Discovery Resources

by Conrad J. Jacoby, Esq.

e-Discovery is not a natural disaster, but in some ways, it has more than a little bit in common with some of the flooding we recently experienced in the American Midwest. Floods are deceptive in appearance. From a distance, floodwaters’ calm surface looks uneventful and even serene. It’s only when you continue…

By Belinda Runkle, Fios, Inc.

Remember storage systems back in the 90’s, when storage vendors were promising how SAN, NAS and other monolithic storage devices where going to cure the IT world of all their storage and data management ills? Hard drives were just so darn expensive and data was proliferating at an alarming rate. What continue…

Interview with Mary Mack, Esq., Corporate Technology Counsel at Fios, Inc.

1. What was the dispute between Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 127 S. Ct. 1955 about?

William Twombly sued Bell Atlantic for violating Section One of the Sherman Antitrust Act, found in 15 U.S.C. § 1. The class action complaint was made by Twombly on behalf continue…

The Legal and Economic Implications of Electronic Discovery; Options for Future Research

By: James N. Dertouzos, Nicholas M. Pace, Robert H. Anderson

From The Rand Corporation website:

Pretrial discovery — the exchange of relevant information between litigants — is central to the American civil legal process. As computer technologies continue to develop, concerns have arisen that, continue…

By Conrad J. Jacoby, Esq.

Miscommunication is a constant problem within the field of electronic discovery. Legal practitioners, e-discovery service bureaus and corporate IT staff each have distinct and long-standing professional vocabularies that use different terms to describe similar information repositories and data management procedures.

Fulbright Jaworski issues latest litigation trends survey

Fulbright & Jaworski has released its 4th Annual Litigation Trends Survey which reports on senior corporate counsel on their experiences and opinions regarding various aspects of litigation and related matters. This year’s survey focused on over 300 respondents from companies based in the United States and the United Kingdom. Among continue…

This month’s featured expert:

Joel Bennett, Esq.
Member, Dykema Gossett, PLLC

Background:

Joel Bennett is a member of Dykema Gossett, PLLC, practicing in the firm’s Los Angeles office. His practice focuses on litigation matters. He has substantial experience as lead counsel in jury trials involving antitrust law, intellectual property, sham exceptions to the Noerr-Pennington defense, antitrust/intellectual property continue…

By Dennis Kennedy, Evan Schaeffer and Tom Mighell

Dennis Kennedy (DK): We’ve been resisting the urge to write about the December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure because it seems as if hundreds of others have written on that topic. However, all the attention seems to have limited effect. We’re already hearing analogies between continue…

This month’s featured expert:

Michael Nelson
Chairman, Nelson Levine de Luca & Horst

Background:

Michael R. Nelson is Chairman of NLdH. Nelson concentrates his law practice on complex insurance matters, insurance class actions, insurance regulatory matters, reinsurance, and bad faith/extra-contractual claims. He analyzes insurance coverages and defends claims in matters involving complex coverages, such as construction defects, environmental matters, continue…

By Dennis Kennedy, Evan Schaeffer and Tom Mighell

Dennis Kennedy (DK): Our co-author Tom Mighell is prepping for a big case. So Evan and I decided to give him a break for this column and return to the issue of metadata and talk about some of the recent developments each of us has blogged about recently. Metadata continue…