There’s a new consulting business aimed at helping organizations better leverage project management in eDiscovery, litigation support and legal technology and it’s founded by the guy who literally wrote the book on project management in eDiscovery.
read moreThis CLE-approved webcast session will cover key case law covered by the eDiscovery Daily Blog during the first half of 2018 to enable lawyers to learn from these cases.
read moreArtificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the practice of law and we’ve covered the topic numerous times. And, I’m not even including all of the posts about technology assisted review (TAR). According to one law firm partner at a recent panel discussion, it could even (finally) spell the end of the billable hour.
read moreIn Singer Oil Co., LLC v. Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent, Inc., Oklahoma District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange ruled that the plaintiff did violate Federal rules by not disclosing the communications its counsel had with the third parties referenced in plaintiff’s counsel’s time records, but found that the defendant’s proposed sanction was an “extremely harsh sanction not warranted by the circumstances involved” and limited the plaintiff sanction to require the plaintiff to pay the attorneys’ fees the defendant incurred in filing its motion for sanctions and its reply.
read moreWith things like social media, electronic purchases, GPS tracking, and the Internet of Things, a normal day in anyone’s life creates an in-depth data trail. So, it’s no surprise that more and more, electronic evidence plays a key component in criminal investigations. While eDiscovery technology is mostly used in the civil courts, namely because corporate and government organizations have more resources than municipal, county, and even state law enforcement agencies to conduct reviews of large data-sets, it’s still worthwhile to look at the varied ways electronically stored information (ESI) is used to help detectives piece together a chain of events in order to solve a crime. Here is the story.
read moreUnless you live under a rock, you know that the deadline for compliance with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has come and gone (it was May 25 – almost three weeks ago now). So, does that mean your law firm is fully ready for it? Based on the results of one survey, the odds are more than 50-50 that they’re not.
read moreIn Am. Municipal Power, Inc. v. Voith Hydro, Inc., Ohio Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Preston Deavers ruling on the parties’ arguments from a May discovery conference, concluded that search terms proposed by both parties in the case were overly inclusive.
read moreLawyers often spend hours on legal research to identify cases to cite in their briefings to the court. Hopefully, they do a thorough job and identify all of the key case precedents that can support their case. But, how often do they miss key, highly relevant cases? And, how often do those omissions jeopardize the outcome of their cases? Based on one survey of Federal and State judges, it happens a lot.
read moreWe’ve already covered 21 eDiscovery related case law decisions so far this year (18 of them are case law decisions that happened this year, 3 of them covered early in the year were decisions from last year). Believe it or not, that’s less than we’ve usually covered by this point in the year. But, have we covered the most important case rulings so far this year? Do you have one or more favorite case law decisions so far this year? Now is your chance to weigh in and tell us about it!
read moreIn Delgado v. Tarabochia, et al., Washington District Judge Robert S. Lasnik granted in part and denied in part the plaintiff’s motion to quash subpoenas for personal phone records and bank records, finding that phone records before the plaintiff’s hand injury on the defendant’s fishing boat were “of vital importance to defendants’ theory of the case”, but that the need for pre-incident bank records was not proportional to the needs of the case and that, with regard to subpoenas of post-incident data, defendants were “fishing”.
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