E-Discovery

 
 
  • Make the Most of Your Relationship with Outside Counsel

    Earlier this year, the author’s company conducted a survey of professionals at law firms serving corporate clients. It covered a wide range of topics, including client relationship management; project management; and e-discovery services, staffing and technology. The...

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  • Litigation Holds and the GDPR

    The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) complicates compliance with litigation holds. United States courts expect corporate litigants to properly preserve records and have issued severe sanctions in cases where they aren’t preserved. In the European...

    • Posted 5 months ago
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  • Best Practices When the Corporate Client is Deposed

    E-discovery has increased both the demand and importance of corporate witness testimony. After culling, application of keywords, technology assistance and responsiveness review, a general rule of thumb would be for the witness preparation team to expect to...

    • Posted 5 months ago
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  • Spoliation Sanctions Can Dwarf What The Case Is Worth

    A ruling from the Second Circuit Court earlier this year is a cautionary tale about the importance of implementing sound legal hold and production practices even in smaller cases. The value of this case in terms of...

    • Posted 7 months ago
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  • Bridging The Gap Between IT & Legal

    In an e-discovery project, IT and Legal personnel need to work together as seamlessly and smoothly as possible. That can be a challenge, given they come from two different worlds in terms of professional backgrounds and communication...

    • Posted 10 months ago
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  • Turning E-Discovery Concepts into Practice

    Robert Keeling, Esq., Co-Chair of the E-Discovery Group at Sidley Austin, offered advice to legal departments and law firms that aren’t getting the results they expect from predictive coding, in a recent edTalk sponsored by Exterro, Inc....

    • Posted 11 months ago
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  • The Search for a Cure for E-Discovery Addiction

    Poor information governance practices placed businesses on a collision course with long-standing discovery practices, leading to an inflection point in 2003, when the first of many holdings that resulted in sanctions and significant awards was issued based...

    • Posted 11 months ago
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  • Privilege Lost For “Underlying Documents” When Report Is Made Public

    When a school board released a lawyer’s report about alleged sexual assaults by members of a high school basketball team, it had no desire to release the interviews and communications that...

    • Posted 12 months ago
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  • Don’t Push Send

    Every day, attorneys transmit spreadsheets, documents and PDFs, to courts and adversaries, to third parties, and to clients. Either they intend to transmit only after “scrubbing,” or else they don’t believe the documents contain important hidden data....

    • Posted 12 months ago
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  • Protective Orders in Litigation

    What are the limits of public access to the courts? In this Today’s General Counsel article, attorney Cristin K. Traylor considers this increasingly vexing question – increasingly vexing for two reasons: because the volume of information typically...

    • Posted 12 months ago
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