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A Guide to E-Discovery Terms.

07 Saturday Jul 2018

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Concept Search Tools, Discovery, E-Discovery, Paralegals/Legal Assistants

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E-Discovery, Jenny Tucker, My Paralegal Place

The Big List of E-Discovery Terms Every Paralegal Should Know, by Jenny Tucker, My Paralegal Place (reprinted with author’s permission)

http://www.myparalegalplace.com/2017/08/the-big-list-of-e-discovery-terms-every.html

I have paralegal friends who have had special training and received credentials for their knowledge of e-discovery. I also have paralegal friends who rarely run across the same kind of challenge. If these terms are common to you, I tip my hat. If not, I hope this helps. Thanks, Jenny, for sharing. -CCE

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Federal Judge’s E-Admissibility Chart.

21 Saturday Apr 2018

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in E-Discovery

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Craig Ball, E-Discovery, U.S. District Court Judge Paul Grimm

Handy Chart on E-Admissibility, posted by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court (with hat tip to U.S. District Court Judge Paul Grimm)

https://bit.ly/2HFzZE1

In my opinion, Craig Ball, his seminars, and his blog, are at the top of my list of “go to” sources anything related to e-discovery. Written by U.S. District Court Judge Paul Grimm, this chart is e-discovery gold. Highly recommend a bookmark! -CCE

I received a fine gift this morning from U.S. District Judge Paul Grimm, and with the authors’ permission, I’m sharing it with you.  It’s a splendid chart on admissibility of electronic evidence that any trial lawyer will want when going to Court.  For younger readers, I will explain what “going to Court” means in a future post.

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eDiscovery Day Has Arrived.

01 Friday Dec 2017

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Admissibility, Discovery, Document Coding, E-Discovery, Evidence, Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 803 Exception, Rule 902

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Bow Tie Law, Document Review, E-Discovery, Everlaw, Federal Rules of Evidence, Josh Gilliland

Everlaw Guest Post: When Has a Producing Party Completed Document Review? by Josh Gilliland, Bow Tie Law

http://bit.ly/2i7KNMX

On November 24, 2017, I posted a reminder of this federal evidence rule change that became effective today, December 1st, or as Josh calls it, “eDiscovery Day.”  Josh Gilliland’s post and webpage covers the changes in more depth, and are worth a bookmark for future reference. Don’t overlook the tweets on the right-hand side of the page.  -CCE

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December 1, 2017 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence on Hearsay and E-Discovery Authentication.

24 Friday Nov 2017

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Admissibility, Authentication, E-Discovery, Evidence, Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 803 Exception, Rule 902

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E-Discovery, Federal Rules of Evidence, Hearsay, Self-Authenticating Evidence

Federal Rules of Evidence Amendments for 2018, Federal Rule of Evidence (2017 Edition)

https://www.rulesofevidence.org/federal-rules-of-evidence-amendments-for-2018/

The links no longer work in my January 22, 2017 post on the amendments to the Federal Rules of Evidence. The amendments are effective December 1, 2017. This link is reliable and worth a bookmark. This website includes the rules, highlights the amendments, and the Committee Notes. -CCE

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New Federal Rules in Evidence in 2017 Will Affect The Hearsay Exception and E-Discovery.

22 Sunday Jan 2017

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Authentication, Discovery, E-Discovery, Evidence, Rule 803 Exception, Rule 902

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BakerHostetler, Carey Busen, Discovery Advocate Blog, E-Discovery, Federal Rules of Evidence, Gilbert S. Keteltas, Gregg Kettles, Hearsay, Santa Clara Law Review

‘Ancient’ Data (and Documents): Prepare for Federal Changes to a Long-standing Hearsay Exception, by Carey Busen and Gilbert S. Keteltas, BakerHostetler, Discovery Advocate Blog

http://bit.ly/2jeUNW2

If you hadn’t heard, there are changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence that will become effective in 2017. Among the changes are rules on hearsay exception for “ancient documents” and rules specifically addressing electronic evidence. Because technology is never static, e-discovery has looked forward rather than backward. These new rules will address e-discovery older than 20 years. -CCE

If wish to do more research into this area, I recommend:  Gregg Kettles, Ancient Documents and the Rule Against Multiple Hearsay, 39 Santa Clara L. Rev. 719 (1999). http://bit.ly/2jOIujM

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E-Discovery and the Law of Diminishing Returns.

