Ediscovery

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Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery: Part 4
Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery: Part 4 150 150 nextpointguest

CONVERSATIONS WITH: Alitia Faccone + Rakesh Madhava Nextpoint’s “Conversations With” is a feature offering insights from two or more industry insiders in a “panel-style” discussion around a specific topic area. Expect a lively and thought-provoking reportée and check back regularly for installments. To read the whole series, here is Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, andPart 6.  Installment #4…

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Selecting Ediscovery Vendors
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Tips for Selecting an eDiscovery Vendor
Tips for Selecting an eDiscovery Vendor 4000 2697 Jason Krause

Unfortunately, basic, avoidable mistakes are still upending a lot of cases before they can even get started. One of the most important decisions a firm can make at the outset of a case is hiring an eDiscovery vendor they can trust. This vendor is likely going to be involved in collecting and processing data, which…

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Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery Law: Part 2
Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery Law: Part 2 150 150 nextpointguest

CONVERSATIONS WITH: Alitia Faccone + Rakesh Madhava Nextpoint’s “Conversations With” is a feature offering insights from two or more industry insiders in a “panel-style” discussion around a specific topic area. Expect a lively and thought-provoking reportée and check back regularly for installments. To read the whole series, here is Part 1, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, andPart 6..  Installment #2…

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  • Rakesh Madhava

Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery: Part 1
Changing the Conversation in eDiscovery: Part 1 150 150 Rakesh Madhava

CONVERSATIONS WITH: Alitia Faccone + Rakesh Madhava   Nextpoint’s “Conversations With” is a feature offering insights from two or more industry insiders in a “panel-style” discussion around a specific topic area. Expect a lively and thought-provoking reportée and check back regularly for installments. To read the whole series, here is Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, andPart 6.  Installment…

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Best Practice Guide for Protecting Attorney Client Privilege
Best Practice Guide for Protecting Attorney Client Privilege 508 381 Jason Krause

Protecting the right to attorney client privilege is one of the most expensive and complicated parts of eDiscovery, but there is little guidance to help lawyers. To fill this void, Nextpoint has a new, free, and easy-to-understand, Best Practices Guide for Protecting Privilege to help you defend your right of attorney client privilege. In clear…

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Social Media eDiscovery: Embrace the Boring
Social Media eDiscovery: Embrace the Boring 150 150 Jason Krause

For many lawyers, eDiscovery is still an exotic, unfamiliar practice. Despite the growing number of conferences, publications, and CLE credits available to help lawyers understand the discovery of electronic evidence in litigation, most lawyers have never even sent a preservation letter, the first step in discovery. Considering that discovery of any electronic evidence is unfamiliar to most…

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  • Rakesh Madhava

Are Law Firms in Denial About Apple and Mobile Computing?
Are Law Firms in Denial About Apple and Mobile Computing? 150 150 Rakesh Madhava

As the “The Collapse of the Microsoft-Intel Monopoly” continues to accelerate, the response from the both the broader legal technology profession as well as the eDiscovery chattering classes has been what I can only describe as a collective yawn. But that’s not completely surprising – after all, the the legal profession is characterized by it’s…

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Attorney-Client Privilege
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Courts Agree: It’s Easy to Waive Your Attorney Client Privilege
Courts Agree: It’s Easy to Waive Your Attorney Client Privilege 1000 640 Jason Krause

Defending privileged documents in eDiscovery is not easy. (See our recent post, “Why Lawyers Are So Bad at Protecting Privilege.”) The right to private communication is vital to the practice of law, but, with the explosion of digital evidence in litigation, lawyers are finding it increasingly hard to protect every single piece of attorney-client work…

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Privilege Waiver: You Can’t Unscramble Those Eggs
Privilege Waiver: You Can’t Unscramble Those Eggs 150 150 Jason Krause

In theory, protecting your privileged attorney-client work product should be a straightforward and simple matter. In a new ruling out of Ohio, Inhalation Plastics, Inc. v. Medex Cardio-Pulmonary, Inc., (S.D. Ohio Aug. 28, 2012), all the defendants had to do was mark documents as confidential, and make sure not to produce them to opposing counsel.…

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Courts Set the Bar for Social Media Discovery
Courts Set the Bar for Social Media Discovery 150 150 Jason Krause

Being in the legal technology field can be frustrating. Technology changes fast but the law moves slowly, deliberately, and often in convoluted ways. You have to somehow stay ahead of the technology curve while waiting for the courts to catch up. It wasn’t until 2006 that federal courts were able to get the basic rules…

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