Here’s a good article entitled “Where Were You During the Social Media Boom?” by Greg Spizer in The Legal Intelligencer. Statistics show that social media are booming. Facebook’s website indicates that it has 400 million active users; MySpace’s online press report from earlier this year says it has 100 million active users (this number has [...]
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Lazy Sunday Links 5.16.10
On the legal process outsourcing front, Integreon signs a record deal with CMS Cameron McKenna, and Pangea3 opens up an office in London. Wendy Akbar blogs about Wisconsin. What happens when you mix oil and water? How about a pile of lawsuits and e-discovery issues. The EDRM turns six. kCura officially loves iDiscover Global. Lastly, [...]
Court Orders Monetary Sanctions for Production Delay Resulting from Counsel’s Failure to Become Familiar with Plaintiff’s Retention Policies and Systems
From Electronic Discovery Law: In re A&M Fla. Props. II, LLC, 2010 WL 1418861 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Apr. 7, 2010) Where plaintiff’s counsel “failed in his obligation to locate and produce all relevant documents in a timely manner” by failing to gain a sufficient understanding of plaintiff’s computer systems resulting in significantly delayed production of relevant documents, [...]
Lawyers begin scrambling for position in Toyota lawsuits
From The Consumerist: More than 100 lawyers from all around the country packed into a San Diego courtroom yesterday in an attempt to stake their claim to the lion’s share of any settlements that come from the multitude of federal lawsuits filed against Toyota in recent weeks. Since Toyota announced the recall of more than [...]
Because We’re American, and That’s All That Matters…
You have to check out this post from Tom O’Connor on his docNative Paradigm blog. Tom covers the Gucci Amer., Inc. v. Curveal Fashion case, 2010 WL 808639. Basically, Gucci wanted documents produced from Curveal’s bank in Malaysia, United Overseas Bank’s New York Agency (UOB NY). UOB NY was not a party to the [...]
Associate at DLA Piper Sets Collaboration 20 Years Back
This is more of an e-discovery story minus the “e,” but still interesting nonetheless. From Leigh Jones at The National Law Journal: What may have been a case of oversharing on the part of a DLA Piper associate has dragged the firm into court to defend a legal malpractice lawsuit. A former client claimed in [...]
2010 to be Banner Year for e-Discovery/People Getting in Trouble
From DestinationCRM.com via EDD Blog Online: E-Discovery Requests Set to Rise in 2010 As companies are looking for innovate their way out of the recession, strategically cutting costs could be one viable option. Bringing services and processes in-house to gain more control might be another way to shake things up. Particularly when it comes to [...]
Yea! E-Discovery Boom Expected in 2010, Because We All Hate each Other
From CBR: The eDiscovery software market is set for rapid growth, with revenues expected to surpass $1.2bn in 2010, according to analyst house Gartner. The market this year is tipped to total $1bn, a 25% increase over 2008 figures… …The growth in the market is being fuelled by increasing levels of litigation across the business [...]
LED Price Fixing? That’s a paddlin’
From Gizmodo: AT&T and the LCD industry make for strange courtfellows, but wait’ll you hear what for: AT&T claims that due to LCD price fixing by LG, Sharp and other, they’ve overpaid for 300 million handsets. Interestingly, they’re not thrilled about this. Between a general leeriness towards AT&T and spectacularly huge numbers involved, the whole thing [...]
ZL Technologies claims Gartner ‘Magic Quadrant’ full of smoke and mirrors
From Dennis Howlett at ZD Net: Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant [...]