I’ve referred to last year’s Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) in several webcasts lately (including this one) and realized that this year’s report should have already come out by now. Sure enough it has, about a month and a half ago. Let’s see what the findings are.
read moreIf you’ve ever managed a discovery project for litigation, investigations or audits, you know that “Murphy’s Law” dictates that a number of “pitfalls” and “potholes” can (and will) occur that can derail your project. Thanks to our friends at ACEDS, you can learn more about these “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.
read moreIn Taylor v. Thrifty Payless, Inc., d/b/a Rite-Aid, Oregon District Judge Marco A. Hernandez granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment after denying the plaintiff’s request for spoliation sanctions against the defendant for failing to preserve store videos that were taken on the day of her slip and fall in the defendant’s store.
read moreUntil recently, state of the art eDiscovery technology was only available to the largest law firms and corporations. Smaller firms and organizations were essentially priced out of the market and couldn’t afford the solutions that could be used by the “big boys” to manage their discovery workloads. Times have changed – thanks to cloud-based, software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) automated solutions that have made full-featured eDiscovery solutions affordable for even small and solo firms. What do you need to do to take advantage of that? Find out here.
read moreTo be a good manager, you need to be a good communicator. It is so easy for miscommunications to occur that can derail your project and cause deadlines to be missed, or work product to be incomplete or not meet the client’s expectations. To avoid those (and to cover your behind if miscommunications do occur), use the “belt and suspenders” approach to communication.
read moreIn Elhannon LLC v. F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co., Vermont District Judge William K. Sessions, III granted in part and denied in part the plaintiff’s renewed motion to compel, denied motions for sanction by each party against the other, and ordered the parties to engage in further meet-and-confer efforts to narrow their differences on the appropriate scope of discovery.
read moreWe’re seeing a lot of discussion about whether to perform keyword searching before predictive coding. We’ve even seen a recent case where a judge weighed in as to whether TAR with or without keyword searching is preferable. Now, we have a new article published in the Richmond Journal of Law and Technology that weighs in as well.
read moreAre investment activities slowing down in eDiscovery? And, why is there a cute kid on my blog post today? Read about both here.
read moreIn the case In re: Search of Content that is Stored at Premises Controlled by Google, California Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, noting that the “SCA regulates disclosure of data in a service provider’s possession” ordered Google to “produce all content responsive to the search warrant that is retrievable from the United States, regardless of the data’s actual location”.
read moreOne of the most telling statistics about cybersecurity and data breaches that we covered during Wednesday’s webcast was from last year’s Verizon Data Breach Incident Report which said that almost 93 percent of breach compromise incidents occur within minutes, with 11 percent of those occurring within seconds. But, less than 25 percent of those breaches are discovered within days. Maybe your network traffic holds the key to detecting malware sooner.
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