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Group Seeks to Enliven Archival Storage
As organizations try to cope with the spiraling growth of the data they create every day, more and more of that information is being sent to archives. A problem with archival storage is finding the archived data stored there... -
eDiscovery Creeps into Arbitration.
Arbitration is supposed to be a quicker and more economical way to settle disputes than litigation, but the introduction of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) into the process could take away its appeal to businesses. How to handle requests for electronic... -
Most eDiscovery Costs Wasted on Extraneous Information.
Most of the money spent on electronic discovery today is squandered on reviewing irrelevant documents, according to a white paper recently released by Forensics Consulting Solutions, of Phoenix, Ariz. According to the document authored by Mark G. Walker, Roland... -
Foul Weather in the Cloud for Lawyers?
Wherever you turn in the tech space these days it seems that you can’t escape the cloud. The idea that the burden information technology has imposed on businesses for years can be sloughed off to some magic realm where... -
XML Tags Provide Relief for eDiscovery
In a civil lawsuit, the plaintiffs try to get as much information through discovery as they can from the defendants in the case, and the defendants try to give their opponents as little information as possible without running afoul... -
Impact on Storage of Legal Mandates is Minimal?
Findings in a recent survey of IT professionals appear to contradict popular wisdom about what will be driving the need for data centers to add capacity in the coming years. The poll conducted by technology numbers shop IDC, of... -
Why Lawyers Need Knowledge of Data Retention Policies
A recent case decided in New York underscores the need to put the brakes on data destruction procedures when a company becomes the target of a lawsuit. The litigation, Einstein v. 357, LLC , involved the alleged design, construction,... -
Text Messages Subject to eDiscovery
Companies still trying to cope with how long they should keep their emails in storage to meet compliance demands are facing another noisome problem. What should they do about text messages sent and received on phones they issue their... -
Court Rules Metadata Part of eDiscovery
The inclination of federal courts to require metadata be included with electronic documents obtained through e-discovery seems to be seeping down to the state courts. In a case decided by the Arizona Supreme Court last fall, justices flipped two... -
eDiscovery Lessons Learned from Blagojevich
The people who gather electronic evidence sometimes spend too much time snatching documents from an adversary and not enough time considering how to protect that information once they get it.