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This article, from The Legal Intelligencer, looks at recent court decisions which now seem to demand a standard of near perfection from in-house and outside counsel in managing e-discovery. Indeed, courts are showing little patience for preservation, privilege review or production mistakes and are not hesitating to hold parties and their counsel responsible for such mistakes.  Read more….

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Judicial tolerance for shortcomings in e-discovery is on the decline, and litigants, their counsel and e-discovery vendors are facing direct liability for such failures. Read more….

There’s an urgent need for companies to adopt standardized policies and IT practices for the identification, preservation and collection of potentially responsive data. Read more…

Clients with operations in the European Union pose a particular problem for electronic discovery because of the strict data privacy laws in most European jurisdictions, which regulate the processing of personal data and its export from the EU.  Read more…

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…

New York’s high court has ruled that Bear Stearns violated the terms of its insurance policies by settling an SEC claim without the advance consent of the insurers. The ruling cost Bear Stearns the $45 million in coverage it had been seeking for the settlement. Read more from the Common Law Journal here.

The biggest challenge in risk management is that many global organisations are growing rapidly and information is becoming more available. Businesses want information faster….IT departments need to work very closely with legal teams, so that they understand the data that is in use in the organisation. Read more from Computing.

April 22, 2008 - 1:00 PM EST — Hosted by DiscoveryResources.org sponsor Fios, Are You Ready for e-Discovery Resulting From Subprime Litigation? addresses the e-discovery risks faced by the financial industry as litigation and investigation around subprime transactions unfold.  Click here for registration information.

Risk management articles from Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Magazine

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