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Many companies have embraced social media as an effective marketing and communication channel, but when you think of social media and eDiscovery together, the enthusiasm can turn to fear and dread – just as it has for a growing number of corporations. True, social media does have an ugly side (employers spying on employees, trade…

The 451 Group has released its “eDiscovery and eDisclosure: Bringing it all Back Home” survey report, and the results are insightful – particularly for companies who tried, and are failing, to handle things “in-house.” Key Findings Some degree of eDiscovery in-sourcing continues, as companies try and build systems and competence from within. With the above…

ESI – electronically stored information – is at the heart and soul of eDiscovery. A lengthy Lexology article by Alan S. Naar neatly sums up how eDiscovery has been transformed into a unique universe inhabited by many players with varying degrees of involvement. We not only have players, but we also have thorny issues and…

While one third of employers in the US are using social media to support their marketing efforts, they’re also worried about giving employees free rein to social media, no matter how harmless in nature the communications may be. Chris Crum went over survey results conducted by CareerBuilder. The results were interesting and confirmed that companies…

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?…