14 Saturday Jan 2017

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Federal Rules of Discovery, Requests for Production

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2015 Amendment to Federal Rules of Civil Proceudre, E-Discovery, K&L Gates, Rule 26

Citing “Diminishing Returns,” Court Declines To Compel Additional Discovery, Armstrong Pump, Inc. v. Hartman, No. 10-CV-446S, 2016 WL 7208753 (W.D.N.Y. Dec. 13, 2016), Electric Discovery Law, K&L Gates

http://bit.ly/2jbEnfn

When it comes to e-discovery, how much is too much? When do you or opposing counsel reach the point where the costs outweigh the value? The 2015 amendment to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure did much to provide more guidance on e-discovery. Rule 26 is the focus of this post.

E-discovery normally means that you and your client have spent hours and lots of money on the case. If you cannot decide when enough is enough and neither the client nor the attorney are willing to stop the bleeding, the court may do it for you. Actually, the court has a duty to stop e-discovery when it becomes redundant and the cost outweighs the value of the return. -CCE

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The Difference Between a Preservation Letter and Presentation Notice.

16 Sunday Oct 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Preservation

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Ball In Your Court Blog, Craog Ball, E-Discovery, Preservation Letter, Preservation Notice

Crafting the “Perfect” Legal Hold Notice, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court

https://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2016/10/09/crafting-the-perfect-legal-hold-notice/

When it comes to e-discovery, Craig Ball and his blog, Ball in Your Court, is one of my top resources. Some years ago, he posted “The Perfect Preservation Letter,” as a guide of what you would send to the opposing party to put them on notice of a litigation hold.

This document is similar and just as important – an internal notice or the kind of notice you would give to your client. The following is only a snippet of his post.

When it comes to deciding whether to send a preservation letter or notice, I would err on the side of caution. In the early stages of a case, you may not know whether the legal issue will become litigation. Not all disputes are litigated. But if you wait until it does, e-discovery may already be wiped or corrupted.

Some clients may balk at the scope and breadth of your preservation notice, which is why it Mr. Ball’s rules of thumb are so helpful. A reasonable precaution will be worth the effort. – CCE

[T[he inapparent distinction between a preservation letter and a preservation notice is that the latter is an internal communication better termed a legal hold directive.  You send a preservation letter to the other side.  The preservation notice is what a party furnishes to its own principals, employees, agents, contractors and anyone else aligned with the party giving the notice and obliged to preserve information in anticipation or initiation of litigation.  Clearly, we must find better terminology to distinguish the two than just “letter” and ‘notice.’

[I] drafted a list of ten elements I thought were essential components of whatever communication aspires to call itself the perfect preservation notice.

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For E-Discovery Requests, The Court Says It’s Not Enough To Say Nothing Was Found.

11 Tuesday Oct 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, Document Review, E-Discovery, Emails, Federal Rules of Discovery, Preservation, Requests for Production, Subpoena Duces Tecum

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Bow Tie Law Blog, E-Discovery, Josh Gilliland, Requests for Production

Don’t Just Say, “No Emails Found,” by Josh Gilliland, Bow Tie Law Blog

http://bowtielaw.com/2016/10/04/dont-just-say-no-emails-found/

The plaintiff asked the defendant to produce emails relevant to an event on a specific date. The defendant said there were no such emails, and had nothing to produce. The judge agreed that the defendant could not produce what did not exist, but ordered the defendant to show how it determined no emails existed. Simply saying that no emails existed was not a sufficient answer.

 If you are the defendant, what else should you say to satisfy the court? -CCE

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Don’t Challenge Under Rule 34 If You Cannot Explain Why.

25 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, Document Review, Federal Rules of Discovery, Recent Links and Articles

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Bates Numbering, Bow Tie Law Blog, E-Discovery, Joshua Gilliland, Request for Production, Rule 34

Attack the Form of Production, by Joshua Gilliland, Esq., Bow Tie Law Blog

https://bowtielaw.wordpress.com/2015/09/22/be-specific-if-you-are-going-to-attack-the-form-of-production/

Oh, Rule 34. You are the code section that keeps giving.

