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  • Jason Krause

Smarter Student Athlete Social Media Monitoring
Smarter Student Athlete Social Media Monitoring 150 150 Jason Krause

The Washington State Cougars football team is winless and in last place in the Pac-12 Conference, including a 52-26 beatdown by national powerhouse Oregon. However, the team does seem to think it can beat one challenger off the field- Twitter. Last week, coach Mike Leach banned his players from using Twitter, telling reporters,“Twitter is now banned…

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  • Jason Krause

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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  • Jason Krause

The Simple Way to Share Video Depositions You’re (Probably) Missing
The Simple Way to Share Video Depositions You’re (Probably) Missing 150 150 Jason Krause

Streaming video has made it simple to find and watch whatever you want, wherever you want – whether it’s the latest PSY video or a classic late night moment from your youth. But for some reason, video depositions – a core component of many cases—remain difficult to access on most devices.   Forget about Perry Mason-style gotcha moments…

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  • Jason Krause

Social Media is History
Social Media is History 150 150 Jason Krause

Social media isn’t history, but it is part of the historical record. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has just kicked off a major overhaul of the way federal departments and agencies manage and preserve their records.  Following on White House directives to modernize and digitize our nation’s record-keeping capabilities, NARA has been pushing agencies to…

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  • Jason Krause

Law Enforcement and Social Media: Criminals Aren’t All Dumb
Law Enforcement and Social Media: Criminals Aren’t All Dumb 150 150 Jason Krause

There are a lot of stories lately about the way law enforcement is using social media to capture criminals. As might be expected, there’s a lot of dumb lawbreakers who are eager to incriminate themselves online. Apparently, a lot of small-time criminals just can’t help but brag about their illegal exploits on Facebook or Twitter. However,…

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  • Jason Krause

Cloud Computing Confuses Lawmakers
Cloud Computing Confuses Lawmakers 150 150 Jason Krause

Lawmakers have a talent for confusing issues and scaring people unnecessarily. The current example is the proposed Cloud Computing Act of 2012. As Professor Eric Goldman at the Santa Clara University School of Law says of the Act, “I have no idea what problem this bill purports to solve.” The laws regarding criminal trespass in…

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  • Jason Krause

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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  • Michael Beumer

Nextpoint Introduces Automated eDiscovery Tool to Prevent Inadvertent Production of Privileged Materials
Nextpoint Introduces Automated eDiscovery Tool to Prevent Inadvertent Production of Privileged Materials 150 150 Michael Beumer

Nextpoint’s Privilege Protect ® helps solve one of the thorniest problem in litigation – securely transferring electronic data to opposing parties while preventing the production of privileged communications. Chicago, IL (PRWEB) October 09, 2012 Nextpoint, Inc., the nation’s leading provider of cloud-based regulatory, compliance, and litigation software, announces the release of Privilege Protect™ eDiscovery technology.…

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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
  • Jason Krause

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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