Since this blog was founded in 2010, we have certainly covered each LegalTech New York (LTNY) conference extensively, with (in most years) a pre-show look, coverage of eDiscovery related sessions each day, a post mortem set of observations from LTNY attendees and an annual thought leader interview series (this year was our seventh annual series). But, nobody covers the show quite like Andrew Haslam.
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. These issues can add considerable cost to your discovery effort through unexpected rework and also cause you to miss important deadlines or even incur the wrath of a judge for not following accepted rules and principles for discovery. Here’s a new webinar that will help you avoid many of these “pitfalls” and “potholes”.
read moreAs we’ve discussed, EDRM was recently acquired by Duke Law School’s Center for Judicial Studies. How will this new partnership change EDRM? Yesterday, EDRM and Duke Law conducted a webinar to discuss the future of EDRM at Duke, what’s changed and what’s next.
read moreAs soon as litigation is anticipated, it’s a good idea to begin collecting potentially responsive data and assessing it by performing searches and testing the results. Because, if you wait until after the meet and confer with opposing counsel to do so, it can be expensive.
read moreIn Healthwerks, Inc. et. al. v. Stryker Spine, et. al., Wisconsin District Judge Pamela Pepper denied a motion to compel production of text messages issued by the plaintiffs and third party defendants against the defendant Stryker, agreeing with Stryker that filing the motion almost six months after discovery had closed was untimely.
read moreIt has been close to fifteen years since the original public comment draft of The Sedona Principles: Best Practices, Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production was released. Even the second edition of The Sedona Principles was published all the way back in 2007 – that’s before the iPhone was even commercially available! Now, after almost ten years, the public comment version of the Third Edition has now been released.
read moreIf you don’t write a daily blog like I do and don’t have a lot of time to keep up with current eDiscovery trends otherwise, you can attend our webcast today for a recap of recent key eDiscovery trends and case law to stay current with today’s trends in eDiscovery, information governance and cybersecurity.
read moreIn Harleysville Insurance Co. v. Holding Funeral Home, Inc., Virginia Magistrate Judge Pamela Meade Sargent ruled that the plaintiff’s placement of privileged information on a file share site and distribution of the hyperlink to access that information without providing any protection for the site resulted in a failure to take reasonable steps to protect the information – as a result, the declared attorney-client privilege and work-product protections were waived. Judge Sargent also denied the plaintiff’s motion to disqualify defense counsel for accessing the information without informing plaintiff’s counsel, but did order defense counsel to pay the plaintiff’s fees and costs in bringing the motion.
read moreI have something in common with a Secret Service agent. We both have had a laptop stolen out of a vehicle.
read moreIn Excel Enterprises, LLC v. Winona PVD Coatings, LLC, Indiana Magistrate Judge Michael G. Gotsch, Sr. ruled that despite the fact that the defendant failed to demonstrate that it produced documents kept in the ordinary course of business, the plaintiff failed to demonstrate any prejudice suffered from the current state of the production and granted the defendant’s motion to reconsider the court’s earlier order regarding the format of the defendant’s production.
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