This is just stupid. I’ll let Chris Dale explain: “Elder’s claim to a much larger sum was undermined in part by old-fashioned surveillance, which showed that she went shopping and walked her dog without a stick. The main evidence against her (or, at least, the part which won most attention) was that social media photographs…
Rob gets pretty geeky and math-y when it comes to risk, probability, and how it impacts DNA testing, but he makes a valid point as well: “In considering one potential risk factor and its probabilistic impact of interjecting error into the discovery process, I hope the following short overview provides legal professionals – both consumers…
This is one of those statistics that should jump off the page and worry the heck out of people in HR, and especially the eDiscovery industry. “The study found that almost two-thirds (64 percent) of the respondents use their mobile devices for work-related communications — even though 32 percent of the respondents said they are…
During a recent ILTA webinar on coordination between outside counsel and a legal department on eDiscovery, I noted that a couple of the final points that were discussed were things that I think frequently get overlooked in the beginning of an ediscovery project. Phyllis Strader and Caroline Sweeney talked a lot about choosing whether to…
The Big Four are coming for us law firm folks. “KPMG’s legal services division revenue rose by more than 30 percent in 2018 in a record-setting performance, according to the firm that expects growth to continue in a burgeoning market that’s stoking concerns among traditional law firms about potential competition.” Now I know all of…
The mind reels that in 2019 we are still writing articles about this: “If you are requesting documents from an adversary, I strongly recommend insisting on one point and making it non-negotiable. PDFs should be produced with a separate PDF file for each originally separate document. In technical language, the production should be “logically unitized.”…