Pennsylvania Law Weekly
A federal district judge may send electronic discovery toward its most searching scrutiny yet. In a recent decision, Judge John M. Facciola recommended "concept searching," the use of complex search engines to locate electronic data, for a tardy producer to pick up the pace.
Legal Tech Newsletter
Failures to preserve and produce electronically stored information often occur when error-prone, manual e-discovery processes are used. A deeper understanding of how to evaluate EDD technology is needed to keep costs down, reduce risk and adhere to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
Law Technology News
One of the biggest challenges facing litigation attorneys is managing the sheer volume of digital documents produced during the discovery phase. To address this problem, many vendors advocate a new way of working with electronic documents -- not using Bates numbers on every page.
New York Law Journal
Cross-border discovery is a subject that the U.S. and the rest of the world do not see eye to eye on. Although litigants may obtain discovery from foreign parties in a U.S. court, some countries have "blocking" statutes forbidding their nationals from cooperating with U.S. discovery requests.
The Recorder
The California Judicial Council will consider new rules for electronic discovery, a long-awaited
package that's been received warily by the high-tech industry. The rules define electronic
information, and allow "inspecting, copying, testing or sampling" by parties in litigation.
New York Law Journal
In PSEG Power New York Inc. v. Alberici Constructors Inc., Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece detangled the thorny issue of who pays for electronic discovery when the production of electronically stored information goes awry -- specifically, when e-mails are produced without attachments.
Law Technology News
E-discovery is here to stay in litigation. So, Computer Forensics/EDD Special Master Craig Ball advises lawyers to stay their fear of "the science of search" and add it to their education. They can then learn to distinguish noisy terms from effective ones and zero in on relevant ESI.
New York Law Journal
As the burdens of EDD continue to mount, the search for a solution has intensified. The holy grail here is a search methodology that will identify potentially relevant documents reliably and efficiently, explain Paul Weiss partners H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal.
