I had the great honor to attend a mini-conference on September 9 held by the Civil Rules Committee of the U.S.  Judicial Conference.  Actually, it was the Discovery Subcommittee that was meeting, along with a number of well-known invited guests.  They included Judge Shira Sheindlin, Judge Paul Grimm, Judge [...]

Researchers in Europe have developed a technology that allows a person to identify redacted words and phrases in confidential documents.

Gee, in the hands of an unscrupulous lawyer, this tool could have serious implications for attorney-client privilege.

The New York Times reports on recent developments in the field of “text mining,” which uses technology more powerful than a search engine to examine thousands of pages in a relatively short period of time. Is it the next big idea in Internet search? Could be….

My good friend Jim Calloway, of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program, writes on various tools used for conducting electronic discovery. Also referenced is an article from Judge Stephen Friot (of the Western District of Oklahoma) on discovery of electronic documents and other digital data.

Law.com takes us on a stroll down document production memory lane with this article on the evolution from drudgery to digital.

Dennis discusses an issue today to which I really need to pay more attention –metadata in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents. Metadata is information contained in the file regarding your prior edits or comments, and while it’s invisible to the untrained eye, it’s not too hard to unearth.