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Assuming a company wanted to begin an IG initiative, are there any general principles to follow? There are seven — thanks to ARMA International. Let’s take a look at them.
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It’s timely that we are currently running Tom O’Connor’s paper on Information Governance because The Sedona Conference® (TSC) has just published a paper on defensible disposition, which is a significant component of any good Information Governance program.
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Here we define not only what Information Governance is, but (just as importantly), what it is not.
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In Hinostroza v. Denny’s Inc., Nevada Magistrate Judge Nancy J. Koppe granted the defendant’s motion to compel discovery various sources of ESI related to the plaintiff’s claim of injuries resulting from a “slip and fall” accident at one of the defendant’s restaurants.
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Information Governance (IG) has always been part of the eDiscovery landscape but not always a large part. IG was originally 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 now with an increased concentration on the two-fold concerns of privacy and security, IG has become more important. In this paper, we’ll explore the implementation of Information Governance best practices to help organizations better prepare for litigation before it happens.
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File this one under stories I missed until yesterday. We’ve seen plenty of cases where the use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) has been approved and even one this year where a protocol for TAR was ordered by the court. But, here is a case of a jurisdiction that has proposed and adopted a rule to encourage use of the most efficient means to review documents, including TAR.
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In the In re Broiler Chicken Antitrust Litigation, Illinois Magistrate Judge Jeffrey T. Gilbert denied defendant Agri Stats’ Motion for Protective Order, ruling the defendant “Has Not Made a Threshold Showing” that the information requested by the End User Consumer Plaintiffs (“EUCPs”) was not reasonably accessible because of undue burden or cost (and even if they had, the EUCPs had shown good cause for requesting custodial searches of ESI for the entire time frame set forth in the ESI Protocol) and that Agri Stats “Does Not Satisfy the Rule 26(b)(2)(C) Factors” to limit discovery.
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Yesterday, we talked about how eDiscovery business confidence seems to tend to take a downturn every summer. But, when it comes to private equity firms’ investment in eDiscovery companies, eDiscovery business confidence seems to be stronger than ever.
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As the late, great Eddie Cochran would say (and sing), “there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues”. The Complex Discovery eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey is into its third year and the results are in for the Summer 2018 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey! As was the case for the 2016 surveys, the 2017 surveys and the 2018 Winter and Spring surveys, the results for the Summer survey are published on Rob Robinson’s terrific Complex Discovery site. How confident are individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem in the business of eDiscovery? Let’s see.
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Believe it or not, it’s almost time for another ILTACON! ILTACON is the annual conference for the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA). This year, it’s the 41st annual conference and it’s being held at the Gaylord National Resort and Conference Center at National Harbor, MD from August 19 to August 23. eDiscovery Daily will once again be covering the show and CloudNine will exhibiting at the show and participating in a major way. If you’re going to be in the Washington DC/National Harbor area, you may want to check out a few of these sessions regarding eDiscovery and Information Governance.
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