From e-Discovery Team: Ralph Losey, Mary Mack, and Bret Anders in “America’s got E-Discovery Talent” – Part 3. Great post from the blog “But I Did Everything Right!” on the ABA’s efforts in regard to law school tenure. IQPC is having their 10th e-Discovery event in December. Which messages from your Facebook/Twitter/Foursquare/fill in your own [...]
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Scott Zebrak of the RIAA offers his perspective on Viacom v. YouTube. I guess the Pentagon no longer thinks social media is such a waste of time. “We have a tremendous group of contract attorneys who are extremely vigilant (careful) in spending the city’s money.” Now there is a statement you don’t hear every day [...]
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ABA’s 4thAnnual National Institute on E-Discovery is coming up in 4 days. Here is a good post from Francois Senecal of Ledjit entitled “Dragging one’s feet on e-discovery: Walking on a thin line.” MySpace and Facebook may be in danger of losing a few “friends.” Speaking of social media, the Fed Judiciary is now on [...]
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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, [...]
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Rob Robinson is setting up a great website over at Complex Discovery. His first post: “Does Privacy Matter?” Greg Bufithis of Project Counsel does a nice job of summing up the SEC v Goldman Sachs case. The Posse List releases their “Top 20, Plus More” e-discovery links of the week. Something else I picked up [...]
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Will Big Banks Pay Back Their Bailouts Through Biglaw? Here is a link to my Above The Law post on Thursday, regarding the SEC’s investigation into Goldman Sachs. Monique Altheim of EDiscoverymap.com has posted a series of interviews she conducted at the IAPP Global Privacy Summit. The Posse List has posted their “Top 20…Plus More” [...]
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Is the Goldman Sachs suit the tip of the iceberg? I can be rest assured that the next time the DOJ wants to read my Yahoo email, it will have a warrant. This e-discovery article has been getting a lot of play all over the interwebs. How big is Twitter really? Will Duke University be [...]
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This Sunday I’m going to feature my favorite recent Lifehacker posts: Best Windows 7 Tweaking Application Streaming Radio from Around the World Run a Total Background Check on Yourself Best Tools to Book a Cheap Flight Best Times to Buy Anything, All Year Round I took the advice about April being the best time to [...]
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In case you hadn’t noticed, the iPad was released yesterday. They estimated sales of 200-300,000 this weekend, but it looks like they sold 700,000 just yesterday. Here’s a roundup of many of the tech-related April Fool pranks played around the internets. Gabe also did a post on the e-discovery related ones The latest e-discovery surprise [...]
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That video above is Ari Kaplan giving the ABA Techshow keynote. (courtesy abanow.org) Hats off to the man that really “ignited” the ABA Techshow, Matt Homann. He and JoAnna Forshee of Inside Legal, did a wonderful job of putting on Ignite Law the night before, which I thought really set the tone for what was [...]
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Here is a great article from Jason Krause on e-discovery vendor selection and project management. For anyone interested, you can listen to a Virtual LegalTech webcast entitled The Challenge of Preserving and Collecting Evidence in a Cloud sponsored by Integreon. Viacom and YouTube love each other as much as Alec Baldwin and Kim Bassinger. Pierce [...]
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“if the second-largest city in America could make a commitment to a so-called cloud computing solution, why couldn’t everyone else?” FCPA: “The Justice Department brought a record 26 actions in 2009; the Securities and Exchange Commission brought another 14, its second-most ever. The DoJ’s cases included prosecutions of 44 individuals—a huge surge from just nine [...]
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Wow. I just received some major props from the Posse List on my ATL article about contract attorneys from last week. On something Ed had covered a few days ago, Rick Horowitz invites you to “Come to the Cut.” Chris Dale give his opinion on iCyte. Microsoft wants to be off in the cloud. EDiscovery [...]
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Lots of stuff from the Posse List this week. Most recent, their update on the growing Toyota scandal and how they definitely may have withheld key documents in e-discovery. Also, the Posse List makes mention of this great article from the Economist about the explosion of data around the world and how we are dealing [...]
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France is coming around to the United States as far as employee emails go. Contract Attorneys in India complain about their status in life too. Link to links: Posse List rolls out ther “Top Ten, Plus” for the week. Infosys is hiring a bunch of lawyers overseas. Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny E-Discovery. Everybody is talking about Microsoft [...]
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Steve Bennett of Jones Day has an article of “The Ethics of Legal Outsourcing.” Here is some more info for Google Buzz for anyone interested. They Shoot Paralegals, Don’t They? Ari Kaplan has a conversation with Mary Mack. Steve Meltzer comments on expectations of privacy when surfing the web on an unsecured network.
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Forget “quote of the day,” this may be the quote of the conference. This was by far the most interesting review platform that I saw at LegalTech. I give credit where credit is due, Bob Ambrogi did scoop me on the Thomson Reuters/SuperLawyers acquisition. Here is some more on Westlaw and Lexis. Ari Kaplan does [...]
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EMC/Kazeon is marketing online like crazy on their upcoming events at LegalTech. Last year at LegalTech, I attended the Solo/Small firm event sponsored by Lisa Solomon, and I highly recommend it. My schedule this year conflicts with it this time, but I am still going to try and make it. Besides, as Lisa said last [...]
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Monica Bay is talking about Craig Ball who is talking about an “E-Discovery Bill of Rights.” Anyway, you can hear them both talk this Thursday if you are in NYC. Speaking of Monica Bay, there are a bunch of new posts from her on EDD Update. The e-Discovery Institute has a ton of articles and [...]
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To start, here are two great posts from Sharon Nelson’s Ride The Lightning. The first, is about how Facebook is assembling teams to handle information requests for criminal cases, and the second, her outlook on 2010. Integreon asks, “Can You Meet and Confer without an eDiscovery Expert on Hand?” Like the United States in 2006, [...]
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E-Discovery Bytes: Wendy Akbar’s new pet is a three headed dog from hell. Practical Ediscovery: State e-discovery rules? We don’t need no stinking state e-discovery rules! Burgess writes something about Pennsylvania. E-Lessons Learned has a great article on the need for a good GPS device. The Paradigm Shift focuses on e-discovery certification. Monica Bay posts [...]
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“Textual Harassment” of employees is on the rise Speaking of employees, there is one at Pepsi Cola that has over a billion reasons to be happy From the man, the myth himself: Rob Robinson on Rightsourcing Weary reporter forced to write about trial in over 140 characters 6th annual e-discovery institute at Georgetown University begins this week New “e-Discovery for Dummies” [...]
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