Leonard Deutchman

July 14, 2011 | Legaltech News

During the e-discovery process, producing parties can bear considerable costs for preserving, collecting, processing, searching, reviewing, and producing data. Thus, it's in the producing party's enlightened self-interest to minimize costs. But requesting parties shouldn't assume they won't bear any e-discovery costs. Attorney Leonard Deutchman argues for cooperation.

By Leonard Deutchman

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January 13, 2009 | Texas Lawyer

The paradigm that has emerged in e-discovery cases involving spoliation claims is that success regarding the spoliation claim will lead not just to imposition of monetary sanctions on the offending party but also to "adverse inference" instructions that will result in the offending party losing on the merits.

By By Leonard Deutchman

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June 14, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

For all that has been written about e-discovery over the past decade, the only reason anyone truly cares is its cost in both money and time (which often are the same thing).

By Leonard Deutchman

15 minute read

November 10, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

Two thoughtful jurists issued opinions in discovery matters that took opposite tacks in different situations to achieve the same goal.

By Leonard Deutchman

11 minute read

March 12, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

In the last several articles I have addressed how attorneys can master the technical and legal requirements of electronic discovery production mandated by the recent changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Since litigants now must have early disc

By Leonard Deutchman

13 minute read

February 16, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Last week, I began a discussion of Aguilar v. Immigration & Customs Enforcement, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 97018 (S.D.N.Y. November 2008), in which Magistrate Judge Maas ruled on plaintiffs' requests for production o

By Leonard Deutchman

11 minute read

February 08, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

I have stated in numerous articles that I write for the practitioner, but this article, I must confess, is for the philosopher of law in each of us.

By Leonard Deutchman

13 minute read

October 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal judge's most recent opinion in an ongoing matter provides remarkable insight into several issues that arise frequently in e-discovery.

By Leonard Deutchman

14 minute read

August 10, 2010 | Law.com

Two recent cases found that detectives were not qualified by training and experience to interpret cell site location records to determine whether a phone was within range of a certain tower. Leonard Deutchman questions whether this constitutes an overreliance on expert testimony.

By Leonard Deutchman

15 minute read

October 13, 2008 | The Legal Intelligencer

In Nursing Home Pension Fund v. Oracle, No. C 01-00988 SI, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66740 (N.D. Calif. 2008), purchasers of Oracle Corp. stock, brought a class action against Oracle and related defendants under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 allegin

By Leonard Deutchman

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