By Francis Rojas A glimpse of news articles and discussions flags that we are no longer a one-man-island.  Everything that happens, is either recorded in an email, text, or picture for instance.  Even if you delete these files, your computer still retains a copy or part of the copy of the deleted file.  In the [...]

by Robert D. Brownstone Hidden away in corporate databases are some nasty ticking time bombs. Nonetheless, few companies think much about the risks of electronic discovery until they face serious litigation. But there are ways for you to avoid the substantial costs and risks from “eDiscovery” before you get hit with lawsuit-related fishing expeditions – [...]

Most of my clients are on a limited budget, so they don’t have much money to spend on attorney’s fees, and they certainly don’t have much money to spend on e-discovery and preservation of electronic evidence on computers or other data (also know an electronically stored information or ESI). The reality of small firms is [...]

Information technology has advanced more in the last five decades than it has in the entire history of man. As it has advanced, so has the amount of information being created, transferred and stored increased exponentially. This is especially true in organizations where paperless or email communications have almost entirely replaced paper-based communications. The ease [...]

There is an interesting conversation occurring in the E-Discovery Forum regarding how attorneys can handle e-discovery in an inexpensive manner in small cases where the parties cannot afford a computer forensic expert or the other onerous costs that can be associated with electronic discovery. These tips may be useful to attorneys in family law cases [...]

Are you new to e-discovery? Wondering what all the fuss is about? Are you wondering why electronic discovery has become such a big deal in the legal profession? In the video below, Ralph Losey does a great job of articulating what electronic discovery is and why it has become so important. In short, as the [...]

In this video, Aaron Cronan of Fios discusses the trends in eDiscovery. One trend includes controlling costs by using search/filtering to reduce the amount of data to review.   Other trends include Software as a Service (SaaS), data collection, Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 26 (g), and sanctions.

Allison Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel & E-Discovery Coordinator at Marsh & McLennan, discusses e-discovery preservation of data that exists online, including Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Gmail, Cloud Computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), and general social networking online. Ms. Brecher also discusses e-discovery in the context of employment law, legal holds, document preservation, and reasonably accessible [...]

In this video, Allison Brecher, Senior Litigation Counsel & E-Discovery Coordinator at Marsh & McLennan, discusses eDiscovery best practice tips for corporate counsel, an eDiscovery “Wish List”, legal hold notices, employee interviews, Rule 34, document preservation and storage.

In part two of this interview, e-discovery attorney Gabe Acevedo talks about the e-discovery software tools that he uses and recommends.