Under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 34(b)(2)(E)(i), a party ’must produce documents as they are kept in the usual course of business or must organize and label them to correspond to the categories in the request.’

A Plaintiff brought a motion to compel the opposing party to organize and label their production to correspond to the categories in the Plaintiff’s Requests for Production. Things did not go well for the Plaintiff’s motion. . . .

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Litgation Hold – Too Little Too Late.

25 Thursday Feb 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Cell Phones, Discovery, E-Discovery, Emails, Emails, Legal Technology, Litigation Hold, Municipal Law, Open Records Act, Preservation, Requests for Production, Sanctions

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Doug Law, E-Discovery, eDiscovery daily Blog, Emails, Litigation Hold, Police, Sanctions, Text Messages

Our Nation’s Largest City is Not Immune to eDiscovery Sanctions: eDiscovery Case Law, by Doug Law, eDiscovery daily Blog

http://bit.ly/1Rqmnc0

In Stinson v. City of New York, 10 Civ. 4228 (RWS) (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 2, 2016), New York District Judge Robert W. Sweet granted in part and denied in part the plaintiffs’ motion seeking sanctions for spoliation of evidence against the defendants for failure to issue a litigation hold, opting for a permissive inference rather than a mandatory adverse inference sanction against the defendants .

Case Background

In this civil rights class action against the City of New York, it was determined that the City did not issue any litigation hold until August 8, 2013, more than three years after the filing of the Complaint in this case and the litigation hold was not effectively communicated, and none of the officers who were named in the City’s initial disclosures acknowledged receiving it. . . .

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App Honey Pot for Lawyers and Other Legal Professionals.

13 Saturday Feb 2016

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Apps, Clouds, Document Retention, Dropbox, Evernote, Google, Law Office Management, Legal Technology, Management, Marketing, Office Procedures, Technology, Time Management

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Apps, Document Storage, Dropbox, E-Discovery, Law Office Management, Legal Productivity Blog, Marketing, Note Taking, Tim Baran

50+ Apps and Services to Manage and Grow Your Law Practice, by Tim Baran, Legal Productivity Blog

http://bit.ly/1O8iPGC

[H]ere’s a list culled from feedback from solos and small firm lawyers and administrators, my own experience, and lots of research, that will help to optimize the day-to-day management and growth of your practice. . . .

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Were Deleted Emails A Failure to Preserve?

15 Sunday Nov 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Emails, Preservation

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E-Discovery, Emails, K&L Gates, Motion to Exclude, Preservation, Spoilation

Prejudice and to Avoid “Confusing the Issues,” by Electronic Discovery Law, K&L Gates Blog

http://tinyurl.com/ndmfrlx

West v. Talton, No. 5:13-cv-338 (CAR), 2015 WL 6675565 (M.D. Ga. Nov. 2, 2015)

In this case, the court granted Defendants’ motion to exclude ‘Plaintiff’s use of any argument or evidence of alleged spoliation’ where, despite Defendants’ failure to preserve emails from an individual defendant, they were nonetheless able to locate the relevant defendant’s ‘old computer’ and to hire a third party to search for and recover relevant emails and documents from the same. . . .

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Defendant Ordered by Court to Produce Gap-Period Emails on Backup Tapes.

04 Sunday Oct 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Admissibility, Discovery, E-Discovery, Emails, Emails, Evidence, Federal Rules of Discovery, Forensic Evidence, Gap-Period Emails, Legal Technology, Motion to Compel, Relevance, Requests for Production

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Backup Tapes, Doug Austin, E-Discovery, eDiscoveryDaily Blog, Gap-Period Emails, Zubulake

Defendant Compelled to Restore and Produce Emails from Backup Tapes: eDiscovery Case Law, by Doug Austin, eDiscoveryDaily Blog

In United States ex rel Guardiola v. Renown Health, No. 3:12-cv-00295-LRH-VPC, (D. Nev. Aug. 25, 2015), Nevada Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cooke concluded that emails contained on backup tapes held by the defendants was not reasonably inaccessible due to undue cost and, even if the emails were reasonably inaccessible due to undue burden or undue cost, ‘good cause supports their discoverability.’ . . .

