Yesterday, I sought to defend the value of my law school course on E-Discovery & Digital Evidence to a law Dean who readily conceded that she didn’t know what e-discovery was or why it would be an important thing for lawyers...more
8/2/2024
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Project Management ,
Legal Technology ,
Machine Learning ,
Technology-Assisted Review
My esteemed colleagues, Kelly Twigger and Doug Austin, both posted about a recent discovery decision out of a federal district court in Florida, case no. 8:23-cv-102-MSS-SPF, styled, Byte Fed., Inc. v. Lux Vending LLC. and...more
6/28/2024
/ Data Collection ,
Data Preservation ,
Databases ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
Document Review ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Email ,
Evidence ,
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure ,
Technology-Assisted Review
A friend shared that she was seeing the Carole King musical, “Beautiful,” and I recalled the time I caught it twice on different visits to London in 2015 because I enjoyed it so. I reflected on why I was in London in Summer...more
[EDRM Editor’s Note: The opinions and positions are those of Craig Ball. This article is republished with permission and was first published on April 8, 2024.] Last week, I dug into Cloud Attachments to email, probing the...more
[EDRM Editor’s Note: The opinions and positions are those of Craig Ball. This article is republished with permission and was first published on March 29, 2024.] In the E-Discovery Bubble, we’re embroiled in a debate over...more
I watched a webinar this morning where the presenters addressed ESI Protocols. They were well-informed people sharing sound advice; but it underscored for me why people despise lawyers. A presenter counseled, “Always build...more
Preparing a talk about keyword search, I set out to distill observations gleaned from a host of misbegotten keyword search efforts, many from the vantage point of the court’s neutral expert née Special Master assigned to...more
Reader’s Digest, the century-old magazine with the highest paid circulation, has long published “condensed” books; anthologies of four-to-five popular novels abridged to fit in a single volume. Condensed Books were once...more
Craig Ball, a veteran trial lawyer and ESI special master covers his core provisions of palatable ESI production protocols....more
Travel back in time with us as we delve into the dynamic world of eDiscovery, tracing its transformative journey over two decades!
In this engaging session, five seasoned experts—often likened to the legends at the MLB All...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published on September 7, 2023. EDRM is grateful to Craig Ball for permission to republish. EDRM is proud to publish Craig Ball’s advocacy and analysis. The opinions and positions are...more
Law professor and electronic evidence expert Craig Ball reflects on the challenge of achieving attorney competence in electronic discovery and digital evidence, exploring ways the justice system might bridge the Digital...more
JOIN US FOR A GATHERING OF GLOBAL E-DISCOVERY LEADERS -
Join us for an immersive EDRM gathering where you can connect, learn, and share with experts from diverse fields. This is not your typical Summit/Workshop – it’s a...more
You are invited to join EDRM’s Email Duplicate Identification Global Project Team as they share how they have solved the painful and oftentimes expensive process of duplicate identification across emails processed by multiple...more
You are invited to join EDRM’s Email Duplicate Identification Global Project Team as they share how they have solved the painful and oftentimes expensive process of duplicate identification across emails processed by multiple...more
[Editor’s Note: Craig Ball puts ChatGPT through its paces in the context of his law school class. EDRM is grateful to Craig for permission to republish. First published on Ball in Your Court, 1/27/2023] - I recently spent a...more
Editor’s Note: Craig Ball has penned another primer, this one richly annotated with Rules, metadata and strategic and technical considerations. EDRM is grateful to Craig for permission to republish. First published on Ball in...more
[Editor’s Note: Craig Ball has penned another deep dive into thorny issues in eDiscovery search, this time to illustrate limitations in indexing, the precursor to interactive or programmatic search. EDRM is grateful to Craig...more
IN MARCH, two veteran Facebook engineers found themselves grilled about the company’s sprawling data collection operations in a hearing for the ongoing lawsuit over the mishandling of private user information stemming from...more
Russian intelligence agencies have hacked dozens of civilian organizations in the U.S. and other Ukraine-allied nations since February. While this activity has garnered a great deal of attention due to the conflict in...more
8/31/2022
/ Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Cyber Crimes ,
Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Hackers ,
Popular ,
Private Sector ,
Russia ,
Ukraine ,
Webinars
Join Craig Ball and Mary Mack for more from the case that keeps on giving eDiscovery lessons. Alex Jones’ counsel in the Sandy Hook plaintiffs trials had a disciplinary hearing in Connecticut due to an inadvertent production,...more
8/30/2022
/ Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Inadvertent Disclosure ,
Legal Ethics ,
Legal Project Management ,
Personal Data ,
Testimony ,
Webinars
Ask Craig Ball your burning questions on cell phone productions in high profile cases like the Sandy Hook Families v. Alex Jones damages trial. Find out how a mistake like a whole digital copy of a cell phone being produced...more