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Kaylee Walstad, Rest in Peace
A heartfelt tribute to Kaylee Walstad, an irreplaceable force in the e-discovery world, whose boundless energy, empathy, and advocacy touched countless lives and transformed a community.
Push Notifications: The Latest Law Enforcement Evidence Source and Data Privacy Battleground
[EDRM Editor’s Note: EDRM is happy to amplify our Trusted Partners news and events. The opinions and positions are those of Doug Austin..] Hat tip to Debbie Reynolds for the heads up on this story! More than 130...
Rights Groups Want Facial Recognition Process to be Discoverable In a New Jersey Case
Hat tip to the “Data Diva” Debbie Reynolds for this story! Two digital rights groups and a defendants’ rights association are arguing in a New Jersey court that evidence discovery in a criminal case should...
A Case Where TAR Wasn’t Required May Be the Best Case to Justify How its Conducted
Earlier this year, I recognized the ten-year anniversary of the landmark Da Silva Moore case that was the first court approval of predictive coding by the now retired New York Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck (with whom I have...
Craig Ball’s Latest Post Illustrates Why He’s So Good at eDiscovery
Craig Ball’s latest blog post on his excellent Ball in Your Court blog really blows. That’s not a statement about the quality of his post, it’s a statement about the topic of his post. His latest post (Understanding Air Conditioning…For When...
Ransomware Reduces Costa Rica to Pen and Paper
This story has been covered across cybersecurity media, but it’s so big I’m surprised it hasn’t been covered even more, by mainstream media. A ransomware attack by the Conti ransomware group has left the Costa...
An In-Depth Look at the In re Actos End Payor Antitrust Litigation and Production of Non-Inclusive Emails in Threads
As I mentioned within recent in-depth coverage of one of the cases here, the May EDRM monthly case law webinar presented by Tom O’Connor (Director of the Gulf Legal Technology Center), Mary Mack (CEO and Chief Legal...
Don’t Drink and Data! How a Man Lost the Personal Data of His Entire City
Hat tip to David Greetham for this story! One worker in Japan could be nursing a protracted hangover after he lost a USB memory stick following a night out with colleagues. Why? It contained the...
An In-Depth Look at the Famulare v. Gannett Co. Case and Production of Salesforce Evidence
One of the great things about all the cases I cover on eDiscovery Today is that we proceed to discuss them within the month on the EDRM monthly case law webinar that I moderate with excellent observations from Tom...
“Do No Harm” Shouldn’t Just Apply to Doctors
Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase that means “first, do no harm.” This principle is commonly taught in healthcare. In fact, the Hippocratic Oath, taken by doctors, promises they will abstain from doing harm...
Sedona Principle 6 and the Duty to Evaluate
On eDiscovery Today, I engaged in a follow up discussion on my TAR series (published in two parts here and here and republished in one part here) with Dr. Jeremy Pickens, Principal Data Scientist at OpenText, who is friend and well-respected...
eDisclosure and the “Wagatha Christie” Case
This is a fun and interesting case covered by one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Chris Dale, on his excellent eDisclosure Information Project blog. Here is a brief summary of the case and the eDisclosure implications. Colleen...