AGG Talks: Background Screening - Redaction of Identifiers by the Courts Update, Breaking News from California
AGG Talks: Background Screening - Redaction of Identifiers by the Courts in Michigan and California Pose Challenges for Background Checks
Data Resilience Masterclass: Navigating the Risks of the Digital Age - Data Risk and Resilience is a critical topic for modern businesses, especially within industries that handle vast amounts of sensitive information. This...more
Trade secret and contract claims often travel together. For example, a failed collaboration that involved the exchange of confidential information may result in the disclosing party alleging that the recipient both...more
Nextpoint software has always supported legal teams throughout the full litigation lifecycle, from discovery to presentation. In 2023, we launched Data Mining software for early case assessment and revamped our case prep...more
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 week of March 3-10. Here’s what’s...more
The past year saw significant developments in the Delaware courts for books and records inspection demands pursuant to Section 220. In a first-of-its-kind decision, the Court rejected an inspection demand as lacking a...more
Important decisions abound as the UPC navigates the still often unchartered waters of its Rules of Procedure (RoP). We recently discussed two orders by the Munich Division where third-party access requests based on...more
Foster v. Pennridge School District, AP 2023-0931 (July 5, 2023). The Office of Open Records determined that a school district properly redacted and withheld certain email chains discussing the school district’s investigation...more
The long-running investigation by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) into Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) has provided several points of instructive guidance during its lifetime – and that trend looks set to...more
At Lighthouse our teams have the benefit of working across numerous clients, cases, and jurisdictions. As a result, we are building deep institutional knowledge across many aspects of eDiscovery that may be more difficult for...more
Legal teams go to great lengths to identify and protect privileged information from inadvertent disclosure. There is another type of information that could be just as damaging to the company as a whole, but it receives far...more
Redacted legal documents can create a host of issues when not handled properly during document review. Here are some common redaction mistakes – and tips on how to avoid them....more
In Seman v. Baldwin Borough, AP 2023-00778, the Requester sought legal invoices related to a specific project. In responding to the Request, the Borough completely redacted entries in the legal invoices that were not related...more
All journeys have a beginning and end point, and some of them have a meandering, convoluted pathway. This is certainly the case with Disclosures. FOI, DSAR and DSRR all have a journey to travel but some traverse more...more
Break the summertime blues with some red-hot eDiscovery case law disputes! Our June 2023 monthly webinar of cases covered by the eDiscovery Today blog discusses six disputes including a case where discovery is “like watching...more
In this last episode, Tom Gilsenan from Informa Disclosures, together with Daniel Schuuring from ZyLAB, tackle the following challenges: - Challenge 5: Document/Recording/Listing Decisions - Challenge 6: Audit...more
Public authorities have a diverse range of statutory and legal disclosure obligations. Whether this involves litigation, such as employment-related claims, requests for statutory access rights or third-party disclosure...more
Magistrate Judge Elizabeth A. Pascal recently denied an unopposed Motion to Redact and Seal (“Motion”) portions of a transcript of a telephone conference with the Court. In denying the Motion, the Court found multiple...more
Editor’s note: This is an updated version of our September 22, 2020, client alert. It includes new rules and staff guidance. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules require reporting companies to file material...more
Ian Campbell, President and CEO of EDRM Trusted Partner, iCONECT, sits down with Kaylee & Mary to talk about his journey to eDiscovery, the JFK files, some innovations like PII search in 51 countries, auto redaction on the...more
Redactions (i.e. blacklining) is a very common legal process that tends to be regarded as rather labor-intensive and monotonous by many legal professionals. That said, the use of improper redaction techniques might result...more
So far, our discussions about the AI legal revolution have revolved around the many ways artificial intelligence is helping to combat the unstructured data crisis looming over the legal industry. However, one area we’ve yet...more
Your time is precious, and resources are stretched, dedicating days or sometimes weeks on large Freedom of Information requests is not something any organisation can afford. During this webinar we discuss the real...more
This webinar is intended for eDiscovery professionals interested in the overlap between data privacy and eDiscovery capabilities, workflows and use cases. The tools to tackle the protection of personal data already exist...more
In this episode, AGG partner and co-chair of the Background Screening industry team, Montserrat C. Miller, provides an update to a prior podcast on redaction of identifiers by the courts in Michigan and California now that...more
Fact-finding is at the very core of the discovery phase during civil litigation. Over the course of the past two decades, growing amounts of data have come to define that process. We have seen corporate data stores continue...more