Best Practices, Best Solution?

The New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) published their “Best Practices in eDiscovery in New York State and Federal Courts” this week in hopes to influence some sort of standardization in eDiscovery collection and preservation. It is no secret that those involved in eDiscovery, from counsel to vendors, have been searching for a universal document [...]

Doing Justice to Justice: e-Discovery Reform Part 3

The group Lawyers for Civil Justice published their opinions on current attempts at e-discovery reform and did not hold back their frustration. LCJ insists that the scope of required discovery must be greatly narrowed in order to start solving today’s extensive discovery problems. The Girard Proposals have proffered certain amendments, but for LCJ these changes [...]

E-Discovery Negligence: Who’s To Blame?

In Thorncreek Apartments III, LLC v. Village of Park Forest (N.D. Ill. Aug. 9, 2011), the Northern District of Illinois concluded that a litigant had been negligent throughout the discovery process of a case and as a result waived privilege on inadvertently produced documents. In this particular case, the defendant failed to check the documents [...]

The Man Behind the Computer Monitor

After “attending” both LegalTech New York 2010 and Virtual LegalTech 2010, I couldn’t help but wonder about the importance of face time in an industry that has so little…face time. In the legal technology industry, training sessions are completed through Web demos. Meetings are conducted through conference calls. Files are exchanged virtually through electronic pathways [...]

20 Questions…or More

“Is anyone on the call yet?” I wondered as I clutched the awkwardly large office phone to my ear, listening for sounds of life on the other end. For the next hour, I would be training new clients how to use Liquid Lit Manager™. The system was easy to use. I knew everything there was [...]