eDiscovery

eDiscovery Articles

• Qualcomm and Attorneys Sanctioned for “Monumental” eDiscovery Violations

  In yet another warning about the pitfalls of e-discovery, a judge from the Southern District of California has sanctioned Qualcomm and several of its attorneys for failing to produce tens of thousands of relevant and responsive documents during its patent suit against Broadcom. The company and its lawyers apparently overlooked thousands of damaging emails during the e-discovery process, then sought to cover them up after they emerged at a critical point in the trial.

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• Skills, Savvy & Something More: The New eDiscovery Project Manager

  If you know hard drives, tape back-up systems and electronic data exchange protocols from A to Z, you won't necessarily make a good electronic data discovery project manager. If you're a legal professional, intimately familiar with the laws and regulations governing a specific issue in a specific jurisdiction, you may not make a good EDD manager, either. In today's multimillion-dollar, multi-million-document lawsuits and regulatory inquiries, the ideal PMs are a new, absolutely unique breed.

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• The Impact of Search Engines on Litigation

  Free electronic publication of court opinions has occurred for over decade, and advanced searching of this online public record has yielded some offensive results for individuals.

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• Attorneys Face Critical Challenges in Preparing for eDiscovery

  While a clear majority of corporate and law firm attorneys highly agree that having a functioning electronic discovery strategy in place provides essential business benefits, 92 percent of the attorneys admitted that their company is vulnerable when it comes to being prepared for electronic discovery.

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• Addressing eDiscovery Challenges Posed by FRCP

  Studies from leading industry analysts at Enterprise Strategy Group reveal that traditional discovery processes involving corporate counsel and external attorneys are becoming increasingly complicated as attorneys need to rely on IT departments to search desktops, servers, backup tapes, e-mail applications and other data center systems.

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• It’s a Small World After All – Best Practices for Conducting Cross-Border eDiscovery

  With the right mix of planning, personnel, and technology, organizations can arm themselves with best practices that will enable them to meet the problems posed by the rising tide of global ESI.

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• Boom Goes the Dynamite – What U.S. Companies Need to Know About the “Big Bang” in England and Wales Civil Procedure

  U.S. companies doing business in England and Wales need to be up-to-speed now on the changes that took effect on April 1, 2013 in civil procedure, which should reduce the risk of unanticipated costs and raise the stakes for eDiscovery (or eDisclosure in the U.K.) compliance.

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• Planning for Predictable, Defensible Managed Document Review Outcomes

  The practice of Managed Document Review (MDR) has developed to alleviate uncertainty, inefficiency and costs associated with document review.

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• Mendocino Integrates RecoveryONE “Infinite Snapshot Engine” technology with Ontrack PowerControls Software to Improve Data Recovery on Microsoft Exchange

  Mendocino Software and Ontrack Data Recovery today announced an agreement to integrate Mendocino's RecoveryONE "infinite snapshot engine" technology with Ontrack PowerControls mailbox recovery software, one of the industry's leading Microsoft Exchange recovery solutions. This integration will bring Microsoft Exchange data recovery for mission-critical applications to an unprecedented level. The resulting product will be available through Mendocino in Q306 and will give customers two key advantages over existing solutions: the ability to capture data without impacting Exchange environments, and the ability to recover Exchange to any desired previous point much more rapidly than is possible today.

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• A new version of SearchInform Internet Server released

  SearchInform Technologies releases a new version of SearchInform Internet Server - its Internet search product, featuring an enhanced technology of search through a given website, as well as through a large list of resources.

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