Our Insights on eDiscovery

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Webcast: What Attorneys Need to Know About Cybersecurity and Data Privacy in 2017 (May 31, 2017)
Webcast: What Attorneys Need to Know About Cybersecurity and Data Privacy in 2017 (May 31, 2017) 150 150 CloudNine

This webcast will discuss what you need to know today about cybersecurity and data privacy to protect the sensitive data that your organization manages every day.

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Today’s the Day to Learn How to Fix “Pitfalls” and “Potholes” in Your eDiscovery Project: eDiscovery Best Practices
Today’s the Day to Learn How to Fix “Pitfalls” and “Potholes” in Your eDiscovery Project: eDiscovery Best Practices 370 211 CloudNine

Today at noon CST (1:00pm EST, 10:00am PST), CloudNine will conduct the webcast Pitfalls and Potholes to Avoid in Your eDiscovery Projects. This one hour webcast will discuss some of the most common “pitfalls” and “potholes” that you can encounter during the discovery life cycle from Information Governance to Production and how to address them to keep your discovery project on track.

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Interview with Robert Childress, CEO of The Master’s Conference: eDiscovery Trends
Interview with Robert Childress, CEO of The Master’s Conference: eDiscovery Trends 383 322 CloudNine

As I mentioned earlier this month, The Master’s Conference is kicking off its 11th year with an event in San Francisco today. As part of our commitment to eDiscovery education, I’m delighted to be participating in the series again this year. In preparation for today’s kickoff event, I interviewed Robert Childress, CEO of The Master’s Conference to understand how the event came to be and what makes it unique compared to other conferences within the eDiscovery schedule.

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Overrule Plaintiff’s Objections to Discovery Requests
Lack of Cooperation Leads to Court to Order Scope of Discovery for Defendant: eDiscovery Case Law
Lack of Cooperation Leads to Court to Order Scope of Discovery for Defendant: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Bird v. Wells Fargo Bank, after the parties could not agree on the parameters and scope of discovery, California Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean ordered the defendant to produce several categories of documents related to the plaintiff’s former employment, disclose its discovery plan, search terms and custodians, produce its document retention policies regarding the destruction of employee emails and produce an initial privilege log.

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The Internet is Even Busier That it Was Last Year: eDiscovery Trends
The Internet is Even Busier That it Was Last Year: eDiscovery Trends 463 507 CloudNine

About this time last year, I published (or re-published, if you will) a terrific infographic that illustrated what happens within the internet in a typical minute in 2016. Since I will be part of a panel discussion at The Master’s Conference in San Francisco next Tuesday and the topic will be big data and data discovery, I thought it would be good to take a fresh look at what happens in a 2017 internet minute!

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Craig Ball Says That Failure to Preserve Mobile Devices in Litigation is the “M” Word: eDiscovery Best Practices
Craig Ball Says That Failure to Preserve Mobile Devices in Litigation is the “M” Word: eDiscovery Best Practices 257 389 CloudNine

In the latest post in his excellent Ball in Your Court blog, Craig Ball has some strong words for attorneys who fail to advise clients to preserve ESI from mobile devices when under a preservation duty.

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Webcast: Legal Hold Notifications from CloudNine
Webcast: Legal Hold Notifications from CloudNine 150 150 CloudNine

Delivered as an advanced, integrated, and automated option in CloudNine’s cloud-based, SaaS-delivered simplified eDiscovery automation software, Legal Hold Notifications improve the ability of legal and compliance teams to implement legal holds by providing them with an intuitive and secure tool for marshaling the data preservation process. To learn more about Legal Hold Notifications, visit cloudnine.com.

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Overrule Plaintiff’s Objections to Discovery Requests
Plaintiff’s Erasure of iPhone Before Forensic Examination Leads to Recommended Dismissal of Case: eDiscovery Case Law
Plaintiff’s Erasure of iPhone Before Forensic Examination Leads to Recommended Dismissal of Case: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Coyne v. Los Alamos National Security, LLC et. al., New Mexico Magistrate Judge Karen B. Molzen recommended that the court grant the defendants’ motion to dismiss after the plaintiff’s erased and reset her iPhone the day before it was produced for forensic examination, the “culmination of her and her husband’s willful failure to comply with their discovery obligations in this case.”

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Has eDiscovery Business Gotten a Bump or a Slump from Trump?: eDiscovery Trends
Has eDiscovery Business Gotten a Bump or a Slump from Trump?: eDiscovery Trends 452 294 CloudNine

Don’t be a chump, be the ump! It’s time for another quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey! This time, it’s the Spring 2017 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey created (and cleverly titled) by Rob Robinson and conducted on his terrific Complex Discovery site. It’s the second year of the quarterly survey and we’ve covered every round of the survey so far. Now, it’s time for the Spring 2017 Survey!

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Webcast: What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017 (ACEDS Update)
Webcast: What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017 (ACEDS Update) 150 150 CloudNine

This ACEDS-hosted CLE-approved webcast session covers key terms, rules, duties, and case law to give you the tools and resources necessary to efficiently and effectively meet the challenging discovery obligations that attorneys will face in 2017.

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