Social Media in the Securities Industry: Complying with Reg FD Delivering non-public material information through Internet-based social media, especially social networking sites such as Facebook, LindedIn, and Twitter, means that this information will first reach only a fraction of the investing public — those who “follow” the company using those platforms. As illustrated by the [...]

No Fear and Loathing at the AccessData User’s Conference in Las Vegas Mikki Tomlinson and I were lucky to go to the AccessData Users Conference (ADUC) two weeks ago in Las Vegas.  Now it doesn’t take a great deal to get me to Vegas as I am a competitive poker player when I’m not working on [...]

D4 Detroit Launch Party Wah-Hoo Detroit, Detroit, MI May 31, 2012 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Background: D4 Detroit Launch Party Source: original article Author: d4admin Categories: Electronic discovery, e-discovery, ediscovery This e-discovery news is syndicated from e-discovery websites and blogs that make their feed available via RSS. Contact us to have your RSS feed [...]

May 19th weekend edition of our “Top 20 +” e-discovery compendium. SPOTLIGHT: Patents>enormous legal expense … but a cash-cow, too Our weekend edition of the “Top 20 … plus more” … a snapshot of some interesting e-discovery blog/web site posts, vendor news/views on a wide range of electronic discovery related issues, and other tech developments from the past week.    It is compiled by Master Sensei [...]

Martyn Christian from @Kofax on #AIIM and the #CIP (Certified Information Professional) Martyn Christian is Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) for Kofax. He is responsible for all marketing initiatives, including brand, product, industry and field marketing functions. Martyn has more than 25 years of marketing and general management experience within the software industry. —– JM:  Martyn, [...]

New York Court Dismisses Million Case as Spoliation Sanction In a recent decision out of the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan, a spoliator’s worst fears were recognized when the Court dismissed its entire Complaint as a sanction for failing to preserve electronic evidence. The decision, 915 Broadway Associates, LLC, v. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky [...]

Courts Increasingly Cognizant of eDiscovery Burdens, Reject “Gotcha” Sanctions Demands Courts are becoming increasingly cognizant of the eDiscovery burdens that the information explosion has placed on organizations. Indeed, the cases from 2012 are piling up in which courts have rejected demands that sanctions be imposed for seemingly reasonable information retention practices. The recent case of [...]

BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Policies Affect Everyone Even if employers provide cell devices/tablets to employees, many employees now insist on using their own iPhones, Droids, Blackberries, and tablets. However many privacy and data ownership legal issues are unresolved. At InnoTech on May 17, 2012 I had the honor to serve on a panel entitled [...]

New Jersey Considers e-Discovery Rules for Criminal Cases In April 2009, Chief Justice Rabner of the Supreme Court of New Jersey appointed the Supreme Court Special Committee on Discovery in Criminal and Quasi-Criminal Matters (hereinafter the Committee).  The Committee “was appointed to recommend solutions to a variety of issues that had arisen as the result [...]

More Happenings in Da Silva Moore It seems every day brings something new in this case.  Today we report that on Monday, May 14, Magistrate Judge Peck entered an order staying MSL’s production of ESI, “pending Judge Carter’s decision on plaintiffs’ motions for collective action certification and to amend their complaint.”  That order is available [...]