Judge Scheindlin Orders Production of Documents from Bank of China and more E-Discovery News of the Week
E-Discovery Law Alert: Judge Scheindlin Weighs Comity Concerns and Orders Production of Documents from Bank of China Despite Violation of Chinese Laws
Inside Counsel: Legal privilege and the challenge of technology
Corporate Counsel: 6 Things In-House Counsel Must Know About E-Discovery
Bow Tie Law’s Blog: Meet & Confer at 10 Paces
Electronic Discovery Law: For Good Cause Shown, Plaintiffs No Longer Required to Utilize Predictive Coding
Case Law Clarity for Requesting Social Media ESI
By Mike Hamilton, J.D.
In last week’s post, “I Want Everything” Doesn’t Work…Even For Social Media, I noted that there is an emerging trend around requesting complete access to personal social media accounts during e-discovery. This is problematic since these requests usually will go beyond the relevancy standard defined in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP). So the question becomes, what must a party do to successfully request access to social media data? The Middle District of Tennessee provided some clarity to help answer this question with a recent ruling in Holly Potts v. Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. (M.D. Tenn. March 20, 2013). Read more
Getting to Grips With Big Data at IQPC’s Information Governance & eDiscovery Strategy Exchange
By Scott Giordano, Esq., Corporate Technology Counsel, Exterro
Following is a guest blog post from Exterro’s Corporate Technology Counsel, Scott Giordano, who recently moderated a panel on Big Data at IQPC’s Information Governance & eDiscovery Strategy Exchange held in San Diego on May 5-7.
“Ask 10 people what ‘Big Data’ means to them and you’ll get 11 different answers.” That was my opening remark at Getting to Grips With Big Data, a panel discussion I moderated last week at IQPC’s Information Governance & eDiscovery Strategy Exchange, held in San Diego. Certainly, “Big Data” could have been exchanged for “The Cloud” a few years ago, and the statement would have been equally valid. We were fortunate to have two excellent panelists, Melinda Goodleaf, a security analyst with Starbucks, and Michael Frazier, a litigation and e-discovery manager at CareFusion, who shed some light on this phenomenon. The panel discussion was divided into three questions: Read more
E-Discovery Rule Amendments Back in the Spotlight
By: Andrew Bartholomew
Talk of further changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) addressing e-discovery requirements has heated up following a vote last month by the United States Courts’ Advisory Committee on Civil Rules to officially submit a number of proposed amendments. The Standing Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure will meet in June to decide whether or not to approve the amendments and submit them for public comment. Read more
EDRM Holds Annual Kickoff Meeting and More E-Discovery News of the Week
Law Technology News: EDRM Remains Vital to E-Discovery
eDiscovery Journal: Partial Recall: Why Lawyers Can’t Have (And Really Don’t Need) All Relevant Documents – Part II
E-Discovery Law Alert: Update of Proposed Rule Changes: A Universal Federal Sanctions Standard for the Failure to Preserve ESI Could be a Reality
TERIS Sophisticated Litigation Support Blog: Information Governance: The Importance of Data Management
Discovery Advocate: Nothing Goes Better with Race Tires than . . . Wine?! – Fourth Circuit Limits Taxable eDiscovery Costs
Inside Counsel: E-discovery: Turning the discovery rules upside down
