I couldn’t help but nod my head reading Brett Trout’s post about corporate packrats today. Does your company still have “floppy” disks in storage? Is your company storing invoices from the 80?s? If so, it is time for a little spring cleaning. The cost of cleaning your electronic house is actually quite small compared with…
Got some snail mail at the office today from a vendor based up in Cleveland called JurInnov. I thought it was pretty interesting. Basically it was a postcard with some stats on it: 80% -The percentage of firms and organizations that will need to respond to an ediscovery request. 88% -The percentage of lawyers who…
I know, I know, it was just a few days ago that I wondered if I could go back to just working at the help desk after sitting in the session about ethics in e-discovery. Truth is, even there, I was subject to more stringent ethical rules simply by virtue of working at a law…
And we’re back after lunch. Had a good time chatting and meeting folk at lunch, so if you were one of the folks at my table, thanks, and if you’re ever in Columbus, drop me an email! Had such a good time chatting got to the session as it was already starting: Sharon Nelson: Search…
Craig Ball must have spent weeks prepping this presentation, but he’s doing a great job getting people to consider various EDD issues through playing Jeopardy. Talking about the Columbia Pictures-RAM case now, good example of the analysis we talked about in the last session. It was very relevant so it was required, most cases wouldn’t…
Browning Marean pointed out that the Qualcomm case is a good place to start discussing the dangers. Mess up discovery and your firm can be sanctioned, you can be sanctioned, etc. There’s real danger in not handling evidence correctly. Judge Facciola “I re-read the Qualcomm case the other night, closed it and thanked God that…