1. The Need for Practical E-Discovery Standards
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In recent years, there has been a great deal of discussion about standards in electronic discovery, most of which has focused on the big-picture issues of scope, cost and cost shifting.  These are ...

2. FJC Report: E-Discovery in Recent Federal Cases
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... electronic discovery in the surveyed cases. The report states that although approximately 80% of all respondents had some kind of conference with opposing counsel regarding a discovery plan, only 30% indicated ...

3. E-Discovery Principles Applied to WA Public Records Act
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... electronic format, and a pair of recent Washington Court of Appeals decisions seems to indicate that basic electronic discovery principles apply to government agencies responding to PRA requests. For ...

4. Clawback Agreements in the Wake of FRE 502
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Privilege review of voluminous electronic documents can be extremely costly and time-consuming. As one federal magistrate judge put it, it is one of the most challenging aspects of discovery of electronically ...

5. Non-Latin Text Poses E-Discovery Problem
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... or searched using non-Latin keywords?  Attorneys can avoid costly mistakes by keeping up to date on the translation and language capabilities of both their own and opposing parties’ electronic discovery ...

6. Hi ho, Hi ho, Off to Mine for Metadata We Go…
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Not long ago, metadata was the new electronic discovery buzz word. It was discussed at length at CLEs, and the legal industry quickly learned that metadata could be another source of potentially relevant ...

7. Preaching: Prompt & Cheap ESI Preservation
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President Theodore Roosevelt had his bully pulpit. This blog is mine. Here I go again preaching that reasonable steps to preserve potentially relevant electronically stored information (ESI) must be ...

8. Think Hard Before Hitting That SEND Button
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... emails.   Jonathan Yeh is an attorney and  principal at Blank Law + Technology PS. Mr. Yeh’s practice includes general commercial transactions and litigation, computer forensics, electronic ...

9. Blank L+T 2009 Open House
(BLT TEAM/BLT Team2)

... trends in electronic discovery, data security, and computer forensics. Attendance at the briefings is optional, but collect a stamp at each briefing and receive a BLT gift pack! Learn more about ...

10. Blank Law + Technology to Throw Open House Party
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... Thursday, Oct. 29. BL+T is the parent company of the Electronic Data Extraction Network (EDEN) and TestudoData LLC, an email security, encryption and archiving applications provider. Attendees will have ...

11. Early Case Assessment Is Too Late
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... legal allegations and probable defenses, the likely sources of electronic discovery and the most efficient means of preserving electronically stored information (ESI) for production later in the case. ...

12. Big Fish, Little Fish, We’re All in the Same E-Discovery Waters
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Many of the landmark electronic discovery decisions involve discovery violations by large corporations. This is not surprising. Given the volume of electronic data generated by these entities, they are ...

13. The Trouble with Tweets
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... the file.” A few years later, the only document retrievable from any storage device (electronic or paper) may be the assistant’s version of the email string. If so, it will likely be impractical (if not ...

14. Cathy Lopez Bio
(Bios/Bios)

... As a project manager, Ms. Lopez worked closely with clients on large and small projects involving the preservation, collection and production of electronic documents. Ms. Lopez also trained and supported ...

15. Control the Cloud? Fuhgeddaboudit!
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... few months, I’ll discuss more specific methods for capturing cloud data from specific sources in a series of posts on our sister blog, Slack Space. One principle common to just about every facet of electronic ...

16. The Rising Tide of E-Discovery Specialists
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 I was recently interviewed for a feature story on electronic discovery by the Spokane Journal of Business. The story, which is included below in its entirety, was part of the SJB's September special ...

17. Tweets Are Evidence, So Just Deal With It
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... too many companies today choose to stick their heads in the sand. They take a fairly obtuse approach to disclosing electronically stored information (ESI) related to social networking sites like Twitter, ...

18. Encryption is the Key
(Blog/Blog)

... the need for a solution, federal agencies and state governments have implemented new regulations designed to protect electronically transmitted personal information. On Jan. 1, 2008, the Federal Trade ...

19. The Forbidden Planet of Stupid Emails
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... electronic discovery?” Well, lots, actually, especially where email is concerned. How many times have you heard of an employee being fired for writing something offensive, off-color or just plain stupid ...

20. Need a Court Order? Not So Fast!
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Electronic discovery disputes happen. It’s natural. The law is relatively new and unsettled and the stakes and costs are often high. When disputes occur, court orders, whether litigated or agreed upon, ...