FindLaw's Legal Technology Center's eDiscovery collection includes free articles on one of the biggest topics in legal technology. In 2005, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) were amended to integrate electronic discovery into the litigation process. Understanding these complex rules may be crucial to the success of your legal matter.
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eDiscovery Certifications: Which One Is Right for You?
From private companies to associations and organizations, litigation support professionals and lawyers have many options to become "certified" in e-discovery. These programs offer different curricula and certification upon completion.
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Top Five Tips for Using the Cloud for eDiscovery
Here are five important points for law firms and businesses to consider when preparing to take advantage of cloud computing.
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eDiscovery and the EU: European Data Privacy Regulations Every Litigator Should Know
With the ever-increasing expansion of multinational corporations and globalized business transactions, it is exceedingly likely that attorneys will eventually have to conduct cross-border e-discovery investigations at some point in their careers. E-discovery can already be incredibly complex in a single-country context, and adding new countries, with different rules pertaining to electronically stored information, only intensifies that complexity.
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Self-Collection: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
You need to collect data in response to a discovery request. Do you hire a forensic consultant? Or can you rely on your own IT staff or counsel to handle it? Find out more about when self-collection is, and is not, appropriate.
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Examining the eDiscovery Landscape After the 2006 FRCP Changes
Failure to comply with electronic production obligations can lead to serious sanctions, sometimes to the tune of millions of dollars. Let's examine important issues that have arisen and how courts have ruled in the aftermath of the FRCP amendments that became effective on December 1, 2006.
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eDiscovery Across Borders I: Practical and Legal Aspects of Multi-Jurisdictional Discovery and Data Collection
In today's business, all information is electronic. Paper may have been heavy, hard to store, and time-consuming to review-but it was a tangible thing, easy to inventory, and it tended to be limited in volume, even in the largest cases. Electronic communication has led to exponential increases in the amount of data that companies store, and the locations where the information is stored.
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The Power of Pre-Discovery
Electronic discovery is about fact finding, accuracy, truth . . . and money. Corporate clients pay millions of dollars, in some cases, for the time and expertise of their lawyers and technologists. These costs are rising, the direct result of rising quantities of discoverable electronically stored information (ESI).
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What's New with In-House Review Platforms
Do we keep our current review platform or upgrade to one of the newer in-house models? For many law firms, now's the time to ask that question.
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Predictive Coding Primer
Predictive coding (also known as technology assisted review) heavily leverages statistics to reduce the time needed to examine large document sets that in the past may have taken a group of attorney reviewers weeks or months to review at great cost. What are the benefits and risks involved with this tool?
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Discovery of Facebook and Other Social Media Postings
Have you ever received a call or letter from opposing counsel, "kindly" advising you that they discovered an incriminating photo on your personal injury client's Facebook page that shows your client performing ski jumps at a time when they were allegedly injured and unable to work?