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 Lee Rosenthal, Judge
E-Discovery
Blawg of the Day – The e-Discovery Myth
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Posted in Blogs and Blogging, E-Discovery
Our next “Legal Technology Week” blog: The e-Discovery Myth is a blog devoted to dispelling misconceived notions related to e-Discovery. Even better, it’s written by the great e-discovery lawyers at LeClair Ryan, including my good friend and former colleague Dennis Kiker. Dennis and the others are discussing some really interesting e-discovery topics, including e-discovery…
The danger within
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Posted in E-Discovery, Software
If you aren’t paying attention to your metadata you should be. Workshare, the company that sells the DeltaView product, is sponsoring Metadatarisk.org, the “definitive source for content security.” You’ll find lots of good resources here, from learning about metadata to safe removal of metadata from your documents.
Not surprisingly, this site was introduced…
Redaction a useless exercise?
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Posted in E-Discovery
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.
Blawg of the Day
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Alextronic Discovery is Alex Lubarsky’s electronic discovery blog covering news, articles and thoughts for the legal and corporate community.
Best of all, no messy cave-ins
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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….
E-Discovery Tools
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Posted in E-Discovery
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.
Those were the days
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Law.com takes us on a stroll down document production memory lane with this article on the evolution from drudgery to digital.
Watch out — your metadata’s showing
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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.