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Does RAM Discovery Make Good Law?

Link to article by Thomas Y. Allman and Kevin F. Brady posted on Law.com, December 12, 2007:

The evolution of electronic discovery has been marked by assertions that a party must preserve and produce electronic information that initially seems well beyond what would normally be considered discoverable. The first of these “cutting edge” cases, and arguably [...]

Autonomy Zantaz Announces First Comprehensive Legal Hold Solution For Immediate And Ongoing Preservation Of Relevant Information On Desktops And Laptops

Press release: Enables Organizations to Forensically Preserve and Protect All Emails and Files Relevant to Litigation, Without the Need for Continuous Network Connections

Cambridge, UK and Pleasanton, Calif. â€“ December 3, 2007 – ZANTAZ, an Autonomy company and the leader in the archiving, eDiscovery and Proactive Information Risk Management (IRM) markets, (LSE: AU. or AU.L), today [...]

White House Directed to Preserve Backup Tapes Containing Millions of E-Mails

Article by Pete Yost posted on Law.com, November 13, 2007:

A federal judge Monday ordered the White House to preserve copies of all its e-mails, a move that Bush administration lawyers had argued strongly against.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy directed the Executive Office of the President to safeguard the material in response to two lawsuits that [...]

Examining Hard Drives During Discovery

Article by Richard Raysman and Peter Brown posted on Law.com, November 13, 2007:

Over-stuffed file cabinets that hold business records and personal information have been replaced by compact computer hard drives that offer easy and convenient storage of and access to a variety of items, including correspondence, forms, memos, photos, account information and Internet transactions.

Strategic Discovery, Inc. to Beta Test DiscoveryBox

Press release:Â Leading E-Discovery Consulting Firm to Adopt Innovative New Legal Hold and E-Discovery Solution

Chicago, Illinois, October 29, 2007 â€“ DiscoveryBox announced today that its integrated legal hold and e-discovery software product has been selected by Strategic Discovery, Inc. (Strategic Discovery) to be implemented on a beta test basis.Â Strategic Discovery, a consulting firm that [...]

Effective Litigation Holds: What you need to know and DO now

Electronic discovery audio conference: Central time. National Constitution Center.

Examining E-Discovery Chain of Custody

Article by Christy Burke posted on Law.com, October 23, 2007:

Exploring the issues surrounding chain of custody for electronic evidence may sound like a great cure for insomnia — the prospect of filling out endless log forms is enough to put anyone to sleep. But a string of recent judicial sanctions over chain of custody for [...]

‘Lack of Frankness’ Faulted Over Loss of Discovery Materials

Article by Beth Bar posted on Law.com, October 5, 2007:

Saying that a “lack of frankness in discovery can have unintended and damaging consequences,” a Manhattan federal magistrate judge has sanctioned plaintiffs for failure to preserve evidence in a consolidated securities fraud action against underwriters CIBC and Schroder.

Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge James C. [...]

What’s the Deal with Litigation Hold Letters? The Legal Duty to Identify & Preserve Electronic Data

Electronic discovery audio conference:Â Central time.Â ALI-ABA.

Issuing and Managing Litigation-Hold Notices

Article by Alan M. Anderson published in Bench & Bar of Minnesota, Vol. 64, No. 7, August 2007: Courts increasingly are interpreting the obligation to preserve evidence as one that attaches as soon as a party reasonably anticipates litigation or a government investigation. Corporations and their counsel must therefore exercise added care to ensure that [...]

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