e-Lawyering The Expert Institute: Best Legal Blog Nominee – Vote Now! September 30, 2017 by kgates We are pleased to announce that the Electronic Discovery Law blog has been nominated to participate in The Expert Institute’s Best Legal Blog Contest in the AmLaw category. Thanks to those who nominated us and to all of our readers and subscribers (sign up today!) for their ongoing interest in our blog. Voting is now […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES
e-Lawyering The ABA Journal’s Web 100 – Nominate Your Favorites! July 14, 2017 by kgates Dear Readers, It is our pleasure to provide you with regular summaries of important and interesting e-Discovery opinions and other e-Discovery resources. We hope you enjoy them. If you do, please consider nominating us for the ABA Journal’s Web 100 – a celebration of the “best of the legal industry on the web.â€� Nominations are […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES
e-Lawyering Mandatory Initial Discovery Pilot Project Underway in AZ and IL Federal Courts June 22, 2017 by kgates A three-year pilot project studying “whether requiring parties in civil cases to respond to a series of standard discovery requests before undertaking other discovery will reduce the cost and delay of civil litigationâ€� is now underway in the District of Arizona and the Northern District of Illinois. All civil cases in these jurisdictions, except those […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES
e-Lawyering NY County Addresses Technological Competence June 16, 2017 by kgates Formal Opinion 749 In February, the NY County Lawyers Association Professional Ethics Committee issued Formal Opinion 749, addressing “[a] lawyer’s ethical duty of technological competence with respect to the duty to protect a client’s confidential information from cybersecurity risk and handling e-discovery when representing clients in a litigation or government investigation.â€� The committee summarized its […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES
e-Lawyering Sedona Principles Revised, Public Comment Welcomed April 4, 2017 by kgates The Sedona Conference has published revisions to its foundational Sedona Principles, The Sedona Principles, Third Edition: Best Practices, Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production. As stated in the preface, the Third Edition was “necessitated by an even greater explosion in the volume and diversity of forms of electronically stored information, the constant evolution […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES
e-Lawyering Once Again, UK Court Approves Use of Predictive Coding May 23, 2016 by kgates It seems that predictive coding may be catching on in the UK. Not long ago, the English High Court approved the use of predictive coding for the first time in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd [2016] EWHC 256 (Ch). In that case, the parties agreed to the use of predictive coding software and […] Read more » NEWS & UPDATES