What if I were to tell you that you had to spend $6 million — nine percent of your annual operating budget — to comply with an e-discovery subpoena? And what if you were a non-party to that particular dispute? The D.C. Circuit has upheld just such a cost in In re Fannie Mae Securities Litigation, [...]
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From the Associated Press: Guidance Software Inc. bills itself as the leading provider of technology that helps companies dig up old e-mails and other electronic documents that might be evidence in a lawsuit. Yet when Guidance itself had to face a judge, it was accused of bumbling its internal digital search. Whether Guidance intentionally hid documents [...] Craig Ball has an interesting take on Judge Shira Scheindlin’s opinion in S.E.C. v. Collins & Aikman Corp. Judge Scheindlin, of course, is the author of the landmark Zubulake v. UBS Warburg decisions, so her pronouncements on EDD carry a lot of weight. Craig says that Judge Scheindlin’s opinion articulates a newer, stronger standard for collaborative search than we [...] |
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