George J. Socha, Jr., Esq.

Socha Consulting LLC
1374 Lincoln Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55105

Phone +1.651.690.1739
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Heavy Sanctions Loom Against Attorneys for e-Discovery and other “Aggrivated Litigation Abuses”

Blog entry by Ralph Losey posted on e-Discovery Team, August 18, 2007:

The other shoe has dropped in a case that many California attorneys were already talking about, Qualcom Inc. v. Broadcom Corp.; it hit with such a loud thud that attorneys all over the country will now take notice. Qualcomm Inc. v. Broadcom Corp., [...]

New Electronic Evidence Case Makes Clear Rummaging Through Hard Drives is Not an Option

Blog entry by Michael Overly, Foley and Lardner, posted on CSO, May 15, 2007:

A new case from the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (Thielen v. Buongiorno USA Inc., W.D. Mich., Case No. 06-16, 2/8/07) has provided some guidance on the question of what happens when a party in litigation gets [...]

New ESI and E-Discovery Page in EDUCAUSE Resource Center Posted

Blog entry posted by Colleen Luckett on CLuckett’s Blog, May 24, 2007:

On the newly posted ESI and E-Discovery resource page, resources regarding the December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure concerning the discovery portion of the litigation process are now available. Although discovery has included electronic materials for some time, the [...]

Web Spiders and Crawlers in E-Discovery

Blog entry by Ira P. Rothken posted on Moredata, May 22, 2007:

In the course of analyzing web sites and pages in your electronic investigations you will likely come across important evidence that you will need to preserve – from web site text manifesting trademark infringement to web site photos related to copyright infringement or [...]

Wall Street Journal: Contract Lawyers Go Home

Blog entry by Ron Friedmann posted on Prism Legal Consulting’s Strategic Legal Technology, May 17, 2007:

I have long argued that deploying armies of domestic contract lawyers to review documents in e-discovery is not a sustainable practice.

Search Software Gets Boost From New Rules in the Wall Street Journal (5/16/07) explains that the December 2006 [...]

Computer Forensic Imaging Tools

Blog entry by Ira P. Rothken on Moredata, May 13, 2007:

During the course of an electronic investigation you may be called upon to plan the forensic analysis of a target’s computer system and hard drive.The target hard drive may contain a range of data relevant to an investigation from emails making overt admissions to [...]

Metadata Disclosure – Alabama Follows New York, Not ABA

Blog entry by Michael Fleming posted on The Cyberspace Lawyer’s Blogger, May 9, 2007:Â “The Alabama bar has issued a formal ethics opinion, in which it essentially adopts the New York position on a receiving attorney’s use of inadvertently disclosed meta-data received from opposing counsel or party (i.e., Don’t Do It).

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Global Name Recognition Software in E-Discovery

Blog entry by Ira P. Rothken on Moredata, May 7, 2007:Â “The United States is a great melting pot of a multi-cultural world which is often reflected in the names of people who live and transact business there. Diversity of cultures in the US has manifested in a diversity of names that have not fit [...]

Big Brother Google Knows Where You’ve Been

Blog entry by Simon Chester posted on Slaw.ca, May 2, 2007:Â “Footnote to an earlier posting. Here is a link to a blog posting over at PC World which may cause some of the keener users of Google to rethink how much it tracks our activity.

“And by the way, litigators should remember to add [...]

SNW Spring 2007 part 4

Blog entry by Tony Pearson posted on IBM Inside System Storage, April 20, 2007:Â “SNW wrapped up Thursday. As is often the case, a lot of people have left already.

“I saw two presentations worth discussing here in this blog.

“Angus MacDonald, CEO of Mathon Systems, presented “Litigation Readiness: How prepared are you for the [...]