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Google's Plans Fuel Nonstop Speculation
Google's constant presence in the news and on pundits' lips has the competition -- including Microsoft Corp. -- watching closely. Analysts speculate the firm may be working on ambitious projects, including free nationwide wireless Internet access and a Web-hosted alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system. Time will tell whether Google succeeds at its plan "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" -- or fail on a scale reminiscent of the dot-com years.
A Trans-Atlantic Look at E-Discovery
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.Peer-to-Peer Software Developer Raises $20M
BitTorrent Inc. said Friday it raised $20 million in a second round of venture capital to help commercialize a popular open source project for delivering media content, to encompass mass market content distribution services for large media customers.
Recovering E-Discovery Costs as a Prevailing Party
As the prevailing party in federal court, a large majority of your client's costs may have been incurred to recover and produce electronically stored information. In fact, your opponent may have used e-discovery as a weapon to extract a settlement. "But what if both parties knew the court could award e-discovery costs to the prevailing party?" asks Fox Rothschild associate Christine Soares.Fla. Judge's 'Outlook on Steroids' Blazes E-Filing Trail
As Florida courts progress slowly to paperless filing, one judge is blazing a trail with a program he calls "Outlook on steroids." Lawyers begin by sending pleadings to an e-mail address. Documents are automatically sorted, prepared for the judge's signature, and show a record of movement in Microsoft SharePoint.
Discovery on Discovery Demands Cost-Shifting
In the rare cases where courts allow discovery on discovery (i.e., how the opponent preserved, collected, and produced responsive documents), it should be presumed that the requester pays for the responding party's costs to produce this information. [MORE]Trending Stories
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