This should be obvious, but I suspect that in the majority of cases, a whole lot of time and effort is spent just trying to figure out what data is out there, and where it is. “Anyone familiar with electronic discovery (e-discovery) and complex civil litigation knows that there is tremendous evidentiary benefit to quickly…
This is an interesting ruling. I think they’re on to something too. “In the case of Commonwealth v. Mangel, No. 2018 Pa. Super. 57 (Pa. Super. March 15, 2018 Musmanno, S.J. Ott, J., Shogan, J.)(Op. by Musmanno, J.), the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that social media posts are inadmissible in criminal cases unless prosecutors can…
This is just dumb: “Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000,” the indictment claims. “Gates converted that .pdf into a Word document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered the Word document by adding more…
Interesting survey results “The survey of 30 federal judges revealed that many continue to see a lack of e-discovery awareness in courts—only 23 percent strongly agreed or somewhat agreed that “the typical attorney possesses the legal and technical subject matter knowledge required to effectively counsel clients on e-discovery matters,” while 47 percent somewhat disagreed (none…
You could do worse than this list of the Top 60 eDiscovery Blogs and Websites For eDiscovery Professionals There are a bunch I already follow in one way or another on the list, some I haven’t been following and even a few I’ve never heard of before. That’s always a nice mix. Time to update…
This is a legitimate concern about Google’s plan but I’m sure eDiscovery was the last of Google’s concerns about this: “What will happen when program code is contained in email? How will lawyers establish that an email is the same as it was when written years ago when it ran an app or script that…