Discovery Resources

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….

July 29 - 1:00 EST - Instant messaging presents a new set of technical and legal issues in the discovery process, much like e-mail did a few years ago. Ronni Solomon, Counsel, King & Spalding, will discuss preservation best practices for IM use, and for preservation and collection of IM and related files during discovery. continue…

Judge Grimm’s decision in the Victor Stanley case has a chilling effect on lawyers who craft their own key word searches, absent advice from experts who can provide quality assurance and quality control. Read Craig Ball’s article about it (registration required).

Preservation and records management are some of the key processes on the left-hand side of the EDRM lifecycle. There are plenty of systems that strongly support this article’s description of the preservation problem in many of today’s legacy email archiving installations. “Email Archives, Are they an Email Roach Motel?”  nails the underlying business assumptions in place continue…

Electronically stored information on a VoIP network is difficult to delete and is not searched easily by keyword. Without proper planning, a client or company may be faced with thousands of hours of audio data that cannot be easily identified if production is required. The New York Law Journal takes a fresh look at how this new continue…

e-Discovery is at the center of the arrest of two former Bearn Stearns managers, taken into custody today over their roles in the collapse of two hedge funds which triggered the sub-prime mortgage crisis. Read more from the Wall Street & Technology: Blog here.

Slowly but surely, U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Grimm is writing a treatise on electronic discovery. H. Christopher Boehning and and Daniel J. Toal discuss Judge Grimm’s recent rulings around privilege and his comments on search methodologies in the New York Law Journal.

When Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia went on a publicity tour for his book on legal writing earlier this year, it was considered a rare peek into the mind of an influential jurist. This article by Jason Krause on Law.com discusses how few litigation topics have gotten the judiciary talking as much as e-discovery.

E-discovery counsel are attorneys who possess the technical and legal knowledge to understand and manage e-discovery. This article by Irene Gamer from the New Jersey Law Journal discusses the type of positions held by e-discovery counsel, and the responsibilities and skills required of them.

Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul W. Grimm and attorneys Paul Mark Sandler and Charles S. Fax, whose second book, entitled “Maryland Discovery Problems and Solutions,” address the issues around discovery and privilege in this article by Brandon Kearney from the Maryland Daily Record.