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If You’re an eDiscovery Professional Interested in Predictive Coding, Here is a Site You May Want to Check Out: eDiscovery Trends

On his Complex Discovery site, Rob Robinson does a great job of analyzing trends in the eDiscovery industry and often uses surveys to gauge sentiment within the industry for things like industry business confidence. Now, Rob is proving and overview and conducting a survey regarding predictive coding technologies and protocols for representatives of leading eDiscovery providers that should prove interesting.

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Time for Another Relativity Fest? Giddyup!: eDiscovery Trends

We’re about three weeks out from the 2018 Relativity Fest conference, conducted every year by Relativity, which is three weeks earlier than last year! I guess they couldn’t wait! Anyway, Relativity Fest is an annual conference designed to educate and connect the eDiscovery community and features panel discussions, hands-on labs, breakout sessions, and insights from Relativity staff, Relativity users, and industry leaders. It’s a big show with over 1,800 attendees and a lot going on. Let’s take a look.

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Court Rules that Defendant’s Boilerplate Objections Results in Waiver of Those Objections: eDiscovery Case Law

In Halleen v. Belk, Inc., Texas District Judge Amos L. Mazzant, III granted the plaintiffs’ motions in part, ruling that the defendant had waived its objections to the plaintiffs’ RFPs and Interrogatories by including “subject to” or boilerplate language in its responses and also granted the plaintiffs’ request for ESI for identified corporate custodians and 30(b)(6) witnesses.

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California’s AG is Not Happy with the State’s New Consumer Privacy Act: Data Privacy Trends

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 in June, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 was approved unanimously by the state Senate and Assembly and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. But, California’s AG has just ripped lawmakers for ‘unworkable’ provisions in the new law.

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Court Sides with Plaintiff’s Proposal, Orders Random Sample of the Null Set: eDiscovery Case Law

In City of Rockford v. Mallinckrodt ARD Inc., Illinois Magistrate Judge Iain D. Johnston adopted the parties’ proposed order establishing the production protocol for ESI with the inclusion of the plaintiffs’ proposal that a random sample of the null set will occur after the production and that any responsive documents found as a result of that process will be produced.

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