“District Judge Barbara Crabb held that the Defendants could not produce what they did not have in their possession. Carter, at *7. Judge Crabb went on to order something that should be standard: identify the steps taken to determine whether there are any responsive documents. Carter, at *7-8. Merely stating “no emails found” was not…
GN Netcom, Inc. v. Plantronics, Inc., No. 12-1318-LPS 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93299 (D. Del. July 12, 2016) represents the perils that can arise from custodian self-collection when the company found itself on the receiving end of a $3 million sanctions penalty for evidence spoliation. The heart of the case emphasizes that establishing a litigation…
In my experience, and in the experience of many others as well, unfocused attempts at visualization over raw, unreduced data produce visualizations that are not particularly useful for security operations. Visualization does have tremendous potential to bring value to security operations when leveraged properly. Performing data reduction by posing specific, targeted, incisive queries into the…
The reason why law firms continue to do things the way they always have is simply because they still are rewarded for performing the way they always have. Tech companies create more and more solutions to woo over attorneys and make their lives easier, but for attorneys, there’s no reason or stimulus for change. Attorneys…
Imagine if Gmail, Outlook, or Yahoo were incapable of grouping email conversations together. Without conversation grouping, or email threading, you might be able to sort by subject, but the software would not understand that “RE:” and “FW:” should be disregarded. The forwards would be in one group, the replies would all follow, and the original…
While attorneys are required to stay up-to-date on emerging issues via continuing legal education (CLE) credits, there’s no such requirement dictated for the litigation support profession—unless, of course, you count industry demand. That doesn’t mean formal, ongoing education isn’t important; in fact, our team has learned it makes us more successful in more ways than…