eDiscovery

eDiscovery Articles

• E-FOIA: Uncle Sam, Get It Right!

  The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) enables the public to obtain information from the federal government to ascertain, as stated by the Supreme Court, "what the government is up to." After all, a government shrouded in secrecy is not a government by the people and for the people.

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• e-Stet Celebrates Four-Year Anniversary and Announces Staffing Additions and Technology Investments

  Company makes significant investments to respond to continued growth.

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• EDD Showcase: Ignore EDD at Your Peril

  Gone are the days when parties and counsel could claim ignorance of the technical and legal issues involved in preserving electronic records associated with matters in litigation. As Judge Shira Scheindlin wrote in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC , 2004 WL 1620866 (S.D.N.Y. July 20, 2004) "Now that the key issues have been addressed and national standards are developing, parties and their counsel are fully on notice of their responsibility to preserve and produce electronically stored information."

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• eDiscovery Services

  With the recent explosion of the Web, it will not be surprising to see a significant increase in the number of lawsuits filed regarding Web site intellectual property rights. Part of the problem is the relative ease of illegally copying text, graphics, animation and sound from a Web site. The much harder task will be to catch, and then to successfully prosecute the culprits.

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• EDRM Announces XML Standard for eDiscovery Industry

  The Electronic Discovery Reference Model ("EDRM"), an industry group created to develop and establish practical guidelines and standards for electronic discovery, today announced that it has developed an Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard for the easy transfer of electronically stored information (ESI) to and from applications involved in different phases of the discovery process.

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• eMag Announces New EDD Application Offering Unique Access into Unstructured and Restored Data

  eMag Solutions, a leading international electronic discovery company, today announced the availability of its new eMag PreVu software application at the LegalTech New York Conference. eMag PreVu, a raw data preview software application, provides a structured view into otherwise unstructured data, allowing users to better understand the scope of case information prior and subsequent to Meet & Confer sessions.

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• Failing To Preserve Electronic Evidence Can Gut Your Case

  If you want to succeed in litigation these days, it is imperative that relevant electronic data be preserved. The destruction of such data can lead to serious adverse evidentiary inferences, as illuminated by a very recent case.

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• Fios Litigation Readiness Services Prepare for FRCP Amendments

  In response to the significant changes coming with the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) in December, Fios Inc. has added an FRCP module to its Litigation Readiness Assessment (LRA) service. The enhancement to Fios' LRA is designed to help corporate legal and IT departments better understand the gaps in their current electronic discovery processes and the risks that will be faced once the rules go into effect on December 1, 2006.

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• Fios’ Prevail Wins Top eDiscovery Award from Law Technology News

  Fios Inc., a leading provider of electronic discovery services, announced today that the company has won the 2005 Law Technology News Award for the top "Electronic Data Discovery System." The award, which was voted on by the readers of Law Technology News, was presented to Fios during the annual awards dinner at ALM's LegalTech 25th Anniversary trade show on January 30.

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• Former Cendant Compliance Chief Opens Firm Specializing in Records Management and eDiscovery

  As the December 1 effective date approaches for new federal rules requiring early disclosure of electronically stored information (ESI) in every court case, the former head of compliance for Cendant has established an advisory group to assist organizations and legal-services providers in navigating what will be rough seas ahead.

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