eDiscovery
A compilation of recent court actions from Sidley & Austin: In Arizona, a defendant’s “culpable state of mind” when he […]
A panel of four “cyberstar” federal judges at a recent legal tech conference had a pointed message for corporate counsel: […]
Corporations are sometimes faced with lawsuits whose allegations look plausible. The general counsel knows they are not true, but the […]
There are fundamental differences between litigation support and data management, and if the latter is done intelligently and well, the […]
The AAA made significant changes to its general Commercial Arbitration Rules and added a set of Optional Appellate Arbitration Rules.
Employee status changes present constant opportunities for data that is subject to a legal hold to be corrupted, lost, or […]
Though U.S. courts have broadly accepted discovery of social media, there are many examples of courts striking down such discovery requests when litigants fail to establish relevance.
A federal court in Dallas issued an adverse inference order and imposed $27,500 in sanctions against an attorney who “created a new profile” on a computer in order to…
The incriminating emails exchanged by Dewey & LeBoeuf attorneys since charged with larceny and securities fraud are just the latest examples of the fact that even smart and powerful people have not yet learned one of the basic tenets of eDiscovery: What you email can, and will, be used against you.
An old email account with 24,500 unread emails becomes the subject of a telling experiment.
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