On August 26, 2009, Mindy Olson brought a suit against Michael Sax and Goodwill Industries, claiming that Goodwill violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 “by discriminating against her based on gender and pregnancy when it terminated her employment.” Goodwill fired Olson on the grounds that she had submitted inaccurate credit slips. [...]
In this case, the District Court considered Lexington Insurance Company’s motion for sanctions and reviewed the magistrate judge’s previous recommendation of dismissal sanctions and reimbursement costs. Bray & Gillespie Management, LLC, after it was discovered that it failed to produce records, claimed it was unaware of an automatic function of the business’s computerized account management [...]
In this IP case, Return Path Inc., et al. filed a motion to tax the costs related to using CBT Flint Partners, LLC to assist with the production of 1.4 million electronic documents and 6 versions of source code. CBT Flint Partners, LLC argued that fees associated with the collection of documents for production are [...]
I must admit, I like the title that the editors at the National Law Journal came up with for Fabio Celeita’s and my article: “Computer infections are bad enough, but the cure can kill” (premium subscription required). Our article provides a basic overview of the threats to electronically-stored information, let alone to a legal team’s [...]
Anne Kershaw and Joe Howie write on the Law Technology News website about the results of their survey among eDiscovery providers. The gist of their article – and it’s a good one – is that failure to deduplicate e-mails across custodians may be at best sloppy, and at worst unethical:
We asked several judges to review [...]
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 [...]