Provided for your review/use is this week’s snapshot update of key industry news, views, and events highlighting key electronic discovery related stories, developments, and announcements.
eDiscovery News
Context for Applying Discovery
- Assigning Value to E-Discovery’s Unknown – http://bit.ly/co0QwJ
- Clearly Written Policies Give Companies The Right To Search Company-Owned Computers for ESI – http://tinyurl.com/y2yc6be
- Compliance Officers Play to Bigger Room – http://tinyurl.com/yh68lx2
- Court Denies Change of Venue Request for Law Firm Against eDiscovery Vendor Kroll – https://complexdiscovery.com
- Departing Employee Technology Checklist: Keeping the Fox Out of the Henhouse – http://tinyurl.com/y4r5e3p
- District Court Revisits Qualcomm and Declines to Issue Sanctions – Legal Hold Lessons Learned – https://complexdiscovery.com
- eDiscovery Challenges in China – http://tinyurl.com/y4zpxt2
- Facebook Terminations: Friends Don’t Let Friends Talk Smack About Their Job – https://complexdiscovery.com
- Feds Declare that Blogs and Social Networks are Public Meetings – http://tinyurl.com/y86epje
- Future Ed: New Business Models for U.S. and Global Legal Education – http://bit.ly/bMV3Ci
- Legal Tech Meets Law Firm Strategy – http://tinyurl.com/yedumgn
- Measuring Review? https://complexdiscovery.com
- Most eDiscovery Costs Wasted on Extraneous Information – http://tinyurl.com/y6jkzfw
- NIST: Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information – https://complexdiscovery.com
- NJ Supreme Court Addresses Privilege in Employee Web-Based Personal Email Accounts – http://tinyurl.com/y33z5ju
- No Bright-Line Rules on E-Discovery http://bit.ly/cgjGVs
- Ofsted has shown WHY we should collect data properly and now lawyers must find out HOW – http://wp.me/p2KJ5-NV
- Outsourcing of Managed Reviews – http://tinyurl.com/y7a5gqe
- Pardo on a Unified Theory of Civil Litigation – http://tinyurl.com/y23fcex
- Practice Points – Archiving & Legal Holds – An ESI Recipe for Efficiency and Cost Reduction – http://tinyurl.com/ydhrsl4
- Prosecution, Defense Spar at Close of KB Home Backdating Trial – http://tinyurl.com/y856rtb
- Rethinking Relevance: A Call to Modify the Rules of Discovery – http://tinyurl.com/y43dt3q
- Sanction Recommended Over Missed Discovery Deadline in Ex-Holland & Knight Partner’s Suit – http://tinyurl.com/y3ktn3w
- Social Media Research Repository – Jury Instructions In Re: Technology and Social Media – http://tinyurl.com/yhvvjso
- Social Networking Pitfalls for Judges, Attorneys – http://bit.ly/dpxZEQ
- The Current State of Email Retention Policies – https://complexdiscovery.com
- The Economist: “Copyright and Wrong” – http://bit.ly/byDUyb
- The HIPAA/HITECH Era Is Under Way –
- Top Five Legal Issues For The Cloud – http://tinyurl.com/yyjbhge
- Toyota Crashes The Party – http://tinyurl.com/ycondlp
Content for Understanding Technology
- A Checklist for Cloud Computing Deals – http://tinyurl.com/ycktgtc
- Cloud Computing Savings: Do they add up? http://bit.ly/bQxp2q
- Keeping Medical Data Private – http://bit.ly/9QHQm5
- Microsoft’s New Office Faces the Web – http://bit.ly/aIowCc
- Review: The Apple iPad – http://tcrn.ch/bqW741
- SNIA Completes Cloud Storage Standard – http://tinyurl.com/y5s4tgs
- SNIA Standard Should Help in Moving Cloud Data http://bit.ly/bEGmfD
- The 10 Big Ideas That Are Shaping IT Infrastructure Today – http://tinyurl.com/yzov6at
- Time for Unplanning? A New Way Of Considering Business Planning – http://tinyurl.com/ydd6eeq
- Twitter’s Global Growth by the Official Numbers http://j.mp/99unil
- U.K. Government Develops CC-Like License for Data – http://tinyurl.com/yynnztg
Vendor Views
Industry Landscape
- Applied Discovery – Considering Review Performance –
- Autonomy Corp: License Pact With US Internal Revenue Service – http://tinyurl.com/y69n75s
- CommVault Users Poised to Benefit from Increased Clarity on Legal eDiscovery and Data Preservation Requirements – http://tinyurl.com/y5rnv7h
- dtSearch Expands – http://bit.ly/atHJTW
- Epiq Systems, Inc. First Quarter 2010 Results to be Announced April 27, 2010 – http://tinyurl.com/y2yhrt2
- FalconStor® HyperFS™ Creates New Performance and Scalability Benchmarks for Private Storage Clouds – http://tinyurl.com/y6yw66r
- Google Buys A Visual Search Company – http://bit.ly/b2y6SG
- Guidance Software Announces Availability of EnCase® Portable Version 2 – http://tinyurl.com/y7b9om5
- Guidance Software to Announce 2010 First Quarter Financial Results – http://tinyurl.com/y8candk
- High-End Demand Gives Intel a Lift – http://tinyurl.com/y6zb8nc
- HP Completes Acquisition of 3Com – http://bit.ly/aNpvr2
- Introducing Hire Counsel Discovery Review Management Services – http://tinyurl.com/ydvy3ak
- NEC integrates HYDRAstor with Symantec’s OpenStorage API http://tinyurl.com/y9uzf95
- Nexidia and AV3 Unite to ‘Get’ Video Search –
- Nuix and FileControl Partners Announce Strategic Alliance to Offer Accelerated Litigation Process Services – http://tinyurl.com/yllovz3
- Open Text makes Quick Use of NStein Assets – http://tinyurl.com/yf37vcz
- Rackspace Unveils iPad Cloud App – http://tinyurl.com/y9zg65w
- Xiotech’s CorteX to change the Storage World – http://tinyurl.com/y57j8w7
Case Summaries
eDiscovery Case Law via DiscoverApplied (@discoverapplied)
- Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., “Stengart II”, 2010 N.J. LEXIS 241 (N.J. Mar. 30, 2010).
- Covad Comm. Co. v. Revonet, Inc., “Covad IV”, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31165 (D.D.C. Mar. 31, 2010).
- United States v. Benford, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29453 (N.D. Ind. Mar. 26, 2010).
eDiscovery Events
April Industry Event Update
- IQPC: Corporate Counsel Exchange
April 18-20, 2010
Brussels, Belgium
Click here for more information. - The Computer Forensics Show
April 19-20, 2010
New York, NY
Click here for more information. - ALM: Social Media Risks & Rewards
April 19, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.
- IAPP Global Privacy Summit
April 19-21, 2010
Washington, DC
Click here for more information. - info360 AIIM International Exposition and Conference
April 20-22, 2010
Philadelphia, PA
Click here for more information. - Green Legal Matters
April 26-28, 2010
New Orleans, LA
Click here for more information.
- IQPC: 9th E-Discovery West Coast
April 26-28, 2010
San Francisco, CA
Click here for more information.
- Legal IT 4.0
April 26-27, 2010
Montreal, Canada
Click here for more information. - ILTA: INSIGHT 2010
April 27, 2010
London, England
Click here for more information. - ARMA Houston 2010 Conference
April 27-28, 2010
Houston, TX
Click here for more information.
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