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Court Awards Sanctions, But Declines to Order Defendants to Retain an eDiscovery Vendor – Yet – eDiscovery Case Law
 Court Awards Sanctions, But Declines to Order Defendants to Retain an eDiscovery Vendor – Yet – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

In Logtale, Ltd. v. IKOR, Inc., California Magistrate Judge Donna M. Ryu granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel responses to discovery and awarded partial attorney’s fees as a result of defendants’ conduct. The judge did not grant the plaintiff’s request to order Defendants to retain an eDiscovery vendor to conduct a thorough and adequate search for responsive electronic documents, but did note that the court would do so “if there are continuing problems with their document productions”.

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Need to Make Key Discovery Decisions? Build a Tree – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Need to Make Key Discovery Decisions? Build a Tree – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

There are several decisions that the lead attorney has to make when a new case is filed. Decisions made early in the life cycle of a case can significantly affect how discovery is managed and how costly the discovery process can be for that case. Decision trees are a mechanism that can help attorneys plan for discovery by enabling them to make decisions up front that can lead to more efficient management of the discovery process.

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August Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Trends
 August Pop Quiz Answers! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Yesterday, we gave you a pop quiz for the topics we’ve covered in the past month. If you’re reading the blog each day, these questions should be easy! Let’s see how you did. Here are the answers.

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August Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Trends
 August Pop Quiz! – eDiscovery Trends 150 150 CloudNine

Did you think we forgot to quiz you about last month’s topics? Perish the thought! Like we did in July, here is a pop quiz for the topics we covered in August. 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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The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics & Metadata – eDiscovery Best Practices
 The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics & Metadata – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

One of the most influential organizations in eDiscovery is The Sedona Conference® (TSC), and some of TSC’s most recent contributions have been documented in this blog, including a commentary on proportionality (released in 2010), database principles (2011) and guidance for judges (2012). Last month, TSC’s Working Group on Electronic Document Retention & Production (WG1) released it’s Second Edition of The Sedona Conference® Commentary on Ethics & Metadata.

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SWOT Away Uncertainty in Your Discovery Practice – eDiscovery Best Practices
 SWOT Away Uncertainty in Your Discovery Practice – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

Understanding the relationships of your organization’s internal and external challenges allows your organization to approach ongoing and future discovery in a more strategic process. A “SWOT” analysis is a tool that can be used to develop that understanding.

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Imagine if the Zubulake Case Turned Out Like This – eDiscovery Case Law
 Imagine if the Zubulake Case Turned Out Like This – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

You’ve got an employee suing her ex-employer for discrimination, hostile work environment and being forced to resign. During discovery, it was determined that a key email was deleted due to the employer’s routine auto-delete policy, so the plaintiff filed a motion for sanctions. Sound familiar? Yep. Was her motion granted? Nope.

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Judge Says “Dude, Where’s Your CAR?” – eDiscovery Case Law
 Judge Says “Dude, Where’s Your CAR?” – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

Ralph Losey describes a unique case this week in his e-Discovery Team ® blog (Poor Plaintiff’s Counsel, Can’t Even Find a CAR, Much Less Drive One). In Northstar Marine, Inc. v. Huffman, the defendant’s motion to enforce the parties’ document production agreement was granted after Alabama Magistrate Judge William E. Cassady rejected the plaintiff’s excuse that “it is having difficulty locating an inexpensive provider of electronic search technology to assist with discovery”.

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Data Needs to Be Converted More Often than You Think – eDiscovery Best Practices
 Data Needs to Be Converted More Often than You Think – eDiscovery Best Practices 150 150 CloudNine

We’ve discussed previously that electronic files aren’t necessarily ready to review just because they’re electronic. They often need processing and good processing requires a sound process. Sometimes that process includes data conversion if the data isn’t in the most useful format.

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Judge Sides with Both Parties in Form of Production Dispute – eDiscovery Case Law
 Judge Sides with Both Parties in Form of Production Dispute – eDiscovery Case Law 150 150 CloudNine

The opinion in Kwasniewski v. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC suggests that producing parties can satisfy their obligation to produce documents in an organized manner by offering a table of contents, rendering text searchable, indicating which data responds to which request, and including certain metadata, such as Bates numbers.

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