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Social Media – E-Discovery Waiting To Be Plucked.

19 Saturday Sep 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in E-Discovery, Evidence, Legal Ethics, Social Media

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Allen Mihecoby CLAS RP®, Canadian Lawyer, Dera J. Nevin, E-Discovery, Evidence, Social media

Social Media E-Discovery: Its Time Is Here, by Dera J. Nevin, Canadian Lawyer (with hat tip to Allen Mihecoby, CLAS, RP®)

http://www.canadianlawyermag.com/5732/Social-media-e-discovery-its-time-is-here.html

Social media is an important source of discovery in an increasing range of cases and can often yield the most important evidence. Social media and its derivatives are prevalent with many people using social media as their dominant communications channel, preferring some in-app messaging tools to e-mail. Corporations, too, are using these media to target and communicate with their customers. Ignore these sources and you leave potentially game-changing evidence on the table. . . .

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Current List of Each State’s E-Discovery Rules.

19 Wednesday Aug 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Civil Procedure, Court Rules, Courts, Discovery, E-Discovery

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E-Discovery, K&L Gates Blog, Local Court Rules, State Court Rules

Current Listing of States That Have Enacted E-Discovery Rules, Electronic Discovery Law, K&L Gates Blog

http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/state-district-court-rules/

K&L Gates keeps this list of state’s e-discovery rules constantly updated. I love one-stop clicking and appreciate the reminder to look for your judge’s local rules, forms, and guidelines. -CCE

More and more states are adopting statutes and court rules addressing the discovery of electronically stored information. Here is a current list with links to the relevant provisions. Please note also that many judges have created their own forms or have crafted their own preferred protocols for e-discovery. These are generally available on the website of the individual judge and care should be taken to ensure you are aware of any such forms or guidelines in any court you may appear in. . . .

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Deduplication – Craig Ball Takes Us Deeper Into The Belly of The E-Discovery Beast.

08 Wednesday Jul 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Native Format

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Ball in Your Court, Craig Ball, Deduplication, E-Discovery, Hash Algorithms, Page Description Language

Deduplication: Why Computers See Differences in Files that Look Alike to You, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court

http://tinyurl.com/oe5xd63

An employee of an e-discovery service provider asked me to help him explain to his boss why deduplication works well for native files but frequently fails when applied to TIFF images.  The question intrigued me because it requires we dip our toes into the shallow end of cryptographic hashing and dispel a common misconception about electronic documents. . . .

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The ABC’s of Fielding Data.

29 Monday Jun 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Computer Forensics, Discovery, E-Discovery, Fielded Data, Legal Technology, Metadata, Native Format

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Ball in Your Court, Craig Ball, E-Discovery, Fielding Data, Metadata

The Virtues of Fielding, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court

https://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2015/06/29/the-virtues-of-fielding/

I am a member of the typewriter generation. With pencil and ink, we stored information on paper and termed them ‘documents.’ Not surprisingly, members of my generation tend to think of stored information in terms of tangible and authoritative things we persist in calling ‘documents.’ But unlike use of the word ‘folder’ to describe a data directory (despite the absence any folded thing) or the quaint shutter click made by camera phones (despite the absence of shutters), couching requests for information in discovery as demands for documents is not harmless skeuomorphism.  The outmoded thinking that electronically stored information items are just electronic paper documents makes e-discovery more difficult and costly. It’s a mindset that hampers legal professionals as they strive toward competence in e-discovery.

Does clinging to the notion of ‘document’ really hold us back? . . .

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Spoiled Evidence On Both Sides – What Else Could Go Wrong?

