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In In Re: Uber Technologies, Inc. Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation, 2025 WL 678543 (Mar. 3, 2025), the court issued another hyperlinked document discovery decision arising out of the parties’ ESI Protocol. While...more
Effective management of discovery disputes is critical in litigation, particularly as courts enforce stricter adherence to discovery deadlines. A recent decision in Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH v. NVIDIA Corp. highlights...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published July 24, 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
Electronic discovery (eDiscovery) allows attorneys to build cases that require delving into relevant ESI, or electronically stored information, such as emails, audio and video files, and social media, in addition to hard-copy...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
Privilege logs have been getting a lot of attention, with good reason. “Privilege logging is arguably the most burdensome and time consuming task a litigant faces during the document production process.” The Sedona...more
Historically, productions come in the form of single page images along with loadfiles containing select metadata (and occasionally native documents for items that couldn’t be imaged). The images typically had Bates labels and...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published June 14, 2023 and EDRM is grateful to Robert Keeling, Chair of the EDRM Global Advisory Council and our Trusted Partner, Sidley, for permission to republish.] This Sidley...more
Ediscovery document productions are often sent as a single, clunky PDF. Here’s why you should avoid sending – or receiving – this “document dump.” Document productions in ediscovery shouldn’t be difficult – opposing...more
When it comes to ediscovery production, it’s absolutely advantageous to keep the end goal in mind from the outset. The duty to produce is explicitly outlined in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and most analogous State...more
TRIAL PREPARATION SERIES / PART THREE OF THREE - A looming trial or hearing date is no reason to panic. As we have described in PART 1 and PART 2 of our blog series, if your trial team has kept a well-organized and...more
What is a native file? It’s one question we hear time and again from many clients – or “Do I really need natives in litigation?” Most litigators have heard that native files are important in modern litigation. However, many...more
Knowledge workers may never go back to the office as we once knew it. But, now that companies and their employees have learned how well working from home can work—both for maintaining productivity and workers' quality of...more
Typical Google Vault exports provide limited metadata and data files that are not properly formatted for ediscovery needs. Incomplete information can be problematic for review platforms and result in wasted time and effort...more
Organizations that use Google Workspace in business know that any content could be responsive to litigation or necessary for an internal investigation. While Google Vault may be considered “good enough” at preserving and...more
At Hanzo, we’ve focused on collaboration tools for the last few years—and, as it turns out, we weren’t a moment too soon. The upsurge in remote work due to the coronavirus pandemic means that more workers than ever are...more
The March sessions of Legalweek took place recently, and as with the February sessions, the virtual event struck a chord that reverberated deep from within the heart of a (hopefully) receding pandemic. However, the...more
Identifying attorney-client privilege is one of the most costly and time-consuming processes in ediscovery. Since the dawn of the workplace email, responding to discovery requests has had legal teams spending countless hours...more