Archive for August 2010

Let’s take a second look at the BP oil leak. In an earlier blog, we discussed the legal consequences of this disaster — particularly as it relates to eDiscovery issues. It would be a futile exercise to try to point a finger on who and what caused the oil spill – it will take engineering…

Seattle, WA – August 30, 2010 – There are strong indications that Americans are feeling better about economic prospects and are showing it by filing for more divorces online in 2010 than in 2009. This is according to data from leading online divorce website CompleteCase.com. In addition, only 17 percent of those filing for divorce…

In the eDiscovery sandbox playground, Legal Teams and IT are simply not playing well with each other – and that’s creating a big, expensive, risky and scary mess. And unless either side wants a “time out”or to be sent to bed without any Dora (though this is perhaps not a punishment), it’s essential that they…

You’re Entering a Dimension of Imagination… If a Rod Steiger worshipper out there wants to create a topical, 2010 version of the Twilight Zone, he or needs to look no further than the twisted scenario where companies are being forced to spend upwards of half a million dollars responding to discovery demands for a case…

Last month, MessagingArchitect.com highlighted a Lexology report that has ramifications for everyone involved in the eDiscovery space – including lawyers, corporations, consultants, project managers, and more. The report, citing a January 2010 New York Federal Court ruling, made it clear that a party’s legal obligation to preserve digitial documents goes beyond the question of intentional…

If you listen to some futurists (and they like it when you listen to them), the future of IT is in the clouds. Cloud computing, that is. And if they’re correct (and the like it even more when they’re correct), it means that eDiscovery is headed to the sky as well. What is Cloud Computing?…

Attorneys looking to fulfill Arizona’s mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements now have the option to schedule free CLE courses in the comfort of their own firms or corporations. TERIS Phoenix, a full-service litigation support provider, is offering free CLE courses on eDiscovery and forensics issues to Arizona-based law firms and in-house counsel. TERIS has…

Attorneys looking to fulfill Arizona’s mandatory continuing legal education (CLE) requirements now have the option to schedule free CLE courses in the comfort of their own firms or corporations. TERIS Phoenix, a full-service litigation support provider, is offering free CLE courses on eDiscovery and forensics issues to Arizona-based law firms and in-house counsel. TERIS has…

Privacy, digital communications, appropriate work activities and the Fourth Amendment collide as a California police officer sues – and loses – for being disciplined for texting too much on the job. The Problem Ontario, California SWAT team member Jeff Quon is probably like most other tough, courageous and valiant police officers except for one small…

Legal firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher surveyed 103 cases in the first six months of 2010, identified and analyzed eDiscovery trends, and published their findings in their 2010 Mid-Year Electronic Discovery and Information Law Update. Their key findings include: Continuing a trend that started last year, the dominant themes in eDiscovery circles were that inseperable…