24 Wednesday Jun 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Depositions, Discovery, E-Discovery, Evidence, Intellectual Property, Preservation, Spoilation

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Copyright Infringement, Discovery, E-Discovery, Evidence, K&L Gates, Perjury

Court Finds Wife Liable for Agent-Husband’s Intentional Deletions, Recommends Default Judgment, by K&L Gates in CASE SUMMARIES

http://tinyurl.com/o9p3kmn

Malibu Media, LLC v. Tashiro, No. 1:13-cv-00205-WTL-MJD, 2015 WL 2371597 (S.D. Ind. May 18, 2015)

In this copyright infringement case, the court found that Defendants ‘spoiled evidence, committed perjury, and failed to discharge their duties to conduct discovery reasonably and in good faith’ and recommended default judgment. Notably, in addition to more familiar issues surrounding the topic of spoliation, the court’s opinion addressed the question of whether spoliation occurs when information is still recoverable (yes) and the propriety of imputing an agent’s bad acts in discovery where, as in this case, Defendant Wife ‘left it to her agent—her husband—to respond to Plaintiff’s document requests.’ . . .

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Why eDiscovery And Legal Technology Should Be Required In Law Schools.

07 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Legal Technology

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E-Discovery, James B. Levy, Law Schools, Law Students, Legal Skills Blog, Legal Techology, Luddites

Law Schools And The Need To Teach Ediscovery Practice Skills, by James B. Levy, Legal Skills Prof Blog

http://tinyurl.com/nzhczx6

While some state bar associations’ ethical opinions are requiring its members to keep up to date with legal technology, law schools do not seem to have gotten on board. If lawyers already practicing are considered behind if they do not aggressively incorporate legal technology in their practice, shouldn’t law schools be leading rather than following? Paralegal programs – are you paying attention? -CCE

Though many legal practice areas have been in decline since the Great Recession, the demand for eDiscovery services has skyrocketed. This post from Bloomberg’s Big Law Business blog says that the law school curriculum needs to likewise evolve by providing more training opportunities that teach the next generation of lawyers these vital practice skills . . . .

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E-Discovery Red Herring?

20 Wednesday May 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Privilege and Confidentiality

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Ball in Your Court, Cell Phones, Craig Ball, Discovery, E-Discovery, Search and Seizure

Riley Cell Phone Decision a Red Herring in E-Discovery, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court Blog

https://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2015/05/20/riley-cell-phone-decision-a-red-herring-in-e-discovery/

Yesterday’s post on the Digital Strata blog reported on a 2014 order of a U.S. District Court in Connecticut that applied the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Riley v. California, 573 U.S. _, 134 S. Ct. 2473 (2014) to civil discovery. I think the Court’s reliance on Riley is misplaced in the civil discovery context; not just because Riley involved state action, but because civil discovery affords a litigant greater protection from oppression and intrusion than that attendant to the search and seizure in Riley. . . .

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Angry Judge Sanctions Defendants For E-Discovery Spoilation.

19 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Preservation, Sanctions

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Data Preservation, Discovery, Doug Austin, E-Discovery, e-Discoverydaily Blog, Motion to Compel, Spoilation

Tired of the “Crap”, Court Sanctions Investors and Lawyers for Several Instances of Spoliation, by Doug Austin, eDiscoverydaily Blog

http://tinyurl.com/k3d74yu

In Clear-View Technologies, Inc., v. Rasnick et al, 5:13-cv-02744-BLF (N.D. Cal. May 13, 2015), California Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal sanctioned the defendants $212,320 and also granted a permissive adverse jury instruction that allows the presumption that the defendants’ spoliated documents due to a series of ‘transgressions’ by the defendants and their prior counsel.

You’ve got to love an order that begins this way:

‘Deployment of ‘Crap Cleaner’ software—with a motion to compel pending. Lost media with relevant documents. False certification that document production was complete. Failure to take any steps to preserve or collect relevant documents for two years after discussing this very suit. Any one of these transgressions by {the defendants} and their prior counsel might justify sanctions. Taken together, there can be no doubt.’ . . .

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No Perfection Standard In E-Discovery?

02 Saturday May 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Federal Rules of Discovery, Requests for Production

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Ball In Your Court Blog, Competency, Craig Ball, Discovery, E-Discovery, Request for Production of Documents

Is There a Right to Fail in E-Discovery?, by Craig Ball, Ball In Your Court Blog

https://ballinyourcourt.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/is-there-a-right-to-fail-in-e-discovery/

Disagreements about scope and process in e-discovery shouldn’t split between plaintiffs’ and defendants’ interests. After all, everyone is a requesting and producing party, whether north or south of the ‘v.’ Yet, the reality is that most defense counsel see themselves as producing parties, and most plaintiffs’ counsel identify with requesting parties. That unfortunate alignment poisons our ability to set aside allegiances and be officers of the Court mutually determined to find the most effective and efficient means to discover evidence illuminating the issues.

