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New report confirms fears of mass big data breaches at major corporations
By: Robert Hilson Date: Thursday, May 9, 2013 Amid growing concerns of large-scale cyber attacks and the reputational and business tumult they bring, a new blockbuster report released last month shows corporations across industries are ripe for mass breaches of… Read More »
Window narrows on e-discovery cost recovery as 4th Circuit deals blow
By: Robert Hilson Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Adding to a growing chorus of judicial skeptics who say e-discovery expenses cannot be recovered under the US cost-taxing statute, a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth… Read More »
ACEDS and ESI Roundtable, leading community-based CLE group, join forces to broaden eDiscovery competence and training
Press Release For Immediate Release May 2, 2013 Contact: Mathew Baum Executive Vice President mbaum@ACEDS.org 786-517-2724 ACEDS and ESI Roundtable, leading community-based CLE group, join forces to broaden e-discovery competence and training Miami – The Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS)… Read More »
Court-ordered e-discovery probe suggests fraud as heated political squabbles focus on deleted ESI
Battle between major parties in Wisconsin signals emergence of key e-discovery issues in legislative process By: Robert Hilson Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 The investigation for deleted files related to a furtive redistricting effort by lawmakers in Wisconsin is shedding… Read More »
Dousing ‘churn that bill, baby’ firestorm, DLA Piper elects to settle
By: Robert Hilson Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 When emails depicting a rip-roaring time had by DLA Piper lawyers in allegedly running up the bills of then-client, Adam Victor, it seemed only a matter of time before the fee churning… Read More »
Are your e-discovery bills riddled with surprises?
By: Tom MacKenzie | Vice President, Client Services | TCDI Date: May 1, 2013 This is the second in a series of articles by Tom MacKenzie, Vice President of Client Services at TCDI, on how to successfully vet and engage e-discovery… Read More »
The confluence of social media, lawyer liability and ethics
By: Jett Hanna | Senior Vice President, Texas Lawyers’ Insurance Exchange Date: April 24, 2013 It should now be a matter of professional competence for attorneys to take the time to investigate social networking sites. Social media affects the legal… Read More »
Sanction on NY County Attorney office exposes plight of cash-starved public agencies
By: Robert Hilson Date: Thursday, April 25, 2013 A very small judicial sanction for e-discovery lapses wouldn’t ordinarily be viewed as cause for concern or as a lesson in e-discovery best practices. But the $500 daily penalty imposed by US… Read More »
In case underlying e-discovery malpractice suit, company charges opposing lawyers with ‘embezzling’ records
By: Robert Hilson Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 Nearly two years after its tough fight over privileged materials, the filing of the first e-discovery legal malpractice suit against McDermott Will & Emery, the disqualification of McDermott’s replacement firm, Sheppard Mullin,… Read More »
Alleged spoliation in malpractice case sheds light on e-discovery knowledge gap
By: ACEDS Staff Date: Thursday, May 16, 2013 It is a case that has flown under the radar because it lacks the high-priced partners and big name firms on which to pin its alleged sins. But the legal malpractice suit… Read More »