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April’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published April 17, 2024 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of the...more

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December’s Notable Cases and Events in E-Discovery

[Editor’s Note: This article was first published December 21, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Tom Paskowitz and Robert Keeling of our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish. The opinions and positions are those of...more

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[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for November 2023 - November 16th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

It’s time to be thankful – for eDiscovery case law! Our November 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses permissive inference sanctions for destruction of video, sanctions for failing to...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Recall Message! Do Yourself (and Your Employer) a Favor and Sharpen Your Email Game

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This isn’t the 1990s: Email isn’t a new technology. By now, we all know that our work emails aren’t private, and most of us exercise some discretion in deciding what to “put in writing” in our business communications. We’ve...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Intentional Deletion and Manipulation of Electronic Data Leads to Default Judgment

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Every day we are reminded that we live in a digital world by looking down at our smartphones and logging onto our computers. Though the legal field is generally slow to jump on the bandwagon of new technology, the use of...more

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How to Avoid Spoliation of Evidence Allegations

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A potential pitfall in navigating a litigated, or potentially litigated claim, is not properly preserving evidence. Attorneys and parties must preserve potentially relevant evidence when they know or should know, that a claim...more

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[Webinar] ZyLAB Re-Invents Legal Hold Notification - November 17th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

In 2003 Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote “once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a 'litigation hold' to ensure the preservation of...more

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[Webinar] Hold On! What Do You Mean By Preservation of Evidence? - October 21st, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm BST

A Legal Hold, also known as litigation hold, document hold, hold order, or preservation order, has more commonly been a US term but organisations in the UK and Europe also need to ensure their data preservation practices are...more

Hanzo

Think You Don’t Need to Preserve Slack Data for Discovery? Think Again

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Remember the story that the Verge broke a few years ago—aka December 2019—about Steph Korey, the Away CEO who stepped down after former employees claimed that she created a “toxic work culture” through Slack messages? Away,...more

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Is eDiscovery Existing in a Post-Sanctions World?

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Is eDiscovery Existing in a Post-Sanctions World? The short (and obvious) answer is no. Rule 37(e) isn’t going anywhere. But recent case law indicates a trend where sanctions seem to be harder to come by, which may play...more

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Fairness in the Adversary Process (Part One): Lawyers and the Discovery of the Truth

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Our adversarial legal system contemplates that each party will have the opportunity to fully investigate the facts of a dispute and bring to the attention of the trier of fact those facts most favorable to its position. This...more

Butler Snow LLP

Think twice before filing a spoliation motion against a plaintiff in Georgia.

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Georgia courts have finally claimed the same legal standard applies to plaintiffs and defendants when courts are deciding when the duty to preserve relevant evidence arises. But the application of the standard to plaintiffs...more

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Florida Court of Appeals Holds Underlying Tort Case Must Resolve Before Third-Party Spoliation Action Can Be Litigated

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In Amerisure Ins. Co. v. Rodriguez, 43 Fla. L. Weekly 2225 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App., Sept. 26, 2018), the Third District Court of Appeals of Florida addressed whether a third-party spoliation claim should be litigated and tried...more

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Ohio Supreme Court Restricts Spoliation Claims

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The Ohio Supreme Court has issued an important decision limiting a party’s ability to pursue an independent tort claim for spoliation of evidence. Ohio law excludes tort claims for negligent spoliation of evidence, but...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The E-Discovery Digest - October 2015

In This Issue: - Attorney-Client Privilege/Work Product Decisions: ..Decisions Protecting Against Disclosure ..Decisions Ordering Disclosure Other - Spoliation Decisions: ..Spoliation Sanctions...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Social Media

Effort to Hide Facebook Evidence by Deactivating Account Ends Badly for Louisiana Man

As social media has become ubiquitous, courts are wrestling with more discovery disputes involving social media accounts. In a recent case, Crowe v. Marquette Transportation Co. Gulf-Inland, LLC, the plaintiff...more

Cozen O'Connor

The Duty To Preserve Social Media Information

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It is not, as many recent articles and blogs have discussed, just about whether relevant social media information can be discovered by one party in a lawsuit. It is also about what happens when a party fails to preserve...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Sanctioning Spoliation of Evidence

Today’s Take: Sanctions for the Automatic Deletion of Evidence by Computers In my recent blog post entitled Preserving Evidence Through Demand Letters, we discussed how a demand letter can trigger the duty to preserve...more

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