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Webcast: Best Practices for eDiscovery Searching
 Webcast: Best Practices for eDiscovery Searching 150 150 CloudNine

With all of the hype about Technology Assisted Review, does keyword search still have a place in eDiscovery? You bet it does – if it is conducted properly. This webcast session will cover goals, considerations, techniques, and challenges to effective eDiscovery searching.

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Overrule Plaintiff’s Objections to Discovery Requests
Court Orders Plaintiff to Produce Native Format Version of Email Potentially Altered: eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Orders Plaintiff to Produce Native Format Version of Email Potentially Altered: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Lifetouch National School Studios, Inc. v. Roles, Pennsylvania District Judge Kim R. Gibson granted the portion of the defendant’s motion to compel associated with the request for the plaintiff to produce all copies of a potentially altered email in native format circulated within its organization or any of its agents.

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What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017: eDiscovery Trends
 What Every Attorney Should Know About eDiscovery in 2017: eDiscovery Trends 400 400 CloudNine

Early this year, I asked if we’ve (finally) reached the age of technical competence of attorneys. Perhaps we’re not there yet. However, CloudNine is sponsoring a webcast today which may help bridge the gap.

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“Legalweek, The Experience” 2017 is One Week From Today!: eDiscovery Trends
 “Legalweek, The Experience” 2017 is One Week From Today!: eDiscovery Trends 446 122 CloudNine

What is “Legalweek, The Experience”, you say? LegalWeek is LegalTech New York, along with six other “events-within-an-event” that will be going on next week in New York at the New York Hilton Midtown, starting next Tuesday, January 31 and concluding on Thursday, February 2. Let’s take a look at some of the sessions and events worth particular note for eDiscovery professionals.

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(The) Winter (eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey) is Coming: eDiscovery Trends
 (The) Winter (eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey) is Coming: eDiscovery Trends 427 380 CloudNine

Winter is Coming! And, by “winter”, I mean the Winter 2017 eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey created by Rob Robinson and conducted on his terrific Complex Discovery site. It’s the second year of the quarterly survey and we covered all four rounds of the survey last year. Now, it’s time for the Winter 2017 Survey to start a new year!

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Now, We Have a Privacy Shield with the Swiss Too: eDiscovery Trends
 Now, We Have a Privacy Shield with the Swiss Too: eDiscovery Trends 339 331 CloudNine

This appears to be our week to cover privacy stories on the blog. First, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) released the public comment version of its new Data Privacy Primer (which we covered on Tuesday). Also, last week, U.S. and Swiss authorities announced final agreement on the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.

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Looking Back at Predictions That I Made Three Years Ago, Part 2: eDiscovery Predictions Revisited
 Looking Back at Predictions That I Made Three Years Ago, Part 2: eDiscovery Predictions Revisited 341 338 CloudNine

Yesterday, I took a look back at two posts that comprised six eDiscovery predictions for 2014 that I wrote three years ago. I thought it might be fun to look back at those posts to see how those predictions fared. I covered the first three predictions yesterday, so today I’ll cover the last three.

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Looking Back at Predictions That I Made Three Years Ago: eDiscovery Predictions Revisited
 Looking Back at Predictions That I Made Three Years Ago: eDiscovery Predictions Revisited 341 338 CloudNine

Sometimes, in addition to the many other resources that I use to look for blog post ideas, I like to look back at my old posts from the past to see if there’s a topic that warrants a fresh look. When I did that yesterday, I stumbled on two posts that comprised six eDiscovery predictions for 2014 that I wrote three years ago. I thought it might be fun to look back at those posts to see how those predictions fared.

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“Primed” to Read about Data Privacy? The Sedona Conference Has a New Primer for You: eDiscovery Best Practices
 “Primed” to Read about Data Privacy? The Sedona Conference Has a New Primer for You: eDiscovery Best Practices 428 600 CloudNine

The proliferation of data in our society today makes the task of protecting sensitive and private data more challenging than ever. Without a doubt, privacy and data protection laws have evolved quite a bit over the past several years, especially internationally, with the striking down of the 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement back in 2015 over privacy concerns and subsequent adoption of the EU-US Privacy Shield last year. To help legal practitioners to have a better understanding of various data privacy issues and guidelines, The Sedona Conference® (TSC) has created a new primer to help with this growing issue.

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Judge Cuts Over $10M from Attorney Fees Due to Use of Temporary Attorneys for Document Review: eDiscovery Case Law
 Judge Cuts Over $10M from Attorney Fees Due to Use of Temporary Attorneys for Document Review: eDiscovery Case Law 342 342 CloudNine

The use of temporary associates for document review (and billing at normal staff associate rates) caused a federal judge in Manhattan to reduce the request for attorney fees by $10.3 million in a settlement of a securities case against Bank of America.

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