Resource Library
Recalibrating the e-discovery workplace: 6 tips for document reviewers and coders
By: Saleem Safdar | E-Discovery Attorney Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” The words of President John F. Kennedy ring as true today as when he spoke them. Learning and implementing best practices… Read More »
Pan-Pacific Data Privacy Laws And Regulations: Impact On US E-Discovery And Investigations
This article first appeared in the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel. It is republished here with permission from UBIC, an ACEDS Affiliate Member. By: Mukesh Advani | Special Counsel | Guy Kornblum & Associates Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Christopher X, a… Read More »
More on the ethics of e-discovery: Predictive coding and other forms of computer-assisted review
By: John Barkett | Partner | Shook, Hardy & Bacon Date: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 This paper is republished at ACEDS.org with the permission of its author. John Barkett is a member of the ACEDS Advisory Board and will be… Read More »
Delaware Court of Chancery: guidelines for preservation of ESI
On Jan. 18, 2011 the Chancery Court issued “Guidelines for Preservation of Electronically Stored Information” (ESI), a two-page document that because of Delaware’s unique importance is likely to have outsized impact on ESI policy and practices nationwide. This is the… Read More »
Seventh Circuit E-Discovery Pilot Program
The two-year program seeks to review e-discovery practices with a view to suggesting ways to streamline the process. As of October 1, 2009, the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Committee consists of more than forty experts in the field of electronic… Read More »
Sanctions order strikes the pleadings for DuPont’s ‘unconscionable’ discovery violations
A Florida state judge, finding that DuPont committed an “unconscionable” cover-up scheme and “fraud on the court” with discovery abuses, inflicts “severest of all sanctions” by stripping pleadings in a high-stakes growers pesticide case, leaving the chemical giant exposed to high… Read More »
Understanding ESI technology and workflows
A special set of skills is needed to help manage the process of identifying relevant data, preserving it, and getting it to the other side or into court. E-discovery is now a multi-disciplinary endeavor: a successful project needs an attorney… Read More »
Data Preservation and Collection Questionnaire
By: Mike Quartararo This questionnaire is designed to serve as the starting point of a discussion with a client regarding the identification, preservation, collection and processing of electronically stored information (“ESI”) for discovery. Many of the questions below are geared… Read More »
John Barkett’s key questions vendors should answer before contract
By: John Barkett E-discovery is a very expensive proposition in many cases. ACEDS advisory board member John Barkett, immediate past chairman of the ABA National E-Discovery Institute and Miami partner at Shook Hardy Bacon, provides a roadmap to the crucial… 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 »