Our Insights on eDiscovery

Read on to learn more about the latest trends and insights in the world of digital discovery.

Do We Have a Confidence “Spring” in Our Step in 2017?: eDiscovery Trends

The results are in from the Complex Discovery Spring 2017 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey, which has just concluded and (as was the case for the 2016 Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall surveys and the 2017 Winter survey) the results are published on Rob Robinson’s terrific Complex Discovery site. How confident are individuals working in the eDiscovery ecosystem in the business of eDiscovery? Let’s see.

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Corporate Counsel Best of 2017 Survey Results: eDiscovery Trends

Last year, we covered the inaugural Best of Corporate Counsel Survey of the top providers to the in-house corporate legal marketplace in July. This year, Corporate Counsel apparently decided to move it up a bit as, on Monday, it released its Corporate Counsel Best of 2017 results, which (once again) include rankings in a few litigation support and eDiscovery categories.

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Wife’s Fitbit Leads to Murder Arrest for the Husband: eDiscovery Trends

At both the Master’s Conference session that I moderated in San Francisco on Tuesday and the webcast that I conducted yesterday, the topic of discovery from IoT (Internet of Things) devices came up. This story illustrates how discovery from IoT devices is becoming more and more important, especially in criminal cases.

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

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

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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Lack of Cooperation Leads to Court to Order Scope of Discovery for Defendant: eDiscovery Case Law

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

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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