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Daily Business Review

Litigators' Newest Challenge? Tracking Erasable Data

Litigators must devise strategies to determine the content of any relevant messages that have been deleted and the potential effectiveness of a spoliation claim.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

New Civil Procedure Proposals Clear First Hurdle

One new rule would create a uniform standard nationwide for issuance of an adverse inference instruction or a comparable sanction for the loss of electronically stored information after a duty to preserve is triggered.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Make Sure You Use Your Smartphone Smartly

What happens on social media spreads virally to the world wide web in the blink of an eye—so family and corporate law litigants need to keep their eyes open.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Can Attorneys Tell Clients To 'Clean Up' Facebook page?

A Florida Bar committee is working on advise for lawyers on cleaning up their clients' Facebook pages.
3 minute read

Law.com

U.S. Litigators Hit Brick Wall With European Discovery

The European Union privacy directive only permits companies in Europe to search their employees' email under very limited circumstances—and being a defendant to an American lawsuit is not clearly stated as one of them.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

New Trends Are Shaping E-Discovery Marketplace

More and more litigation service providers are adopting managed services platforms to create cost predictability associated with the traditionally large expenditure in the e-discovery marketplace.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Computer-Assisted Review Can Be Key For Legal Battles

The use of CAR and predictive coding is more critical in e-discovery as it can save hundreds of man-hours, but not understanding your obligations in these types of searches can be fatal to your client's position.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Maintaining Privilege in the Age of E-Discovery

Lauren E. Aguiar and Julie E. Cohen of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom write: The newly proposed Commercial Division rule relating to privilege log practice is intended to "promote more efficient, cost-effective pretrial disclosure." In light of existing federal and state case law, however, it is unclear whether and to what extent the rule will in fact lessen the burden on practitioners.
16 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Not So Fast

One magistrate judge is challenging "overbroad" discovery requests.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Again, Lawyer is Sanctioned in Federal Court

A second federal judge in Atlanta has sanctioned a Buckhead attorney and ordered him to reimburse opposing counsel thousands of dollars in fees—this time for abusing the discovery process by serving last-minute subpoenas for depositions that the judge said were never intended to take place.
8 minute read

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