Today, a tremendous amount of your organization’s client communications are happening through the representations on your website and social media channels. If you’re subject to regulatory compliance requirements or are...more
How are you preserving emojis for ediscovery?
Hold on just a minute. Do people really use emojis in a business setting? You bet, though not everyone is on board. But now that offices are more dispersed than ever—and...more
10/22/2019
/ Data Preservation ,
Digital Communications ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Emoji ,
Evidence ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Retaliation ,
Sexual Harassment ,
Summary Judgment ,
Telecommunications ,
Text Messages ,
Workplace Communication
Times are a-changing! Back in the day (pre-2013), email dominated business communications. It was simply the standard. Fast forward to today, the shift to collaboration applications like Slack, Microsoft Teams, and others has...more
10/4/2019
/ Best Practices ,
Collaboration ,
Data Collection ,
Data Management ,
Data Preservation ,
Digital Communications ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Emoji ,
Enterprise Risks ,
Evidence ,
Information Governance ,
Risk Management ,
Telecommunications ,
Webinars ,
Workplace Communication
Parties “Do Not Get to Select What Evidence They Want to Produce, or From What Sources”
Are you preserving all of the electronically stored information (ESI) that’s relevant to your litigation matters? What about...more
9/18/2019
/ Data Preservation ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Failure To Preserve ,
FRCP 34 ,
FRCP 37(b) ,
FRCP 37(e) ,
Intentional Spoliation ,
Sanctions ,
Scope of Discovery Requests ,
Social Media ,
Spoliation ,
Text Messages
In our previous blog post about multidistrict litigation (MDL), we discussed the problem of identifying meritless claims and how social media evidence can help counsel identify those claims. But what happens next? After the...more
Multidistrict litigation (MDL) has become a major component of the U.S. civil litigation system. MDLs now make up over half of the total civil caseload in the U.S., with product liability cases comprising the vast majority of...more
4/2/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Class Action ,
Discovery ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
FRCP 11 ,
FRCP 23 ,
FRCP 23(b)(3) ,
Frivolous Lawsuits ,
Multidistrict Litigation ,
Search Terms ,
Social Media ,
Statute of Limitations ,
Summary Judgment ,
Technology-Assisted Review
Every litigator yearns for that Perry Mason moment, when we calmly introduce the critical evidence that abruptly changes the course of our trial. Our dog-loser case transforms, as if by magic, into a rock-solid winner winner...more
3/19/2019
/ Archived Data ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Native Format Data ,
Online Platforms ,
Social Media ,
Websites
Do you have FOMO? And do you have FOMO about the right things?
Fear of missing out (FOMO) is a pervasive problem in our always-connected world. The Oxford English Dictionary defines FOMO as the “anxiety that an exciting or...more
3/13/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Data Collection ,
Discovery ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
Evidence ,
Legal Technology ,
Online Platforms ,
Social Media ,
Websites
In the hustle and bustle of ediscovery planning, we often focus more on the content of discoverable information than we do on its form. For example, in a hostile-workplace claim, you may know that you want all of the...more
1/8/2019
/ Best Practices ,
Discovery ,
Discovery Disputes ,
Document Productions ,
e-Discovery Professionals ,
Electronically Stored Information ,
FRCP 26(f) ,
FRCP 34 ,
FRCP 34(b) ,
Meet and Confer ,
Metadata ,
Native Format Data ,
Scope of Discovery Requests