We had been expecting this around our office, but we were taken somewhat by surprise that it’s come down this quickly. Apparently, though, if all goes according to plan, the state courts will be amending the rules to something close to the current federal rules regarding e-discovery effective July 1. The one big difference seems…
You may recall me talking about getting a free copy of this short book earlier this month. Today, I finally had some free time to read it at work. It didn’t take long, it’s only about 41 pages long, but I thought I’d share my observations about it. My initial thought was that the book…
In the Westlaw E-discovery conference today, one of the topics that came up, well actually because I brought it up, was the importance of an organization having their technology documented. The reason for this, is that one of the first steps in any federal (and probably soon to be state-level) litigation case, is the “meet…
So you want to work in Litigation Support? Get ready to spend a whole lot of time doing trial prep work, busting your butt to get it all ready to go before lunch on Friday so the attorney can leave at their leisure that afternoon, and so you can actually take a lunch, just to…
RenewData is giving away a free copy of E-Discovery for Dummies. I ordered myself one, for a couple of reasons. First. because I can’t reallt get enough reading material on the subject t this early point in my Litigation Support career, but secondly, because I am curious if this will turn out to be a…
One of the discussions I was involved in at class this week, was about metadata, and the increasing desire of attorneys to always get it, even when they don’t understand what it is, or when it’s not at all relevant. It’s just one of those things that some people heard was important, and so now…