Short version- client gives lawyer photos of incident. Lawyer doesn’t pay attention to the metadata, produces them, signs off on the production. After some conflicting testimony during deposition, opposing party requests the native files and they all discover the photos were actually taken 2 years after the fact. This is a sad tale, but one…
We’ve recently been going through some vendor vetting at work, which requires a lot of time meeting a lot of people and listening to a lot of things. The one thing that has struck me over and over again is how often people in the room at these meetings either already know one another from…
I know I used to work there, and you’d think I’d have some inside information, but clearly I don’t. I was just talking about Nuix at ILTACON a couple of weeks ago and telling people that I really thought they didn’t consider themselves an eDiscovery company anymore. They had zero presence at the conference, and…
According to the article, this is the second time this has happened: In the Gasperini case, however, the second circuit noted that the prosecution had included testimony from the Internet Archive’s office manager, “who explained how the Archive captures and preserves evidence of the contents of the internet at a given time.” The article goes…
Seth Godin’s advice here makes a lot of sense. Could we make it work in the eDiscovery field? If you work in a field where things need to be delivered by date certain, with zero defects, with high consequences if you make a mistake—then you need to charge a premium for exposing yourself to emergencies….
As always, it was a long week, and there are many things to think about. I went back through my own Twitter timeline for what I had to say live about the ILTA conference last week, and I’m struck by the number of risk factors at play for law firms, obviously, but by a couple…