eDiscovery

Top B&L Blog Posts for November

The top B&L blog posts (according to traffic) for the month of November.

Defendants Can’t Pass the Buck on eDiscovery

Think you can pass on eDiscovery costs to the plaintiffs? Think again.

Top B&L Blog Posts for October

The Top 5 Blog Posts from B&L Associates for October 2010.

Social Networks and eDiscovery

Social networks are on teh radar of litigators, but there are some ethic considerations to think of first.

How to Defend Against e-Discovery Surprises with a Social Media Plan

With the rise of social netorks like Tiwtter and Facebook, employers are finding it tough to maitain e-discovery policies and allow their emplyees the freedom to use the social web. We discuss things you can do now to buffer...

Storage Firm Sanctioned $150K for eDiscovery Snafu

When you make your money making storage devices it’s a little embarrassing to show up in court without data that’s supposed to be safely stored on your hardware. It can be costly, too. That’s what storage titan SanDisk discovered...

4 Quick Tips to Help IT Improve Communications with Legal

To say that IT and legal speak different languages is an understatement. The problem is, legal burdens on companies grow daily. What’s more, the days when cartons of paper documents could satisfy the discovery requirement of a case are...

Wisconsin “De-claws” eDiscovery Rules

  Following the lead of the federal courts, the states have begun to put on their books procedures for handling the discovery of electronically stored information in legal proceedings. What’s interesting about what the states are doing is how...

The Dangers of Ignoring Social Media during Backups.

If you think you can ignore the social networking and social media content created by your organization in your storage plans, you’d better think about that again. Sure, there’s plenty of noise being generated at places like Facebook, LinkedIn...

Economic Slump Over for eDiscovery

After months of miserly spending on technology, it appears that law firms are loosening their purse strings. Legal hours and matters are up 40 percent this year over last and a chief beneficiary of the increase in income at...