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Are Keywords Just Filters?

When counsel hammer out agreed search terms, does that define the process?

ACLU staff attorney Catherine Crump

Government Agrees to Destroy Data Seized at Border

Human rights activist and Bradley Manning Support Network founding member David House has settled his federal lawsuit against the government after it agreed to destroy all of the data it obtained from his laptop during a border search.

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Early Bird Catches the Worm

Judge Robert Miller Jr. ratifies bold e-discovery gamble to use predictive coding despite objections.

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Judicial Candor

Nothing draws a crowd of lawyers like the chance to listen to prominent judges talk about e-discovery.

SEC Market Abuse Unit director Daniel Hawke

Bungled Facebook IPO Costs NASDAQ $10 Million Penalty

The NASDAQ OMX Group agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission a $10 million penalty to settle charges related to "poor systems and decision-making" during Facebook Inc.'s initial public offering and subsequent trading.

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7 E-Discovery Takeaways From CEIC

The Computer and Enterprise Investigations Conference from May 19 to 22 was filled with educational sessions and hands-on labs in cybersecurity, digital investigations, e-discovery, and forensics. An e-discovery track had a number of educational sessions with many talking points and takeaways.

Judicial Perspectives on E-Discovery at CEIC

A panel of federal judges gave attendees of the Computer Enterprise Investigations Conference their perspectives on e-discovery, and got a few in return.

Insurance Company Emails Shielded From Discovery

A federal magistrate judge has ruled in a bad-faith case that documents produced by an in-house attorney at an insurance company who was also acting as an adjuster — emails, letters and an uninsured motorist worksheet — are shielded by the attorney-client privilege.

Enron Sandbox Stirs Up Private Data, Again

John Martin, CEO of BeyondRecogition, found personally-identifiable information in the Enron data set using his company's namesake document analysis software. Now Index Engines is making the same claim after Nuix's foray into cleaning PII from the once-public data set.

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