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Training Snapshot: Fuzzy Searching from CloudNine

A snapshot demonstration of the process and syntax required to perform fuzzy searches within CloudNine to locate variations in spelling of terms to catch additional potentially responsive hits that may be otherwise missed due to spelling errors or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) inaccuracies.

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Once Again, Florida is the Place to Be for eDiscovery Education in March: eDiscovery Best Practices

I alluded to it last week, now I’ll discuss it in more depth. Next month, the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference will be held on Thursday, March 29 – believe it or not, this is the sixth annual conference. And, for the first time, I’m going to be there! If you’re going to be in Gainesville then too, great! If not, you can still attend from the comfort of your desk at work or at home.

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Training Snapshot: Proximity Searching from CloudNine

A snapshot demonstration of the process and syntax required to perform proximity searches within CloudNine to locate responsive terms that are not only in the same document, but close to each other without having to be in an exact phrase.

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No Sanctions for Failing to Preserve Cell Phone Records and Call Logs: eDiscovery Case Law

In Dotson, et al. v. Edmonson, et. al., Louisiana District Judge Susie Morgan denied the plaintiff’s motion in limine seeking sanctions for spoliation of evidence, finding that the plaintiff had “not met his burden of establishing that the Trooper Defendants had a duty to preserve” cell phone records and call logs from the evening of October 7, 2015 from Louisiana State Police (LSP) issued cell phones that were used that night by LSP officers during an undercover operation, or that their destruction of the evidence was intentional.

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