Key Discovery Points: Don’t Rush in as an AI Fool!
Key Discovery Points: If You Dispose of Relevant Hard Drives You Will Face (Some) Consequences
Key Discovery Point: Collecting Hyperlinked File Versions – Contemporaneous or “As Sent”?
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez – Innovative Approach to Safety
Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 305: Spotlight on Civil Procedure (Part 2 – Discovery)
Key Discovery Points: Get Your Copy of the 2025 eDiscovery State of the Industry Report
What are Some of the Concerns With Applying AI to Document Review?
Biggest Benefits of Applying AI to Document Review
All in the Family: What’s Next for Cloud Attachments in eDiscovery?
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 302: Listen and Learn -- More on Discovery (Civ Pro)
Key Discovery Points: Even AI Experts Can Get Faked Out
Innovation in Second Requests: Data is Your Greatest Asset
Key Discovery Points: Timing Sweet Spots for Spoliation Motions
Key Discovery Points: Should Hyperlinked Files Be Treated as Modern Attachments?
Podcast: Are Legal Holds Protected by Privilege? Insights from the FTC's Battle with Amazon
Podcast: How Delaying Third Party Discovery Can End Up Costing You Dearly
How Attorneys’ Views on AI Are Impacting eDiscovery
Key Discovery Points: Get Your Objections In Early – and Keep Your Filings Succinct
Key Discovery Points: Lessons Learned from TikTok’s Redaction Fiasco
In Stuart v. County of Riverside, 2024 WL 3086634, at *3 (C.D. Cal. Jun. 14, 2024), the District Court found a relationship between work product designations and triggering of the common-law duty to preserve....more
This Sidley Update addresses the following recent developments and court decisions involving e-discovery issues: 1. an order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California granting a motion to compel...more
Ediscovery Data Migration: Cloud to the Rescue - Foley & Mansfield, a national law firm based in Minneapolis, had been using a legacy, on-premise ediscovery platform for over a decade. When the vendor notified Foley &...more
Citing new deposition testimony, actor Justin Theroux in a recent motion asked the New York Supreme Court to reconsider its December 2020 denial of Theroux’s motion to compel production of emails that his neighbor, Norman...more
Maybe you went into the law because you aren’t much of a tech person. You’re more of a big-picture thinker, hired as in-house counsel for your legal acumen, ability to strategize, and broad-based experience. You figure you...more
Federal litigators aren’t taking sufficient advantage of 2008 amendments to Federal Rule of Evidence 502, which gives them the authority to obtain protective orders that can stem the damage from inadvertent disclosure of...more
Looking beyond the keyword list paradigm as AI and analytics take the stage - In a 2012 True North blog post, one of our H5 experts provided some practical advice on reducing privilege review burdens and costs by...more
In 2019, the Missouri legislature passed Senate Bill 224 (SB 224), effectively revising Missouri’s discovery rules to align them with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (See our 2019 post for analysis of SB 224’s changes...more
In my experience as an e-discovery project manager, I’ve found that one of the primary reasons for lengthy document reviews is the need to redact documents. While the extent to which redactions will be needed may not be known...more
Even though many courthouses across the country are empty or hearing only a limited number of cases due to the coronavirus pandemic, cases are still being filed. While the pandemic has affected the processing of cases,...more
Under an amendment to New Jersey Rule of Evidence (N.J.R.E.) 530 (Waiver of Privilege by Contract or Previous Disclosure), a “safe harbor” is available effective July 1, 2020, to clients and attorneys who inadvertently...more
All courts agree that litigants asserting attorney-client privilege or work product protection must establish the protection's applicability. But courts take different positions on whether any presumptions guide their...more
With significant input from Orrick’s Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Innovation team, the influential Sedona Conference and its Working Group 11 last week published important guidance on the application of the attorney-client...more
The increasing use of electronic discovery in litigation and the attendant high risk of inadvertent disclosures has led the New Jersey Supreme Court to adopt amendments to New Jersey’s Evidence Rule 530 (Waiver of Privilege...more
Recently, the Missouri legislature passed Senate Bill 224 outlining a brand new set of discovery rules for Missouri state-court cases. These new rules represent a comprehensive revision to the existing rules and make the...more
A recent North Carolina Court of Appeals decision exemplifies how an overreliance on technology in e-discovery can risk trampling on fundamental privileges and rights....more
With cybercrime on the rise, organizations have increasingly found themselves subject to litigation or regulatory investigations related to breaches. Documents and information created before breaches, such as security...more
Hard to believe, but it took until August 29, 2019 for the North Carolina Court of Appeals to tackle the issue of eDiscovery for the very first time. But tackle it the court did....more
The Michigan Supreme Court has adopted proposed changes to several Michigan Court Rules, at the recommendation of the State Bar of Michigan Civil Discovery Rule Review Special Committee. Those changes take effect January 1,...more
One of the greatest fears in any litigation matter is that you will somehow accidentally produce work product or attorney-client privileged documents to the opposing side and waive the privilege. As a result, it has become...more
In Harleysville Insurance Company v. Holding Funeral Home, Inc., et al., 2017 WL 4368617 (W.D. Va. 2017), an investigator for Nationwide, which owns Harleysville Insurance, uploaded a surveillance video of a fire scene to an...more
The ninth edition of The E-Discovery Digest focuses on recent decisions addressing the scope and application of the attorney-client privilege and work-product doctrine, spoliation, and discovery responses....more
Recently, the District of Delaware held that a there was no work-product protection, and no common legal interest protection covering communications and documents shared between a patent owner and a third-party litigation...more
Wise lawyers always consider both attorney-client privilege and work product protection when withholding a document or testimony. Privilege protection is absolute but fragile. Work product protection is qualified but...more
Electronic discovery cases that made headlines in 2017 featured well-known names such as Taylor Swift and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and reached all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. As the year draws to a close, it’s a good time to...more