Our Insights on eDiscovery

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Overrule Plaintiff’s Objections to Discovery Requests
Defendant Ordered to Produce Source Code Responsive to Agreed Upon Search Protocol: eDiscovery Case Law
Defendant Ordered to Produce Source Code Responsive to Agreed Upon Search Protocol: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In ACI Worldwide Corp. v. MasterCard Technologies, LLC et. al., Nebraska Magistrate Judge F.A. Gossett granted the plaintiff’s Motion to Compel Production of the defendant’s Full Source Code in part, “to the extent there are any files that MasterCard has not produced responsive to the parties’ previously established joint Search Protocol.”

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Today is E-Discovery Day 2016!: eDiscovery Trends
Today is E-Discovery Day 2016!: eDiscovery Trends 370 55 CloudNine

Today is December 1. As we mentioned last week, that means today is E-Discovery Day!

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By 2020, 92 Percent of Everything We Do Will Be in The Cloud: eDiscovery Trends
By 2020, 92 Percent of Everything We Do Will Be in The Cloud: eDiscovery Trends 372 305 CloudNine

According to an article on Forbes.com, by 2020, 92 percent of computing workloads will be processed by cloud data centers; versus only eight percent being processed by traditional data centers.

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Court Denies Defendant’s Motion to Overrule Plaintiff’s Objections to Discovery Requests
With No Proof of Duty to Preserve or Bad Faith, Plaintiffs’ Request for Sanctions is Denied: eDiscovery Case Law
With No Proof of Duty to Preserve or Bad Faith, Plaintiffs’ Request for Sanctions is Denied: eDiscovery Case Law 479 270 CloudNine

In Reyes et. al. v. Julia Place Condominiums Homeowners Association, Inc., et. al., Louisiana District Judge Carl J. Barbier, in denying the plaintiffs’ request for sanctions, stated that the plaintiffs “have failed to produce sufficient evidence proving that [defendant] Parkview had a duty to preserve the ledgers, that Parkview acted in bad faith in destroying the ledgers, and that the destroyed evidence was relevant to Plaintiffs’ claim”.

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The Top Hot Topics in eDiscovery: eDiscovery Trends
The Top Hot Topics in eDiscovery: eDiscovery Trends 275 274 CloudNine

I recently had the opportunity (and pleasure) to sit down for a podcast interview with Sharon Nelson and John Simek for their podcast series Digital Detectives on the Legal Talk Network. Here’s how you can listen to that interview.

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E-Discovery Day 2.0: eDiscovery Trends
E-Discovery Day 2.0: eDiscovery Trends 370 55 CloudNine

We’ve recently celebrated Halloween, we’re about to celebrate Thanksgiving. Guess what we celebrate next? You guessed it, it’s…E-Discovery Day!

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The Fall Version of The eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Has a Canadian Influence: eDiscovery Trends
The Fall Version of The eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey Has a Canadian Influence: eDiscovery Trends 334 328 CloudNine

With everything else we’ve been covering, we’ve been remiss to mention that it’s time for another round of the quarterly eDiscovery Business Confidence Survey created by Rob Robinson and conducted on his terrific Complex Discovery site. The fall survey is currently going on through the end of November. In addition to the affiliation with the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS), the survey now has a new Canadian influence.

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Here’s an Independent Review of CloudNine: eDiscovery Trends
Here’s an Independent Review of CloudNine: eDiscovery Trends 400 400 CloudNine

If you love to read about legal technology, you probably have signed up for newsletters via Technolawyer. Technolawyer has several useful newsletters for the tech-interested legal professional, including BlogWorld and LitigationWorld. Recently, CloudNine was reviewed by Technolawyer with the resulting review published in the LitigationWorld newsletter.

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Public Comment Period Extended for Commentary on Defense of Process: eDiscovery Best Practices
Public Comment Period Extended for Commentary on Defense of Process: eDiscovery Best Practices 428 600 CloudNine

As we noted a couple of months ago, The Sedona Conference® Working Group on Electronic Document Retention and Production (WG1) has issued a Public Comment Version of a new Principles and Guidelines for Developing and Implementing a Sound E-Discovery Process. The deadline for public comment was to have ended a couple of days ago, on November 15. Now, the deadline for public comment has been extended by the WG1 steering committee.

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Three Ways that eDiscovery is Safer in the Cloud: eDiscovery Trends
Three Ways that eDiscovery is Safer in the Cloud: eDiscovery Trends 203 215 CloudNine

In the article 3 Ways E-Discovery is Safer in the Cloud than On-Premise, David Greetham discusses how, often, cloud service providers have stronger security options than those at law firms. He notes three reasons in particular as to why that is the case.

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