As e-discovery continues to evolve, so do the rules surrounding it. United States District Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote five groundbreaking opinions that greatly affected the way duty to preserve electronically stored information (ESI) and consequences of data destruction are viewed in the court and continue
On Feb. 27, 2018, twenty-three years to the day when he was first sworn in to the Southern District of New York, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck announced his retirement. During his decades on the bench and as a frequent speaker at industry events,
Though retired as the highly-regarded Judge of the Southern District of New York, Shira A. Scheindlin continues to be sought after for her wealth of legal knowledge and perspective on emerging technologies and e-discovery — even on Reddit. Posters were recently treated to her presence
In response to a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel-Aviv, Israel, resulting in several deaths and injuries, the Wultz family of Florida filed a civil suit against the Bank of China (BOC), alleging acts of international terrorism under the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) by providing material support
Judge Judy Scheindlin of the US District Court recently ruled on the case of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the Immigration Justice Clinic of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law v. the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency, Department of Homeland Security,
Gibson Dunn has released its 2011 Mid-Year E-Discovery Update and reports that cases involving e-discovery are on the rise. In fact, e-discovery decisions have gone up by a remarkable 82% percent since mid-year 2010. Because litigation is increasingly widespread, more parties are seeking sanctions against
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