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Social Media, Facebook and eDiscovery: Are you Prepared if Asked to Produce Content?

It is estimated that by the end of 2012, Facebook will have one billion active users. Twitter and LinkedIn,… [more]

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November 2012/January 2013

November/January 2013 - The Bottome Line - Picking an eDiscovery Provider on More than Price Tweet //… [more]

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Bridging the Gap – Litigation Support & IT Working Together

The explosive growth of electronic data is no surprise to anyone at this time. In the corporate hallways,… [more]

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The Bottom Line – Picking an eDiscovery Provider on More than Price

With the continuing challenges brought on by the economy and ever-increasing volumes of data, one of… [more]

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Bridging the Gap in E-Discovery: The Emergence of Conceptual Semantic Search

By: Jeffrey Parkhurst | Project Consultant, Studeo Legal, December 5, 2012 Much has been written about the volume of data in today’s litigation. For decades, keyword searching has been the “gold standard” for sifting through these documents. Of late, there has been a movement to understand the limitations of keyword searching and to replace it with [...]

Don’t Cut Corners by Cutting and Pasting — and Other Privilege Log Basics

December 7, 2012 – By Ali Waheed, Project Manager, ali.waheed@applieddiscovery.com, Although he lightheartedly lamented that his “advanced years” made the task of finding proper privilege assertions among the thousands of insufficient privilege log entries “inconceivable,” U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Facciola put all jokes aside in Chevron Corp. v. The Weinberg Group, Misc. Action No. [...]

Litigation 101 for eDiscovery Tech Professionals: Vehicles for Discovery

November 28, 2012,   By Jane Gennarelli Discovery is the process by which the parties in a lawsuit exchange information that’s relevant to the case before the trial. The goal is that both sides have equal access to the facts. Discovery is very often the most time consuming and expensive part of a lawsuit, especially when [...]

Another Fiscal Cliff Looms: Practical Measures for Streamlining E-Discovery Review

November 27, 2012 – By Kelli Clark, Esq.  A recent study showed that the cost of document review is the most expensive part of document production, accounting for 73 percent of the costs. If parties don’t change their ways, these costs will continue to escalate as the volume of electronically stored information continues to rise.  [...]

It Takes More Than a Stroke of Luck to Avoid E-Discovery Sanctions

November 27, 2012 – By Gregory Cook If you think that your organization’s lack of a formal document retention policy is harmless and that it could never prove harmful to your case, think again. A recent decision, DMAC LLC v. City of Peekskill, No. 09 Civ. 5093 (GAY), 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138605 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. [...]

For Failure to Preserve, Court Orders Production of Privileged Documents and Work-Product

Posted on November 16, 2012 by K&L Gates    United States ex rel. Baker v. Cmty. Health Sys., Inc., No. 05-279 WJ/ACT, 2012 WL 5387069 (D.N.M. Oct. 3, 2012) overruling objections to United States ex rel. Baker v. Cmty. Health Sys., Inc., No. 05-279 WJ/ACT (D.N.M. Aug. 31, 2012) In this case, the Magistrate Judge determined that sanctions were warranted for the Government’s untimely [...]

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