The Recorder
On Monday night, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger quietly signed into law California's first set of electronic discovery regulations. They largely mirror federal regulations and for the first time offer state litigants specific definitions of what constitutes electronically stored information.
Special to Law.com
Sedona Conference founder Richard Braman wants law schools to teach lawyers to collaborate during e-discovery and drop the gladiatorial style of litigation to deal with mounting volumes of data. Less adversarial EDD is the goal of his Cooperation Proclamation.
New York Law Journal
H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal, partners at Paul Weiss, advise that companies that use social networks should ensure they are prepared to preserve, collect and produce social networking data for cases and that their electronic communications policies cover social networking.
The American Lawyer
The Charlotte Observer reported earlier this week that e-discovery firm DiscoverReady plans to hire about 100 lawyers in the Queen City of North Carolina. These are contract positions to perform document review, but in this economy 100 new legal jobs of any kind is news.
Business Crimes Bulletin
You suspect an employee is leaking inside information. An investigation reveals that the employee accessed a personal Web-based e-mail account from a company computer and that the login information has been recovered. Can you log into that account and read its e-mail content?
Legal Week
High costs and lost documents have given e-discovery -- or e-disclosure as it's known in the U.K. -- negative press at times. But is EDD as bad as it's made out to be? Vince Neicho, litigation support manager at Allen & Overy, looks at trans-Atlantic differences and changes to come.
Law Technology News
Despite the bench's mounting frustration with the senseless, slipshod way keyword search is conducted in e-discovery, lawyers still don't know how to fashion effective, defensible queries. Until better judicial guidance emerges, follow EDD Special Master Craig Ball's step-by-step guide.
The National Law Journal
If lawyers viewed the dearth of Delaware Court of Chancery electronic discovery rulings as evidence of the court's lack of concern about e-discovery, recent rulings and opinions may have dispelled any false comfort. Lawyers say the decisions flesh out the court's sparse EDD law.
