Our Insights on eDiscovery

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August Case Law Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Case Law
August Case Law Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

We haven’t conducted a pop quiz in a while, so the “dog days” of summer seems like a good time for it. This one is customized to the eDiscovery case law that we’ve covered the past three months. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! If not, we’ve provided a link to the post with the answer. We’re that nice. Test your knowledge! Tomorrow, we’ll post the answers for those who don’t know and didn’t look them up.

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Are Law Firms at an eDiscovery “Watershed”? – eDiscovery Trends
Are Law Firms at an eDiscovery “Watershed”? – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

As reported by Sean Doherty of Law Technology News (Survey: Law Firms Are at E-Discovery ‘Watershed’), according to a survey released on July 22, sponsored by RVM Enterprises Inc. and conducted by Ari Kaplan Advisors, law firms are at a “watershed” moment when it comes to creating efficient eDiscovery models for supporting their corporate clients.

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eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Collecting Documents
eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Collecting Documents 150 150 CloudNine

In 1978, I took my first job in litigation, with the law department of a Fortune 100 corporation headquartered in New York City. I was one of a team assembled to collect responsive documents to be produced in a major antitrust litigation. The documents were located in the corporation’s office and warehouse facilities around the country. While the process of collecting documents varied from case to case, this project was representative of the general approach to collecting documents in large-scale litigation. Let me describe how it worked.

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Texas Supreme Court Reverses Spoliation Ruling, Remands Case for New Trial – eDiscovery Case Law
Texas Supreme Court Reverses Spoliation Ruling, Remands Case for New Trial – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Brookshire Bros., Ltd. v. Aldridge, the Supreme Court of Texas determined “that imposition of the severe sanction of a spoliation instruction was an abuse of discretion” in the trial court, reversed the court of appeals’ judgment and remanded the case for a new trial.

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Failure to Preserve Cloud-Based Data Results in Severe Sanction for Defendant – eDiscovery Case Law
Failure to Preserve Cloud-Based Data Results in Severe Sanction for Defendant – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Brown v. Tellermate Holdings, Magistrate Judge Terence Kemp granted plaintiffs’ motion for judgment and motion to strike, ruling that the defendant could not “present or rely upon evidence that it terminated the Browns’ employment for performance-related reasons” and enabling the plaintiffs to use documents produced by the defendant “designated as attorneys’-eyes-only” to be used by the plaintiffs “without restriction”, due to the defendant’s failure to preserve or produce data from their Salesforce.com database.

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Here is a “Mashup” of eDiscovery Market Estimates – eDiscovery Trends
Here is a “Mashup” of eDiscovery Market Estimates – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Last Friday, we profiled one eDiscovery market estimate that predicts that the eDiscovery market will reach $15.65 billion by 2020. Now, here’s a “mashup” of other estimates, courtesy of Rob Robinson.

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eDiscovery Market Predicted to Reach $15.65 Billion by 2020 – eDiscovery Trends
eDiscovery Market Predicted to Reach $15.65 Billion by 2020 – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Is the eDiscovery industry still growing? According to one research firm, the answer is a resounding yes.

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eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Circa 1978, We Lived in a World of Paper
eDiscovery Throwback Thursdays – Circa 1978, We Lived in a World of Paper 150 150 CloudNine

Back before desktops, laptops and tablets, the business world meant paper. Lots of paper. And that meant that litigation preparation activities revolved around paper. Here’s how the phases of discovery were handled, prior to the early 1980s.

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Transparency Reports for Other Companies – Social Tech eDiscovery
Transparency Reports for Other Companies – Social Tech eDiscovery 150 150 CloudNine

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve taken a fresh look at Twitter’s Law Enforcement Policies and their latest Transparency Report to show government requests for data, looked at (for the first time) LinkedIn’s Privacy and Law Enforcement Data Request Guidelines and Transparency Report and, yesterday, looked at Facebook’s policies and Government Request Reports. Today, we will look at Transparency Reports for other companies.

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Facebook’s Policies and Government Request Reports – Social Tech eDiscovery
Facebook’s Policies and Government Request Reports – Social Tech eDiscovery 150 150 CloudNine

Two weeks ago, we took a fresh look at Twitter’s Law Enforcement Policies and their latest Transparency Report to show government requests for data, then last week (for the first time), we looked at LinkedIn’s Privacy and Law Enforcement Data Request Guidelines and Transparency Report. This week, we’ll take a look at Facebook’s policies and Government Request Reports.

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