If you missed the Fulbright & Jaworski webinar entitled: Brave New World: In-sourcing eDiscovery in 2010, you should find the time to watch it. Fulbright’s Electronic Discovery and Information Management e-Solutions Web Seminar Series is always extremely valuable. I found that Brave New World hit the proverbial nail on the head. Companies cannot ignore eDiscovery, [...]

Excerpt from Law.com::: E-DISCOVERY FAILINGS THAT AMOUNT TO GROSS NEGLIGENCE The court identified the following e-discovery failures as sufficient to show gross negligence: 1. Failure “to issue a written litigation hold” at the time when the duty to preserve documents first attached Despite the well-settled law that the duty to preserve evidence arises from the [...]

Special to Legal Technology Excerpt from Law.com’s Legal Technology Blog By Matthew Nelson, Esq. Fresh off the heels of yet another LegalTech New York event in early February, it remains clear that the promise to make a fortune from e-discovery continues to lure more and more companies to the table to claim their fair share [...]

EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon presents a Best Practices Webinar by Dr. Linda Volonino and Ian RedPath, Esq., delivering highlights from their new book “e-Discovery for Dummies” (ISBN 978-0-470-51012-4) and insights from their standing room only LegalTech NY Super Session this year. To Register – Click DISCOVER - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 10am PT The authors of “eDiscovery [...]

Excerpt From Fulbright :::::::::::::: February 23, 2010 Fulbright Alert – Litigation Supreme Court Adopts More Predictable Principal-Place-of-Business Test In a case handed down today, the United States Supreme Court clarified and simplified the judicial test to determine where a corporation has its principal place of business for diversity jurisdiction purposes. In Hertz Corp. v. Friend, [...]

One of the hottest topics in the news today….the FTC…and Data Breaches………….. CNET report::::::::: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has notified nearly 100 organizations that data from their networks has been found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, the agency said on Monday. The FTC notices went to private and public entities, including schools and local government [...]

Our e-discovery experts at EMC Kazeon have returned from the LegalTech show in New York and have hailed it as a huge success. Some of the biggest highlights were presentations by The Honorable Frank Maas and The Honorable Andrew J. Peck, who were panelists on a presentation by Andrew M. Cohen, Esq, GM of EMC [...]

Due to audience demand at LegalTech, EMC SourceOne eDiscovery – Kazeon announces a repeat performance by “David Shonka, Esq., of the Federal Trade Commission Talks eDiscovery.”  Reserve your seat today for this limited attendance event! Wednesday, February 17th 2010 at 10:00 am PST “Dave’s work for over three decades has played a leading role in [...]

New Decision Orders Sanctions… But Provides Strong Guidance In one of the earliest eDiscovery decisions in 2010, Judge Scheindlin provides the eDiscovery community with some clear guidance on appropriate litigation hold and collection procedures, as well as a framework for determining when sanctions are appropriate and the level of those sanctions.  (Pension Committee v. Bank [...]

I had the privilege this week of being the moderator at Legal Tech for “eDiscovery War Stories:  The Dirty Truth From the eDiscovery Trenches“. My panelists were Steven Teppler from Edelson McGuire; Jeff Seymour from Deloitte; and EMC’s own Matt Nelson. We planned our session to talk about what really happens in eDiscovery — how shortcuts [...]