Cooperation in e-discovery is derided as naive in an adversarial system of justice, and ‘discovery about discovery’ is vilified as a diversionary tactic, a modern take on the maxim, ‘if you can’t try the case, then try your opponent.’ Counsel for responding parties are quick to note that no party is obliged to deliver a perfect production. They’re absolutely right. Perfection is not the standard. But, is a producing party entitled to fail before a requesting party may inquire into the scope and process of e-discovery? Must we wait until the autopsy to question the care plan? . . . .

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Would You Report A Data Breach At Your Law Firm?

10 Friday Apr 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Cybersecurity, Discovery, E-Discovery, Law Office Management, Legal Ethics, Legal Technology

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Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Doug Austin, E-Discovery, eDiscoveryDaily Blog

Has the Law Firm Holding Your Data Ever Suffered a Breach? You May Never Know: eDiscovery Trends, by Doug Austin, eDiscoverydaily Blog

http://tinyurl.com/lruvc2j

In February, we discussed a report about data breach trends in 2014 and how those trends compared to data breaches in 2013. That report provided breach trends for several industries, including the healthcare industry, which suffered the most breaches last year (possibly because stolen health records are apparently worth big money). But, according to a recent report, you won’t see any trends for law firms because the legal profession almost never publicly discloses a breach. . . .

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Imaging A Hard Drive = Making A Copy And Within Plain Meaning Of Taxation Of Costs.

19 Thursday Mar 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Attorney Fees and Costs, Depositions, Discovery, E-Discovery, Hard Drives, Taxation of Costs, Video Deposition

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Stating Reality: Imaging a Hard Drive Makes a Copy, by Josh Gilliland, Esq., Bow Tie Law

https://bowtielaw.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/stating-reality-imaging-a-hard-drive-makes-a-copy/

Taxation of cost cases do not generally have happy endings for recovering eDiscovery costs. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a very important opinion on March 17, 2015 well grounded in the reality of civil litigation and the law where eDiscovery costs were recovered.

It also takes a swing at Race Tires, which is always a welcome read.

The Court of Appeals held that the cost of video deposition synchronization and transcript were properly taxed. Colosi v. Jones Lang LaSalle Ams., Inc., 2015 U.S.  App. LEXIS 4184, 2-3 (6th Cir. Ohio 2015). The Trial Court had determined the synchronized video deposition was ‘reasonably necessary’ and the opposing party never explained how the costs were either unreasonable or unnecessary. Id.

For anyone who has conducted deposition review, this is good news. I have spent many hours reviewing depositions and video depositions. ‘Reasonably necessary’ is an understatement. Synced video depos allow you to understand the context of the testimony. A simple question and answer in a transcript can look harmless, but if the video shows the deponent turning bright red, biting his lip, and answering the question with his teeth clinched, you know that testimony is important. . . .

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Recent Opinions On E-Discovery Hot Topic – Technology-Assisted Review.

14 Saturday Mar 2015

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Discovery, E-Discovery, Privilege and Confidentiality, Technology-Assisted Review

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Magistrate Judge Peck Addresses TAR, Provides Insight on Important Issues, published by K&L Gates

http://tinyurl.com/m7kll6l

Rio Tinto PLC v. Vale S.A., —F.R.D.—, 2015 WL 872294 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 2, 2015)

Taking up the topic of technology-assisted review (‘TAR’), Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck’s most recent opinion declares that ‘it is now black letter law that where the producing party wants to utilize TAR for document review, courts will permit it.’ Despite this, there remain open issues surrounding the use of TAR, including, as Magistrate Judge Peck noted, the question of ‘how transparent and cooperative the parties need to be with respect to the seed or training set(s).’ And, while this opinion did not resolve that question (because the parties in the present case agreed to ‘a protocol that discloses all non-privileged documents in the control sets’), it does provide some notable commentary on the issue. . . .

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