The Evolution of eDiscovery – Part 1

Recent court rulings have found that electronically stored information (ESI) has equal evidentiary weight and value as conventional paper documents.  With eDiscovery, the methods traditionally used for legal discovery are applied to digitally warehoused materials and electronic documents. The exceptional range of digital information subject to eDiscovery includes emails, Word/PDF and other documents, YouTube videos/digital…

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Four Steps to Maximizing Your Outsourced eDiscovery Dollar – Part 2

For both in-house counsel and outside counsel, external litigation support vendors can act as an extension of their own legal department, creating extra value and a competitive edge for clients. Here are the major areas where an eDiscovery provider must show they are up to par: Alternative Fee Arrangements Alternative Fee Arrangements (AFAs) are now…

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Four Steps to Maximizing Your Outsourced eDiscovery Dollar – Part 1

For both in-house counsel and outside counsel, external litigation support vendors can act as an extension of their own legal department, creating extra value and a competitive edge for clients. Much has been made of the argument as to whether to outsource eDiscovery (see Ralph Losey’s excellent article “Five Reasons to Outsource Litigation Support”, Law…

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Expert eDiscovery Development Consultant Joins TERIS a National Leader in eDiscovery, Information Governance, Computer Forensics and Relativity

TERIS a leading provider of eDiscovery Solutions and Information Governance Consulting to corporations and law firms across the US, announced the addition of Jennifer Hudson as an eDiscovery Development Consultant in the Houston, Texas office. Austin, Texas (PRWEB) May 31, 2014 John Hartman, Principal/TERIS, recently announced that Jennifer Hudson joined TERIS as an eDiscovery Development Consultant. According…

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Digital Forensics Basics – Part 2

Digital forensics is commonly used in conjunction with computer forensics to either support or refute a possible hypothesis being considered during an investigation. By using digital re-enactments and creating similar conditions through digital means, investigators can reproduce an event in great detail. They can also add variables that can help to determine time, duration and…

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Digital Forensics Basics – Part 1

Digital forensics is the technique used to uncover and restore information from electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops and computers. Even devices that have been virtually demolished can still contain viable information stored away on their hard drives and SD cards. Using a phone’s internal GPS programming, a digital forensics specialist can trace a…

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eDiscovery Processes – Part 3

Electronic Discovery for Legal Evidence   eDiscovery has validity because almost all examples of EFD are recorded permanently by digital sources and can be accessed if necessary as legal evidence.  To this extent it is true that absolute privacy in communications — personal, enterprise, social, governmental, etc. — no longer really exists, and can become…

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eDiscovery Processes – Part 2

eDiscovery processes may be painstakingly complex, searching among the frequently exceptional quantity of data to locate materials germane to the specific legal context. However, the character of digital data renders it particularly compatible to investigation, so information can be readily accessed once it has been correctly identified. In addition, EFD are difficult to destroy: Networked…

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eDiscovery Processes – Part 1

As people rely more consistently on computers and digital devices for communicating and storing information, Electronic Discovery (eDiscovery) assumes greater importance for legal proceedings.  In this context, eDiscovery is the specifically electronic process of isolating, classifying, and generating for litigation electronically formatted data (EFD). Its proliferation reflects the increasingly plugged-in world of enterprise, social media, email and…

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Electronic Discovery: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – Part 2

Electronic discovery places a heavy burden on counsel.  Not only is the practitioner, as always, required to comply with procedural rules, but he/she must thoroughly educate the client about the intricacies of electronic discovery. Because the client may not necessarily think of discovery in electronic or digital terms, the learning curve may be steep.  At the…

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