The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules met late this March in Ann Arbor to discuss amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Included on the agenda was the report of the Discovery Subcommittee, which has been pondering the issue of sanctions and preservation since their mini-conference in September 2011. Since that time, the subcommittee [...]
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Josh Gilliland and his always-entertaining “Bow Tie Law’s Blog” turn this week to the case of In re NetBank, Inc., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69031 (N.D. Ga. Aug. 7, 2009), in which the producing party went to great lengths to prove to opposing counsel and the court that they knew absolutely NOTHING about e-Discovery. The Defendants [...] Wendy Akbar of Quarles & Brady blogs about how e-discovery practice is turning the traditional partner-associate dynamic on its ear. The wizened (and aged) partners end up being rank newbies where e-discovery is concerned, while the baby associates tend to have a much greater grasp of the technology behind the ESI. (The analogy of associates [...] Yep, my headline for this post is pretty strongly-worded … but it’s also pretty accurate. The fact is, sanction-happy judges and vague, utopian court rules regarding ESI searches don’t mix, when you’re dealing with mounds of mostly-random electronic data. Don’t take my word for it. Eric P. Mandel writes to the EDD Update blog about the [...] From the National Law Journal, Sheri Qualters reports on the Delaware Court of Chancery’s recent spate of decisions regarding several aspects of e-discovery practice. Most significant to me is Beard Research Inc. v. Kates, in which plaintiffs were granted an adverse inference instruction for missing computer evidence. The key language: If the parties do not focus [...] Craig Ball absolutely nails it with his new column in Law Technology News regarding an approach to keyword search. Craig’s take on how attorneys currently fail to make the grade in crafting keyword searches, and how to implement an effective methodology for querying, echoes my own strategy for not only building effective search queries, but [...] |
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