From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: I always liked John Stuart Mill’s utilitarian views on justice to provide the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people, within reason. I propose Utilitarian e-Discovery. All the vendors in the litigation support profession produce many fine products and solutions for large scale e-Discovery services. I have a challenge [...]
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Best Practices for Compliance with Rule 26(f) Meet & Confer Requirements
Upcoming webinar on 5/19, info at Bow Tie Law’s Blog – The Court finds the parties could have avoided the expenses of this Motion by conferring appropriately early in the case about ESI. United States Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. LaSalle Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 70514 (S.D. Ohio [...]
When is an Employee an Expert Who Must Prepare a Report?
From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: In the epic legal battle over patents and floppy disk controller defects dating back to the 1980s and 1990s, the Defendants brought a motion to compel the Plaintiff, who was an employee of his own company, who did not regularly testify as an expert on the company’s behalf, to prepare [...]
There can be only one?
Bow Tie Law’s blog has a post up inviting us to a discussion with Judge Facciola hosted by D4, but the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that BTLB is planning something nefarious, seeking to be the one and only Bow Tie in the e-Discovery Universe. Worry not, dear reader, I’m considering hiring Orly Taitz to [...]
Happy Blog-iversary to Bow Tie Law’s Blog
As mony of you know, I’m an unabashed fanboy of Bow Tie Law’s Blog. Josh’s posts are always insightful, entertaining, and timely. Tonight I’ll raise a glass to another year of bow ties. From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: December 30, 2009 marks the first anniversary of “Bow Tie Law.” 2009 was a watershed year of [...]
Bad idea: Claiming that the term “native file” is ambiguous
From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: In Cenveo Corp. v. Southern Graphic Sys., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 108623 (D. Minn. Nov. 18, 2009), the Defendant propounded the following discovery request: “Defendant requests that these documents be produced in native format with all attachments in native format.” Cenveo Corp., at *2. The Plaintiff produced all electronically stored [...]
Text Messages, Emails, and Cell Phones, Oh My!!!
In keeping with our recent bribery theme, here is a great post from Joshua Gilliland of Bow Tie Law on the intersection of bribery and technology: Sometimes there are fact patterns that surprise you how far we have come with technology and the foolishness of people. In People v. McInnis, the Defendant was convicted of attempted witness bribery. [...]
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Relevance of Facebook Evidence
From Bow Tie Law’s Blog: Social networking litigation will be written by the end users of those websites. In Bass v Miss Porter’s School, the Defendant school sought from the Plaintiff discovery of her alleged teasing and taunting on Facebook. Bass v. Miss Porter’s Sch., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99916 (D. Conn. Oct. 27, 2009). The [...]