Draft EDRM Production Standards Available for Comment

Draft EDRM Production Standards are available for review and comment, at edrm.net/5920.

Court Rejects Attorney’s Computer Illiteracy As Excuse For Non-Production

Link to blog entry by Ralph Losey posted on e-Discovery Team, December 8, 2007:  Technical Ignorance in invalid grounds for inaccessibility under Rule 26(b)(2)(B)

Plaintiff’s counsel in a district court case in Colorado lacked the technical ability to open and read most of his client’s emails. He figured that since he could not read them, he [...]

Producing Electronically Stored Information

Article by John P. Scordo and Kristine Russo Begley, Day Pitney LLP, posted on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, December 2007:

As technology advances, the need for discovery of electronic communications and information increases and raises questions concerning the proper form of production for electronically stored information (ESI). The December 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of [...]

Women in eDiscovery Mpls/St. Paul Chapter Luncheon & Meeting

Electronic discovery meeting:  Central time.  Foley & Mansfield, 250 Marquette Ave, Suite 1200, Minneapolis, MN.  Women in eDiscovery.

Day Casebeer Partner Is Central to Qualcomm Discovery Mess

Article by Jessie Seyfer posted on Law.com, October 4, 2007:

In the fallout from a high-stakes discovery meltdown involving Qualcomm Inc., Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder partner Lee Patch has emerged highly contaminated.

According to fresh declarations filed Wednesday, Patch signed off on a junior Day Casebeer partner’s decision to withhold 21 potentially damaging e-mails from Qualcomm’s [...]

Avoiding The Review And Production Money Pit: Strategies For Maximizing Cost Savings

Article by Jerry F. Barbanel and Thomas W. Avery posted on Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, October 2007:

The review and production phases of an electronic discovery project are laden with minefields destined to trap unsuspecting counsel. Effective project and time management are among the practical solutions that can significantly impact the outcome of a case and the [...]

E-Discovery Update: Direct Inspection Of Opposing Party Source Documents

Article by Conrad J. Jacoby posted in LLRX.com, September 28, 2007:

Civil litigation in the United States is a largely self-policing activity that requires litigants to trust that their opponents are playing by the same rules as they are. Through the interface of their legal counsel, litigants who may personally (and deeply) dislike each other are [...]

How to Go Native Without Going South

Article by Craig Ball posted on Law.com, September 27, 2007:

I could hear the frustration in her voice. “We keep going back and forth with the plaintiff’s lawyer. I don’t understand what he wants. Can you help us?”

Defense counsel was trying to satisfy an opponent bent on getting e-mail in “native file format.” With each disk [...]

Electronic Document Redaction and the FTC

News article by Stephen Stine posted on ABA Site-tation:

The FTC has slipped up and inadvertently disclosed trade secrets and confidential and proprietary information about Whole Foods’ business strategies and operations to the public, through data that FTC lawyers had attempted to redact but which remained electronically accessible in a publicly available electronically-filed court document….

Electronic Data Discovery: Forms of Production

Electronic discovery webinar:  Law Technology News & ZANTAZ.   Playback