RSS- Internal IT Corporate Snooping
(July 01, 2008)
Eric Sinrod of FindLaw
While companies provide certain rights to information technology and other employees to access specified categories of data, they may not be aware that often those rights are exceeded.
- 9th Circuit Ups the Ante for Disclosure of Employee Text Messages in Quon v. Arch Wireless
(July 01, 2008)
Kevin Fayle of FindLaw
In a ruling on June 18th, a panel of the 9th Circuit held that a provider of text messaging services violated the Stored Communications Act by turning over the contents of an employee's text messages to his employer, the Ontario, California Police Department.
- Kroll Ontrack Expands Electronic Discovery Support for Documents with Asian Languages
(June 25, 2008) Kroll Ontrack, Inc
Kroll Ontrack(R), the industry¿s largest provider of paper and electronic discovery, computer forensics, electronically stored information (ESI) consulting, jury consulting, and courtroom presentation services, today announced the addition of Unicode processing support and multilingual search features to its electronic discovery services.
- Requests for Missing White House Emails Denied
(June 24, 2008)
Eric Sinrod of FindLaw
"A federal judge in Washington, D.C. recently denied requests for government information relating to missing White House emails. The judge made the ruling on the basis that the Office of Administration (OA) does not constitute an ""agency"" within the ambit of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). How did this happen?"
- The Five Most Common Pitfalls of Outdated eDiscovery (June 24, 2008) Guidance Software, Inc. Guidance Software Inc., The World Leader in Digital Investigations(TM), today outlined the five most common pitfalls associated with outdated approaches to eDiscovery. eDiscovery is now a standard component of the civil litigation process, fostered by a growing awareness among counsel and the bench that much of the evidence is digital. Without the right technology in place, discovery can be an expensive and time consuming experience.
- Skills, Savvy & Something More: The New E-Discovery Project Manager (June 20, 2008) eMag Solutions, LLC 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, multimillion-document lawsuits and regulatory inquiries, the ideal PMs are a new, absolutely unique breed.
- Document Production: Removing Private Information On A Bulk Basis
(June 17, 2008)
Eric Sinrod of FindLaw
We live in a day and age of massive productions of documents and electronic data. Governmental entities have affirmative obligations to produce information pursuant to open access laws like the Freedom of Information Act. And parties in litigation constantly are subject to intrusive discovery requests.
- Applying Judicial Common Sense to Electronic Discovery Burdens
(May 13, 2008)
Eric Sinrod of FindLaw
Since the enactment of the electronic discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in late-2006, parties have been paranoid that the scope of their production obligations would be gargantuan, and that they would be compelled to search for and provide a wide array of electronic information, at a tremendous financial cost.
- Metadata: Ethical Obligations of the Witting and Unwitting Recipient
(May 06, 2008)
David Hricik and Chase Edward Scott of Mercer Law School
"As shown in our last column, software commonly used by lawyers often creates embedded data, otherwise known as metadata. As previously discussed, there are means to avoid creating embedded data, as well as means available to remove hidden data already created. In theory, at least, it is possible to remove all metadata prior to sending a document to opposing counsel."
- Corporate America And Uncle Sam Need To Wake Up To E-Discovery and E-FOIA Obligations, Part Two
(May 06, 2008)
Eric Sinrod of FindLaw
In this article, FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod examines the responsibilities of the government and private enterprise pertaining to electronic information under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for electronic discovery and the Freedom of Information Act. This installment addresses the Freedom of Information Act; Part One covered electronic discovery issues.
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