I’ve been remiss in not covering this before now, but the 10th Annual eDiscovery Training Academy will be coming up in a couple of weeks at the Georgetown University Law Center. If you want a really in-depth training course with highly respected and knowledgeable instructors, this is as good a course as there is.
read moreAn age old issue in eDiscovery has been understanding and comparing pricing between various vendors and service providers. It’s the old “apples vs. oranges” comparison when considering pricing. A new article, which references a terrific benchmark test, may show that pricing transparency by at least two eDiscovery providers may be finally helping put eDiscovery pricing on common ground.
read moreThis week, EDRM held its first Spring Workshop since it was acquired by Duke Law last August, which means this was the first workshop held at the Duke campus in Durham, North Carolina and it was unique in several ways. Here are a few of highlights from the workshop.
read moreIn Hsueh v. N.Y. State Dep’t of Fin. Services, New York District Judge Paul A. Crotty relied upon inherent authority to impose sanctions and determined “that an adverse inference is the appropriate remedy” for the plaintiff’s deletion of a recorded conversation with an HR representative, agreeing with the defendants that “Rule 37(e) applies only to situations where ‘a party failed to take reasonable steps to preserve’ ESI; not to situations where, as here, a party intentionally deleted the recording.”
read moreThis must be our month for ransomware stories. Unless you have been living under a rock for the past several days, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the WannaCry virus that has been attacking Microsoft© Windows machines without up to date security protections. If you have been living under a rock, allow me to provide some information here.
read moreGet your minds out of the gutter – I’m talking about the size of your data collection. We certainly have talked a lot about the impact of Big Data and the Internet of Things on this blog as new challenges presented to today’s attorneys, and they are, but challenges have always existed for attorneys in managing data and documents in litigation. An article from last week reminds us that, regardless of how much data we’re dealing with or where it comes from, discovery is still about strategy.
read moreWithin the first two months of this blog, way back in 2010, we posted a blog post about the original Commentary on Proportionality in Electronic Discovery from The Sedona Conference® (TSC), which is a project of The Sedona Conference Working Group on Electronic Document Retention & Production (WG1). Now, the third iteration of the Commentary has just been published.
read moreA small Rhode Island law firm has filed a lawsuit against its insurance company after the insurer refused to pay $700,000 in lost billings following a ransomware attack on the firm that locked down the firm’s computer files for three months.
read moreLet’s face it, in this era of Big Data, more data is being created than ever before, from more sources than ever before, for organizations to manage and potentially use in litigation, investigations and audits. Thanks to our friends at ACEDS, you can learn more about these Data Discovery and Legal Discovery challenges today and how CloudNine addresses those challenges.
read moreYou’ve heard the horror stories. Maybe even experienced them yourselves. Data breaches are happening within organizations at an alarming rate, and sensitive data is being compromised regularly. As an attorney, what can you do to protect yourself, your firm and your client from becoming a victim? And, what do you need to do to keep up with ever-changing requirements for data security, both within the US and internationally?
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