Proposed FRCP Changes: Effect on eDiscovery, RIM & IG (CLE)
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Safeguarding against evidence spoliation ahead of litigations, audits, or investigations is a lot easier when you have a timely, defensible legal hold process. In this conversation, take a look at how to achieve this by...more
Hey there, fellow legal tech enthusiasts! It’s Cat Casey, back with another installment to help you navigate the legal tech maze. Today, we’re diving deep into the world of ESI Protocols. If you’re thinking, “ESI-what-now?”,...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
Hey there, data detectives! It’s TechnoCat, Cat Casey, back with a critical concept that underpins the whole eDiscovery rollercoaster ride. I’m talking about the infamous ‘Legal Hold’. No, it’s not a wrestling move, but it...more
In our adversarial justice system, litigants rely on evidence to explain their side of a dispute. Today, much of that evidence is digital. If an organization allows digital evidence to be compromised, lost, or destroyed, it...more
E-Discovery is an ever-changing field. There’s always new technology cropping up—whether it’s a means of communication that legal teams need to account for or a new software solution that promises to change how e-discovery...more
Corporate counsel often shoulder the burden of managing the entire Legal Hold process for their organization. That means on top of everything else, they must issue, execute and ensure compliance with required legal holds...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
When it comes to a pending litigation, the duty to preserve electronic data is clearly laid out in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP)... But when it comes to the actual process of letting custodians know they need...more
As corporate counsel, you have important matters to contend with every day. You likely feel like there’s never enough time to manage everything. On top of that, you shoulder the burden of issuing, executing, and ensuring...more
Legal holds arise from the duty to preserve information for pending or reasonably anticipated litigation. Once litigation is contemplated, organizations have a legal obligation to prevent deletion and preserve potentially...more
In 2003 Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote “once a party reasonably anticipates litigation, it must suspend its routine document retention/destruction policy and put in place a 'litigation hold' to ensure the preservation of...more
2020 has already ushered in a number of key eDiscovery developments of which clients and counsel should be aware. These developments include key procedural points regarding ESI search protocols and data preservation issues,...more
The collaboration app Slack sounds, from its full name, like it should be designed for discovery in litigation—“Slack” is actually an acronym for “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge.” Isn’t that what we’re...more
Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t...more