eDiscovery News
Great tips on how to get eDiscovery projects funded in-house from LTN. E-Discovery Institute panelists offer concrete tips to get executives to fund EDD initiatives.
New proposed eDiscovery rule in NY would make the complex and time-consuming process of discovery in commercial cases more certain by requiring specifics about why parties are denying turning over documents. Public comments are being accepted now. Read more about it.
Legal News
Interesting info graphic from the Legal Productivity blog on how mobile lawyers are becoming.
Judge Alan Pendleton, a state court judge in Minnesota, has penned a blog titled Pendleton Judicial Trial Updates. The blog is dedicated “to the Training & Education of the Minnesota Trial Bench and Attorneys” and includes sites to multiple resources that are useful for practitioners and judges alike.
Magistrate Judge John Facciola, a great friend of our firm and a brilliant jurist, spoke at the University of Florida speaker symposium recently. You can view the presentation in full here, and believe me, you want to watch it. Kudos to Bill Hamilton at UF for organizing a great event.
Check out this new legal research site — Ravel Law — that allows you to search by keyword. The US Supreme Court and US Circuit Courts are free, and other courts require a subscription at $100/month or $1100/year.
If you are blogging for your practice, be sure your blog posts don’t come back to bite you. Taking a different position in court? Your blog could be used to impeach your argument. New twists in the online world where a Google search can help you find great information.
Yikes. Facebook is suing the lawyers who represented Paul Ceglia. Ceglia falsified documents that claimed he had an 84% ownership in Facebook and was arrested for it. DLA Piper is on record saying "they had “100 percent confidence that [Mr. Ceglia's] agreement is authentic.” DLA Piper calls it an intimidation tactic to preclude lawyers from filing against Facebook.
Notable Happenings
The Kelly Twigger Interview Part I: Combating the Document Dump via Shepard Data Services. How can a computer forensics firm assist a law firm battling an attempt to force a result through the sheer volume of document review?