Key Discovery Points: Petty Finger Pointing Over Search Terms Results in Wasted Time
Key Discovery Points: Do Your Best to Avoid Discovery Shenanigans!
Key Discovery Points: Be Willing to Agree and Compromise When It Comes to Hyperlinks
Navigating the Maze: eDiscovery Essentials for Employers — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Harnessing the Power of eDiscovery: The Revolution of AI and Technology in Litigation and Investigations - The Consumer Finance Podcast
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”?
Key Discovery Points: Timing is Mostly Everything in eDiscovery
Key Discovery Points: AI Says AI Will Replace Paralegals… But Not So Fast!
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?
Key Discovery Points: Even AI Experts Can Get Faked Out
Innovation in Second Requests: Data is Your Greatest Asset
Key Discovery Points: No Need to Be Leery About AI
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
eDiscovery case law disputes are no picnic! In our June 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog we will discuss disputes related to court decided ESI orders, supporting evidence for experts,...more
ComplexDiscovery Editor’s Note: In a landmark decision that challenges the European Commission’s transparency standards, the General Court of the European Union has ruled against Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over...more
We the Protestors, Inc. v. Sinyangwe, 348 F.R.D. 175 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 18, 2024), makes several important points about the relationship between ESI Protocols and redaction of produced documents....more
Document collection and production now involves more than just sending opposing counsel emails. As business communication has evolved, so has the need for producing from various and evolving streams of communication. Text...more
New year, new case law! In our January 2025 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog, we will discuss disputes related to whether emojis constitute contract agreement, privilege status of text messages,...more
In Safelite Grp., Inc. v. Lockridge, the U.S. District Court examined whether a cease-and-desist letter triggers a duty to preserve electronically stored information (ESI) and how routine deletion of text messages impacts...more
Afraid you won’t be up to date on important case law? Our October 2024 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog will remove all your fears! During the webinar we will discuss disputes related to relevance...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published August 21, 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...more
[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
No one else can “eclipse” our coverage of eDiscovery case law! Our April 2024 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses disputes related to relevance and privacy of an unpublished autobiography,...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
Dismissal of plaintiff’s claims under Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(e)(2) was affirmed in Jones v. Riot Hosp. Grp. LLC, __ F. 4th__, 2024 WL 927669 (9th Cir. Mar. 5, 2024). The case is a textbook example of a plaintiff tanking her own case...more
A motion for spoliation sanctions under Fed.R.Civ.P. 37(e) was denied in Boshea v. Compass Marketing, Inc., 2024 WL 811468 (D. Md. Feb. 27, 2024). The motion was argued and decided during trial. The suit by a former...more
In Pointer v. State, 2024 WL 70556(Apl. Ct. Md. Jan. 5, 2024)(unreported). the Appellate Court of Maryland held that disclosure of text messages the day before a criminal trial did not prejudice the defendant. One...more
In Francois v. State, 2023 WL 8265659, at *1 (Apl. Ct. Md. Nov. 30, 2023), the defendant was charged with various offenses that included possession of a firearm and ammunition after a disqualifying conviction. On appeal, the...more
Fall is in the air and so is the whiff of sanctions! Our September 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including sanctions for discovery violations & misrepresentations,...more
To better understand how technology continues to affect the legal industry, you just have to look at case law and the resulting court rulings, particularly in regards to eDiscovery and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure...more
The proliferation of short messages falling into the scope of discovery or disclosure is unabated. These can be mobile SMS texts or instant messages from popular applications such as WhatsApp, Viber, Slack, Skype and MS...more
Join the ACEDS DC Chapter and esteemed panelists Martha Louks of McDermott Will & Emery, Mark Anderson of CDS and Scott Kohlhoff of Relativity for part 2 of this 2 part series that continues to follow the yellow brick road...more
Legalweek was originally supposed to take place on location in New York this year, as it always does. However, for 2021 it has been transformed into a series of five interactive virtual events to be held throughout the...more
Even when the need to preserve mobile data is clear, for clients who are not technical experts or who do not have technical experts on staff, how to go about actually preserving that data may not be so obvious. As legal...more
Over the last 18 months, our team has written numerous articles warning attorneys of various pitfalls when it comes to preserving data. We have encouraged our colleagues in the bar to take specific steps to avoid spoliation...more
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
Historically focused on manually wading through large volumes of email and electronic documents, e-discovery is transforming in nuanced ways. Discovery of mobile devices, social media and other online applications raises...more