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In Linet Americas, Inc. v. Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., 2024 WL 3425795 (N.D. Ill. Jul. 15, 2024), the court held that “attachments to attorney client communications may be withheld as privileged without an independent basis for...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
Over the years, social media has developed and contributed a significant role in both the settlement and trial of personal injury cases. Social Media Posts Can be of Pivotal Importance - Courts across the country have toiled...more
Introduction - Each week on the Case of the Week I choose a recent decision in ediscovery and talk to you about the practical applications of that case and what you need to be thinking about as you conduct discovery of ESI....more
Hyperlinked files within electronic communications pose three significant challenges in ediscovery that had been previously unanswered by a thorough judicial analysis: 1) whether a hyperlinked file is an “attachment” that...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
In the evolving landscape of the legal industry, the management of electronically stored information (ESI) has become a focal point of discussion and strategy. With the digitization of records and communications, legal...more
Hat tip to Debbie Reynolds for the heads up on this story! More than 130 petitions seeking access to push notification metadata have been filed in US courts, according to a Washington Post investigation also reported on...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
This Sidley Update addresses the following recent developments and court decisions involving e-discovery issues: an order from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California requiring the Defendant to...more
[Editor’s Note: This article was first published January 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...more
Justice delayed isn’t justice denied for eDiscovery case law disputes! Our July 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including custody and control of a personal Google...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
Conducting ediscovery in Outlook may be tempting – but although it’s a free and familiar tool, it carries risks and limitations for document review. Email continues to be the primary source of electronic evidence in...more
By using our smartphones, tablets and computers, we create and exchange a vast amount of electronic data every day, but what some may not know is that there is a whole other world of information hidden beneath the surface —...more
Read these ediscovery collection best practices to learn why self-collection – or allowing clients to collect their own data – is dangerous. Picture this: it’s 1988 and you’re at your desk, poring over a veritable...more
Thanks to the trial between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp, we have a timely reason to talk about e-discovery metadata. What happens on the rare occasion when forensic data collections and trials of cultural relevance overlap?...more
In a case that has particular salience in today’s era of social media, the Eastern District of Texas in Edwards v. Junior Sate of Am. Found., CIVIL NO. 4:19-CV-140-SDJ (E.D. Tex. Apr. 23, 2021), excluded screenshots and other...more
Like most cloud-based productivity platforms, Google offers solutions for both home and business environments. Free for personal use applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive deliver a rich set of...more
I read this story about Citibank's mistaken transfer—which cost it about half a billion dollars—a while back, and the sheer improbability of the mistake struck me. How could a banking giant make a blunder of such staggering...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
There are a lot of people in the legal-tech community talking about the discoverability of Zoom data these days, particularly as the move to a remote workforce continues in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As far as...more
This week I saw a sticker in my vehicle that I hadn’t noticed before. It reads: “Vehicle Data Transmission is On! Your vehicle wirelessly transmits location, driving and vehicle health data to deliver your services and for...more
The submission of digital evidence traditionally required a sponsoring witness—something that could be time-consuming and expensive. Thankfully, as more and more online content, such as social media posts and chats, play a...more
Technology has transformed our world, mostly for the better. We can take a road trip without a map in hand, get groceries delivered to our homes and keep track of our physical activity level in real time. But the tradeoff is...more