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The Casualty Occurred, Now What? Preserve the Evidence!

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After a marine casualty occurs, there will be many immediate actions for the relevant parties, including the vessel’s owner, manager, insurers, and counsel (“vessel interests”), to handle. This article is one in a series...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Your Workplace Went Hybrid. Did Your eDiscovery Team Keep Up?

Hybrid work isn’t new anymore — it’s the norm. Employees collaborate across offices, home workspaces, mobile devices, chat apps, and cloud platforms without thinking twice about how their actions complicate eDiscovery....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Litigation Readiness: Seven Things to Keep in Mind (UPDATED)

Data breach class actions inevitably follow from nearly every major security incident. Here are seven things in-house counsel can do to prepare for litigation. 1. Create a Strong Foundation - Depending on the nature and scope...more

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Taming Modern Data Challenges: Defining a “Conversation”

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Historically, the concept of Electronically Stored Information (ESI) has long been synonymous with documents – emails, Word files, spreadsheets, and presentations. These traditional forms of ESI are static, discrete, and...more

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Delaware Chancery Court Keeps Asbestos Trust Data Case Alive: Motions to Dismiss Denied

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On October 24, 2025, Vice Chancellor Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery denied motions to dismiss in a high-profile challenge to asbestos trust data-retention policies, allowing asbestos defendants’ claims to proceed...more

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How the EDRM Really Works (And Why It Still Matters)

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In the fast-paced world of litigation, managing vast amounts of electronic information can feel overwhelming. Yet, understanding the eDiscovery Reference Model (EDRM) remains a cornerstone for legal teams seeking clarity,...more

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Recent Cases Spotlight Retention Lessons for AI Content from Video Recordings

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Clear policies for managing collaboration platform videos and their AI-generated derivatives are becoming essential for enterprises navigating modern litigation risks. In this timely article, Phil Favro highlights two recent...more

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Rule 37(e)(1) Sanctions for Breach of Duty to Preserve Communications

Sanctions were imposed on plaintiff for breach of the duty to preserve certain communications in Cooper v. Balt. Gas & Elec. Co., 2025 WL 2774847 (D. Md. Sep. 30, 2025)(Rubin, J.)....more

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Telephone and Texting Compliance News: Litigation Update — October 2025

In 2024, plaintiff Daniel Human sued Fisher Investments, alleging violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, and bringing the case on behalf of a putative class. The defendant removed the case to federal court and...more

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Improving Defensibility: Lessons on Legal Holds from Recent Case Law

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Editor’s Note: Preserving electronically stored information (ESI) remains one of the most critical, and often misunderstood, elements of the discovery process. As this HaystackID® article by Phil Favro shows, even large...more

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Your Employees Are Using ChatGPT and Creating ESI – Is It Discoverable?

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GenAI Enters the Litigation Landscape - Generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude are transforming workplace productivity. However, their use creates new categories of electronically stored...more

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[Webinar] Important eDiscovery Case Law Decisions for August 2025 - August 25th, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm ET

Case law disputes are heating up! In our August 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog, we will discuss disputes related to preservation of RAM data, forensic examination after discovery failures,...more

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Colorado Supreme Court clarifies when the duty to preserve evidence begins

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In Terra Management Group v. Keaten the Colorado Supreme Court held on June 23 that a “court may sanction a party for the destruction of relevant evidence if the party knew or should have known that (1) litigation was pending...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

What Businesses Need to Know About Colorado’s New Pre-Complaint Preservation Standard

In a recent opinion, the Colorado Supreme Court set a new standard for preserving evidence even before litigation begins....more

Jones Day

Orders to Preserve Evidence (“Saisies”) at the Unified Patent Court: Two-Year Roundup and Early Insights

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Evidence is a key battleground in virtually all patent litigation cases. As a Court designed to combine the best and most efficient features of the main EU national patent litigation systems, the Unified Patent Court (“UPC”)...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Watch Out for Auto-Delete: Delaware Court of Chancery Sanctions Former Meta Officer for Deleting Personal Emails

In a recent decision, In re Facebook Inc. Derivative Litigation, Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster of the Delaware Court of Chancery imposed litigation sanctions on a former officer and director of Meta Platforms, Inc....more

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What Constitutes Spoliation of Video Evidence?

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On March 12, 2025, in the lawsuit Wal Mart Stores East, LP v. Pineda, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeal held that Wal Mart (Walmart) did not negligently or intentionally fail to preserve evidence and that an adverse...more

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Going Mobile: Recent Mobile Device Case Law Trends, Part 2

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Disputes related to the relevance and accessibility of the data are one of the most common types of disputes regarding mobile devices. Another common type of dispute is typical with all sources of electronically stored...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Another Approach to Drafting and Discovery of Litigation Hold Notices

By definition, a litigation hold notice is a communication from an attorney to a client regarding the duty to preserve potentially responsive information. In Homeland Ins. Co. of Del. v. Independent Health Ass’n., Inc., 2025...more

Redgrave LLP

Blurred Lines: Navigating Text Message Discoverability in the Era of Intermingled Data

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As mobile devices continue to integrate seamlessly into our professional and personal lives, the boundaries between business and personal data have blurred significantly.  This evolution has introduced a host of legal...more

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Preserving Privilege in Internal Investigations

One thing leaders of organizations routinely recognize is that “you never know what tomorrow will bring.” Another common slogan is “life happens.” If “life” happens to bring the organization a situation that could expose the...more

EDRM - Electronic Discovery Reference Model

Is Marking Documents as “Work Product” an Admission that the Duty to Preserve is Triggered?

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

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This Week in eDiscovery: Case Studies on Reasonable Preservation and Hyperlinked Documents

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of September 16-22. Here’s what’s...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: Duty to Preserve | Inadvertent Disclosure

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of September 9-15. Here’s what’s...more

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Antitrust Sanctions: The Duty to Preserve Chats

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On August 5, 2024, District Judge Amit P. Mehta (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia) ruled in United States v. Google LLC that Google violated §2 of the Sherman Act by monopolizing the internet search engine market....more

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