Document Review
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alt.legal: The Age Of Congressional eDiscovery
It all makes for good wonky perusing, especially for lawyers, and it helps put into perspective the work of government.
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
eDiscovery Is Big Business — And Worth Fighting Over For Providers
Two major players in the ediscovery space duke it out in federal court.
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
Stop Equating eDiscovery With Data — It’s Not That Simple
Discovery is still strategy — it’s still finding the facts you need — but the game has changed.
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
Litigators, don’t let your storytelling get lost among a sea of documents and other information.
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Career Alternatives, Technology
alt.legal: Now You Are Speaking My Language
Do you need to conduct document review in a foreign language? This entrepreneur can help.
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
Successful, Cost-Effective eDiscovery Requires A Team Approach
The invisible wall between lawyers and staff makes ediscovery slower, more expensive, and just generally worse.
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eDiscovery, Litigators, Technology
Let The Rules Guide You In eDiscovery
No matter how long you’ve been practicing, sit down and read the rules on electronic discovery, comments included.
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Document Review, eDiscovery, Technology
Time To Change Your eDiscovery Mindset
New columnist Kelly Twigger dispels a few myths about ediscovery.
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Document Review, Job Searches, Ridiculousness, Technology
This ‘Refreshing’ Document Review Job Ad Is Actually Just Annoying And Unprofessional
Does this company want document review attorneys or “camp counselors?”
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Biglaw, Document Review, Email Scandals, Goldman Sachs, Screw-Ups, Technology
Which Biglaw Firm Accidentally Released Embarrassing, Unredacted Documents About Goldman Sachs?
A Biglaw firm accidentally released an unredacted version of documents it had previously spent lots of time and money intentionally trying to keep sealed. Oops!
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Document Review, Email Scandals, Media and Journalism
Judge’s Turn To Hate On News Of The World
It might have seemed impossible, but things have gotten worse for those involved in the News of the World phone hacking scandal. In addition to all the other evidence against the now defunct newspaper, which was run by James Murdoch, the son of everyone’s favorite terrifying Australian media baron, new email evidence — that investigators […]
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Crime, Divorce Train Wrecks, Document Review, iPhone, Technology
This Might Be the Most Tumultuous Divorce of All Time
For a long time, I have been a staunch advocate of putting passwords on all electronic devices — laptops, phones, tablets, etc. There’s no reason to leave your private life or sensitive business data accessible to any schmo who might have access to your phone, just because you’re too lazy to spend three seconds typing […]
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Contracts, Document Review, Litigators, Plaintiffs Firms, Technology, Trials
Prominent Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Ordered to Pay Up After Losing Breach of Contract Trial
Last week, more than a dozen high-profile mass torts attorneys lost a San Francisco jury trial against a small technology company. The jury decided the attorneys had illegally breached a document review contract during the high-profile Chinese drywall class-action litigation. Tempers are still running hot, and we’ve got more from both sides of the dispute….
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Conferences / Symposia, Document Review, Intellectual Property, Legal Ethics, Litigators, Patents, Qualcomm, Technology
Dispatch from Amelia Island: When Clients Attack
Adam Bier was still a self-described “baby lawyer” when he was wrongfully sanctioned in the landmark 2008 Qualcomm e-discovery case. The appealed sanctions were finally vacated, more than two years after they were first imposed. Bier shared his story with attendees at the Legal Technology Leadership Summit, joined onstage by U.S. Magistrate Judge David Waxse and Frank Cialone, who defended several of the outside counsel in Qualcomm. Read on to learn the details of Bier’s nightmare experience. Can you imagine yourself in his shoes?