen a lot of instances where non-U.S. legal practitioners have to not only better understand U.S. discovery obligations, but also understand the methodologies and technologies associated with managing eDiscovery. One U.S. university recently spent some time bringing some of those teachings to a university in Nanjing, China.
read more